From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 9 22:05:08 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 E571916A4CE for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:05:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from postal1.es.net (postal1.es.net [198.128.3.205]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF2843D48 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 22:05:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal1.es.net (Postal Node 1) with ESMTP (SSL) id IBA74465; Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:05:08 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 0D27B5D09; Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:05:08 -0700 (PDT) To: Aurelien NEPHTALI In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:32:55 +0200." <20040909053255.GA1041@nebula.wanadoo.fr> Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 15:05:08 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20040909220508.0D27B5D09@ptavv.es.net> cc: Chris Laverdure cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Grover Lines 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: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 22:05:09 -0000 > Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:32:55 +0200 > From: Aurelien NEPHTALI > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org > > Yep! It could be great if someone posts a patch set to apply to the x.org port > to update it to 6.8! > Thanks in advance :) Wow! This is NOT rocket science, but I know I get nervous dealing with part of the system I don't know. If the only change is to pull down the 6.8 sources and build (and I have not tried, so this may not work), replace the PORTVERSION in each xorg Makefile with 6.8.0. Remove the PORTREVISION line (if any),and update the names of the DISTFILES (if any) by changing 6.7.0 to 6.8.0. Remove all of the patches in the files directory. Finally, fetch the distributions and put them in /usr/ports/x11. Get their md5 checksums and add them and the file sizes to distinfo. (Optionally, do a make fetch to fetch the files.) Then do a "portupgrade -R xorg" and you have it. Save your old ports files in case it does not work and you have to back it out. Let us know how it works, I'm sure Eric would appreciate the reports. Please understand that, as much as many of us would like the latest and greatest of things, that is NOT how release engineering works. To get a stable release, you need to have a pretty hard cut-off on changes that are not bug fixes. And that date has passed for both ports and V5.3. There are VERY good reasons for not making exceptions and the FreeBSD REs have learned that they have to take a hard line if they ever hope to get a really solid release out the door. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634