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Date:      Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:25:12 -0500
From:      Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, danallen46@airwired.net, bms@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade
Message-ID:  <1233246312.1766.17.camel@wombat.2hip.net>
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On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 09:25 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote:
> ,--- You/Robert (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:12:47 -0500) ----*
> | Problem is, it isn't just the Xserver... All of the pieces are
> | intertwined and so in many cases to update Xserver you also need to
> | update some/several libraries as well as all of your drivers.  Xorg is
> | about 60 or 70 ports now.
>=20
> That can be handled, it seems to me.
>=20
> My current port upgrade problem is that I cannot csup the tree and get
> the old X to rebuild dependent components.
>=20
> | FWIW, I have Xserver 1.6 and xrandr bits that are rc already... as well
> | as a new intel driver that I don't want to update without xserver 1.6.
>=20
> I would be willing to test 1.6 on my many different machines, provided
> there is a clear and inexpensive (< 2 hours) path to a rollback.

I'll assemble a patch as soon as I can get to it.  From where we are now
in ports, the only thing that has to be updated that I can think of is
the server, then rebuild your drivers.

robert.

> -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net --

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