RE: XFree86 4.3.0 rawhide information and rebuilding for other distro releases

Mike, 

Just a question from a careful guy. Are those rawhide rpm's pretty safe to install? I have RH9 working with dual DELL 1702 TFT screen on a Radeon 7000 VE. Will this still be working? 

And I also want to thank you guys at RedHat for the great work you are doing. RH rules I reckon! 

Regards,

Andre Verheij

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike A. Harris [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Wednesday, 24 September 2003 12:19 AM
To: xfree86 - lista
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.3.0 rawhide information and rebuilding for other distro releases


On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Alexandre Strube wrote:

>Date: 21 Sep 2003 19:16:15 -0300
>From: Alexandre Strube <[email protected]>
>To: xfree86 - lista <[email protected]>
>Reply-To: [email protected]
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
>Subject: Re: XFree86 4.3.0 rawhide information and rebuilding for other
>    distro releases
>
>Em Qua, 2003-09-17 às 11:29, Mike A. Harris escreveu:
>
>Hi Mike!
>
>I've been crawling through 
>ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris/testing/unstable/XFree86/4.3.0-29/sourc
>es/XFree86.spec
>
>and there's nothing like the lines described below.

That isn't rawhide though is it.  ;o)


>Besides this, is there anything that must be changed in a plain redhat9 
>installation? I'm just compiling this to use the new savage driver, as 
>the old one is as bad as standard vesa...

The savage driver hasn't changed since 4.3.0-2 which is in RHL 9 
that I recall.  But if you're using RHL 8.0, it's a new driver 
compared to that.


>Without changing anywhing, a make World compiles without errors. So 
>what must be done to install it?

You edit the spec file and set the build_$target to 1 for the OS 
target you wish to build for, and set all other targets to 0.  
Then edit the Release: line and add your initials to it.

ie:

Release: 30

becomes

Release: 30.as

or something similar.  Then do:  rpmbuild -ba XFree86.spec

Then rpm -Uvh XFree86-*4.3.0-$release*i386.rpm


-- 
Mike A. Harris


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