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Date:      Fri, 18 May 2007 17:52:27 -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:  <1179525147.6238.52.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070518214309.GA52092@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20070518212940.GA51647@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070518214309.GA52092@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 17:43 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 05:29:40PM -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.
> 
> Actually I don't think this one is needed, the index will be built as
> normal once it is in CVS. 

But it's important to note this for REALLY early adopters that fetch
index as soon as 7.2 is committed.  We might be able to preempt this by
building a 7.2 INDEX that is put on the INDEX server at the same time
that 7.2 is committed.

Joe

> 
> Kris
> 
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