Am Mittwoch, 2. Oktober 2002 18:35 schrieb Andy Dustman: > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 12:19, Dieter Nützel wrote: > > > Perhaps we need to produce binary snapshots for each driver that > > > includes only the device-specific stuff (kinda like what dripkg.sh does > > > now) and then have a separate snapshot for the libraries (particularly > > > the GL libraries) which you unpack over the driver snapshot, i.e. if > > > you have an r200 on linux-i386, you'd get > > > r200-20021003-linux-i386.tar.bz2 and libs-20021003-linux-i386.tar.bz2; > > > untar the r200 tarball, then the libs tarball; and then proceed to > > > install as usual. (I don't see anything in > > > http://dri.sourceforge.net/snapshots/ that looks like it might be extra > > > libraries.) > > > > I think NOT. > > Try it, you might like it. > > > The snapshots are an additional service to have a wider basis for > > testing. Endusers should stay with there distros (they are for packaging > > all the stuff for the different architectures) and if they are not > > experienced to compile the current XFree/DRI CVS trees themself they > > should stay away. > > Which is it, then: Snapshots or no snapshots? The current snapshots (for > linux-i386) don't work unless you have Red Hat 8.0 and/or glibc-2.3; I'm > not even sure that they work on that platform. Broken snapshots are > worse than no snapshots at all (you can't download something that isn't > going to work if it isn't there).
Sorry, but read again. I didn't deny the snapshots per se. Only your call for something like dripkg.sh. The RedHat 8.0/glibc-2.3 "problem" is simple. Stay away from it before glibc-2.3 is in wide spread. Installing a "brand" new distro on a "building system" isn't much useful in any way. -Dieter ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
