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Here is my daily xorg-x11 scare bulletin: |
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According to spyderous, the sparc modifications for the 6.8.0-r1 |
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ebuild for allowing correct build and install of xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 |
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will be integrated into the main 6.8.0-r1 ebuild. At that time, |
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based on our testing to date, xorg-x11-6.8.0-r1 will earn its ~sparc. |
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Currently, xorg-x11-6.7.0-r2 is keyworded ~sparc. |
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"Real soon" after 6.8.0-r1 goes ~sparc, we expect 6.7.0-r2 to |
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go stable: For reasons discussed in the referenced bugs, my previous |
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emails, and other previously referenced documentation, for security |
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reasons an upgrade to one of these is strongly recommended. |
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I believe that the x11 team & security team intend to pull earlier |
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versions of X11. |
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Please provide feedback on either of these two upgrades if you have |
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any experience with them. This is especially so because we are in |
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the following unusual situation: |
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1. As an upgrade, 6.7.0-r2 is not a major change from 6.7.0-r1. |
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It should just require a new 'emerge -bv xorg-x11' (or whatever |
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you use), and off you go. |
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However, we have little or no first hand experience with it so |
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we believe this in theory but don't have a lot of evidence. |
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2. No matter how you look at it, the move from 6.7.0 to 6.8.0 is |
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a big deal. Especially for sparc for reasons spelled out in |
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the referenced notes. Realistically, we should expect problems, |
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base on some old xfree releases. |
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However, just because of this, for the last month we have been |
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testing it, and as a result many (most? all?) show stopper |
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problems have been fixed by xorg or are addressed in the little |
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patch to 62994, now being integrated into the ebuild. |
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So, our experience running xorg-x11 at this point suggests that |
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6.8.0-r1 is very stable. That's because some of us have been |
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running it production for as long as a month. |
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But in a few spots, some trivial, some not quite so trivial, |
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6.8.0-r1 is not a rebuild-and-xinit upgrade. There are a |
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few incompatibilities, as you can infer from the discussions |
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in the referenced documents. |
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Based on this, it's probably better to keyword 6.7.0-r2 stable, |
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6.8.0-r1 ~sparc, but suggest 6.8.0-r1 is a really good thing |
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to try if you have a choice. Even though this upgrade is not |
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user transparent. |
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So, expect to upgrade to 6.7.0-r2 soon; this should be |
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compatible with 6.7.0-r1. (And the fallback is to 6.8.0-r1, |
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which is not quite compatible.) |
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Confused? Worried? Angry? Busy building your very own 6.8.0-r1? |
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Please provide feedback. |
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Regards, |
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o> |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (sparc) |
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