On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 11:43:11PM -0500, X Strike Force SVN Repository Admin wrote: > -3) The above seem to be the critical steps that I'm aware of right now > - to get the full working server install building from our repo and > - running in a chroot. Step 3 is to get any of the things I'm not aware > - of in order to acieve this goal :-)
It's true. As of this moment, you should be able to build a set of Debian packages in a chroot and run the X server from those packages. Granted, you currently need an ati card to do this, but I'll work on the rest of the drivers tomorrow :-) A major caveat includes the mesa package we currently have sitting in our libs directory. This package works and will need to be put in to unstable before we upload the rest of Xorg there. It can wait for now, but we'll have to move on it at some point. Note that these packages are *really* sloppy in the sense that I don't fully know what's going on. The libs appear to be really clean and the drivers are Ok from what I recall, but the -common packages are quick hacks by me and need to be polished a lot at some point. Anyway, we can now get a modular X server running with entirely modular packages from our svn repo. The next step is to expand that set of packages to the entire X Window System, including the drivers, data, missing fonts, etc. Also, organizing the apps is going to be critical real soon now, so we may want to start thinking about ways to split away the cpp-requiring apps from the rest of the apps, and other such problems. I've already thanked him a lot on irc, and in my blog, but he deserves it again: thanks to Daniel for all the help on getting this far. It saved me weeks worth of work, and we'll see modular Xorg in Debian all the sooner for it. So if you've been waiting for something runnable to play with, now's the time. Be sure it keep it all in a chroot, since I haven't started on the upgrade problem yet, but there's now something tangible for everyone who's been hesitating on the sidelines :-) - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
