On Mon, 11 Feb 2002, Thomas R. Leith wrote: >> Your best bet is probably to keep on upgradin' to 4.2.0. > >Is there an actual reason to expect this will help, or is it just general >advice?? > >Assuming that it really WILL help, I notice here: > >http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2001-November/012731.html > >that Mike Harris this past November was working on getting 4.2.0 into an >RPM-able state. Is that done now? I couldn't find anything on RedHat's web >site about it....
I've had XFree86 4.2.0 in RPM packages since three days before 4.2.0 was officially announced as released by XFree86.org. My local build environment is quite automated now, so you can fully expect whenever a new official release of XFree86 is announced that I have already got experimental RPM packages made of it. Red Hat's developmental packages appear in Red Hat Rawhide, which is an ongoing developmental snapshot made pretty much daily of our internal development efforts. You can get XFree86 4.2.0 from Rawhide at: ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide To use these packages you'll need to also use the Rawhide kernel, and also upgrade possibly other packages from rawhide too. I built 4.2.0 rpm's for RHL 7.2 for a while, but have stopped doing so because changes in my XFree86 packaging has caused it to not build in our strict build system anymore. I plan on releasing 4.2.0 rpm's for 7.2 again at some point in the future, but it probably wont be right away. Hope this helps. TTYL -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
