Xorg 7.2 Upgrade Plans: uyota 匠の一手

HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans とメールが出された。Xorg 7.2 が入って来る準備を勧めているようだ。現在は 6.9 が入っている。

1) Tag ports with PRE_XORG_7 and freeze the ports tree. This will give a stable base from which to prepare the final patchset in the secondary git repository that has been used for xorg integration. This will probably happen in the next day or two; sorry for the short notice but I don't want to artificially delay any longer (this has already been delayed for months by other reasons).

PRE_XORG_7 のタグが ports に打たれる。その後、ports がフリーズされる。

2) Final prep work in git repository. We need a day or two to confirm the upgrade method for users. Unfortunately testing has exposed a critical deficiency in portupgrade so 'portupgrade -a' will not be enough to give a working upgrade, and some pre-upgrade steps will be required. Also a post-upgrade step is required to deal with merging remaining files from /usr/X11R6 into /usr/local.

そして、Xorg の更新の方法を検証する。残念ながら、portupgrade -a などでは、正しく更新できない様だ。そして、/usr/X11R6 から /usr/local に移行するための、事後処理なども必要になる。

3) Once the proposed upgrade method is in place, we will publish a tarball of the prepared ports tree and request that *all* our ports developers test the upgrade on their own machines before it is committed to CVS. There are many things that can go wrong and we need to make sure that the upgrade goes as smoothly as possible for our less technical users. In particular all ports committers are expected to participate in this process of eating our own dogfood :)

更新方法を解決したら、tar 玉を公開する。全ての ports コミッターに手元の機械を更新してもらい、不具合を探してもらう。どの様な変更でも、この更新をテストしてからでなくては、コミットは受け付けない。

4) Once a suitable number of success reports (e.g. 50) are received and all reported issues are resolved, we'll proceed with importing into CVS.

十分な成功報告を受けた後に、この tar 玉を cvs に入れる。

5) CVS will stay frozen for a period to be evaluated (probably another couple of weeks) to deal with the inevitable remaining fallout as users encounter yet more problems with the upgrade.

その後、そのほかの問題を洗い出すために ports は一、二週間くらいの間、そのままフリーズされる予定だ。

実は既に、第一段階に入り、ports はフリーズされている。数日前に、HEADS UP: Ports freeze coming in 15 minutes とメールが出された。Xorg 6.9 の環境のまま、ports を最新にするのには、ここ数日の間が最適のようだ。