Erast Benson wrote:
Regarding this last statement. Could we expect upstream putback any time
soon? I think JDS and X changes must be putback into their upstreams
sooner or later...
It's a long-term/ongoing process. We cut the amount of files we have to
patch in Xorg in half between 6.8.2 and 6.9 because the fixes were merged
directly into Xorg CVS. We push fixes upstream constantly and will
continue to do so.
This is what other distributions do, their *source* packages usually
contains upstream tarball + set of distribution patches on top of it.
And sooner or later those patches will migrate to their upstream or
simply rejected.
Shouldn't OpenSolaris OSS components(Xorg, JDS, etc) follow similar
rules? Does it make sense?
That's pretty much exactly what JDS & X are doing for OpenSolaris - come
look at our builds sometime and you'll see they take upstream tarballs,
apply patches, and build packages.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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