[Openchrome-users] Call for packagers

[pcpa@mandriva.com.br]

Quoting Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org>:

  Hi,

> We used to and are still maintaining a 'contributed binaries' page in
> the wiki, but it's often outdated or pointing at old versions of the
> driver. It would be much better to package and maintain the driver as
> official packages inside the various distributions around. This brings
> numerous advantages. The users don't have to search the web for packages
> and get them directly from their distribution's repositories without
> additional configuration. The driver is more easily available in the
> wild and gets better exposure and testing.
>
> This mail is primarily targeted at all the good people that used to and
> are still maintaining the packages that are linked from the 'contributed
> binaries' page. Thanks a lot for your work, it is greatly appreciated. I
> would just ask you to go a step further and get in touch with the
> maintainers of your distro of choice and do your best to have the
> openchrome driver included and maintained inside of it. There is also
> obviously some room for new packagers ;-)
>
> Thanks a lot for your attention and feel free to ask for help, I went
> down this road already for Fedora/RHEL, it is not as hard as it may
> sound and there's a lot to learn along the road.

  Mandriva also ships openchrome for some time.
  This text should be enough to give reference for prebuild
binaries for 2006, and proper procedure on newer systems:

--
Mandriva
  o Mandriva 2006: please visit http://www.mde.djura.org/
  o Mandriva 2007.0 or newer: just run "# urpmi x11-driver-video-openchrome"
--

  Just one entry required :-)

> Regards,
> Xavier

Thanks,
Paulo