Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 18:11:47 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: x11@freebsd.org, flz@freebsd.org, portmgr@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ready to merge? Message-ID: <1179526307.6238.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20070518212940.GA51647@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070518212940.GA51647@xor.obsecurity.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:29 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > I think we are in a good shape to merge to CVS. Some additional notes > should be added to UPDATING: > > * Update the module path if you are going to keep the same xorg.conf > > * If you run into problems running the new server, try moving aside > your xorg.conf and letting X autocreate it (this will happen > automatically when launching the server). > > * make sure you have the x11/xorg metaport installed; some people do > not have it instaled on 6.9 and consequently miss out on a lot of the > new xorg 7.2 sub-ports. > > * Change the 'portsdb -U' to 'cd /usr/ports; make index' to work > around a weird portupgrade bug. > > * linux-realplayer and acroread7 need a bump if they didnt already get > one > > * Note to users of gstreamer ports that they also require special > steps to upgrade: change the 'portupgrade -a' step to > > portupgrade -a -x 'gstreamer*' > > then once this completes do: > > portupgrade -Rr 'gstreamer*' > > Are you aware of any other remaining issues? Perhaps you want to mention that if X11BASE is a file system, then mergebase will not work properly. X11BASE would have to unmounted after backing up and merging contents, but before X11BASE is removed and the symlink is created. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGTiSib2iPiv4Uz4cRAjH1AJ9dm6cp8b85KwIQNEqJNie0VBTSxQCfTsL9 SgKjY92/+JVNfBm6BVi3u/w= =kgXB -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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