Just for the record:
I have Xorg 7.5.1 committed, also the ports tree is now open. It gives a lot of updates – openldap, autotools, pear, cmake, linux-* , python cleanups, gstreamer, xorg and mysql 5.5 is now default and a lot more

Oy boys and gals,

The Xorg T(m)eam is happy to announce the next round of Xorg fun! The X-Server has
been patched to the latest 1.7.X series, drivers and fonts have been updated to the
latest versions, but unfortunately we are not able to update libGL, drm and xorg-server
to a higher version because FreeBSD doesn’t support GEM/KSE (yet), but it looks good
for now, as kib@ is working on that, so we hope the future will be better for us.
This update includes some components from Xorg 7.6 with a lot of improvements, and it
seems that the performance is much better than the old version. We are calling the
update xorg 7.5.1.

We hope you will enjoy the new stuff and give us a lot of feedback. We will start an exp-run
tonight and depending on how much feedback we get, we plan to commit this update by the
first weekend of March. A note for ATI users, the driver was updated to 6.14.0, so you
may need to add some stuff to your xorg.conf in the “Section “Device”"

Option “int10″ “on”
Option “BusType” “PCIE”
Option “RenderAccel” “on”
Option “AccelMethod” “exa”
Option “DynamicPM” “on”
Option “DRI” “on”

So to get the xorg stuff you will need to:

run

svn co https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/ports/branches/xorg-dev

A small merge script to merge the svn checkout into the real portstree can
be found here:

http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/xorg/xorgmerge

The script is a modified version of the kdemerge script. Please set the KDEDIR
variable to the path of your X.org ports.

After merging, run one of the following command, depending on which tool you use
to manage your installed packages.

portupgrade -a \*
portmaster -a

Please report any problems and issues to x11 (at) FreeBSD.org.

I would like to thank:

Beat Gaetzi
Dima Panov
Koop Mast
Eitan Adler

Without these people the Xorg update would still not be ready now.

PS: Please don’t send us mails with ‘xorg update dosen’t’ work.
If you send us a report, please include the latest Xorg.conf
Xorg.log, uname -a output and pkg_info output. Thanks.

Happy Updating!

My FreeBSD Commit Bit was updated yesterday. I have been playing with
ports and docs for a long time, and now src is added to the list. I’m
going to stop talking about cleaning up freebsd-bugs gnats. Now is the
time to actually do something about it. I don’t want to see anymore happy
birthday mail to a 10 years open bug report..

Thanks to Robert Watson who will be mentoring me for a while. And for those
who asked me yesterday what I want to do in src, I do have a future plan, else
don’t call me miwi . Hang on for a bit and you will get the answer soonish.

so longish ..

Time for a new round FreeBSD Vbox’s Team called for Testing,

A few of you have probably wondered what happened to our VirtualBox
efforts for FreeBSD. Well it took a bit longer then expected and a few
problems were found that needed to be resolved first but most of the
things are looking fine now and almost all patches have been pushed
upstream with 4.0.4 so here we are now.

We will continue to work on VirtualBox for FreeBSD and upstream is also
very helpful to us but we could need a few more hands to better keep up
with the work and especially improve and fix the Guest Additions. So if
you want to help please contact us or have a look at our Todo list.

This result wouldn’t have been possible without the continuous help of
the VirtualBox Developers and a lot of people from the FreeBSD
community! (names in alphabetical order and probably missed a few,
sorry
for that!)

- Alexander Eichner
- Anonymous
- Beat Gätzi
- Bernhard Fröhlich
- crsd
- DomiX
- Doug Barton
- Grzegorz Blach
- Hans Petter Selasky
- Julian Stacey
- Jung-uk Kim
- Jürgen Lock
- Klaus Espenlaub
- Martin Wilke
- Mattia Rossi
- Michael Butler
- Sean C. Farley
- Steve Wills
- tombsd
- Vivek Khera
- well-wisher
- Wietse Venema
- Yuri
- many more from emulation@

Please when testing this ports backup all your virtual machines first.
Also please build the port with DEBUG option enabled and send us the
logfile when any VM crashes. Without them it’s very hard to figure out
what went wrong.

Highlights with 4.0:
- USB support (by Hans Petter Selasky)
- Asynchronous I/O
- Guest additions got startscripts and a integration into the desktop
environments
- www/phpvirtualbox updated to 4.0-3

Changelog for 4.0:
- http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

Short configuration help:
- http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox

Todo List:
- http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox/ToDo

Thanks and good luck,

Since last year pear has changed the package layout. And since several months ago,
I have seen a lot of FreeBSD maintainers removing the CATEGORY flag from their ports.
The problem with that is the packages won’t be installed at the right location anymore.
Here is a patch to fix the problem, feel free to test:

http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/pear.diff

I would be happy if anyone has a better suggestion to replace the flag CAT_IN_WRKSRC…

Howdy,

I just want to inform you that the python team plans to make some infrastructure changes.
The changes involves the following 3 steps:

[python 2.5/2.6/2.7 improvements/ py 3.2 adding]
We plan to integrate some important patches:
ports/153952 ports/148406 ports/149167 ports/152224 ports/133081

python 3.2 will be released on 12 Feb, we’ll wait for the final release
before adding it to the build. For all of these we will do an exp-run
to make sure nothing will break during the build. It takes approximately 2 weeks if all works fine.

[python24 removal]
Python 2.4 is not supported anymore since 2008, and it has a lot of security problems.
Unfortunately this will cause the removal of some zope stuff. The following ports are affected:

www/zope210
www/zope211
www/zope28
www/zope29
+ zope plugins which are dependant on one of these ports. Philip is working on an
update to some new zope versions. I hope we can cooperate with him to get things
smoothly done. For all these we will do an exp-run to make sure nothing will break during
build. It takes approximately 3 weeks if all works fine.

[python 2.7 move to default]
python 2.7 is already stable enough to be moved over as default. For this one we will do an exp-run
to make sure nothing will break during the build. If all works fine, we think we can complete it by the
first week of March.

Howdy,

2 days ago was a new ati driver released. fluffy@ and me was using for
few weeks the git version without problems, but we’d like to make
sure this dosen’t broke anything for our ati users.
Here is a patch: http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/ati-6140.diff
Changelog: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2011-February/001602.html

Please test and report back, if no problems I’d like to commit it next week.

thx
PS: this release fix some problems with HD54XX chips the bug with strg+ctrl+backspace; bug is gone for me.
PSS: Thx Dima for preparing the git tarball