From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 2 22:21:29 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 1069616A402; Wed, 2 May 2007 22:21:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cokane@cokane.org) Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com [24.93.47.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B9A13C44C; Wed, 2 May 2007 22:21:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cokane@cokane.org) Received: from mail.cokane.org (rrcs-24-153-184-158.sw.biz.rr.com [24.153.184.158]) by ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l42LPZ4K013171; Wed, 2 May 2007 16:25:35 -0500 (CDT) Received: by mail.cokane.org (Postfix, from userid 103) id 3EB8414B6AA; Wed, 2 May 2007 17:25:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3-gr0 (2006-06-01) on discordia X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.1.3-gr0 Received: from [172.20.1.3] (erwin.int.cokane.org [172.20.1.3]) by mail.cokane.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6004714B6A8; Wed, 2 May 2007 17:25:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Coleman Kane To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20070502194326.GA42980@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070502193159.GB42482@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070502143629.T23648@math.missouri.edu> <20070502194326.GA42980@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 15:26:25 -0600 Message-Id: <1178141185.23085.33.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.0 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Stephen Montgomery-Smith , x11@freebsd.org 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 22:21:29 -0000 On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 15:43 -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:40:26PM -0500, 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. > > I've been following the xorg 7.2 tree for some time, and recently around the time of either the move to /usr/local or the ruby18 update (they happened pretty close together for me) portupgrade -na seems to have broken for me. It just hangs there forever, seemingly doing something in the background and never actually starts checking for updated ports. Tried rebuilding INDEX, INDEX.db, and pkgdb.db to no avail... Once I let it go overnight and the process died with an Illegal Instruction signal... > > 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. > > 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 > > created a .Xauthority file. While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem > > 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 -- Coleman Kane