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I've just spent the past few hours stabilizing modular X.Org 7.0 on x86. |
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This is a reminder of the migration guide [1] and a guide to other |
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arches on how to stabilize it. I have not stabilized most optional |
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packages, instead preferring to wait for any requests to see whether |
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demand exists for them. |
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I encourage other architectures to stabilize modular X. AMD64, you will |
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want to go with 7.0 because you also have binary drivers. All other |
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archs will want to go with 7.1. The modular X package list [2] will help |
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with this. |
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Follow my lead and stabilize the same things I did: all protos, all |
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libraries (start with libX11 and track its deps), then track your way |
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through the rest by running through any remaining deps of xorg-server. |
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If you are stabilizing: |
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7.0 -- easy, just touch all the same packages I did. For drivers, |
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there's usually a minor version bump to the version that is incompatible |
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with xorg-server-1.0, so make sure to stabilize the older driver. |
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7.1 -- follow the same process but always use the latest ebuild, with |
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the single exception of libX11 -- do not stabilize 1.0.3, but rather |
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1.0.1-r1. |
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In particular, do not forget the virtuals: glu, opengl, x11, xft. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml |
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2. |
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http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt |
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