Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:43:09 +0300 From: Andy Fawcett <andy@athame.co.uk> To: Undisclosed.Recipients: ; Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing Message-ID: <200705132243.10613.andy@athame.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Friday 11 May 2007 00:28:17 Kris Kennaway wrote: > Dear porters, > > We are now ready for xorg 7.2 testing! Over the past week we have > done extensive tests of various upgrade scenarios, fixed many > remaining bugs, and now the upgrade is looking good. Of course, we > can't possibly test everything, so that's where you come in. What we > need now is for everyone to download this tarball: > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/ports-xorg-7.2.tbz > > Extract it into a clean directory (i.e. not over the top of your > existing ports tree), then follow the directions in UPDATING to begin > the upgrade process. In particular, please pay special attention to > the instructions on how to record and report information should > something go wrong: without a transcript of the upgrade session we may > be unable to determine what went wrong on your system, and your report > may be wasted. > > We're asking all FreeBSD ports committers and other interested > developers to participate in this process: it's now up to you guys to > test the upgrade and report problems you encounter, before we unleash > it on the general user base. > > Once we have enough success reports and have dealt with all reported > failures, we will proceed with the next stage, which is to import into > CVS. Finally completed here on one machine with no real problems. Machine had a basic KDE desktop installed before starting (just kdebase really), and worked fine afterwards. -- Andy Fawcett | andy@athame.co.uk | tap@kde.org "In an open world without walls and fences, | tap@lspace.org we wouldn't need Windows and Gates." -- anon | tap@fruitsalad.org
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