Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 03:19:28 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing Message-ID: <20070511071928.GA25911@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070511003830.GA72841@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070511003830.GA72841@xor.obsecurity.org>
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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
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