On Sat, 3 Nov 2001, Henrik Nordström wrote: >Upgrading to the main trunk provided to be messier than expected due to the >relatively large amount of X patches RedHat uses and me having upgraded >automake, but I backported what looked like relevant portions of the main >trunk trident driver to 4.1 and it now works flawlessly! Good job!
Well, I do have the option of disabling all of those patches, and shipping a buggier XFree86 release, if that would be better for people. ;o) In other words, the patches that are applied to XFree86 as shipped with Red Hat Linux, are mostly bug fixes that have not been applied to the current XFree86 stable source code base. Some of the patches are backported fixes from the CVS head, so that users do not have to wait until the next release of XFree86 (4.2.0) in order to get fixes. Other patches are bug fixes that have been submitted to XFree86, but are not yet merged into the main source code base, or are not merged into the stable branch. I have tried to document each patch clearly in the XFree86.spec file to show the origins of a given patch, and the reason for its inclusion. When updating the main source code tarball to a CVS release, etc. you will find many patches will barf when they get applied. Some of those patches may or may not be necessary still. Many are no longer needed, some need to be massaged by hand to fit into the new source code base, etc. It's all part of the fun. ;o) By the way, since people are likely to be asking soon - I have now got XFree86-4.1.99.2 in RPM format, from a checkout 2 days ago. It is not yet ready for public consumption, but I am working on resolving the nastiest problems right now. Once I am confident that releasing it is not going to flood my email inbox with help questions and problem reports, and that bugzilla isn't going to get flooded with new reports also, I will drop it into Rawhide, and put it on my ftp site. I'll also make the announcement on [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm hoping to have this done as soon as possible, but no promises or ETA's. ;o) Also planned, are weekly or daily CVS snapshots available in RPM format. I can't wait to get that rolling. Take care, TTYL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
