[Mageia-dev] Packages needing to be rebuilt with freeglut instead of mesaglut

Sun Sep 25 13:07:47 CEST 2011

Hi !
+This was discussed on this list in july for cauldron...
+(after some previous discuss on  avril 20th  when freeglut was pushed in 
+mageia1)
+
+bug reports were done in the end august
+https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2412 (thanks to all that worked 
+on it)
+
+The whole job is done : packages needing glut as BR have been built with 
+BR freeglut (or cleaned if they don't need glut any more)
+
+Now Mageia is nearer from the common standard (using freeglut as other 
+distribution do : debian, opensuse fedora gentoo, MacOS etc...) Mandriva 
+remaining, alone, stuck with this old problem...
+
+That means too that there is a larger gap now between Mandriva2011 and 
+Mageia2 : no more upgrade  from Mandriva to Mageia !
+
+3 steps remain :
+1) the metapackage xorg-x11-devel need to be modified : asking to 
+install freeglut-devel instead of libmesaglut-devel
+  https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2748
+2) mesa spec file may be switched now (Thierry Vignaud has already 
+prepared it : one option to validate) and mesa rebuilt
+3) freeglut may obsolete mesaglut (or mesaglut may be dropped out from 
+the cauldron repo)
+
+Must I send bug report for the 2 last steps ?
+
+NB 2 packages provided by Mandriva, needing mesaglut-devel as BR, have 
+not been imported in Mageia : if they are imported later they will need 
+to have their spec file modified ... where to put a reminder for them ?
+- libmgl-glut5
+- pymol
+
+
+