From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29411 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2004 12:34:41 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (156.56.111.197) by lists.gentoo.org with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 7 Dec 2004 12:34:41 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([156.56.111.196] helo=parrot.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1CbeYC-0004rX-UA for arch-gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Dec 2004 12:34:40 +0000 Received: (qmail 11599 invoked by uid 89); 7 Dec 2004 12:34:39 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 4771 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2004 12:34:39 +0000 Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 12:34:27 +0000 (UTC) From: Ferris McCormick X-X-Sender: fmccor@lacewing.inforead.com To: Donnie Berkholz cc: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org, gentoo-sparc@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1102330135.4362.12.camel@localhost> Message-ID: References: <1102330135.4362.12.camel@localhost> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 to go ~arch -- ~sparc OK X-Archives-Salt: 6f66ed10-ec9c-4139-a245-34e309124112 X-Archives-Hash: 461178bc1cd5c0e6d15aa72628449da8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Donnie Berkholz wrote: > Hey everyone, > > If anybody has good reasons why -r4 shouldn't be unleashed upon the > unsuspecting ~arch users, respond to this (on-list please) before 0000 > UTC Wednesday. Why then? Well, my finals will be over, so I'll have time > to deal with the expected deluge of reports. > Sparc should be OK; it's been working fine for me for what seems like forever. I'm rebuilding; with luck we'll be able to get rid of that DeprecatedKeboard-if-kernel<2.6 mess. NOTE, esp. sparc people, some patches required for USE=dlloader and so also USE='dlloader hardened' --- read and apply patches from Bug 61063. Also, sparc only, if you haven't seen this note from Donnie, please make sure to read the rest of it and the extensive xorg-x11 ChangeLog before proceeding. > Why is -r4 interesting again? > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/22986 details a number > of the changes. I recently added a new patchset with some more, > including fixes to: > > * keyboard model default and key repeating -- might fix a few "some of > my keys don't work" problems, because the default used to be pc101 > rather than pc105 with the new kbd driver. > * libGL segfaults > * some xmodmap problems > * latest Xpm security fix allows absolute paths again (fixes the GIMP's > Xpm plugin) > > We need more testers to see which other packages are broken regarding > how they test for X libraries. Some of them assume the libraries won't > be in /usr/lib so supply a -L/path/to/X/libs even if they're > in /usr/lib. This results in a naked -L, which breaks things. If anyone > sees things suddenly breaking, check config.log for this. See > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72124 for an example fix. > > Thanks, > Donnie > Regards, - -- Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBtaNXQa6M3+I///cRAk6PAKDRumB1Hee9k+YruJ2HOzgVmcCOtQCgnDN7 vfpIQOpOU7vcAFhfBBBpMR0= =QzrO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list