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On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 23:12 +0000, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> AREAS WE NEED HELP WITH: |
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> 1) Porting applications to modular X |
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> 2) Fixing descriptions for the vast majority of modular packages. |
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> OK, it seems like we've now got issues resolved related to the new |
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> virtual/x11 package. Despite all the eyes that looked at it and all the |
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> publicity on lists and elsewhere, we still missed the lack of stable |
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> keywords in it, which caused some issues when the default virtual was |
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> pulled from the base profile. Thanks to axxo and flameeyes for dealing |
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> with this while I was at lunch. |
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> Here's roughly how it all works: |
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> 1) Users with xorg-6.x installed will continue along happily, because |
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> 6.x PROVIDES virtual/x11 on their systems. |
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> 2) Users with no X installed will pull in the virtual/x11 package |
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> because there is no longer a default virtual. |
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> 3) Users with xorg-7.x installed will need all their packages updated |
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> for modular dependencies. There is a porting guide at |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~spyderous/xorg-x11/porting_to_modular_x_howto.txt |
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> -- go ahead and run through it for your favorite packages, and file |
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> bugs to their maintainers with the updated dependencies. |
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> One note for porting to modular: binary packages will require a script |
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> using ldd instead of one checking the compilation log. Petteri Räty has |
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> kindly made one available at |
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> http://dev.gentoo.org/~betelgeuse/scripts/checkdeps -- it depends on |
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> portage-utils. |
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> While packages are being ported to modular X, you will be unable to |
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> upgrade any unported packages (so likely your 'world') without an entry |
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> in /etc/portage/profile/virtuals that emulates virtual/x11 using an |
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> installed package, e.g.: |
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> virtual/x11 x11-base/xorg-x11 |
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> assuming you have the xorg-x11-7 metabuild installed. |
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> I hope that covers pretty much everything right now. |
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Will need to do something about the default glu/opengl/xft virtuals as |
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well ... (you probably did not forget this, just double checking ...) |
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Martin Schlemmer |
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