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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] can't build xfree86-devel
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 17:25:59 -0800

Quoting Christian Mertes <c_mertes AT t-online.de>:
> Ladislav Hagara <hgr AT vabo.cz> wrote:
>
> > Which grimoire ? If test grimoire try "cast -r -c xfree86".
> > xfree86 is newer than xfree86-devel
>
> I noticed this. Is there a reason why? xfree86-devel should be
> the latest version available, xfree86 the latest stable IMHO.
> Like this I have to check for a newer xfree86-devel all the time
> manually :/

This is just because the stable version of X that is released /is/ newer than
the devel version (unless you want CVS...) as there aren't any (IIRC) patches
to update 4.4 to anything newer from XFree86.Org.

> Regards,
>
> Christian
>
> P.S.: The linux spell works this way: Selecting "latest
> prepatched kernel" gives you the latest kernel, even if there's
> no "pre" in its name. Makes a lot of sense to me :)

If you want to modify the xfree86 spell to support multiple versions we may
accept the patch to merge them (though keeping xfree86 and xfree86-libs
separate, probably), though that's up to if others feel it'd be okay and after
we've verified the patch works.

-sandalle

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