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This is great news. I can get rid of my git tree soon. There seem to be a few warts in the upgrade process, but there's little point in continuing to maintain a total freeze.

The DAG port* and pkg*-tools must walk for dependency and conflict checking has now grown by SEVERAL entries; watching portupgrade -N gnome2 listing the dependency "dots" is now almost comical.

Sadly, it also means that the "registering package install" phase is taking *ages*, because walking the /var/db/pkg directory to check for conflicts must naturally look into every x*, lib* and font* directory, and, with Xorg 7.2, those are pretty numerous.

There have been discussions about overhauling the installed ports and packages metadata backend, but most devs are frowning upon the idea of using SQLite (because of SQL) or relying entirely on BDB (because BDB breaks, period); actually, relying on single-file DBs is frowned upon because corruption that would otherwise only affect a single file on the /v/d/pkg tree will now blow the whole thing, and fully transactional DBs are too heavyweight for the purpose of storing this kind of information.

Well, files are not working very well either, at least not the way they're currently been parsed.

Some people proposed using a lightweight DB as a cache, and the /v/d/pkg filesystem tree as fallback to rebuild the DB in case of corruption. Despite obvious redundancy of information, and hence the necessity of keeping both sets of data in sync, that's the approach I liked the most.


Edit: newsflash! /me making grammar mistakes!

Edited 2007-05-19 19:29

Yeah, been waiting all week for that commit. Time to rebuild the laptop and get her up to 6.2-STABLE

Kudos to all the FreeBSD devs!!!!

that means also a improvemnt for PC-BSD! yay!

Ladies and gentlemen, please start your engines :o)

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/041029.ht...

"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."

This is wicked, I can't wait

I upgraded yesterday and it went fine. I haven't had a problem and might even try beryl later next week.

just upgrading ports and doing a make-install in /usr/ports/x11/xorg will not work

/usr/ports/graphics/dri is broken

the upgrade instructions

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ModularXorg

are well documented but look like a major headache for most mortals

i had planned on reinstalling for freebsd7, it looks like i'll just wait for this upgrade to make it in to a fresh release...whats the rush? its not like my monitor is going to start dancing when 7.2 is installed

anyone who knows if "make install" will ever do the trick, please comment

I'm so impressed by the huge work being done by small group of devs.

You amazed me, thank you for the hard work guys!

Sorry if this is a stupid question (I'm a Linux guy...) Does this upgrade mean that Compiz & Beryl will be supported on FreeBSD out of the box?

I'm just waiting on wpi (Intel 3945 a/b/g) to be merged, which will make FreeBSD a definite contender for my laptop

With that being said, is there any eta on FreeBSd 7.0 and have they added the required features which Nvidia listed on the mailing list? I haven't found a 'progress report' in that regard.

If you really need aquamarine why not port it over yourself.

update ports tree - portsnap (GIT is gone)
update system sources - csup
install/update applications - portmaster

Now all I need is for GNUstep to get updated and put into the ports tree.

had to add a wm to /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
(commenting out twm)
after adding /x11/xinit and some other stuff
my old 'starx ...' or whatever either retried X11R6's X(org) or ran twm otherwise, without running the following,
discovered by much trial and error (pkg_deleted -f /var/db/pkg/xorg (6.9 lots of, before installing xorg)
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#xinit /usr/local/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /usr/local/lib/Xorg
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^^^^ reason for this post, btw))
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however I consider on this box the Xorg upgrade 'done' (I unfortunately for various reasons do not use portupgrade nor any other recc'd tool) and just the ports to bump. I expect to complete the UPDATING instructions smoothly, however taking several months (as I don't have a lot of time to do it all at once)

Edited 2007-05-21 00:47

Now if only adobe and flash would play nice i could wipe debian off this desktop heap and let it play nice with the rest of my systems. My 3 other systems, a file server a sandbox and an old mac g4, are constantly singing "one of these things is not like the other" with a huge grin. I wouldn't care if I wasn't doing web-dev part time.
I try to preview a group collaberation project with flash in it and BOOM seg fault. I got sick of kicking my wife of her mac so I could see what I was doing.

Sorry, off topic, I know. But it's so frustrating! And in no way Freebsd's fault. Sorry if it sounded like I was trolling, Im just mad at Adobe.

Thanks to all the devs and testers for working so hard on this thankless job. I have upgraded two boxes and did a clean 6.2 + Xorg 7.2 on another and I have not had any problems whatsoevr. FreeBSD just rocks.