Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 20:51:06 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing Message-ID: <4643E82A.6090200@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <20070511003830.GA72841@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070511003830.GA72841@xor.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 05:28:17PM -0400, 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 >> the upgrade process. > > Amendment to the instructions: XORG_UPGRADE must be set before the > portupgrade -Rf libXft. > > Kris Well, bottoms up to the upgrade. Lessee how the experience is.. Many thanks to all of the maintainers for finally getting this out. It's been a while since FreeBSD's been up to date in terms of its X11 distribution :). -Garrett
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