Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 01:09:53 -0800 From: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> To: Dejan Lesjak <dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> Cc: Russell Jackson <raj@cserv62.csub.edu> Subject: Re: X.Org 6.8.2 - (most probably) final patch Message-ID: <1108890593.909.13.camel@leguin> In-Reply-To: <200502200602.08082.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> References: <200502200413.15356.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si> <4218106C.9010300@cserv62.csub.edu> <200502200602.08082.dejan.lesjak@ijs.si>
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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 > > > _______________________________________________ > > > freebsd-x11@freebsd.org mailing list > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-x11 > > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-x11-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > > 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) -- Eric Anholt eta@lclark.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~anholt/ anholt@FreeBSD.org
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