X.Org 6.8.2 - (most probably) final patch

[Dejan Lesjak]

On Sunday 20 of February 2005 05:22, Russell Jackson wrote:
> 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.

Problem of this sort was already pointed out here:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-February/006260.html
(And I've mailed question a couple days later that that.) On the mirrors there 
are README files that say split files will be available. They may or may not 
at one time been put here:
http://xorg.freedesktop.org/X11R6.8.2/src/
but while links are there, the files themselves are not.
About the "uber build space": this should only be a problem if one is building 
meta port from scratch as opposed to upgrading. That would hopefully mean 
that there is enough space still available (as this would be a fresh install 
and all), so I hope this is not a horrible problem. If however it proves to 
be difficult, we can still untar a distfile only partially. This would not 
change the build or contents of installed packages, so it wouldn't affect 
results of ports cluster tests which need to be run sooner rather than later 
in order to commit the upgrade in time for ports freeze for FreeBSD 5.4.
So if anybody has concerns about build space for building meta-port from 
scratch, do please yell and we'll try to shrink it :)
(I'll ask again later and also on ports@ if the split distfiles are still not 
available at that time).


Dejan