On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 03:49:15PM +1200, Juha Saarinen wrote:
: Don't think you need to update GNOME as well, but it can't hurt of course.
: However, unless I'm completely wrong, the Rawhide X 4.0.1 RPMs are in
: version 4 format. That will create problems, as updating RPM is a PITA. I
: think someone posted a message saying that RPM 3.5 (?) groks RPM 4 db files,
: but I'm not sure.
Actually, it's 3.0.5.. And yes, the new XFree 4.0.1 packages from Rawhide
built just fine and run well here. YMMV. I've got XFree 4.0.1, plus the
Nvidia 0.9-4 GLX code, for 4.0.1 running great. Something to be careful of
however.. rpm 3.0.5 has the "habit" of stripping any binary it can get
its hands on, even kernel modules and XFree driver modules, both of which
get *extremely* unhappy when stripped. To abate this problem, insert this
into your .spec file:
%define __spec_install_post /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
put that somewhere near the top.
: Otherwise, XF86 4.0.1 is a major step forward, and IMO works much better
: than 3.3.x. You could always do it manually, and just get the tarballs plus
: the installer from www.xfree86.org, but I believe the Rawhide stuff has some
: added patches in them for RHL.
My only complaint about the XFree 4.0.1 packages that got built from the SRPM
out of Rawhide is the fact that xfs doesn't seem to work, so I had to list my
fonts in the XF86Config file myself.
Be aware, you'll also have a number of other packages out of Rawhide that
you'll have to upgrade to, like xinitrc, initscripts, etc. The new
initscripts package starts the move to an FHS compliant init setup. FHS
calls for /etc/(init.d|rc0.d|rc1.d|...|rc6.d) as directories for the init
process. In the release you'll look at when you upgrade initscripts,
these directories are symlinks...
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