[sclug] XKB Questions + Oldest (supported) Debian

[Jason Rivers]

ok, thanks for those...


I wonder why Ubuntu 8.04 has *base.xml* linked, maybe what I'll do with my
script is breat the Ubuntu system, and swap their link around, so the file
is in /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules, and the /etc/X11/xkb/base.xml file is the
link.

I wonder what else I could break on this  >:D

Jason.


On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:28 AM, Sebastian Malcolm <
sebastian.malcolm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jason,
> I wouldn't run any version of Debian older than current stable version
> 4.0r3, codenamed *etch* :
> http://www.au.debian.org/releases/stable/
>
> There may be people clinging onto using *oldstable*; currently, this is
> version 3.1, code name *sarge* but as of last month that's not receiving
> official security updates so please don't package anything for an
> unsupported version of Debian (unless someone pays you? *grin*)
> Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian_Linux#Releases
>
> I have an old Thinkpad with Dapper Drake installed (and some Backports)
> that
> I shall be *reinstalling* to Hardy Heron. For your reference to XKB on
> older
> (but supported) distributions, here is my "ls -l" output for Ubuntu's
> Dapper
> Drake release:
>
> smalcolm at thinkpad:/etc/X11/xkb/rules$ ll
> total 813
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root     91 Mar 21  2006 README
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  37324 Mar 21  2006 base
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  19727 May 18  2006 base.lst
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 749522 May 18  2006 base.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3246 Mar 21  2006 sgi
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2341 Mar 21  2006 sun
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Jun 29  2006 xfree86 -> base
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8 Jun 29  2006 xfree86.lst -> base.lst
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8 Jun 29  2006 xfree86.xml -> base.xml
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    781 Mar 21  2006 xfree98
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root    840 Mar 21  2006 xkb.dtd
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      4 Jun 29  2006 xorg -> base
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8 Jun 29  2006 xorg.lst -> base.lst
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      8 Jun 29  2006 xorg.xml -> base.xml
> smalcolm at thinkpad:/etc/X11/xkb/rules$ cat README
> This directory lists sets of rules which can be used to obtain an exact
> XKB
> configuration.
>
> Cheers,
>  --Sebastian.
>
> P.S. I'm emailing at 4.30am UTC time because I'm safely back in Perth for
> a
> few months (so *hi* to everyone that recall seeing me say *bye* at a SCLUG
> meeting a couple of months ago).
>
> 2008/5/6 Jason Rivers <jason.rivers at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi all.
> >
> > I've written some XKB extensions for APL Characters, and have worked out
> > how
> > to set this up on Ubuntu, and on Suse, but I have some questions.
> >
> > I have to edit 3 files:
> >
> > /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base
> > /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.lst
> > /usr/share/X11/xkb/rules/base.xml
> >
> > however, on Ubuntu linux, the base.xml file is actually a symbolic link
> to
> > /etc/X11/xkb/base.xml
> >
> > can people just let me know if this is true on other distributions, just
> a
> > post of your Linux distribution / version and the output of an ls -l on
> > the
> > rules directory would be greatly appreciated. - mainly I need to know
> > about
> > Debian (which should have downloaded by tomorrow for testing) and RedHat
> > aswell, as this is what most of our customers will be using.
> >
> > also I'm wondering what the oldest supported version of Debian is - or
> > what
> > people would generally use (on servers aswell as workstations - though
> > workstations for the "user" tend to be more up to date) - this is for
> > building the DEB packages without running into too many issues on the
> > older
> > versions.
> >
> > Jason.
> >
>