Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:42:09 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CALL FOR TEST: Updates to pixmap, cairo, poppler, and firefox 3.0! Message-ID: <1213789329.10665.146.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <op.ucxiscyq9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> References: <op.ucxiscyq9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, 2008-06-18 at 00:27 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > Hello folks, > > First all, ahze did most of work. Thanks ahze! Yesterday, I am just merely > pick up and help him. Right now, he is pretty busy with move to different > state but he is still with this project when he can. It might be a bit > long email as I am going to list each ports in subject and TODO tasks. > Please add my email and gnome@ in CC, no matter what, that way my team and > I can follow up better and quicker. Thanks! > > x11/pixman: Update to 0.10.0 > ------------------------------------------------------- > Firefox 3 needs it. Orignal, the shared library was bumped and ahze has > added a new feature in our USE_GNOME=ltverhack by can control the number > of shared library. To control the number of shared library, add the > ltverhack:N. Right now pixman has USE_GNOME=ltverhack:9 to make it stays > same at libpixman-1.so.9. If anyone want to use ltverhack:N in one of your > port, you need to make sure the ABI doesn't change to use it. We will need > more users to test to make sure it doesn't break any function in other > ports that depend on pixman. I am running on it without change anything > and it works great. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > graphics/cairo: Update to 1.6.4 > ------------------------------------------------------- > Firefox 3 needs it. We have updated most cairo binding ports too. Let us > know if we have missed some or cairo breaks your desktop/application. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > graphics/poppler: Update to 0.8.3 > ------------------------------------------------------- > The shared library version has been changed. All ports that depend on > poppler will have to be bump. We still need to bring more ports in MC > ports-stable to test it. We don't have it all at the moment, but we will. > The poppler-qt and poppler-qt4 still need to be work on. I don't have > QT3/QT4 install right now, so it would be nice if one of you can help me. > I will installing QT3/QT4 anyway, btw. KDE maintainers, please help to > test on koffice-kde3 and kdegraphics3 when poppler-qt* are done as I don't > know much about KDE. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > www/firefox3: Update to 3.0 final > ------------------------------------------------------- > The bsd.gecko.mk has been moved from www/mozilla/ to Mk/. You no longer > need to include bsd.gecko.mk/Makefile.common by manual. We still keep it > in backward compatibility, so the rest ports won't be break. We haven't > add some other ports to have Firefox 3 support yet, so if you want to add > in your ports early then feel free to send me patch(es) and I shall add in > MC ports-stable. > ------------------------------------------------------- > > TODO tasks: > ------------------------------------------------------- > - Bring more ports that depend on poppler in ports-stable. > - Need to update the document for bsd.gecko.mk (USE_GECKO). > - Fix plist in firefox-devel, I hope to get it fix by > tomorrow or so in this week. > - Add firefox3 in some ports' USE_GECKO if these support, > but it's safe to wait either. (no hurry) > - Test and test. > - Maybe more if there is any > ------------------------------------------------------- > > How to use MC ports-stable and upgrade? > ------------------------------------------------------- > You can grab marcusmerge[1] and run 'marcusmerge -m ports-stable'. If you > want to update your ports tree, you have to run cvsup, csup, portsnap or > different method first then marcusmerge second at the everytime. If you > want to unmerge your ports tree, you can run 'marcusmerge -U' and be sure > to update your ports tree to bring ports back. Be sure to read in > marcusmerge manpage[2] for more info. > > To upgrade your installed ports, you can just simple 'portmaster -a' or > 'portupgrade -a'. While we don't have most ports that depend on poppler > get bump yet, so be expect to get a bit problem in runtime at the moment. > But it is easy to fix by rebuild/reinstall port. To downgrade, well you > have to do it by manual. > > As for the MC ports (GNOME development) users, I have moved these ports > from ports module to ports-stable module. You will need to run > 'marcusmerge -U' first then update ports tree then MC ports-stable then at > last MC ports. > > [1] http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/marcusmerge > [2] http://www.marcuscom.com/marcusmerge.8.html > ------------------------------------------------------- > > With all of these changes, I want this to be tested in the pointyhat-exp > first before merges into FreeBSD ports tree. The more help we get will get > faster pointyhat-exp test and merge into FreeBSD ports tree. ;-) > > Cheers, > Mezz Thanks Mezz One thing missing from this that I needed to get going is that the when the marcusmerge script checks out from cvs, you need to give the right cvs password - 'anoncvs'. I'll let you know how the actual ports go later. Cheers Tom [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkhY9I0ACgkQlcRvFfyds/fi/ACeKNoxNJ5tNedQhK1q+IeNKwn+ 7xYAn0g/WmXRyP0sKc6cWuJS3qT+cwgZ =5mjd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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