Re: [Cooker] Modular X.org

[Thierry Vignaud]

Gustavo Pichorim Boiko <boiko@mandriva.com> writes:

> After some time working, I have the first set of X.org packages.

nice :-)

> Some meta-packages were created to provide an easier way to
> install/upgrade the packages.

thanks

> The GLX support now requires an external Mesa package with DRI
> support. I have created an updated Mesa package (based on the one
> available on cooker), adapting it to the new X package layout, and
> adding the necessary support in order to get GLX working. The Mesa's
> buildsystem has changed from the 5.0.2 to 6.4.2 so I had to adapt
> the spec file to its new buildsystem. Some of the compilation
> options and flags needs to be verified for different
> architetures. The GLX support needs more testing though.

one of the most useful patch was francois pons' one (the glwrapper)

however, since XFdrake now set up /etc/ld.so.conf.d/, it *may* be
uneeded.
 
> There is an initial support for upgrading from xorg 6.9 to 7.0, but
> as the packages are of a very different layout, there are probably
> more cases of dependencies not being handled by them. Probably in
> the first tries some packages will need to be installed by hand.

just upload them, bugs will show up and we'll be able to fix them
 
> The patches that were applied in the xorg 6.9 packages are not yet
> ported/applied in the new packages. As the buildsystem of xorg has
> changed (from imake to autotools), some of them need to be
> ported. Also, some of the paches touch more than one module of the
> xorg, and so the patch should be splitted. I will be appling the
> patches as I finish adjusting them.

(...)
 
> Finally, working on xorg packages is a lot of work, so anyone willing to
> help is more than welcome. I'd like to thank Colin Guthrie, Anssi Hannula
> and Christiaan Welvaart for the effort put in the wiki page (which I will
> be updating soon), and also a special thank to Christiaan Welvaart for his
> comments and suggestions on the xorg packaging.

uploading these packages may let more people merge in the old patches
 
> If you are using smart, just setting the priority of the xorg
> repositories to a high value will help a lot when updating.  Urpmi
> should ask you to choose

why?

> Bug reports, patches, suggestions, etc are all welcome. I won't use
> the bugzilla for now (at least while the packages are not in cooker)
> so please send me mail for that.