Very nice and great work X2Go guys! Looking forward to testing the squeeze packages.
On 01/13/2012 01:32 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:
Hi all,
recently there has been some noise about X2Go re-working its NX code base. Indeed some quite interesting things have been going on recently around NX and X2Go.
During the last weeks we have completely reworked the way we build NX libraries. This has fixed a lot of instability problems people had recently (summer/autumn 2011) already.
During this last week we set up the X2Go subproject
,,NX (redistributed)'' (aka nx-libs.git on http://git.x2go.org)
The X2Go project's developers (esp. Mike and Reinhard, supported by Alex and Heinz) have decided to re-distribute NX sources as one big tarball that builds with GNU make and contains patches not accepted by NoMachine themselves. The building of the tarball with GNU make already works fine, the ,,make install'' still needs more work. John Williams has agreed to contribute on that (thanks for that!!!).
@John: please note that I have uploaded a new tarball containing the functionality described below ;-): http://code.x2go.org/releases/source/nx-libs/nx-libs_3.5.0.5-full.tar.gz
During the last days now, we have achieved something that so far has hardly been imaginable (at least to me).
We have incorporated three patches into nx-libs.git that allows to turn NX's nxagent into x2goagent during runtime: 01: http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/200_nxagen...
02: http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/201_nxagen...
03: http://code.x2go.org/gitweb?p=nx-libs.git;a=blob;f=debian/patches/999_nxagen...
X2Go's agent is now part of NX and is maintained in nx-libs.git on http://git.x2go.org.
The x2goagent package from now on depends on nxagent (as they are one). The x2goagent package provides a symbolic link to nxagent, a separate x2goagent man page and a wrapper script in /usr/bin, nothing else. If nxagent is executed unter the name of x2goagent, the X2GO branding gets activated within nxagent.
Also: ,,NX (redistributed)'' is fully FreeNX compliant. Install ,,NX (redistributed)'' from the X2Go package archives and add FreeNX (Ubuntu Launchpad) on top of that. FreeNX and X2Go can now again be installed parallely on the same system. Interesting for migrations or client diversity.
This step also allows us to finally abandon the following source projects completely now:
nxcomp.git nxcompext.git nxcompshad.git nxproxy.git x2goagent.git
See also at the bottom of this page: http://code.x2go.org/gitweb
As this is esp. a call-out for testing the new packages(!!!!) here are some short infos on upgrading your X2Go test servers. Packages are available for Debian squeeze, wheezy, sid and Ubuntu lucid, ..., precise.
The .deb packages are already available in the X2Go nightly-built repositories: http://wiki.x2go.org/wiki:development:nightly-builds?&#nightly-builds_for_ubuntu_gnu_linux
Please note, that x2goagent will not install when running ,,apt-get upgrade''. Either you have to run ,,apt-get dist-upgrade'' or explicitly install x2goagent with ,,apt-get install x2goagent''.
light+love Mike
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