First pass at X11R7.6 katamari list

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 2:17 AM, Dirk Wallenstein <halsmit at t-online.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 06:30:01AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Alan Coopersmith
>> <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:
>> > I haven't gone through yet to see which need new releases from git, but
>> > this seems to be the current set of modules that are slated to become
>> > the 7.6 katamari over the next month or so.
>>
>> Sorry to hijack this thread, but I wanted to throw out a half baked
>> idea I've had kicking around my head for a while. I'd like it if we
>> could get the katamari set included as a jhbuild moduleset in the
>> modular repo and then have modular released with the katamari. The
>> idea being that the answer to "how do I build Xorg-7.6?" is to grab
>> xorg-modular-7.6.tar.gz from
>> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.6/ and use the included
>> moduleset with jhbuild. While I'm aware that the preferred way to get
>> X is through your distro, I still think it should be possible to
>> easily get vanilla X.
>>
>> What do you think? It would basically require you to turn this module
>> list into a jhbuild moduleset (not a small amount of work, but just
>> maintenance after the initial conversion), and to add a little bit of
>> autotooling to modular (easy) so it can be disted at katamari time.
>
> The moduleset posted here [1] contains module-ids and checkoutdirs that
> correspond to the package-name.  With that moduleset it is possible to
> just use sed to append a 'tag' attribute after each 'checkoutdir'
> attribute to create a Xorg-7.6 moduleset from a module-list.txt file.

Sorry for not looking at that earlier. Now I pulled it down, and there
are definitely some nice improvements over the current module list.
Does it need to be separate, though? It would be nice to get those
fixes directly into xorg.modules.

However, what I'm searching for here is the actual tarball
information, not git tags. This is what I want:

http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/releng/2.30.2/gnome-suites-2.30.2.modules

I'd like it if Xorg could do a moduleset for each major release. As
you can see, gnome has a wide variety of modulesets:

http://git.gnome.org/browse/jhbuild/tree/modulesets

I certainly don't think Xorg needs nearly that level of detail, but
one for devel (git) and one for each katamari (released tarballs)
seems reasonable.

--
Dan