From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 13 19:42:29 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2076816A405 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 19:42:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@athame.co.uk) Received: from hex.athame.co.uk (salama58.adsl.netsonic.fi [81.17.207.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8C013C465 for ; Sun, 13 May 2007 19:42:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andy@athame.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.10.15] by hex.athame.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1HnJxM-000Hia-Qj; Sun, 13 May 2007 22:42:12 +0300 From: Andy Fawcett Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 22:43:09 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline To: Undisclosed.Recipients: ; Message-Id: <200705132243.10613.andy@athame.co.uk> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 May 2007 19:42:29 -0000 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