FreeNX 0.5 now in Portage
Posted by Stuart Herbert @ 4:17 PM, Sun 05 Mar 06
Filed under: NX / FreeNX
3 Comments
It looks like the problems I’m having w/ FreeNX testing are due to my Linksys ADSL router, so I’m going to need some help testing FreeNX. With that in mind, I’ve added packages for FreeNX 0.5.0, and nx-x11-1.5.0, into Portage. They’re package.masked for now, until they’ve been more widely tested.
It’s known that FreeNX isn’t working on AMD64 at the moment. I don’t run AMD64 myself, so I can’t look at the problem first-hand. If you feel like helping out with patches, please check out bug #103274.
I’m not running modular-X11 yet, so if you are, and you have (or need) patches for NX, please see bug 125088.
3 Comments
March 5th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
Please note that FreeNX 0.5.0 is NOT released yet! What you have got your hands on is an (old) pre-release snapshot. (If you look at the release date you’ll se that it’s not set, and in SVN more features/bugfixes is listed under the same release number)
Latest actuall release is 0.4.4, which you imho should aim at getting into portage. It contains a very anoying bug in nxsetup, but a patch for excists in Gentoo bug #65370 (attatchment 65467).
There if nothing wrong with having the current FreeNX snapshot in portage, but it should be renamed to 0.5.0_pre20050812 to avoid confusion, and be permanently package.masked. In addition I’d like it if you added 0.4.4, whith the above mentioned patch applied, and eventually marked it stable, as quite a lot of buggs have been fixed since 0.4.0.
March 6th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Hi Jonno,
What’s the advantage of having 0.4.4 in the tree, over the 0.5.0 snapshot?
Best regards,
Stu
March 6th, 2006 at 10:15 am
Stability, there is a few new features in 0.5, and some re-writes of excisting features, that isn’t widely tested yet (as there is no release featuring them).
But options are good, so I don’t oppose a 0.5 snapshot as well, as long as it’s propperly named.
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