Date: Fri, 23 Jan 1998 09:32:27 +1100 From: David Dawes <dawes@XFree86.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: Ted Buswell <tbuswell@mediaone.net>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, jmz@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xdm & login.conf limits. Message-ID: <19980123093227.09741@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <11381.885487881@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 08:51:21AM -0800 References: <199801221647.LAA12905@tbuswell.ne.mediaone.net> <11381.885487881@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, Jan 22, 1998 at 08:51:21AM -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: >[redirected just to -hackers, two large mailing lists is too many] > >> In any case, when I do an OS install and choose to include X, are the >> binaries that get installed generated from the port, >> or are they obtained from another source (like a binary dist from >> XFree86.org)? > >They're generated by XFree86.org, but I believe that there's also >ongoing effort expended in getting our fixes back to them so that >their official releases are sync'd with ours. Rich Murphy could ><rich@freebsd.org> tell you more about this specific issue, I'm sure. I'm not aware of that, and I only found out about the setusercontext patch in the ports tree a little while ago by accident (I don't regularly monitor FreeBSD's XFree86 port). Although it had been discussed prior to our 3.3.1 release, nobody actually sent us (XFree86) a patch for that. Can I ask that a copy of any patches that people here find necessary for XFree86 on FreeBSD are sent to devel@xfree86.org? BTW, we're likely to be making a new release soon primarily to update some drivers (probably called 3.3.2). I was going to include the ports version of this patch in that. If there is a better one, please let me know soon. Ditto if there are any other issues I should know about. David
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