Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:06:41 +0200 From: Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> To: Alexey Shuvaev <shuvaev@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> Cc: freebsd-x11@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: xorg-server 1.7.7 Message-ID: <4CD82011.20509@icyb.net.ua> In-Reply-To: <20101108155248.GD17517@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> References: <4CD7C15D.2010203@icyb.net.ua> <20101108150306.GB17517@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> <4CD8132D.9090902@icyb.net.ua> <20101108155248.GD17517@wep4035.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
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on 08/11/2010 17:52 Alexey Shuvaev said the following: > On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 05:11:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 08/11/2010 17:03 Alexey Shuvaev said the following: >>> On Mon, Nov 08, 2010 at 11:22:37AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >>>> >>>> Can we update xorg-server to 1.7.7, the latest version on 1.7 branch? >>>> It looks like that would require only changing the version >>>> and regenerating the >>>> checksums. >>>> >>> Seems to be not so trivial. Look at this thread: >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2010-May/061141.html >>> >>> Since miwi@ and rnoland@ seem to be busy at moment there is a need for >>> the maintainer of ALL of the xorg-* ports (and not only the single ones, >>> like xorg-server, etc.). Someone with enough time, motivation (hardware, >>> programming foo in this area...) >> >> Oh, forgot a need to simply bump port revisions of all xorg driver ports. >> That's perhaps a little bit laborious, but doesn't require any special skills. >> Or did you have something else in mind? >> > Well, I'm successfully running xorg-server-1.7.7 since May without > doing anything else to other xorg-related ports: > > xorg-server-1.7.7,1 > succeeds index (index has 1.7.5,1) > > but it could be just a matter of luck :) Me too :-) But I think that I did have to rebuild xorg drivers that I use because they refused to load after xorg-server upgrade. But perhaps I misremember my experiment with 1.8.2 or 1.9.2. > I mean this (from rnolad): > "I have an update to 1.7.7 queued up in my tree along with an updated > pixman. It is a little tedious as all of the server based ports need to > be updated and drivers need PORTREVISION bumps. I'll try and get it > committed in the next couple of days though." > > He mentions update (not just PORTREVISION bump) of pixman and other > server-based ports. I have some vague insight into what he means, > but I'd say it should be done by a person more familiar (than me) with xorg > infrastucture with all its interdependencies. Well, I think that those were meant as bonuses, not as requirements. -- Andriy Gapon
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