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Date:      Fri, 23 Jul 2004 17:42:17 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion
Message-ID:  <1090618937.65834.1517.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin>
References:  <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin>

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On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:11, Eric Anholt wrote:
> OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. 
> No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time.  X.Org has
> been made the default X distribution on -current.  Other versions of
> FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade
> by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf.
> 
> To upgrade, you must remove your XFree86 ports and install the xorg
> ports.  It couldn't be done with portupgrade, unfortunately, because we
> are keeping the XFree86 ports around.  To upgrade:
> 
> pkg_delete -f /var/db/pkg/imake-4* /var/db/pkg/XFree86-*
> cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg && make install
> pkgdb -F
> 
> If you want to keep the old XFree86 on -current, simply set
> X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xfree86-4 in make.conf
> 
> I am currently working on updating -current's sysinstall for X.Org. 
> Until then it will be broken.

Please, please, please add the relevant bits to /usr/ports/UPDATING (and
any relevant porter bits to /usr/ports/CHANGES).  Thanks, and thanks for
all your effort on getting this done.

Joe

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