Every now and then I'll google around for references to the dri-trunk-sid
packages I keep building. I'm mostly interested in seeing if the folks who
mention them indicate that they're building the DRM kernel modules as they
should or if anyone has decided to fork them.
Occasionally, I'm surprised to see something like
this where someone
notices a problem with my web server. In this case the message seems to be
noting that the index at www.wazzim.com mentions that my server was stolen.
This is a note I put up on that domain many moons back. The server was
stolen by the colo I was running it through and all of the content on
that domain was lost in the process. I probably should have put a less
menacing explanation on that domain. The main point was to explain why
the content that was previously there was no longer available.
Lots of links seem to be pointing at the new Xorg DRI packages in
http://www.nixnuts.net/files/experimental/ I really didn't want these to
spread too far until I get all of the kinks worked out of the packaging.
There's no worse feeling than finding out that a package you've created has
caused someone hideous problems. Even when the
problem
someone has is completely unrelated to the work you have done.
So....what am I saying here? In a nutshell, please write to me about
problems with the software or websites here before you spread the news
to the masses. The ISO mentioned in that other thread was downloaded over
400 times and only one person had a problem with the download.
As far as dri-trunk-sid goes.... I'd still love to see someone else taking
over these packages. I'm definitely not the best person to be maintaining
them. Until that happens though, I'll keep working on them and trying to
improve them. Over the past few days I've been working on an automated
DRM module build system that will eliminate the need for end users to
know about the DRM build process. I'll just hook it into the postinst script
and the DRM will be built automatically.
