From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 23 22:14:54 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC86616A4CE; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:14:54 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.85]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9C0643D1F; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:14:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eta@lclark.edu) Received: from [192.168.0.103] (c-24-21-18-195.client.comcast.net[24.21.18.195]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <2004072322145001400f36v1e>; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:14:54 +0000 From: Eric Anholt To: Daniel Lang In-Reply-To: <20040723220415.GA63266@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <1090609869.2748.23.camel@leguin> <20040723220415.GA63266@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1090620888.2748.73.camel@leguin> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:14:49 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: x11@FreeBSD.org cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: X.Org conversion X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 22:14:55 -0000 On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 15:04, Daniel Lang wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Eric Anholt wrote on Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 12:11:09PM -0700: > > OK, the final version of the X.Org conversion patch has hit the tree. > > No ports appear to be broken by the upgrade at this time. X.Org has > > been made the default X distribution on -current. Other versions of > > FreeBSD retain the same default X distribution (XFree86) but can upgrade > > by setting X_WINDOW_SYSTEM=xorg in /etc/make.conf. > > > > To upgrade, you must remove your XFree86 ports and install the xorg > > ports. It couldn't be done with portupgrade, unfortunately, because we > > are keeping the XFree86 ports around. To upgrade: > [..] > > Why does "keeping the XFree86 ports around" prevent one from > using portupgrade? I can specify a different port to > upgrade with with -o, like (simplified): > > portupgrade -o x11/xorg XFree86-4.3.0_X I mean, having portupgrade do the right thing with portupgrade -a for users of both XFree86 and X.Org. The current system seems less painful than all the portupgrade solutions I've heard proposed, as long as we keep XFree86 the default on any platform. If portmgr and re would accept us moving to X.Org on all versions of FreeBSD, and we had a good way of handling that (the repocopy and MOVED solution is pretty messy, but I'd do it if that was all we had), I'd love to see it happen. -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org