On 07/10/2012 06:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Armin K. wrote:
>> Hi there. There was some talk about splitting Xorg Packages into
>> seperate ones. I went with Xorg Applications first. I did not make
>> instructions for every package, since there are too many of them, and
>> nearly all of them are required at runtime of Xorg Server, so it's
>> dependency list would become big. Anyways, I took the way of generating
>> the wget and md5sum lists manualy instead of putting them to server.
>> These lists are generated using xml entities of each package.
>>
>> You can see how that looks here:
>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg/x/x7app.html
>>
>> Also, there is a patch for that at
>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg.patch.gz if desired.
>>
>> I won't commit anything if someone does not like that way.
>>
>> Drivers splitup is next on my TODO list.
>
> It looks OK to me, but I think we need to add in a loop for the build
> process with the wget list as input.  This would be similar to the
> script at http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg/x/xorg7.html
>
> for package in app.wget
> do
>     packagedir=$(echo $package | sed 's/.tar.bz2//')
>     [ "x$(echo $packagedir | cut -c1 )" != "x#"  ] || continue
>     tar -xf $package
>     pushd $packagedir
>       ./configure $XORG_CONFIG
>       make
>       make install
>     popd
>     rm -rf $packagedir
> done 2>&1 | tee -a ../xorg-app-compile.log #log the entire loop
>
>     -- Bruce
>

I don't have anything against that, but do note that such instructions 
would require configure and make to be ran as root user.
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