Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 07:33:23 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing Message-ID: <200705111233.l4BCXSB7099590@serene.no-ip.org> In-Reply-To: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 17:28:17 -0400 Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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 Just one minor nit to pick re: the UPDATING message: Since portupgrade now supports the --batch switch, setting the BATCH environment variable is no longer necessary. I expect that many people who haven't looked at the portupgrade man page in a while may be missing out on this (relatively) new feature. -- Conrad J. Sabatier <conrads@cox.net>
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