On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 3:53 AM, Pavel Troller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi! >> I would like to ask, whether it is possible to get a 7.4 release sources >> from a set of modules, downloaded with a standard git_xorg script. I don't >> want to download all the modules again, I would like to make a local copy >> of the whole x.org source directory and then apply some "magic" on one of >> them, to change from master branches to the particular tags, required for >> every module. My knowledge of git is just a very basic, I don't know even >> a command, which does this for a single package; otherwise, I would be able >> to write a script doing it using the list of modules myself. >> Any hint would be very appreciated. > > I don't think this will be easily possible. It's easy to checkout a > particular tag in git. In xserver, for instance, > > $ git checkout xorg-server-1.5.1 > > And then build as you would from master. > > However, you'll have to figure out a mapping from the released tarball > versions to the associated tag in git. I also don't know if > git_xorg.sh or build.sh support building from particular tags. It > might be possible with jhbuild.
this could be made easier by tagging releases for the katamari with a common tag, like "Xorg-7.4" > > Building from tarballs should be much more straightforward if you just > want to get Xorg-7.4. There are lots of scripts floating around the > net, but here's one in particular: > > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/modular/tree/build-from-tarballs.sh > > -- > Dan > _______________________________________________ > xorg mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg > _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
