On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 06:18:03PM -0700, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > Re: LFS 6.5, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1 (some "SVN") > > Just upgraded Xorg to 7.7-1, thanks to DJ's instructions as in BLFS. > > Small corrections needed: > > In proto-7.7-1.wget: > > s/applewmproto-1.4.2.tar.bz2/#applewmproto-1.4.2.tar.bz2/ > s/windowswmproto-1.0.4.tar.bz2/#windowswmproto-1.0.4.tar.bz2/ > I think we shouldn't even *mention* those, but it's DJ's call ;)
> In app-7.7-1.wget: > > s/Xorg-7.7- application/Xorg-7.7-1 application/ > > I noticed that the wget and md5 files have the fields > > # $LastChangedBy: $ > # $Date: $ > > *empty*, perhaps intentionally, or forgotten. > Sounds like the wonders of 'svn propset'. OTOH, they have a -1 version, so I imagine that the contents are "set in stone" and therefore these fields are redundant. For all of these points, I have no particular interest in fixing them. > With so many pages, packages, files to deal with, I find it remarkable, > having just these small failures! > Fair comment, DJ hs done a nice job (again). > Since we had a discussion about upgrading Xorg, I stopped doing some > upgrades. Other than the few new splits, I only had to upgrade 8 packages: > > -libX11-1.4.99.901.tar.bz2 +libX11-1.5.0.tar.bz2 > -libXaw-1.0.10.tar.bz2 +libXaw-1.0.11.tar.bz2 > -libXft-2.3.0.tar.bz2 +libXft-2.3.1.tar.bz2 > -libXi-1.6.0.tar.bz2 +libXi-1.6.1.tar.bz2 > -xbitmaps-1.1.0.tar.bz2 +xbitmaps-1.1.1.tar.bz2 > -xinput-1.5.99.1.tar.bz2 +xinput-1.6.0.tar.bz2 > -xmodmap-1.0.6.tar.bz2 +xmodmap-1.0.7.tar.bz2 > -xorg-server-1.12.1 +xorg-server-1.12.2 > > With much respect, IMHO, as Xorg is not anymore monolithic, i.e., is > modular, it would be good keeping doing upgrades, for example, once a > month, as several distros do upgrades continuously. > When I finally built 7.7 instead of -rc, I had a similar small number of packages to update. I also tried the fixed ati video driver - as previously noted, a silly idea with current libdrm, we can happily stick with what works for people using nouveau while Mesa is on 8.0. BUT, I didn't notice *any* differences, either from -rc or from 7.6, in the completed system. In past years, I've often looked at the xorg lists every month or so to see what is changing. Sometimes, not much of importance is released for several months. Often, newer versions of the interesting things (server, drivers) are labelled as development, and might not work with the current stable versions - even though they often *do* work. Why do you think that updating the versions as often as once a month would be beneficial ? (Yes, I know they will be newer and shinier, but that's not the question). And who has the time to do this ? *if* you can get out of your virtual machines and run BLFS on real hardware, I would be fairly happy about suggesting you get privileges. Meanwhile, there is more than enough to do :) ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
