F17 heads up: X server git snapshots

[Adam Williamson]

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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