X.Org 6.8.2 - (most probably) final patch

Russell Jackson raj at cserv62.csub.edu
Sat Feb 19 20:21:58 PST 2005


Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> A small patch was added to hopefully avoid theoretical problem with radeon 
> driver. There were no troubles with previous one it seems, and there were a 
> couple of positive responses. It seems there are no split distfiles, so a 
> single bzipped tarball is still used, if they appear, the ports will be 
> modified to use them, but as this would not change neither installed files, 
> neither build process, this seems to be ready (after tests on ports cluster 
> of course):
> http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xorg/XO-682_3.diff
> 
> Dejan
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The xorg people seem to believe that nobody uses the split tarballs 
anymore because everyone is on broadband. You might want to explain the 
'meta-port uber build space problem' to them. This is at least the 
impression I got while reading a recent thread on the xorg mailing list.

-- 
Russell A. Jackson
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