[gentoo-dev] Last rites: some old X11 packages

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: some old X11 packages

[Matt Turner]

[-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 408 bytes --]

# Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (02 Mar 2019)
# Old, unused drivers.
# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #679256
x11-drivers/xf86-input-elographics
x11-drivers/xf86-video-newport
x11-drivers/xf86-video-tdfx
x11-drivers/xf86-video-voodoo

# Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (02 Mar 2019)
# No reverse dependencies. No releases in 13 years.
# Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #679256
x11-libs/libxkbui

[-- Attachment #2: signature.asc --]
[-- Type: application/pgp-signature, Size: 376 bytes --]

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: some old X11 packages

[Joshua Kinard]

On 3/2/2019 13:46, Matt Turner wrote:
> # Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (02 Mar 2019)
> # Old, unused drivers.
> # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #679256

> x11-drivers/xf86-video-newport

This is for the SGI Indy's newport graphics board.  Does it not build with
modern Xorg or anything, or not maintained upstream?  My Indy is dead due to
a bad RTC, so I can't test it for the foreseeable future.

-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
rsa6144/5C63F4E3F5C6C943 2015-04-27
177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943

"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us.  And
our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."

--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: some old X11 packages

[Matt Turner]

On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 1:09 AM Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> On 3/2/2019 13:46, Matt Turner wrote:
> > # Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (02 Mar 2019)
> > # Old, unused drivers.
> > # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #679256
>
> > x11-drivers/xf86-video-newport
>
> This is for the SGI Indy's newport graphics board.  Does it not build with
> modern Xorg or anything, or not maintained upstream?  My Indy is dead due to
> a bad RTC, so I can't test it for the foreseeable future.

Yes, it no longer builds and it requires packed 24-bit color support
which has been removed from the xserver.

We would have to package an old xserver for -newport to be useful
(which is something I'd be interested to do with sufficient time).

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: some old X11 packages

[Joshua Kinard]

On 3/3/2019 14:15, Matt Turner wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 3, 2019 at 1:09 AM Joshua Kinard <kumba@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 3/2/2019 13:46, Matt Turner wrote:
>>> # Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> (02 Mar 2019)
>>> # Old, unused drivers.
>>> # Masked for removal in 30 days. Bug #679256
>>
>>> x11-drivers/xf86-video-newport
>>
>> This is for the SGI Indy's newport graphics board.  Does it not build with
>> modern Xorg or anything, or not maintained upstream?  My Indy is dead due to
>> a bad RTC, so I can't test it for the foreseeable future.
> 
> Yes, it no longer builds and it requires packed 24-bit color support
> which has been removed from the xserver.

Fair enough.  Could that bit be documented in the package.mask entry for the
record, should anyone want to tackle trying to resurrect it, they'll know
why it was masked and removed?


> We would have to package an old xserver for -newport to be useful
> (which is something I'd be interested to do with sufficient time).

Long down on my TODO list is to figure out how to replace the RTC and
resurrect the Indy.  Wesolows gave it to me years ago, and it was pretty
chipper for a 150MHz box.  But the disk drive died and I never got around to
replacing it.  Maybe one day...


-- 
Joshua Kinard
Gentoo/MIPS
kumba@gentoo.org
rsa6144/5C63F4E3F5C6C943 2015-04-27
177C 1972 1FB8 F254 BAD0 3E72 5C63 F4E3 F5C6 C943

"The past tempts us, the present confuses us, the future frightens us.  And
our lives slip away, moment by moment, lost in that vast, terrible in-between."

--Emperor Turhan, Centauri Republic