Re: X patches

[Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>]

On Tue, 19 Oct 1999, Hartmut Koptein wrote:

> > Hello all.  I was wondering where I could pickup the various patches used
> > on Debian/PPC to make X work?  I'd like to compare patches (Trying to
> > cleanup/fix X 3.3.5, last "update" caused some problems..).  Thanks.
> 
> Debian src-packages are different to rpm src-packages (srpm). srpm often includes
> many little patches in _one_ file (orig src + patches). This has maybe some 
> advantages but also one big dis-advantage: you must download also the big original
> source archive. 

I've got some spare space on my PC, and i'm learning debian stuff :)

> For debian we have the upstream source (xfree_<version>.orig.tar.gz) and one
> patch file (xfree_<version>-<debian-version>.diff.gz). 
> 
> Have a look at:  
> 
>    ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/unstable/main/source/x11/xfree86-1_3.3.3.5-2.diff.gz

Erk, this has the patches needed for PPC compiles in it?

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Tom Rini (TR1265)
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