RE: error in tar -xf xfree86-4.1.0-devel.tar

[Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>]

I have not deleted anything yet.  Actually I was going to do last night but
forgot.  Sourceware is low on diskspace, and the other reason, was some
users are doing mix and mismatch.

Howabout your give me a naming convention for archives and I will follow
that in future.  This should make your User Guide easier.

Yes, I have thought using a script, I will work on it.  This weekend I am
out of town, but next weekend.


Suhaib


> > Also since Chris is runing tight on disk space, I am going to delete
> XFree86
> > 4.0.3.  I noticed some users are doing a mix and match.
> 
> Deleting 4.0.3 means that I'll have to update the User's 
> Guide, which I've
> been dreading because of the non-uniform capitalization and 
> naming of the
> project binaries and due to the font archives being split apart.  For
> example:
> 
> xfree86-4.1.0-XClients.tar.bz2
> XFree86-100dpi-fonts-4.1.0.tar.bz2
> XFree86-ISO8859-7-1-fonts.tar.bz2
> 
> In the above files there is sometimes a version number, sometimes not;
> XFree86 binaries never have version numbers, as they are in a 
> directory that
> has the version number.  XFree86 is sometimes capitalized, 
> sometimes not;
> XFree86 binaries don't have "XFree86" in the name.
> 
> Also, I believe I'll have to include a 'mkfontdir' step in 
> the installation
> instructions if I tell users to only download the fonts that 
> they need.
> 
> Have you thought about using the install/packaging script 
> that the other
> XFree86 distributions use?  I asked Torrey Lyons, of X on X 
> fame, about
> where to start with using the script.  He had this to say:
> 
> > The packaging script, build-bindist, and data files for 
> each platform
> > are in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/etc/bindist. You would have to
> > create a directory for Cygwin and modify the Xinstall.sh script in
> > xfree86/etc. Directions for how build-bindist is used can 
> be found by
> > checking out the devel module from CVS and reading the bindist-notes
> > file.
> 
> I was going to look into the packaging script, but I'm pretty 
> busy.  Perhaps
> it would save you some work...
> 
> An added side benefit of using the packaging script is that 
> Cygwin/XFree86
> would finally be ready to become a standard distribution of 
> XFree86, via the
> XFree86 mirror network, in addition to the Cygwin mirror network.
> 
> Are you interested in looking into the packaging script, or 
> should I keep it
> on my to-do list?
> 
> Harold
>