Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 21:11:19 +0200 From: Carl Johan Gustavsson <carl.gustavsson@bahnhofbredband.se> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing Message-ID: <4648B457.8030400@bahnhofbredband.se> In-Reply-To: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > Dear porters, > > We are now ready for xorg 7.2 testing! Over the past week we have > done extensive tests of various upgrade scenarios, fixed many > remaining bugs, and now the upgrade is looking good. Of course, we > can't possibly test everything, so that's where you come in. What we > need now is for everyone to download this tarball: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/ports-xorg-7.2.tbz > > Extract it into a clean directory (i.e. not over the top of your > existing ports tree), then follow the directions in UPDATING to begin > the upgrade process. In particular, please pay special attention to > the instructions on how to record and report information should > something go wrong: without a transcript of the upgrade session we may > be unable to determine what went wrong on your system, and your report > may be wasted. > > We're asking all FreeBSD ports committers and other interested > developers to participate in this process: it's now up to you guys to > test the upgrade and report problems you encounter, before we unleash > it on the general user base. > > Once we have enough success reports and have dealt with all reported > failures, we will proceed with the next stage, which is to import into > CVS. > > Kris > > Hi! I upgraded to 7.2 on a i386 machine running 6-STABLE and it went quite smooth, the only problem was that i didnt have the xorg-6.9-meta port installed which i noticed when the upgrade was done, but it was just to install the new meta port. The mergescript left some stuff in /usr/X11R6 which i had to delete manually, probably some stuff i installed manually like themes or things that havn't been deinstalled correctly (long before the upgrade, most of the files wasn't referenced by installed ports, checked by pkg_info -W). I also had to reinstall the nvidia-driver manually after the portupgrade -a finished. I noticed it was missing when i tried to start X after the upgrade. My install was done using the first tarball and portupgrade-devel, but i used a mergescript from a later release. The log are available by request. Thank you for all working on this. /cjg
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