Re: Roll-your-own X packages
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:02:13PM +0000, Jules Bean wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've recently built, and am now using, an XFree86 build from DRI CVS.
> This greatly improves 3D performance on my card (a voodoo3).
I've been watching this and other threads like it in hopes that something useful would come out. I have a few ideas about how it /might/ be done, but I haven't tested them (not enough hours in the day *sigh*).
> Of course, it's a bit annoying running X out of /usr/local, so... how
> hard would it be to build debian packages from it? I understand that
> the X packages are fairly complex :-)
Indeed it is annoying. The first thing that comes to mind is simply checking out the CVS source, then getting the debian/ directory out of the current xserver-xfree86 source package, moving it over, and attempting to build an xserver-dri package that way
> Alternatively, does Branden ever fold in DRI versions into his
> packages? How long would I be in this unpackaged state before my local
> sid mirror had up-to-date packages?
It would probably be more practical for someone who isn't as tied up as Branden, and knows more about dpkg than myself, to create and contribute such a package, probably best named xserver-dri or xserver-dri-date or xserver-dri-cvs. Any takers? ;)
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