From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 19:43:27 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 1882616A401; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A7013C489; Wed, 2 May 2007 19:43:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07BCC1A4DAF; Wed, 2 May 2007 12:44:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 52B1651446; Wed, 2 May 2007 15:43:26 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:43:26 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith Message-ID: <20070502194326.GA42980@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070502193159.GB42482@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070502143629.T23648@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070502143629.T23648@math.missouri.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: ports@freebsd.org, x11@FreeBSD.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans 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: Wed, 02 May 2007 19:43:27 -0000 --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:40:26PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >=20 >=20 > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: >=20 > >Hi all, > > > >After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we > >are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade. Because this is a > >huge and disruptive change, we're going to approach it very carefully. >=20 > I tried X 7.2 about a week ago, and I can report some minor problems. >=20 > First, "pkg_delete -a" took far too long. X7.2 has so many dependencies,= =20 > that I sense that it is beginning to overload the ports structure. My=20 > guess is that "pkg_delete -a" spends a huge amount of time just checking= =20 > out all the dependencies before it even starts. To some extent this is true. It's not something we can fix now though. > Secondly, X7.2 as I tried it wouldn't "startx" if some other login had=20 > created a .Xauthority file. While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem=20 > completely, I don't think this is user friendly. I think I ran into this once a while back, I don't know what is the correct solution. Kris --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGOOndWry0BWjoQKURAmmZAJ4z/QRa/Blluz8Ej7gdIZjUTDPjPwCfaHDo SpSWbNnxuuqfsjBfcKZfX10= =mRlI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --yrj/dFKFPuw6o+aM--