From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964981AbXCQH3o (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:29:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964896AbXCQH3o (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:29:44 -0400 Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net ([204.127.200.84]:33646 "EHLO sccrmhc14.comcast.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752649AbXCQH3m (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Mar 2007 03:29:42 -0400 Subject: Re: RSDL v0.31 From: Nicholas Miell To: William Lee Irwin III Cc: Mike Galbraith , Con Kolivas , ck@vds.kolivas.org, Ingo Molnar , Al Boldi , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070317072535.GA2986@holomorphy.com> References: <200703042335.26785.a1426z@gawab.com> <200703170040.48316.kernel@kolivas.org> <1174059299.7886.25.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <200703170813.32594.kernel@kolivas.org> <1174084207.7009.9.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <1174105443.3144.4.camel@entropy> <1174110965.7911.44.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <1174112768.3144.8.camel@entropy> <1174115517.7911.66.camel@Homer.simpson.net> <20070317072535.GA2986@holomorphy.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:29:38 -0700 Message-Id: <1174116578.3144.10.camel@entropy> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.0.njm.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 00:25 -0700, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 08:11:57AM +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote: > > On a side note, I wonder how long it's going to take to fix all the > > X/client combinations out there. > > AIUI X's clients largely access it via libraries X ships, so the X > update will sweep the vast majority of them in one shot. You'll have > to either run the clients from remote hosts with downrev libraries or > have downrev libraries around (e.g. in chroots) for clients to link to > for the clients not to cooperate. > The changes will probably be entirely server-side anyway, so stray ancient libraries won't be a problem. -- Nicholas Miell