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

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