Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 00:31:06 +0200 From: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing Message-ID: <200705110031.07135.danny@ricin.com> In-Reply-To: <1178835991.46237.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20070510212817.GA67897@xor.obsecurity.org> <200705110011.13466.danny@ricin.com> <1178835991.46237.7.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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On Friday 11 May 2007 00:26:31 Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 00:11 +0200, Danny Pansters wrote: > > On Thursday 10 May 2007 23:28:17 Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > Dear porters, > > > > > > We are now ready for xorg 7.2 testing! Over the past week we have > > > done extensive tests of various upgrade scenarios, fixed many > > > remaining bugs, and now the upgrade is looking good. Of course, we > > > can't possibly test everything, so that's where you come in. What we > > > need now is for everyone to download this tarball: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~kris/ports-xorg-7.2.tbz > > > > > > Extract it into a clean directory (i.e. not over the top of your > > > existing ports tree), then follow the directions in UPDATING to begin > > > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't this require that the tarball is > > extracted over existing /usr/ports? Using portupgrade etc. > > No. DO NOT EXTRACT OVER EXISTING /usr/ports as this will cause patch > problems. Instead, set the PORTSDIR environment variable to the > fully-qualified path to this new location. For example: > > # cd /space/xorg/ports > # tar -xjf ports-xorg-7.2.tbz > # setenv PORTSDIR `realpath .` > > The realpath is important so as to resolve symlinks. OK, thanks. This wasn't very clear. Dan
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