Em 13-04-2014 19:32, Ken Moffat escreveu: > On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 12:06:54PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I would like to get the opinion of the community. Right now we have >> four tickets: >> >> #3537 MPFR-3.1.2 Patchlevel 5 >> #3536 Fix BC-1.06.95 bug >> #3532 Readline-6.3 patchlevel 3 >> #3532 Bash-4.3 patchlevel 8 >> >> All of these call for adding patches from upstream. My question is >> whether it should be the policy of LFS to add these types of upstream >> patches to the book when upstream does not feel the need to release a >> new stable version to make these fixes. > > I think we used to use _more_ upstream patches (not only bash and > readline, but also vim ?). I don't recall why we dropped them. > Maybe Matt knows, if he is around.
About vim, or other packages that have a large increasing number of patches, what could be done is periodic update, perhaps monthly, weekly or in between. -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
