On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 listsec@dejazzd.com wrote: >Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 07:59:23 -0500 >From: listsec@dejazzd.com >To: xfree86-list@redhat.com >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >List-Id: Red Hat XFree86 list <xfree86-list.redhat.com> >Subject: Red Hat 7.1 X errata > >Hello, > On a clean 7.1 installation of Red Hat linux the following packages >were installed: > >$ rpm -qa |grep XFree86 |grep 6-38 >XFree86-8514-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-S3-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-Mach32-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-VGA16-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-FBDev-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-Mono-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-SVGA-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-AGX-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-Mach8-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-S3V-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-Mach64-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-W32-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-3DLabs-3.3.6-38 >XFree86-P9000-3.3.6-38 > >On Jan. 23rd, Red Hat released an errata for all XFree86 rpms but >I notice some of the rpms are the exact same version that came with Red >Hat Linux 7.1. I don't see where you're getting that from. The XFree86 enhancement erratum that I released, contains XFree86 4.1.0-15, Mesa-3.4.2-10 (Epoch 3), a new Xconfigurator, new xinitrc, and new XFree86-compat-libs package all for RHL 7.1. The 7.2 update contains slightly different packages. None of those packages were already available for the given particular release. >Do I need to download and upgrade the packages from errata that >are the exact same version as the one that came with 7.1? No. We never build a package with the same version-release number twice. You will never see a released erratum have the same version-release as a package that was shipped in the distro. The only thing I can think of is if you are mixing up the RHL 7.1 and 7.2 packages released perhaps. Also, the packages you've shown above, are from XFree86 3.3.6, which was not part of the erratum. The erratum is strictly XFree86 4.1.0. 3.3.6 erratum was from almost a year ago. >Also I'm using a vanilla kernel from kernel.org (2.4.16). Do I >need to apply the Red Hat kernel Errata as well? If so, do I >apply it before or after I upgrade XFree86? Yes, you will need to install our latest kernel erratum and it's required dependancies also prior to upgrading XFree86. Once the kernel is upgraded, and other dependancies met, you should upgrade all of the XFree86/Mesa/etc. packages at once with: rpm -Uvh XFree86*.rpm Mesa*.rpm xinitrc*.rpm ..... Hope this helps, TTYL -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike A. Harris Shipping/mailing address: OS Systems Engineer 190 Pittsburgh Ave., Sault Ste. Marie, XFree86 maintainer Ontario, Canada, P6C 5B3 Red Hat Inc. Phone: (705)949-2136 http://www.redhat.com ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris Red Hat XFree86 mailing list: xfree86-list@redhat.com General open IRC discussion: #xfree86 on irc.openprojects.net ----------------------------------------------------------------------
