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Date:      Fri, 11 May 2007 03:43:17 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing
Message-ID:  <20070511074317.GA95270@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <46441D7D.4010408@u.washington.edu>
References:  <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070511003830.GA72841@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070511071928.GA25911@xor.obsecurity.org> <46441CAB.6080208@u.washington.edu> <46441D7D.4010408@u.washington.edu>

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On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 12:38:37AM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Garrett Cooper wrote:
> >Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 08:38:30PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >>>On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:28:17PM -0400, 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.
> >>>Amendment to the instructions: XORG_UPGRADE must be set before the
> >>>portupgrade -Rf libXft.
> >>
> >>Amendment two: for now you need to build your own INDEX or portupgrade
> >>probably won't work correctly.  Before running portupgrade do:
> >>
> >>portsdb -U
> >>
> >>(This is only required during the pre-commit testing; once it's in CVS
> >>'make fetchindex' will work as normal)
> >>
> >>Kris
> >
> >X11 forwarding no longer appears to work. Bad hardcoded path with the 
> >base system Openssh, perhaps?
> >-Garrett
> 
> Nevermind. I remembered the whole symlink /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local step 
> after I sent the email. Things are working again now.
> 
> The base version of OpenSSH should be fixed though, perhaps.

Yeah, that's one of the many cleanup steps that will happen after the import.

Kris



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