Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 05:58:13 +0200 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie <flz@xbsd.org> Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 update in progress Message-ID: <464E75D5.5000508@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070518225505.GA53405@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070518225505.GA53405@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Users, > > Within the next 24 hours, the long-awaited update to the X.org 7.2 > windowing system will be committed to the ports tree. This upgrade > has been 6 months in the making and would not have been possible > without the dedicated work of Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>, > Dejan Lesjak <lesi@FreeBSD.org> and many others in our army of > developers. > > For the past two weeks the ports tree has been frozen while our > developer community has concentrated on testing and refining the > upgrade process. This is a major upgrade, but we have worked hard to > smooth out the road bumps that have been encountered during testing so > far. We believe that the upgrade is now ready for general deployment, > but particularly cautious users may wish to delay their upgrades and > monitor the freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org and freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org > mailing lists for discussion of remaining issues that may be > encountered by users. > > Please note that it will unfortunately not be possible to perform this > update without some manual intervention. Please refer to the > /usr/ports/UPDATING file to learn about the steps necessary, and the > changes involved. One important aspect of the upgrade is that X.org > 7.x is no longer installed in the /usr/X11R6 directory; instead it > installs in /usr/local along with the other ports. > > If you are running an automatic port rebuild script from e.g. cron, > you will want to disable that. In general we do not recommend > automatic updates because of the potential to cause unrecoverable > errors when problems are encountered. > > Thank you for your patience while we have prepared this change. The > tree will remain semi-frozen for another few days after the import > takes place while we wait for all the changes to settle out (the > duration of this freeze will depend on any problem reports we receive > from the user community). > > We hope you all enjoy the new X version! > > Kris > (for portmgr@) flz@ did a major job on this (worship) :) Greetz, Rene -- GPG fingerprint = E738 5471 D185 7013 0EE0 4FC8 3C1D 6F83 12E1 84F6 (subkeys.pgp.net) "It won't fit on the line." -- me, 2001
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