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

Khem Raj raj.khem at gmail.com
Tue Dec 21 06:36:38 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>

FWIW my uclibc builds of x11-image built for qemumips, qemuarm, qemux86 and
qemuppc. Seems good to me.

-Khem




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