The synaptics driver is now under new management and license, thus there was an update (which includes new features and bug fixes as well) Read the details here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2008-August/000629.html Thanks in advance for an updated ebuild. (This is just a notify, not a "why isn't there an ebuild yet???!!!) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Look at versions available 2. 0.15.0 is not there yet 3. Read http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg-announce/2008-August/000629.html Actual Results: Old version in portage Expected Results: New release in portage
Assuming that's x11-drivers/synaptics...
x11-drivers/synaptics should be deprecated by x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics The later one should be straightforward to build (uses autotools, much similar to xf86-input-evdev where most of the autotools stuff was taken from).
Created attachment 163194 [details, diff] Patch to synaptics-0.14.6-r3 -> xf86-input-synaptics-0.15.0.ebuild Changes: * Upstream added several fixes from various distros and integrated synaptics into the X modules list, and changed LICENSE to MIT. They also fixed the build system (using evdev's now). * Arch Keywords are untouched since the core code hasn't changed much. * Use x-modular.eclass. Removes need for SLOT, LICENSE, HOMEPAGE, SRC_URI, custom src_compile, src_install, etc. * Reorder the ebuild removing obsolete patches. Only the following files are used now: files/ 11-x11-synaptics.fdi rc.conf rc.init synaptics-fix-xinerama.patch Tested to compile and work with ~x86 and masked =x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.99.906 Recommend making the masked xorg ebuilds depend on x11-drivers/xf86-input-synaptics (INPUT_DEVICES=synaptics) instead of x11-drivers/synaptics (which is broken with xorg-1.4.99*). Not sure if libsynaptics (the only other revdep besides) is still compatible with this new version. Probably is though since the core code is unchanged.
Using that new ebuild I found that the xinerama patch failed to apply... I don't use xinerama so I just commented out the epatch line and it compiled fine!
(In reply to comment #4) > Using that new ebuild I found that the xinerama patch failed to apply... I > don't use xinerama so I just commented out the epatch line and it compiled > fine! > Oops, you need to *edit* the xinerama patch :) The source code moved to a subdirectory (src/) so you need to add that. --- synaptics-0.14.6.orig/synaptics.c 2008-01-18 23:32:59.000000000 -0500 +++ synaptics-0.14.6/synaptics.c 2008-01-18 23:32:15.000000000 -0500 becomes: --- synaptics-0.14.6.orig/src/synaptics.c 2008-01-18 23:32:59.000000000 -0500 +++ synaptics-0.14.6/src/synaptics.c 2008-01-18 23:32:15.000000000 -0500
I am picking this up.
+*xf86-input-synaptics-0.15.0 (22 Aug 2008) + + 22 Aug 2008; <chainsaw@gentoo.org> +files/11-x11-synaptics.fdi, + +files/rc.conf, +files/rc.init, +files/synaptics-fix-xinerama.patch, + +metadata.xml, +xf86-input-synaptics-0.15.0.ebuild: + Initial commit, ebuild patching and suggestions by Nirbheek Chauhan + <nirbheek.chauhan@gmail.com>, closes bug #234794 by Christian Loosli + <fuchs@fuchsnet.ch>.
Christian, thank you for filing a bug report. Nirbheek, thank you for identifying the required ebuild changes to build this package. Thank to both of you, this new input driver is now in portage. I have masked it together with the new X.Org (same block in package.mask) so as to not unload it on unsuspecting people immediately. I will file a keywording bug for this new software shortly, and I will reply here with the bug number so you can CC yourself if it interests you. Your contribution to Gentoo Linux is highly appreciated.
I have filed bug #235464 to bring the keywords in line with the older synaptics package.
