Re: [Ltib] [Patch] Fix XKB error

[Stuart Hughes]

Hi Rogerio,

Thanks for the patch. xkeyboard-config would be okay stand-alone, but 
there's an issue with the other 2 related to packaging.

Loosely speaking I've been following Fedora's notion of packaging (FC9). 
 So if you look at ltib now you'll see there an option to 
build:xkb-utils, which build using the spec file: xorg-x11-xkb-utils. 
This was imported from FC9 and contains the following tarballs:

ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xkbutils-1.0.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xkbcomp-1.0.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xkbevd-1.0.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xkbprint-1.0.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/setxkbmap-1.0.4.tar.bz2

Which mean that xkbcomp is already available if you select this.  Having 
this as a stand-alone package is better in a way (less bloat), but 
unfortunately it means complexity.  To allow this it would mean:

* You'd have to make sure the individual package was before 
xorg-x11-xkb-utils.

* You'd have to have a re-install trigger (in ltib) so that if you have 
them both selected and you de-select xorg-x11-xkb-utils, xkbcomp gets 
re-installed.

* The configuration/selection may be a bit confusing (duplicates)

* Logically you should also de-bundle all the other individual tarballs 
 that are in there.

So this needs thinking about.  I tend to think it's better to follow 
Fedora as although less fine-grain, it is relatively easy to import 
srpms to gain new packages, and you're following an established distro 
pattern.  I'm open to views on this though.

So far as xmodmap goes, in the Fedora world, this is part of 
xorg-x11-server-utils, which also includes:

ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/iceauth-1.0.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/rgb-1.0.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/sessreg-1.0.3.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xcmsdb-1.0.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xgamma-1.0.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xhost-1.0.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xmodmap-1.0.3.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xrandr-1.2.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xrdb-1.0.4.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xrefresh-1.0.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xset-1.0.3.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xsetmode-1.0.0.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xsetpointer-1.0.0.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xsetroot-1.0.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xstdcmap-1.0.1.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xtrap-1.0.2.tar.bz2
ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/app/xvidtune-1.0.1.tar.bz2

see:
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/releases/9/Fedora/source/SRPMS/xorg-x11-server-utils-7.3-3.fc9.src.rpm/xorg-x11-server-utils.spec?extract=true

So this srpm could be imported/ported to LTIB.  The same issues 
discussed for xkbcomp apply though (single versus bundle packages)

In FC9 xkeyboard-config is version 1.2, would this be usable by you?  I 
realise this is older, but given that the other parts have been pulled 
from FC9, I'm wondering if it's better to keep the different components 
of xorg from the same vintage to avoid compatibility issues.

Thoughts?

Regards, Stuart


Rogério de Souza Moraes wrote:
> Hi Stuart,
>
> I made 3 packages that configures the keyboard for the X. The package
> xkeyboard-config. Without these packages, matchbox-keyboard don't work
> properly.
>
> (EE) XKB: Couldn't open rules file /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
>
> The packages xkbcomp and xmodmap are useful to configure the keyboard too.
>
> The patch to add these files to Ltib is attached.
>
> You can download the sources at the following links
>
> http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/xkbdesc/xkeyboard-config-1.6.tar.gz
>
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/xkbcomp-1.1.0.tar.gz
>
> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/app/xmodmap-1.0.3.tar.gz
>
> Regards,
>
> Rogerio
>
>
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