On Sun, 21 Apr 1996, Shawn Asmussen wrote: > If I knew all the differences between the debian 3.1.2 and the > standard I was thinking about making debian packages out of the 3.1.2D > files to make it easier to put it in. When I originally did it, I > uninstalled all of the 3.1.2 packages, and when I did that dselect > 'suggested' that I uninstall dozens of packages that depend on X, and I > had to force it to leave them installed, as I knew I was putting a newer X > right back in. Would have been nice to be able to just upgrade to 3.1.2D > right from dselect, and I was thinking that since everything in the > release is precompiled, it'd make a good first contribution, as it should > just be a matter of changing or adding some symbolic links and maybe > modifying some of the scripts, if that's neccessary.
I think that XFree86-3.1.2D is still beta software; I'm waiting for another version to be released before packaging it for Debian. The file XFree86-3.1.2.tar.gz (shortly to be XFree86-3.1.2-1.tar.gz) in the unstable/source/x11 directory has all the differences between standard XFree86 and the Debian version in it. There are few patches to the XFree86 code; most of the hard work has gone into the packaging. I think that the only difference between 3.1.2 and 3.1.2D is in the servers (and maybe in the xlib and extension libraries?) - you can put the 3.1.2D versions of these in /usr/local/bin and things should work reasonably well. You don't have to uninstall all the binaries in xbase. A final point - Debian packages are not generally made from precompiled binaries. We insist on the source package containing source and being able to compile it easily. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
