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On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> Hey everyone, |
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> If anybody has good reasons why -r4 shouldn't be unleashed upon the |
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> unsuspecting ~arch users, respond to this (on-list please) before 0000 |
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> UTC Wednesday. Why then? Well, my finals will be over, so I'll have time |
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> to deal with the expected deluge of reports. |
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Sparc should be OK; it's been working fine for me for what seems |
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like forever. I'm rebuilding; with luck we'll be able to get rid |
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of that DeprecatedKeboard-if-kernel<2.6 mess. |
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NOTE, esp. sparc people, some patches required for USE=dlloader |
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and so also USE='dlloader hardened' --- read and apply patches |
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from Bug 61063. |
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Also, sparc only, if you haven't seen this note from Donnie, please |
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make sure to read the rest of it and the extensive xorg-x11 ChangeLog |
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before proceeding. |
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> Why is -r4 interesting again? |
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> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/22986 details a number |
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> of the changes. I recently added a new patchset with some more, |
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> including fixes to: |
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> * keyboard model default and key repeating -- might fix a few "some of |
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> my keys don't work" problems, because the default used to be pc101 |
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> rather than pc105 with the new kbd driver. |
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> * libGL segfaults |
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> * some xmodmap problems |
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> * latest Xpm security fix allows absolute paths again (fixes the GIMP's |
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> Xpm plugin) |
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> We need more testers to see which other packages are broken regarding |
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> how they test for X libraries. Some of them assume the libraries won't |
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> be in /usr/lib so supply a -L/path/to/X/libs even if they're |
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> in /usr/lib. This results in a naked -L, which breaks things. If anyone |
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> sees things suddenly breaking, check config.log for this. See |
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> http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72124 for an example fix. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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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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