On 4/7/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 08:08 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
> > I believe the patch should be applied with `patch -Np1', but you might
> > need -Np0.  Anyway, please let me know if this helps your situation.
>
> Hour by hour I'm liking Bruce's original suggestion of updating to
> Xorg-6.9.x and waiting until the first bug-fix release of the 7.0.x
> series before putting it into the book.
>
> This Xorg problem (and ongoing stability) is a show-stopper for any
> ideas of trying to get some kind of release out as was mentioned over
> in -dev.

The problem is this: this newly released tarballs are slated for Xorg
7.1.  Read this post by the developer of the changes prompting this
bug:

http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2006-March/013947.html

The modules he's referring to are the ones biting us.

The solution is that we need to stick with the packages the developers
say are for Xorg-7.0 unless there is a security flaw or serious bug
release made.  Bumping up the major version from fixesproto-3.0.2 to
fixesproto-4.0 without rebuilding the affected parts was a bad idea. 
We need to let the Xorg developers decide how all these versions best
work together.

I'm willing to be that there will be an xorg-server-1.0.3 or greater
for Xorg-7.1 and it will have at least that patch in there.

AFAIK, Xorg-7.0 with the versions specified by the developers has had
no issues.  Gentoo got bit for the exact same reason we are.

--
Dan
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