On 30 Jul 2008, at 15:33, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Chris Ridd wrote: >> On 29 Jul 2008, at 19:50, Moinak Ghosh wrote: >> >>> This appears to be something that can go into FOX. >> >> What are the FOX packages? And the FSW ones too, come to think of it? > > FOX is the Fully-Open X project - a project gate derived from the > Nevada > X gate, with many more of the open source components of the X.Org > added.
Ah, thanks. Will that include the makedepend program that used to be part of X? OpenSSL (of all things) needs it when being built without certain crypto algorithms. > While we're still working through the process of comparing each > component > in the Nevada gate against the current X.Org release to determine > what we > need to do to switch to the current X.Org version [1], the FOX gate > allowed > us to bootstrap Indiana with known open-source/redistributable > versions of > the software. FSW* are the packages Moinak created to deliver the > FOX gate > bits that didn't match existing SUNW* packages - right now Indiana > only ships > FSWxorg-fonts in the whole - it pulls bits from others to replace > missing bits > in SUNW* packages. Our goal is to eventually not need any FSW* > packages > because we'll have rebuilt all the SUNW* packages out of open bits. Thanks (and to Moinak) for the explanations. Cheers, Chris
