On 06/25/2012 03:08 PM, alex lupu wrote: > Hi, > > First and foremost: Many thanks and a great debt of gratitude > for the huge effort and outstanding quality of this BLFS release > (Ch. 24 "Introduction to Xorg-7.7-1"). > I suspect DJ has (again) been instrumental here. > > ------ > > The following couple of thoughts are mostly directed to > existing 7.6 and future 7.7 BLFS users. > > 1. > While stable on 7.6, early in the game I subscribed to > the Xorg Archives list, > <lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/> > Among many more or less interesting posts, you receive "ANNOUNCE" > announcements issued by various Xorg developers there. > As an example: > > << > [ANNOUNCE] xcb-util 0.3.9 > > Arnaud Fontaine ... > Wed May 30 20:57:02 PDT 2012 > ... > Download > ======== > http://xcb.freedesktop.org/dist/xcb-util-0.3.9.tar.bz2 > ... > sha256: c611259c0ab ... e8b3636315c18c4 > ... >>> > > For some reason (mostly ADD I suppose), I've made a habit to follow each > and every [ANNOUNCE] and act on it. Whatever they threw at me, > I downloaded, built and installed (successfully I might add; the proper > dependencies were those provided by the 7.6 related software - makes sense). > > So, all of a sudden, in checking with the book as well, I realized this way > one > can end up perched on the 7.7 "release", without much fuss (and/or muss) - > or as the Germans say, sans vraiment se fatiguer. > > As an aside, I even noticed that with at least two packages > I (accidentally) exceeded the book level: > > xkeyboard-config-2.6 > xcb-util-0.3.9
Yes, I'm currently working on a little different presentation of the Xorg packages for the book, which will also allow us to update packages individually. For the -1 release version, I wanted specifically to match katamari. I'd spend a bit more time describing that, but really, it won't matter any more (and really hasn't for the past few years) after the packages are split up (as BLFS will no longer tack on a release version). Hopefully that means that updates will happen much quicker in the future...I've just got to get it to a point where it looks presentable. And don't worry, I'll leave the build as a group functionality for those of us not packaging builds. As far as the updates you've mentioned, I haven't reviewed the change logs yet, but I would suspect that they should be OK. Pretty much as long as the major version doesn't change, it's _probably_ OK to just blindly install it with Xorg. Minor version changes should still be reviewed prior to blindly installing, however. While they are usually OK, there have been instances of software not working with each other (libX11, libxcb, libdrm, Mesa, drivers, and of course the server are packages that you should be especially cautious with regard to minor version changes). Same thing for protocol headers, though they rarely changes much, they should match their counterparts in the both the libraries and running server. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
