From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 22:32:13 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 60C8C16A400 for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:32:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl (smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl [213.51.146.201]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F40E13C44C for ; Thu, 10 May 2007 22:32:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@ricin.com) Received: from [213.51.146.188] (port=52662 helo=smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl) by smtpq2.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1HmHBD-00019a-Ow; Fri, 11 May 2007 00:32:11 +0200 Received: from cp464173-a.dbsch1.nb.home.nl ([84.27.214.242]:62080 helo=desktop.homenet) by smtp3.tilbu1.nb.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1HmHBC-0000Rz-CP; Fri, 11 May 2007 00:32:10 +0200 From: Danny Pansters To: Joe Marcus Clarke Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 00:31:06 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> <200705110011.13466.danny@ricin.com> <1178835991.46237.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1178835991.46237.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200705110031.07135.danny@ricin.com> X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing 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: Thu, 10 May 2007 22:32:13 -0000 On Friday 11 May 2007 00:26:31 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:11 +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > > On Thursday 10 May 2007 23:28:17 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Dear porters, > > > > > > We are now ready for xorg 7.2 testing! Over the past week we have > > > done extensive tests of various upgrade scenarios, fixed many > > > remaining bugs, and now the upgrade is looking good. Of course, we > > > can't possibly test everything, so that's where you come in. What we > > > need now is for everyone to download this tarball: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/ports-xorg-7.2.tbz > > > > > > Extract it into a clean directory (i.e. not over the top of your > > > existing ports tree), then follow the directions in UPDATING to begin > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this require that the tarball is > > extracted over existing /usr/ports? Using portupgrade etc. > > No. DO NOT EXTRACT OVER EXISTING /usr/ports as this will cause patch > problems. Instead, set the PORTSDIR environment variable to the > fully-qualified path to this new location. For example: > > # cd /space/xorg/ports > # tar -xjf ports-xorg-7.2.tbz > # setenv PORTSDIR `realpath .` > > The realpath is important so as to resolve symlinks. OK, thanks. This wasn't very clear. Dan