Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 12:44:11 +1000 From: John Marshall <john.marshall@riverwillow.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Should 9.3 carry a warning about NEW_XORG Message-ID: <20140704024411.GA3744@rwpc15.gfn.riverwillow.net.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my notebook (Pentium M - IBM T43) from 9.2-RELEASE to 9.3-RC1. Upgrade was fine but then I did a regular upgrade of ports and lost X functionality. It turns out that the new X.org ports which were "opt in" in 9.2 are now "opt out" in 9.3, so I unintentionally upgraded X.org. I had also upgraded a couple of desktop systems to 9.3-RC1 but had not yet updated ports on those. Having experienced the problem on the notebook, I added WITHOUT_NEW_XORG= to /etc/make.conf on the desktops and they continue to function following ports upgrades. The purpose of this post to -stable@ is simply to suggest that there be something done in connection with X.org installation behaviour for 9.3-RELEASE (perhaps at least a warning in the Rlease Notes?) to incline towards POLA and not have other folks land in this predicament. -- John Marshall [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlO2FPsACgkQw/tAaKKahKKoLACeOZREWdjCrz66rabrcsyqCAmW VRUAnAraCfnbyNvk5LOJ0v5Ers6rWxrH =tzo1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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