From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 28 12:02:34 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8742BD27; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:02:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpaasial@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f49.google.com (mail-wg0-f49.google.com [74.125.82.49]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC5D8FC0A; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:02:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f49.google.com with SMTP id 15so4907514wgd.16 for ; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:02:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=WGsELXJbBWI976biOvOGMPh6kqJ44aD8zrHcZT5NRec=; b=gYj84zYyDdpeVHyP9Gxl+Df84nv0YJS8N+T7Wc8tBrWMbMlFJHcdEu+1tIGu7bs4Qy cZ9n8KnFYnjpy2X1NTCKb3WqhHU97yHohGOKhF2+sqTHMEMHuPp+qLAbdEiqaSYsC7jE n51ZjLWoUJIQh8JNsT1U/m9DVkBWMRjphIBp9D2M8ttMZakCqTZl8yJPGBPmL5aBT+D7 rOBHtBclGlp/DUB073+Mns9WLp5XbaI4nG75AGulTEhKr6aVUXaD5rpYUkwZ7VW47SzV nb3G5knlJSDl7rKftf6v/hE1WKawOlZBFTLu4pK40lyoF1TlVnURgObK1HM0dcNzHUa8 EGHw== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.180.93.133 with SMTP id cu5mr43986407wib.32.1356696147415; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:02:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.216.172.197 with HTTP; Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:02:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <1356628066796-5772624.post@n5.nabble.com> Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:02:27 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: 9.1-RC3: xorg-input-mouse, xfce4-panel From: Kimmo Paasiala To: CeDeROM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Jakub Lach , freebsd-ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:02:34 -0000 On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 1:51 PM, CeDeROM wrote: > On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Kimmo Paasiala wrote: >> You're misunderstanding a few things. There are no "release packages" >> for any release of FreeBSD. What you have on the install discs are >> just "snapshot" packages built from the ports tree as it happened (...) > > I know, I hoped 1.7.2 driver or 1.8.1 can get into a port tree before > packages for 9.1 are built and released. When I applied a patch (some > structure fields initialization) from 1.7.2 on current 1.7.1 driver > problem of detection and strange mouse behavior was gone. If 1.7.1 > gets into the packages lots of people will report this issue... thats > all. > > Best regards :-) > Tomek > > -- > CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info Related to this, It doesn't look like the FreeBSD ports SVN repository is used to its full potential. SVN allows branching and creation of experimental versions of the tree very easily and cheaply, yet all the experimental repositories references so far are stored in some external repositories, github or elsewhere. What gives?