Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2009 12:33:56 +0000 From: Matt Dawson <matt@chronos.org.uk> To: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade Message-ID: <200902011233.57132.matt@chronos.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <E1LTNL7-000FnE-BX@daland.home> References: <200901311153.58361.vehemens@verizon.net> <E1LTNL7-000FnE-BX@daland.home>
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On Saturday 31 January 2009 21:25:21 Alex Goncharov wrote: > So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS component) port is brought in > -- and it disables my system. =A0What is my way of action? =A0Right -- > install the old packages, taken from an FTP site (is there a way to > get the previous "source", that is all the ports/*/*/Makefile files? > Csup can only go forward -- or can it go back?) Yes, it can. Read the man page for csup. You can set something like tag=3D. date=3D2008.12.20.12.00.00 in your supfile and get back to (within = reason)=20 any historic point in the tree. You can also tell portupgrade, if you use i= t,=20 to hold off on certain upgrades (try pkg_info -r xorg-7.3_2 for a full list= of=20 packages to hold in portupgrade.conf, HOLD_PKGS define) if you want to stay= =20 current, although I can see a few ports failing with odd deps after they've= =20 been touched by the Xorg bump, so you'd probably be better off using the=20 supfile's date method to preserve compatibility between ports. No idea what= =20 magical incantation to feed to portmaster or portsnap as I've never used th= em. That is not to say the new Xorg doesn't work. The only problems I've seen o= n=20 Radeons needed a couple of options lines in xorg.conf due to the=20 hald/dbus/xorg race and an fdi to make the keyboard layout match what I=20 actually have rather than "us". Easily fixed for now and 7.4 brings some fi= xes=20 to my systems that I have been awaiting for quite some time, most notably t= he=20 horrendous XPress 200M chipset now works with DRI. Best regards, =2D-=20 Matt Dawson MTD15-RIPE matt@chronos.org.uk
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