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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing
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On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 12:18:38AM +0200, Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> after solving the libthr.so problem being overwritten by the -m32 version,
> the upgrade went flawlessly in one hit. Congratulations!
> 
> Nevertheless, three minor observations :
> 
>  - mergebase.sh failed (after resolving conflicts) with "Merge failed."
>    But the script removes ${errfile}. A mv in case of error
>    might be better to have a trace why (I bluntly restarted
>    the script ...).
> 
>  - I did not have the xorg meta-port installed but just xorg-server.
>    In that case, the upgrade path does not seem to install
>    x11-drivers/xorg-drivers.
>    This might be obvious for experienced xorg7.2 users, but for
>    me as a newbie it took me some time to find (especially
>    since this board has some VIA Unichrome VGA chipset which did
>    not work under 6.9 either so I did not look directly for
>    a missing port).
>    It might be worthwhile to add a note on this.
>
> 
>  - As above, but this time for the fonts : x11-fonts/font-alias
>    seems not to be installed if you have just a subset
>    of xorg-fonts installed rather than the metaport.

Yes, you really need the metaport, at least at first (you could delete
stuff later if you decide you don't need it).

Kris