X.Org Foundation Official Release of X Window System X11R6.8.1
René Rebe
rene at rocklinux-consulting.de
Sat Sep 18 10:15:56 PDT 2004
Hi,
Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>btw. that release from http://freedesktop.org/~xorg/X11R6.8.1
>>>>identifies itself as:
>>>>
>>>>X Window System Version 6.8.0
>>>>Release Date: 8 September 2004
>>>>X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8
>>>>
>>>>not as 6.8.1 1X September.
>>
>>If you look at the xc/config/cf/xorg.cf file (after untarring the
>>source tarballs), you'll see that the release version is 6.8.1 and
>>the release date is 17 September 2004. You'll need to do a
>>complete "make World" and "make install" from the source tarballs
>>to get the latest version properly built and installed on your
>>system.
Hm - strange. The automated rebuild in my cluster (fresh untar of
course) installed a binary claiming to be 6.8.0 ... :-( I review this
later (need to do some other work right now).
>>>It would be nice if those values could be tripple checked for the
>>>next release and the announce sent out _after_ the files are
>>>world-read-able ... to avoid some confusion.
>>
>>The sources were put in place on fdo within 10 min of the
>>announcement going out and were verified to be accessible. Could
>>you explain what problems you had accessing the files?
>
>
> The link supplied in the announcement was not world readable for
> several hours after the announcement. I, like I suspect a lot of
> other people, got a "no right to read this file" message.
Exactly this problem is what I described. No personal offence Martin,
you do a great job! I just wanted to mention it in this thread ...
Have a great day, night, ...
René
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