FC 4 Xorg Rpms on FC 3?

[Tom Browder]

To possibly solve my X problems, Jim Cornette suggested I try latest xorg
source from their CVS.

Would adding latest xorg rpms from rawhide to my FC 3 setup be feasible
without installing the whole FC 4 test?

Or is FC 4 stable enough so that I should try that?

Thanks.

Tom Browder

Tom Browder wrote:
> To possibly solve my X problems, Jim Cornette suggested I try latest xorg
> source from their CVS.
>
> Would adding latest xorg rpms from rawhide to my FC 3 setup be feasible
> without installing the whole FC 4 test?

should be ok
this is on a clean up_2_date fc3

# yum --enablerepo=development update xorg*
[...]
Dependencies Resolved
Transaction Listing:
  Update: xorg-x11.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-Xdmx.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-Xnest.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-Xvfb.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-devel.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-doc.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-font-utils.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-libs.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-sdk.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-tools.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-twm.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-xauth.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-xdm.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
  Update: xorg-x11-xfs.i386 0:6.8.1.901-1
Is this ok [y/N]:n
Exiting on user Command
Complete!
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> Or is FC 4 stable enough so that I should try that?

http://fedora.redhat.com/participate/schedule/
FC4 ?    FC4-test ?

FC4-test1 will coming soon.

[Mike A. Harris]

Tom Browder wrote:
> To possibly solve my X problems, Jim Cornette suggested I try latest xorg
> source from their CVS.
>
> Would adding latest xorg rpms from rawhide to my FC 3 setup be feasible
> without installing the whole FC 4 test?
>
> Or is FC 4 stable enough so that I should try that?

Generally speaking, my recommendation to end users is to never use X.Org 
CVS directly for several reasons:

1) Installing from raw X source will not be configured identically to 
the way X is built in Fedora Core.  This will be even worse on AMD64 
64bit OS installations with multilib.

2) You will no longer be able to use X from rpm packaging or upgrade the 
OS without manually hacking various things in the filesystem to undo the 
damage installing X from source does.

While it is possible to undo the damage, it is a PITA, and I really 
don't recommend it.  If you _must_ do it, use ProjectRoot et al. 
(documented in the host.def section of the rpm spec file instead.

The rawhide X rpms *should* work on FC3.  If not, simply rebuild them on 
FC3.

There will be an X.Org X11 update to 6.8.2 for FC3 when it is released also.

Hope this helps.