Bug 136779 – Modular X Guide gets Xorg 7.1, which has known problems

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Documentation

[Description [e-mail] 2006-06-14 06:46:46 UTC]

Attaching a patch for the package list that unmasks xorg-x11-7.0-r*, but not 7.1.

(It also corrects the deps for x86 x11-drivers, but not for sun.)

Other relevant links:
 - http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml

[Comment 1 [e-mail] 2006-06-14 06:47:24 UTC]

Created attachment 89158 [details, diff]
modular-x-packages.patch

As described in comment #0

[Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-06-14 06:49:58 UTC]

I don't see what are you patching here. If you don't want 7.1, then package.mask the needed versions (as with any other ebuild), instead of hardcoding versions into the package list.

[Comment 3 [e-mail] 2006-06-14 06:55:32 UTC]

Sorry, it's a patch to http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt

[Comment 4 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-06-14 07:12:30 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Sorry, it's a patch to
> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt

Not what I meant... why are you trying to lock people down to 7.0? The only known big known problems I've aware of are broken ATI/nVidia binary drivers. Those are properly blocked for 7.1. IOW, when a new kernel version breaks those drivers, e.g., we should lock all people down to the old kernel instead of blocking the broken drivers? Not really a sane solution for me.

[Comment 5 [e-mail] 2006-06-14 08:29:43 UTC]

It begins to make sense now. This could be considered a workaround for http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136788 ; however, fixing the ebuilds is a much better idea.