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Date:      Sun, 13 Feb 2005 16:39:17 -0500
From:      PLL <oksala@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-x11@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: X.Org 6.8.2 ports - take 1
Message-ID:  <960bd350050213133967be91f@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <200502131351.46760.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
References:  <200502131351.46760.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>

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On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 13:51:45 +0100, Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> wrote:
> The diff to current ports tree:
> http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xorg/XO-682_2.diff
> 
> The announcement/press release:
> http://www.x.org/XOrg_Press_Releases/X11R6.8.2.html
> 
> The relase notes:
> http://www.x.org/X11R6.8.2/doc/RELNOTES.html
> 
> The warning:
> With this release the distfiles are no longer split into smaller pieces as of
> yet (split distfiles may or may not be available later). There's a
> possibility of creative use of tar flags to only extract what is needed for
> individual ports, but that has not been done (yet). Consequently this
> increases space you need to build xorg from metaport. You need more than
> about 5GB free space to build metaport from scratch. Fortunately you can use
> portupgrade, which will do a 'make clean' before and after each build if you
> upgrade already installed ports. Another option is to build each port
> separately of course.
> 
> Also ftp.x.org which is the first in the list of mirrors might seem a bit
> slow, so you might set MASTER_SITE_XORG to something else in make.conf
> instead.
> 
> Dejan
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Thanks Dejan Lesjak,

It worked perfectly. I'm no longer stuck with the vesa driver for my new
NV43 card. 

PLL
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"By hook or by crook we will."  -  Number 2



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