From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 17 17:56:43 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: 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 4370A16A407 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 17:56:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from amailer.gwdg.de (amailer.gwdg.de [134.76.10.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 075E713C480 for ; Thu, 17 May 2007 17:56:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rhurlin@gwdg.de) Received: from [87.139.104.184] (helo=krabat.raven.hur) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.66) (envelope-from ) id 1Hojj2-0005n7-Ap; Thu, 17 May 2007 19:25:16 +0200 Message-ID: <464C8FFA.1040804@gwdg.de> Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 19:25:14 +0200 From: Rainer Hurling User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070421) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070517111429.GL1149@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20070517111429.GL1149@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authenticated: Id:rhurlin X-Spam-Level: - X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie Cc: 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, 17 May 2007 17:56:43 -0000 I upgraded from xorg-6.9 to xorg-7.2 on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT (amd64) with success. Now I can use nv-driver instead of vesa-driver :-) Like Peter Jeremy I had to execute multiple 'portupgrade -a' commands. But two ports did not upgrade at all (math/xgobi and mail/thunderbird). Rainer Peter Jeremy schrieb: > I can report success on three systems. A further system is still > upgrading. > > In all cases, I had to execute multiple 'portupgrade -a' commands (and > a few 'pkgdb -F' commands) to get it to work. One system mad a couple > of problems with portupgrade apparently forgetting to re-install > packages after uninstalling them - which took a bit of cleaning up - > and losing pieces of packages ('pkg_info -g' reported files missing). > > Overall, I'd rate it as a success, though I don't think it rates as > totally idiot-proof. > > Thanks to all for your efforts in getting Xorg 7.2 into the tree. >