From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Apr 27 5:17:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from jochem.dyndns.org (cc40670-a.groni1.gr.nl.home.com [217.121.240.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EB0637B423; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 05:17:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lisa.jochem.dyndns.org (lisa.jochem.dyndns.org [192.168.1.2]) by jochem.dyndns.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3RCHLVb022253; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:17:21 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jochem@lisa.jochem.dyndns.org) Received: from lisa.jochem.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lisa.jochem.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g3RCHFdm083879; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:17:16 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jochem@lisa.jochem.dyndns.org) Received: (from jochem@localhost) by lisa.jochem.dyndns.org (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g3RCHFW6083878; Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:17:15 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 14:17:15 +0200 From: Jochem Kossen To: Kris Kennaway Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HEADS UP! XFree86 has been upgraded to 4.2.0 in 4.5-STABLE Message-ID: <20020427121715.GA58085@jochem.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: Kris Kennaway , ports@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020427044054.A78618@xor.obsecurity.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Apr 27, 2002 at 04:40:55AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Dear all, > > As decided by the release engineering and port manager teams, > I have switched the default XFree86 version from 3.3.6 to 4.2.0. > Packages for FreeBSD 4.x are now being built with XFree86-4.2.0 > as a dependency, and ports will also be built with the newer > version once you update to a newer -STABLE kernel. > > If you want to keep using XFree86-3.x with your port builds, > add the following to your /etc/make.conf: > > XFREE86_VERSION=3 > > Note that this will not affect the XFree86 version dependency > of packages downloaded from ftp.freebsd.org or its mirrors, > because those are determined at compile-time and cannot be > changed at install-time. > > XFree86-3.3.6 will still be available as an installation option > via the packages menu of sysinstall, but the default XFree86 > version will be 4.2.0 in 4.6-RELEASE. > > Since this is a nontrivial change and the 4.6 release cycle is > just around the corner (code freeze: May 1), please test this > as much as possible and report any problems or unexpected > behaviour to ports@FreeBSD.org and portmgr@FreeBSD.org. > > Kris > > P.S. The decision to upgrade from XFree86-3.3.6 to 4.2.0 in > a -STABLE branch was made after careful consideration of the > benefits and drawbacks of such a change. Therefore, please > try to resist the temptation to point out factors we have > already considered which weigh against this decision. Very nice! But is it possible to let it register in /var/db/pkg as a package? This way people would be able to upgrade in a more elegant way...I've seen a lot of people being disappointed because of this... Jochem To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message