Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:25:12 -0500 From: Robert Noland <rnoland@FreeBSD.org> To: Alex Goncharov <alex-goncharov@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, danallen46@airwired.net, bms@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unhappy Xorg upgrade Message-ID: <1233246312.1766.17.camel@wombat.2hip.net> In-Reply-To: <E1LSXpg-000ARc-C2@daland.home> References: <6B7ABE80-35AB-4C44-B5A4-200E10DCC3AC@airwired.net> <E1LSP0B-0003Ds-H8@daland.home> <49819BD5.5040709@FreeBSD.org> <E1LSWHr-0009TS-P7@daland.home> <1233236412.1779.40.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <E1LSXPn-000ABB-4L@daland.home> <1233238367.1779.47.camel@wombat.2hip.net> <E1LSXpg-000ARc-C2@daland.home>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 09:25 -0500, Alex Goncharov wrote: > ,--- You/Robert (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:12:47 -0500) ----* > | Problem is, it isn't just the Xserver... All of the pieces are > | intertwined and so in many cases to update Xserver you also need to > | update some/several libraries as well as all of your drivers. Xorg is > | about 60 or 70 ports now. > > That can be handled, it seems to me. > > My current port upgrade problem is that I cannot csup the tree and get > the old X to rebuild dependent components. > > | FWIW, I have Xserver 1.6 and xrandr bits that are rc already... as well > | as a new intel driver that I don't want to update without xserver 1.6. > > I would be willing to test 1.6 on my many different machines, provided > there is a clear and inexpensive (< 2 hours) path to a rollback. I'll assemble a patch as soon as I can get to it. From where we are now in ports, the only thing that has to be updated that I can think of is the server, then rebuild your drivers. robert. > -- Alex -- alex-goncharov@comcast.net -- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkmB2GgACgkQM4TrQ4qfROOPPgCfYlUDpxPzq5ApJ6P035jHCQJD yD4AnishTNQhw6x/00H0IHJK/tPRD8BZ =pF/g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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