Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I would like to propose a target date for BLFS-6.4 as March 31st, 2009. Is > this > a reasonable goal? I'd like to get synergy between editors to make this date > or > another target date that we think is realistic. > 90 + days. As of right now, it *seems* reasonable. There is an awful lot to get done. I have two fairly large updates pending (Gnome and OpenOffice)...plus some questionable items revolving around Xorg's evdev driver (kbd driver works as it should). There is also some error in my dependencies for Xorg that I still have to review. I have to figure out how in the heck I wound up with client stuff in my dependency map for the server. I skipped over this on the last build and just went with what I had for Gnome.
Other not so critical goals: I had planned on giving the mail server section some updates. Postfix-2.5.5, and adding chroot instructions for it. Adding Dovecot since we have zero coverage for IMAP, and the pop3 server we have I've never heard of outside of BLFS. BTW. Now is as good a time as any. Is anybody currently using qpopper, and can validate the instructions? How about any full Courier users or Exim users. If nobody uses them, then they probably should not remain in the book as we haven't validated the instructions (Courier is not part of the book, but the old page is still laying around in SVN waiting for a maintainer IIRC). I've also used Courier IMAP in the past, and would like to see it in the book since it is still very popular, but I have recently switched to Dovecot and haven't looked back. A very special requirement is met by it - no need to use a separate SASL implementation for smtpd (I need only provide one LDAP configuration for postfix), though Cyrus is still required for the SMTP client in Postfix. I had also planned on OpenJDK but it is looking like IcedTea will have to brew a little bit longer. I have no intention of introducing the incomplete Sun only toolkit. There are also a few new packages that will have to be introduced as they are required dependencies of the other updates...no biggie. Finally, I have some notes on the Mozilla stack but I think Ken and I are on the same page with that. Ken, it sounded like you were planning on it at one time. If not, it is all in the archives for whomever wants to go for it...maybe me later...we'll have to see. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
