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Bug 1186 - Please restore xfree86 3.3.6 ebuild
Summary: Please restore xfree86 3.3.6 ebuild
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Low enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo X packagers
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 9629 11874 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2002-03-16 15:39 UTC by John Stalker
Modified: 2004-05-25 07:23 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
xfree-3.3.6.tbz2 (xfree-3.3.6.tbz2,4.70 KB, application/octet-stream)
2002-09-20 14:20 UTC, SpanKY
Details
revised ebuild (xfree-3.3.6.ebuild,3.17 KB, text/plain)
2003-11-23 07:12 UTC, Andrew Bevitt
Details
includes provide (xfree-3.3.6.ebuild,3.21 KB, text/plain)
2003-11-23 15:43 UTC, Andrew Bevitt
Details

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Description John Stalker 2002-03-16 15:39:28 UTC
Some of us have ancient video cards which only get acceleration under 3.3.6.  
Supposedly there was a 3.3.6 ebuild at some point in the portage tree.  I 
would be much obliged if someone could put it back.
Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-09-19 19:28:34 UTC
http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/gentoo-x86/x11-base/xfree/Attic/

earliest version of xfree86 is 4.0.1 and that is over 2 years old
Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-09-20 14:20:14 UTC
Created attachment 4035 [details]
xfree-3.3.6.tbz2

root@rux0r 3.3.6 # tar -jvcf xfree-3.3.6.tbz2 *
files/
files/3.3.6/
files/3.3.6/xdm
files/3.3.6/xinitrc
files/3.3.6/Xsession
files/3.3.6/site.def
files/3.3.6/xfs.config
files/3.3.6/xdm.start
files/3.3.6/xfs.start
files/3.3.6/XftConfig
files/3.3.6/10xfree
files/digest-xfree-3.3.6
xfree-3.3.6.ebuild
Comment 3 SpanKY gentoo-dev 2002-09-20 14:23:16 UTC
this is more of just renaming the 4.1.0 stuff to 3.3.6 ...
test it and see how it goes

oh, and to use, just put it in your /usr/portage/x11-base/xfree/ directory and 
extract it from there
Comment 4 Michael Cohen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-10-21 19:45:03 UTC
smart idea folks.  testing this now, and if it works, I'm going to commit it. =)
Comment 5 Whit Blauvelt 2002-10-25 17:13:27 UTC
If this works, I'd like to know. Happy to test (but new to Gentoo so better at
testing almost-finished stuff).
Comment 6 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-08 15:11:57 UTC
*** Bug 9629 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-10 12:46:55 UTC
*** Bug 11874 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-05-30 09:28:30 UTC
John, have you tried that ebuild?
Comment 9 Robin Johnson archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2003-10-28 20:02:42 UTC
any progress on this?
Comment 10 Martin Schlemmer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-29 11:47:26 UTC
There never was an 3.3.6 ebuild, period.  And the thing is that I am not
going to add it, as it is a full time job (as spyderous may tell you) and
I do not have the time.  If he can handle it, sure.
Comment 11 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-10-29 12:08:10 UTC
Yeah, definitely full time Az. =)

If there is a working ebuild, I'm willing to add it to the tree but it will
be "as-is," meaning I would spend very little if any time maintaining it,
similar to xfree-4.1/4.2. I also want the files to be a downloadable tarball
and not something in FILESDIR (see 4.3.99 ebuilds for how this is done);
I don't want to make hundreds of thousands of people download those files
for something five people use.

The only maintaining I'd be willing to do is committing patches to ebuilds
or sources posted to our bugzilla, and it will be pretty much the last thing
on my maintainance priority list.

If another dev wants to commit and maintain this under the conditions I posted
above, that would be fine with me. I say those conditions because that dev
won't always be around and I don't want to add any extra effort to whoever
maintains it after.
Comment 12 Andrew Bevitt 2003-11-23 07:12:04 UTC
Created attachment 21147 [details]
revised ebuild

new ebuild, 
  has truetype use flag choice for the fonts,
  includes the contrib tree for 3.3.6, 
  has cvs patches up to when 3.3.6 lost maintainence,
  has tarballs for patches and gentoo files.

have tested it on my p4 compiles and installs (ie ebuild install) fine, but im
not going to install it live to my system, if anyone wants this test it and if
it works i suppose we can x86 it and commit.
Comment 13 Andrew Bevitt 2003-11-23 15:43:13 UTC
Created attachment 21184 [details]
includes provide

OK Ive tested the actual XServer and got it working in both mono and vga16
mode. This is a limitation as im using a SiS chipset which just would not work
under any of the other servers.

I forgot to add the PROVIDE in the previous ebuild, fixed here.
Comment 14 Charles Goodwin 2003-12-13 16:05:12 UTC
Shouldn't this be added and any issues will get added to bugs.gentoo.org at a later date?  If it's not going to be added then we should let Andrew know.
Comment 15 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2003-12-13 22:58:15 UTC
Andrew will probably be adding it at some point in the near future.
Comment 16 Andrew Bevitt 2004-02-17 18:45:39 UTC
Can ANYONE that wants this added please speak up now.

This will be added if there is a high enough demand.
Comment 17 Donnie Berkholz (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2004-03-17 11:20:31 UTC
Pending greater demand, which I doubt will come.
Comment 18 seraphim 2004-05-25 07:23:17 UTC
Can someone please update this ebuild.  This one seems to be outdated/broken.
perl.  I belive the "sys-devel/perl" dependency is now "dev-lang/perl".  Also
SRC_URI="${SRC_PATH}/source/X${MY_SV}src-1.tgz does not reference
ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.6/X336src-1.tgz.  Finaly and most important, 
X_UPDATES="http://www.volutin.net/~andrew/GENTOO/XFree86-${PV}-patch-${EX_VER}.tar.bz2"
X_FILES="http://www.volutin.net/~andrew/GENTOO/XFree86-${PV}-gentoo-files-${EX_VER}.tar.bz2"

no longer exist.  I need these files to complete the emerge.  Can someone please provide these?
Thanks.