Armin K. wrote: > On 07/10/2012 06:35 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Armin K. wrote: >>> On 07/10/2012 06:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>> Armin K. wrote: >>>>> Hi there. There was some talk about splitting Xorg Packages into >>>>> seperate ones. I went with Xorg Applications first. I did not make >>>>> instructions for every package, since there are too many of them, and >>>>> nearly all of them are required at runtime of Xorg Server, so it's >>>>> dependency list would become big. Anyways, I took the way of generating >>>>> the wget and md5sum lists manualy instead of putting them to server. >>>>> These lists are generated using xml entities of each package. >>>>> >>>>> You can see how that looks here: >>>>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg/x/x7app.html >>>>> >>>>> Also, there is a patch for that at >>>>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg.patch.gz if desired. >>>>> >>>>> I won't commit anything if someone does not like that way. >>>>> >>>>> Drivers splitup is next on my TODO list. >>>> >>>> It looks OK to me, but I think we need to add in a loop for the build >>>> process with the wget list as input. This would be similar to the >>>> script at http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg/x/xorg7.html >>>> >>>> for package in app.wget >>>> do >>>> packagedir=$(echo $package | sed 's/.tar.bz2//') >>>> [ "x$(echo $packagedir | cut -c1 )" != "x#" ] || continue >>>> tar -xf $package >>>> pushd $packagedir >>>> ./configure $XORG_CONFIG >>>> make >>>> make install >>>> popd >>>> rm -rf $packagedir >>>> done 2>&1 | tee -a ../xorg-app-compile.log #log the entire loop >>>> >>>> -- Bruce >>>> >>> >>> I don't have anything against that, but do note that such instructions >>> would require configure and make to be ran as root user. >> >> Hmm. We don't generally do it, but we could use 'sudo make install'. >> >> -- Bruce >> > > I think someone already mentioned that. It could be myself or DJ, I > would need to search blfs-dev archives for that. But even that would > require user interaction since sudo times out. What do others say? I > don't have any issues with building packages as root user, especially > "famous" ones.
I think a paragraph explaining the options would be good. Let the user decide. Personally, I use sudo without a PW so there isn't a timeout issue. We even show how to do that on the sudo page. I also show how to do that in the paper I posted last night. -- Bruce -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
