From owner-freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 19 04:22:37 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5067416A400 for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 04:22:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCB9513C45E for ; Sat, 19 May 2007 04:22:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from r.c.ladan@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 71so532837ugh for ; Fri, 18 May 2007 21:22:35 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=MPJ05eZc7AhB0mOsSdG5pmcYBQTXPp1Id1S7gdL2mLABtQa3ZTriwQZuLN73hW5QJYVUfBZe/svm3Wh11Xb2D6v7B49s0Uwp9xfk2cfraoyBA/lMV61/CKSI3HaesFjjnO7g61JgCByC60hwE6tU7z2lgXJwT2YZdhwHjtZBRa4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=ZewTn2OZvCh0PNJ6qqljcaE6th8e713fqKDrMtjhZk30rUQMEf7ESEvnz1ufHjPnL+CssLqTtog1KUeKMadHAecTdm2A2s0JO73zf67vg98JWTyaWIHvjtxM0T1hcry+IFrP+DiVURhkPUShoKt0LIWRw0KUj5qU+sNkbxbw9e4= Received: by 10.66.243.2 with SMTP id q2mr1553736ugh.1179547099778; Fri, 18 May 2007 20:58:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.123.202? ( [195.241.221.201]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 32sm3353945ugf.2007.05.18.20.58.17; Fri, 18 May 2007 20:58:17 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <464E75D5.5000508@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 05:58:13 +0200 From: Rene Ladan User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-x11@freebsd.org, Florent Thoumie References: <20070518225505.GA53405@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070518225505.GA53405@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 update in progress X-BeenThere: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: X11 on FreeBSD -- maintaining and support List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 May 2007 04:22:37 -0000 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 , > Dejan Lesjak 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