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  • From: Hamish Greig <hgreig AT bigpond.net.au>
  • To: sm-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Admin] xfree86-devel
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 02:11:32 +1100

Making it a cvs checkout would make it upgradable with each new snapshot
release, if they continue to use the same release process.

Hamish

On Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:52, Robin Cook wrote:
> To me if the patches are working then it should be changed to make it a
> working spell again even if that means going to the giant tarball.
>
> CuZnDragon
> Robin Cook
>
> On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 03:06, Treeve Jelbert wrote:
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> > I spent some time on this spell
> >
> >
> > after adding a patch for 4.3.99.903 I got various compile errors,
> > particularily related to fontfile.c
> >
> > I contacted xfree86 and was informed that the source file contained old
> > code.
> >
> > I made a local copy of the spell and installed everything from one giant
> > tarball. It all built and installed without problem and is running well
> > on linux-2.6.3.
> >
> > One point to note is that the size of the source tree produced by the
> > giant tarball is significantly smaller than that from the cumulative
> > patches.
> >
> > It seems that things have been moved and cleaned, and the patch process
> > does not handle it well.
> >
> >
> > I'm not sure what we should do with this spell now.
> > revert it to 4.3.99.902 or go to 4.3.99.903 using the giant tarball.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards, Treeve
> >
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