Re: F17 heads up: X server git snapshots
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 16:14 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote:
I'm currently rebuilding the X stack for F17, and we'll be
tracking git
snapshots of the X server and drivers until xserver 1.12 comes out. I
don't know yet how many of the drivers will ftbfs now, so --skip-broken
might be your friend for a while. Binary and out-of-tree driver users
will want to configure yum.conf to exclude xorg-x11-\* until their drug
of choice catches up.
I've changed the way we expose ABI versions in rpm. Builds of upstream
releases will look like this:
$ rpm -q --provides xorg-x11-server-Xorg | grep abi
xserver-abi(ansic-0) = 4
xserver-abi(extension-6) = 0
xserver-abi(videodrv-11) = 0
xserver-abi(xinput-13) = 0
But git snapshots will look like:
$ rpm -qp --provides xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.11.99.1-1.20111109.fc17.x86_64.rpm | grep
abi
xserver-abi(ansic-20111109) = 0
xserver-abi(extension-20111109) = 0
xserver-abi(videodrv-20111109) = 0
xserver-abi(xinput-20111109) = 0
This is a bit excessive - essentially binding drivers to exactly the
server they were built against - but it should prevent the problems we
had in the F16 cycle of silent ABI changes between xserver builds
causing drivers to crash.
Just a quick note - the evdev git bump that accompanied this change
happened to catch an unfortunate upstream commit which more or less
broke the driver; clicks work, but you can't move the mouse any more.
So I put through a new xorg-x11-drv-evdev build which bumped it again to
catch the fix from upstream. If you wind up with:
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.6.99-2.20111109git745fca03a.fc17
and your cursor doesn't move, don't panic, just grab:
xorg-x11-drv-evdev-2.6.99-3.20111110gita9cdb6590.fc17
and all should be well.
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