Re: Process for patch/build/install/modify/rebuild/reinstall

[tannj <fake@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:43:50 -0500, Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>  
wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, fake@email.address wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to make some code changes in the i810 X server version  
> > 6.9.0nb13
> > because of breakage.  I'm trying to find the best/fastest way to:
>
> I'd suggest you work against Xorg's official release. The monolithic 6.9
> series is not maintained upstream.
>
> I think the code you need is Xorg's driver/xf86-video-intel (by the way
> Intel is really supporting this as "open source" :)
>
> There is some work on modualr Xorg in pkgsrc. I use it myself (and have
> for a  very long time). I have committed a few things for DragonFly to
> Xorg source.
>
> I can help you with creating a xf86-video-intel package.
>
> I think it would be better to test against supported code versus trying  
> to
> patch old obsolete and unmaintained code.
>
> Hope you get this fake@


Thanks.  I think I'll cut my teeth on 6.9.0 first like Joerg suggested.   
But, I'm curious about how to create the modular version.  Could you point  
me in the right direction towards some documentation?