Xorg-7.4 updated?

[jur]

AppsAudit reports that Xorg-7.4 has been updated but I don't see anything in the news threads. Has it actually been changed?

[althalus]

From the info file:

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Current: 2010/05/19 Separated fonts

[curaga]

Yeah, I made the initial change for 7.5 (in the 3.x area), since they can both use the same fonts. I guess someone on Xvesa might as well want to use the Luxi fonts.

[maro]

On the subject of extraction out of the Xorg-7.4 extension components that are usable by other X servers (e.g. the default 'Xvesa') I was wondering whether this could be applied to some executables included in that extension. I had to install on occasion this rather "weighty" extension (ca. 25 MBytes incl. dependencies) just to get hold of a single executable (e.g. xev).

I therefore thought to impose two conditions onto such an "exercise":

• The executable should not depend on a shared library not available in a "base" TC system. In particular not a shared library included in 'Xorg-7.4.tcz'.
• Another version of the executable should not be included in the "base" TC system.

On that basis I made an attempt to "extract" a 'Xorg-tools.tcz' extension out of 'Xorg-7.4.tcz' via running through the following "steps" (using a "base" TC system):
    XORG=Xorg-7.4
    EXTR_DIR=${XORG}_extr
    PKG=Xorg-tools
    PKG_DIR=${PKG}_pkg
    tce-fetch.sh ${XORG}.tcz 2> /dev/null
    which mksquashfs > /dev/null || tce-load -wi squashfs-tools-4.0 2> /dev/null
    sudo unsquashfs ${XORG}.tcz > /dev/null
    sudo mv squashfs-root $EXTR_DIR
    find $EXTR_DIR -name bin | while read DIR ; do
        ls $DIR | while read NAME ; do
                FILE=${DIR}/${NAME}
                LIBS=$( ldd $FILE 2>&1 )
                ERR=$( echo "$LIBS" | grep 'error' )
                RES=$( echo "$LIBS" | grep 'not found' )
                if [ -z "${ERR}${RES}" -a -z "$( which $NAME )" ] ; then
                        TARGET_DIR=$( dirname $FILE | sed "s#^${EXTR_DIR}/##" )
                        TARGET_DIR="${PKG_DIR}/${TARGET_DIR}"
                        [ -d $TARGET_DIR ] || sudo mkdir -p $TARGET_DIR
                        sudo mv $FILE ${TARGET_DIR}
                fi
        done
    done
    mksquashfs $PKG_DIR ${PKG}.tcz > /dev/null
    mv ${XORG}.tcz ${XORG}-original.tcz
    mksquashfs $EXTR_DIR ${XORG}.tcz > /dev/null
    sudo rm -rf $EXTR_DIR $PKG_DIR

I'm now wondering if this might be considered as a possible change for the TC 3.x (or even also the 2.x) repository. Obviously this would require for 'Xorg-tools.tcz' to be added to 'Xorg-7.4.tcz.dep'.

Please note I have not done a huge amount of testing, and it is quite likely that there will be executables that don't work with another X server. OTOH I don't see to much risk in that approach and I also can't see much of a downside from a 'Xorg' point of view.


Edit: To make it more obvious what would be in 'Xorg-tools.tcz' here is the list:

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tc@box:~$ find /tmp/tcloop/Xorg-tools/ -name bin | xargs ls -l
/tmp/tcloop/Xorg-tools/usr/bin:
total 40
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         16512 Apr 25  2009 cxpm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         10048 Apr 25  2009 makestrs
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         12996 Apr 25  2009 sxpm

/tmp/tcloop/Xorg-tools/usr/local/bin:
total 467
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          5100 Apr 25  2009 appres
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          6480 Apr 25  2009 atobm
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          4900 Apr 25  2009 bdftopcf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         61436 Apr 25  2009 bitmap
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          5016 Apr 25  2009 bmtoa
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          8120 Apr 25  2009 cvt
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          7500 Apr 25  2009 gtf
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         18216 Apr 25  2009 iceauth
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         28088 Apr 25  2009 luit
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         19120 Apr 25  2009 makedepend
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         21156 Apr 25  2009 mkfontscale
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          6088 Apr 25  2009 sessreg
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         13364 Apr 25  2009 smproxy
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         12492 Apr 25  2009 ucs2any
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          6364 Apr 25  2009 xbacklight
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         19680 Apr 25  2009 xcmsdb
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         15448 Apr 25  2009 xev
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         10000 Apr 25  2009 xhost
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         11656 Apr 25  2009 xinput
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         14616 Apr 25  2009 xkbvleds
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         11316 Apr 25  2009 xkbwatch
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          5312 Apr 25  2009 xlsatoms
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          6096 Apr 25  2009 xlsclients
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         23528 Apr 25  2009 xprop
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         35240 Apr 25  2009 xrandr
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         18292 Apr 25  2009 xrdb
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          6596 Apr 25  2009 xrefresh
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          4592 Apr 25  2009 xsetmode
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         10072 Apr 25  2009 xsetroot
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         17292 Apr 25  2009 xwd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         20244 Apr 25  2009 xwininfo
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         18804 Apr 25  2009 xwud


[jur]

Are any of the extracted tools necessary for Xorg itself to function? For example, I would prefer to use Xvesa but am forced to use Xorg due to my external screen resolution (1600x900).

But I don't use any of the tools except xrandr which I could probably do without if there was a nice saving involved.

So I would rather see a Xorg-tools extension as an option.

[curaga]

7.4 will stay as it is now, and 7.5 will be separated to -lib -bin -server (and possibly others). The -lib extension should deprecate Xlibs_support, the -bin one would probably be like the Xorg-tools above.

Thanks for the script.

[Juanito]

(maybe already mentioned) it might be a good idea to separate out the 3D graphics drivers since they're all quite large.

[curaga]

OK, will include Mesa and software 3d there, but all hw 3d shall be in -3d.