[gNewSense-users] Upcoming Breaking Change to X in gNewSense
From:
Brian Brazil
Subject:
[gNewSense-users] Upcoming Breaking Change to X in gNewSense
Date:
Sat, 12 Jan 2008 23:05:01 +0000
Within the next 12 hours, I'll be releasing new versions of the 'mesa' and 'xserver-xorg' packages to remove non-free code. This code is essential to all OpenGL/GLX related (i.e. 3d graphics) X packages in gNewSense.
Accordingly, almost anything that uses 3d graphics in gNewSense will break.
For most applications, this will happen instantly at startup: address@hidden glxinfo glxinfo: error while loading shared libraries:
libGL.s.o1
: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory address@hidden although others might be a bit more cryptic (e.g. amarok).
We've yet to come up
with a definitive list of what will break but it'll be at least 200 packages. If you run apt-cache rdepends libgl{,u}1-mesa | fgrep -v : | tr -d '| ' | sort -u on a deltad system, you will get a partial list.
Our testing thus far indicates that this does not break anything non-3d, so applications such as BurningDog and OpenOffice.org will continue to work.
If you come across new problems with your gNewSense systems
over the next few days, please check for this before mailing the list or filing a bug.