Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 18:28:28 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: portmgr@freebsd.org, x11@freebsd.org, flz@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: Ready to merge? Message-ID: <20070518222828.GA52974@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1179526307.6238.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20070518212940.GA51647@xor.obsecurity.org> <1179526307.6238.57.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 06:11:47PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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. Yeah, this is worth mentioning. Kris
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