Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 15:41:35 -0500 (CDT) From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Martin Tournoij <Carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans Message-ID: <20070502153849.U23648@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070502203641.GA53648@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> References: <20070502193159.GB42482@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070502143629.T23648@math.missouri.edu> <20070502203641.GA53648@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net>
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On Wed, 2 May 2007, Martin Tournoij wrote: > On Wed 02 May 2007 14:05, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> >>> 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. >> >> I tried X 7.2 about a week ago, and I can report some minor problems. >> >> First, "pkg_delete -a" took far too long. X7.2 has so many dependencies, that I sense that it is beginning to overload the ports structure. >> My guess is that "pkg_delete -a" spends a huge amount of time just checking out all the dependencies before it even starts. >> >> Secondly, X7.2 as I tried it wouldn't "startx" if some other login had created a .Xauthority file. While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem >> completely, I don't think this is user friendly. >> >> But I might be a little out of sate, and all this has since been fixed. >> >> Stephen > > Doesn't this do the same as pkg_delete -a: > rm -r /var/db/pkg /usr/local /usr/X11R6 > > The main difference is that pkg_delete checks the file's checksums, > and leaves files with changed checksums alone. > Yes. And indeed this is more or less what I did (I had various config files in /usr/local/etc that I didn't want deleted). But this is most definitely not a user friendly solution!
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