breezy xorg 6.9/7

[Lee Revell]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 17:14 -0500, Jimmy Abraham wrote:
> On Friday 10 February 2006 16:19, Anders Karlsson wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Feb 2006 21:12:53 -0000, Jimmy Abraham <jimmy at v2k.ca> wrote:
> > > Hey List,
> > >
> > > I am new to this list, so forgive me if this has already been asked.  I
> > > am looking through the archives now.  Has anyone made breezy debs for
> > > xorg 6.9?
> > > If so, where can I find them?  I am most interested in the new I810 intel
> > > video driver that has been integrated from freedesktop.org.
> >
> > IIRC that would be a little to invasive, so not likely to be
> > available. Dapper is what you should look at for that.
> 
> I am not exactly sure what you meant about IIRC being to invasive, regardless, 
> thanks for the responce.  :) 
> I have Dapper running at home, Breezy at work.  Any simple way of grabbing the 
> Xorg 6.9 sources from the dapper repository and rebuilding them on breezy?  I 
> am still not as comfortable with debs as I am with rpms.  On FC, I would grab 
> the src.rpm and do a rpmbuild --rebuild but with debs  <gulp> not there 
> yet..  :) 
> I am not looking for a step by step, (even though thats always nice), but just 
> something to point me in the right direction.

He is saying that it's a bad idea to upgrade xorg on breezy because it
would likely break a ton of other packages - you can't just upgrade xorg
and leave everything else alone and expect it to just work.

Lee