On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:37:58AM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > * Juliusz Chroboczek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001211 10:30]: > > First of all, I'd like to know whether building Branden's packages on > > a Potato system yields a usable version of XFree86. > > You can indeed build Branden's packages for potato, but Charl P. Botha > has done this already! I submitted the URL he gave for this a while ago > to google, so it should be able to find him and his packages without > effort. (It would also be in the archives, but that takes more effort to > search than google. :)
The potato xfree86 4.0.1 packages are apt-able with the following lines: deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf401_potato/i386/ deb http://people.debian.org/%7Ecpbotha/ xf401_potato/all/ > Of course, I don't know if he tracks Branden as quickly as Branden > tracks CVS -- so, Charl also wrote a quick description on building the > 4.0.1 source packages Branden makes on potato. I don't track him that quickly... on average I build every 2nd or 3d release that he makes. I'm planning a potato build of 4.0.1-11 as soon as that's in woody for a day or two. The ones that are apt-able at the moment are -8, and I find them rock-solid on my hardware. You can also find the howto on this at http://cpbotha.net/building_woody_xfree86_4.0.1_debs_on_potato.HOWTO -- charl p. botha | computer graphics and cad/cam http://cpbotha.net/ | http://www.cg.its.tudelft.nl/
