Subject: Re: X.org app packages
To: Blair Sadewitz <blair.sadewitz@gmail.com>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 01/25/2007 12:09:12
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Blair Sadewitz wrote:

> In other news, I'm also making a package for the openbsd wscons
> pointing device input driver.  From looking at the code, it seems like
> there's a good chance it will work.  This way zaurus users can
> eventually have modular X.org.  Unfortunately, there is no tarball for
> this driver that I can find, but it is present with a configure script
> in their xenocara modular X.org tree.  The last time I checked, IIRC,
> this tree is not available via FTP, so I'm kinda stumped at how to
> make a package for this without including a tarball in
> ${.CURDIR}/files.  If a developer could put this tarball in their
> ftp.netbsd.org/pub/misc directory, it would be helpful.

What driver name is it? Is it in xorg's "driver" source directory or just 
in OpenBSD's source?

Also, you can ask the developer of that code to make release tar ball for 
it. (For example, I did the xorg release for xf86-video-wsfb because it 
was never done.)

  Jeremy C. Reed