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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo/PPC meeting summary
From:       Donnie Berkholz <spyderous () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2006-06-25 22:29:45
Message-ID: 449F0E59.2030901 () gentoo ! org
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Lars Weiler wrote:
> Another upgrade for 2006.1 might be Xorg-7.1.  ppc does not
> rely on any binary-driver which is affected by the
> ABI-change.  This version of X has been tested by several
> developers and found to be stable.  But we need to check
> Donnie's opinion about that move.
> 
> A pro-argument would be, that users have to do one big
> change with 2006.1 (toolchain, X) and can rest for a long
> time.  A good upgrade-path for Xorg-7.1 is needed for the
> users who won't to install their system newly.

I'm all for arches that aren't help back by slowness of binary driver
updates to stabilize on Xorg 7.1. So far, I've heard interest from PPC
and MIPS.

It seems that all of ~arch is now ported to modular X, but I'm unsure
about stable. My current "unported ebuilds" scripts don't seem to
support checking for unported stable ebuilds, just ~arch. They're
available [1] as find_all_broken_modular.sh,
find_broken_modular_package.sh and find_broken_modular_package.py.

I think the Python one needs fixing, but I'm not much for Python. I
suspect this line may be the problem, but I don't know: "cpv =
portage.portdb.xmatch("bestmatch-visible", cp)".

Kevin Quinn's suggested that hardened should mask modular X until we can
get the weirdness with the hardened toolchain + X sorted (seems that
binutils 2.17 will do that).

The upgrade path seems reasonable to me right now. I've written a guide
[2], but most of the steps are straightforward. The guide mainly exists
to help with troubleshooting issues such as XKB for which configurations
will break.

Thanks,
Donnie

1. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml


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