[Xorg] new comitter

Jeremy C. Reed reed at reedmedia.net
Sat Jul 24 09:28:21 PDT 2004


On Sat, 24 Jul 2004, Matthieu Herrb wrote:

> I've been added as a comitter to xorg. I plan to work on OpenBSD (and
> NetBSD) support and continue my work on general X security.

Hello and welcome Matthieu,

Just to let you know, I am presently working on packaging XOrg 6.7.0 for
pkgsrc. I am first building under NetBSD. Then using same pkgsrc I'll make
sure it works for Linux too. I will be importing this xorg-tools and
xorg-libs packages to pkgsrc-wip first. http://pkgsrc-wip.sourceforge.net/

I helped create and help maintain the XFree86 packages for pkgsrc and
NetBSD too. For those who don't know: NetBSD maintains XFree86 in their
CVS which is the normal X11 installed with NetBSD, plus also provides it
as a third-party add-on via pkgsrc packages. The development of both is
unrelated. (In most cases, the packages aren't used by NetBSD users since
X11 is already installed; the pkgsrc maintained by NetBSD though is useful
on other operating systems, so the X can also be built and installed under
Linux and other BSDs for example using pkgsrc).

I also help package the xlibs components for pkgsrc, but temporarily gave
up do to needing a few libs which might be available now. Later, I plan to
try packaging debriX for pkgsrc (under NetBSD first) too.

 Jeremy C. Reed

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