Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-02-03 Thread Pejvan BEIGUI
BTW, did you notice that Apple has released the sources of their X11, and commited to the XFree CVS ? This could end to some interesting stuff, right ? :-) Pejvan Jeff Whitaker wrote: On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Max Horn wrote: At 5:52 Uhr -0700 01.02.2003, jeff whitaker wrote: Ben: Thanks for

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Jeff, What I've just done with the major teTeX upgrade is to put a lot of Replaces and Provides lines but almost no Conflicts lines. What this does is enables the user to upgrade without dpkg complaining. Any file which exists in one of the old packages and also exists in the new package is

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-02-03 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, David R. Morrison wrote: Jeff, What I've just done with the major teTeX upgrade is to put a lot of Replaces and Provides lines but almost no Conflicts lines. What this does is enables the user to upgrade without dpkg complaining. Any file which exists in one of the old

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-02-03 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Monday, February 3, 2003, at 09:47 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Yes, for system-xfree86 I guess we need to test to make sure that the user has upgraded his or her externally installed version of things. At some point there will also be issues related to fixing problems created by Apple's

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-02-01 Thread jeff whitaker
Ben: Thanks for the update. I'm somewhat at a loss of how to proceed with a 4.3.0 package. Since it contains thread support, it should replace both xfree86-base and xfree86-base-threaded. At the same time, I'd like to merge the -base and -rootless variants. So, the new package should replace

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-02-01 Thread Max Horn
At 5:52 Uhr -0700 01.02.2003, jeff whitaker wrote: Ben: Thanks for the update. I'm somewhat at a loss of how to proceed with a 4.3.0 package. Since it contains thread support, it should replace both xfree86-base and xfree86-base-threaded. At the same time, I'd like to merge the -base and

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-02-01 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Max Horn wrote: At 5:52 Uhr -0700 01.02.2003, jeff whitaker wrote: Ben: Thanks for the update. I'm somewhat at a loss of how to proceed with a 4.3.0 package. Since it contains thread support, it should replace both xfree86-base and xfree86-base-threaded. At the same

[Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-01-31 Thread Torrey Lyons
The code freeze for XFree86 4.3.0 will be any day now. I believe the Mac OS X/Darwin part of the code base is pretty much in final form. Benjamin put together a package in fink unstable which builds something very close to the top of the tree. I would encourage as many people as possible to

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 4.3.0 close

2003-01-31 Thread Alexander Strange
On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 08:28 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: As of the last snapshots, things have worked pretty good as far as backwards-compatibility with software built against xfree86 4.2, but keep in mind that if you plan on testing this, and you build something against it, it won't