[oe] [RFC] xorg: upgrade to X11R7.6 and remove preferred-xorg-versions*.inc files

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Mon Dec 20 07:24:58 UTC 2010


On (16/12/10 14:48), Martin Jansa wrote:
> * X11R7.6-RC1 was already released
>   http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.6-RC1/doc/xorg-docs/ReleaseNotes.html
>   so it's IMHO time to start migration there
> * preferred-xorg-versions-live.inc was tracking latest stable released
>   tarballs, but only reason I was maintaining it was to overwrite older
>   preferred-xorg-versions-X11R7.5.inc if your distribution included ie
>   X11R7.5.inc and you wanted live.inc from local.conf
> * default recipe versions without any preferred-xorg-versions include
>   are now the same as live.inc
> * we will get better test coverage if we use same versions
> * if someone really needs older release then pinning only core stuff
>   like xserver/libx11 will be probably better, than pinning every xorg
>   app/proto/font etc.
> * I can slow down adding newest xorg stuff or ie keep it everytime for
>   at least a week on ML for another review and test on more targets
>   (I'm testing it only on om-gta02/spitz/nokia900)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Martin Jansa <Martin.Jansa at gmail.com>

I am still testing the builds on uclibc. However here is one patch you need
to apply to mesa 7.9 (earlier it was using mesa 7.2) to get it building on
uclibc.

Thanks
-Khem 

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