On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, D. Hageman wrote: > On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, John Harvey wrote: >>> >>> I think this is something you first have to discuss with >>> upstream and get their go before publishing such modified >>> code and even packaging it for broader consuming. I'm sure >>> John, who's the maintainer of the xdriver will listen to any >>> suggestions you have. >>> >>> I'm not saying that the changes are bad. It is just not the >>> way oss works, unless you want to fork the project. If you >>> really want to fork then please use another versioning, the >>> current state will only confuse users. Otherwise please feed >>> this list with little patches that can be reviewed. Thanks. >>> -- >>> Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
I have posted a new version of the RPMs at http://people.eecs.ku.edu/~dhageman/rpms/ This version should be a compatible with pre-existing X configurations. The only change is that the driver is called ivtvdev_drv.so to keep it consistent with all of the other X drivers. This rpm was made by taking the ark driver from RedHat and switching the source code with the ivtv X driver. The autotools was updated to handle the new file names. This is what is in the new tarball. A patch of the changes I applied to the ivtv X driver source code to make it build in this configuration is in a separate file in the SRPMS. I didn't take the time to do this initially as I didn't know if there was any demand for this type of rpm. Now that I have been receiving mail from people who are finding it useful, I feel like I should polish them up a bit. This should make it easy to continue to develop and distribute the ivtv X driver like it is now, but still package RPMs that can be used on RedHat/Fedora-type systems. Again, I have no desire to fork anything. I just found the current state of ivtv rpms didn't meet my needs and felt that I could help other people who felt the same way. -- //========================================================\\ || D. Hageman <[email protected]> || \\========================================================// _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
