Xorg 7.2.0 Release
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sat May 19 21:14:17 UTC 2007
Erik Norgaard wrote:
> Joseph Marah wrote:
>> Does anyone know if this is available for FreeBSD as a port? Thanks.
>
> I have just received a message on the ports list that xorg 7.2 has been
> merged into the ports tree:
>
> "As you may already know, the X11 team has been working hard for the
> past few months to upgrade X.org ports to 7.2. After a couple of weeks
> of testing, we've finally committed this upgrade. We also decided to
> make the PREFIX merge at the same time (moving X11BASE into LOCALBASE),
> which explains why there are thousands of ports affected by this commit."
>
> In other words, if you upgrade you need to rebuild most of your system,
> see UPDATING.
>
> Cheers, Erik
>
(sorry for cross-posting, but this is relevant to ports@ too)
Please be aware that the portsnap snapshot hasn't been updated yet to
include the X.org 7.2 addition, if you use portsnap. I need to try cvsup
as well to see if the modifications outstanding with the cvsup servers too.
-Garrett
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