Julien, Thanks for replying. That's interesting because they aren't symbolic links on my system. Which version of the xkb-data package do you have installed?
Anyway, I gather that they should be the same file. Ian 2008/5/28 Julien Cristau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 21:34:46 +0900, Ian Lewis wrote: > > > The patch I am working on is similar to one that Paul Goins has > written[1] > > though it has some differences. There are several xml files in > > /usr/share/X11/xkb and Paul made his patch against the xorg.xml file. > This > > didn't seems to work on my machine. I had to patch against the base.xml > > file. What is the difference between these two files? In the same vein, > what > > is the difference between base.lst and xorg.lst? They don't seem to be > hard > > links to the same file. > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 1 16:00 xorg.lst -> base.lst > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 May 1 16:00 xorg.xml -> base.xml > > xorg.* are symbolic links. Does that answer your question? > > Cheers, > Julien >