X.Org 6.8.2 - (most probably) final patch

[Eric Anholt]

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 06:02 +0100, Dejan Lesjak wrote:
> 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).

Earlier today I sent an email to Roland, who was the RW for 6.8.2,
asking for split tarballs.  However, as everyone should be using
portupgrade, the build space shouldn't be a problem, right? (heh)

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