Second stab at X.Org 6.8.1 update

[Eric Anholt]

On Fri, 2004-10-22 at 22:20, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 of October 2004 05:52, Eric Anholt wrote:
> > Thankfully my previous mail about the X.Org 6.8.1 update I'd been
> > working on was stopped due to mailer issues.  It was riddled with
> > holes.  Here's a new version, with slightly fewer holes:
> >
> > http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/X/xorg-681-up-4.diff
> >
> > It's missing XFree86 bits for html man removal, vfb/nestservers don't
> > compile, some plists are lacking, it needs the xorg-core port I've
> > talked about, and I may have missed some important patches that have
> > happened since release.  It's been only lightly tested, so be prepared
> > for surprises.
> 
> This adds plist fix for clients and buildable vfb/nestserver:
> http://www.ijs.si/~lesi/xorg-681-up-4b.diff
> I'll have XFree86 bits soonish.
> 
> About core port, would this make sense:
> x11/xorg-libraries
> x11/xorg-clients
> x11-fonts/xorg-fonts-miscbitmaps
> x11-servers/xorg-server
> (and of course analogue for xfree)?

I would stick in fonts-truetype and dri, too.  The goal being "the port
I tell people to use when they complain about Y being in the xorg
distribution or Z not coming with xorg-server," and probably also what
sysinstall would use.

I won't make any changes to the diff for a bit, so you can do XFree86
bits.  I also need to figure out what to do about DRI.  I want to move
us over to Mesa snapshots.  The reason is that DRI driver development
happens much faster than X releases, and there's never a stable release
-- something just escapes.  Mesa snapshots will let us update when
important changes are made and things are feeling stable, and let people
build them from a much smaller source tarball than the hideous
monolithic tree.  The problem is that there's a libGL incompatibility,
so that the new drivers won't work on an old libGL (it's a bug, but it's
a bug that nobody's fixed in 3 months or so).  Because of this, I'm
thinking of repocopying graphics/dri to graphics/xfree86-dri, making it
use xfree86 sources again, and make graphics/dri be Mesa snapshots. 
graphics/dri-devel would die.

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Eric Anholt                                eta at lclark.edu          
http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/         anholt at FreeBSD.org