On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, James Hirschorn wrote: > Speaking of XF86 4.2, I would really like to be running it for the > driver support for my card. So I was thinking of making a .deb from the > source, just to prevent dependency problems. Obviously this .deb > wouldn't follow any of the Debian conventions. Any ideas on this?
Packaging X is more grief than you want. I used to hybridise Debian Xfree86 4.1 with some stuff from Xfree86 cvs to produce a package for may laptop for a while (until the patches I needed got merged in) and it was... a little involved. You're better off waiting for the experimental packages to turn up on Branden's site - check out the X Strike Force page at http://people.debian.org/~branden/ for updates. [ also, it takes about 3 billion years to compile, so if you've made a mistake, you're in for another soul-destroying debug cycle... ] -- Everyone would _like_ a first. By the time you get to the third year, you become more fatalistic, until you get to the point when a kippered herring with a Warwick crest on it would be as welcome as a degree. - Stephen Williams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
