From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 22:58:24 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2DF916A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:58:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts36.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.93]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B4C43D1D for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 22:58:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dashevil@sympatico.ca) Received: from [192.168.2.32] ([65.93.56.19]) by tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net ESMTP <20040908225822.BRAQ25796.tomts36-srv.bellnexxia.net@[192.168.2.32]>; Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:58:22 -0400 From: Chris Laverdure To: Grover Lines In-Reply-To: <20040908223234.415D443D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20040908223234.415D443D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1094669901.634.3.camel@elemental.DashEvil> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 18:58:22 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: X.org 6.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 22:58:24 -0000 On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 22:32, Grover Lines wrote: > On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 11:49, Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 08, 2004 at 01:39:59PM +0200, Simon Strandman wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > X.org 6.8 was released earlier this day. Will it make it into 5.3? > > > > I don't think it is officially released yet, although I believe the > > release is scheduled for later today. > > It seems unlikely that it will make it into 5.3 since the ports tree > > has already been frozen in preparation for 5.3, and an update of X is > > so potentially disruptive that it seems unlikely that portmgr will > > allow the update before ports tree is tagged. > > > > > > So you're telling me that I have to wait until AFTER FreeBSD 5.3-Release > to get X.org 6.8.0? > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > Just get the cvs of 6.8.0 or cvsup it from freedesktops cvsup server. I've > been running it in CURRENT for over a month and it works great. No hacking > necessary. It hasn't crashed on me once. I'm impressed. > > -- > Grover Lines I'd rather not polute my system with files that aren't registered in the package database. Since it seems to be so easy to get up, would it not be similarly easy to modify the x.org ports?