Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 22:36:41 +0200 From: Martin Tournoij <Carpetsmoker@rwxrwxrwx.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Cc: stephen@math.missouri.edu Subject: Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans Message-ID: <20070502203641.GA53648@glitch.rwxrwxrwx.net> In-Reply-To: <20070502143629.T23648@math.missouri.edu> References: <20070502193159.GB42482@xor.obsecurity.org> <20070502143629.T23648@math.missouri.edu>
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On Wed 02 May 2007 14:05, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > On Wed, 2 May 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >After many months of hard work (mostly by flz@, as well as others) we > >are approaching readiness of the xorg 7.2 upgrade. Because this is a > >huge and disruptive change, we're going to approach it very carefully. > > I tried X 7.2 about a week ago, and I can report some minor problems. > > First, "pkg_delete -a" took far too long. X7.2 has so many dependencies, that I sense that it is beginning to overload the ports structure. > My guess is that "pkg_delete -a" spends a huge amount of time just checking out all the dependencies before it even starts. > > Secondly, X7.2 as I tried it wouldn't "startx" if some other login had created a .Xauthority file. While "rm .Xauthority" solved the problem > completely, I don't think this is user friendly. > > But I might be a little out of sate, and all this has since been fixed. > > Stephen Doesn't this do the same as pkg_delete -a: rm -r /var/db/pkg /usr/local /usr/X11R6 The main difference is that pkg_delete checks the file's checksums, and leaves files with changed checksums alone.
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