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[Bret Hughes]

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 13:02, Bret Hughes wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 19:07, Alex Deucher wrote:

> > 
> > no idea.  never tried it.  It may be easier to try and patch an X tree
> > and rebuild.
> > 
> 
> A download and build of the current 4.4 source works great!  I have not
> even got to the unichrome source yet.  scaling of a small mpeg to
> 1024x768 with 11% processor usage.  Way cool.
> 
> An interesting anomoly is that unclutter flickers the cursor if the
> window changes.  I did not see this in 4.3.  running sawfish instead of
> no wm fixes that issue.
> 
> Now for the real question.  How big a deal is it to build a rpm package
> for the 4.4 code base?  I have never packaged something as large as
> XFree86 and really need this to be part of a kickstart installation.
> 
> I am downloading the 4.3 srpm now to take a look at it.
> 
> Tips appreciated  and thanks for the pointer to 4.4
> 

Man that is one scary specfile Mike, It looks like you earn your $.

is there an easy way to build a binary tarball from the 4.4 tree I
built?  As an interim kickstart step I could untar the new binaries over
the 4.3 install.

Is there a better place to ask?

Bret