On Fri, 2006-06-02 at 16:45 -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > 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.
I've seen that. I even applied some JDS patches to upcoming Alpha5. Erast _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
