[Mageia-dev] [692] - import stage1/drakxtools mips support

[Thierry Vignaud]

On 19 March 2012 17:27, Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard at rtp-net.org> wrote:
>> Why?
>> We don't use such a level.
>
> It was used on mips at mdv due to some incompatible xorg. On some
> loongson 2e systems, we had to use a patched server and using this
> patch on other systems would break them. Don't ask details, all I
> can say it that adding a hack to xorg was the only way to get it to
> work. I'm not sure that this hack would still work nowadays,
> unfortunately.
>
> So, when we got this annoying trouble, in order to be able to tell which
> xorg rpms to choose during installation, we got the advice to add a new
> level and add :
>
> CAT_X
>  6 TYPE"mips_lemote" x11-server-lm2e x11-server-lm2e-common
>  6 TYPE"mips_ict" x11-server x11-server-common
>
> to the rpmsrate.

please revert it since it's not used and since the proper fix would be to
alter task-x11 which is where we pull x11-server