Wrong links, files not where they're supposed to be

Adam Jackson ajax at nwnk.net
Mon Nov 24 08:02:33 PST 2008


On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 18:56 -0500, Robert Dvoracek wrote:
> > > * The source directories for 7.4 in the various directories
> > > /releases/X11R7.4/src/{app,driver,font,lib,proto,util} only contain
> > archives
> > > for the components which were updated for the new release.  The other
> > > components necessary to build X.Org are missing.  Strangely enough they
> > are
> > > all there in the /releases/X11R7.4/src/everything/ directory.
> > >
> > Do you have examples (or, even better, a list of missing files)?  I see
> > some absolute symlinks in X11R7.4/src/app/ on annarchy, which would
> > probably break on mirrors.  What url are you looking at?
> 
> 	I'm looking at the primary sites - http://www.x.org/ and
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/.  Unless a bunch of packages were cut between
> 7.3 and 7.4,

They were.

>  it looks like there are a few missing from
> /releases/X11R7.4/src/everything/ as well, such as
> 
> app:
> <snip>

These are all intentional.

> driver:
> xf86-input-calcomp
> <etc>

These are not.  I'll fix, thanks.

> xf86-video-cyrix
> xf86-video-imstt
> xf86-video-nsc
> xf86-video-vga
> xf86-video-via

These are intentional.  imstt ought to be revived, we just never had
anyone motivated enough to port it to pciaccess.  The others deserve to
stay dead.

> lib:
> libXTrap
> libXevie
> libXprintAppUtil
> libXprintUtil
> liblbxutil
> liboldX
> libxkbui
> libXp

Intentionally not in 7.4.

> proto:
> printproto
> xf86rushproto
> xproxymanagementprotocol

Intentionally not in 7.4.

> util:
> gccmakedep
> imake
> lndir
> xorg-cf-files

Intentionally not in 7.4.

- ajax
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