[arch-dev-public] New fglrx drivers - no official package.

[Travis Willard]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 21:14:52 -0400
Travis Willard <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 09:04:06 +0100
> Tom K <tom at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 
> > Travis Willard wrote:
> > > On Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:36:02 -0400
> > > "Travis Willard" <travis at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > >> Any thoughts or suggestions, just reply to this thread. :)
> > > 
> > > Actually, anyone have any issues with my putting them in unstable?
> > > That seems to make the most sense, after thinking about it.
> > > 
> > > If there's no comments in the next 12h or so I'll go ahead and
> > > upload them - I don't think there'll be much of a problem with it.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Travis
> > 
> > Uh, an observation. I've always understood that unstable package
> > names should not clash with names in other repos - hence,
> > mplayer-svn, gimp-devel, etc. This is certainly what we say on the
> > relevant wiki page:
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Repositories and it is
> > also this convention that allows us to state, also on that page,
> > that enabling the unstable repo is safe, because unstable packages
> > will never overwrite current/extra packages. Finally, it allows
> > those who decide to use unstable to install the packages with the
> > standard pacman -Sy foo, rather than the slightly clunkier pacman
> > -Sy repo/foo.
> > 
> > Sorry I missed the 12h cut-off, btw - all kinds of crap going wrong 
> > around here. :)
> > 
> > Tom.
> 
> Yeah, Eric emailed me directly about this - I guess I bungled that.
> I'll think up a fancy name for the unstable packages and re-do 'em.

Bah, the more I think about this, the less I want to pollute the
package namespace (and replaces, conflicts, provides entries on fglrx*
packages) with some gimpy name like fglrx-unstable, and I'd rather just
make a custom repo and be done with it.  "Early-adopters" have had
their shot at a package in unstable. ;)

Is it OK if I host a custom repo for the new fglrx in my public_html dir
on gerolde?  I don't have any better place to put it.

--
Travis