El Domingo, 27 de Noviembre de 2005 19:03, Randy McMurchy escribió: > I personally don't see the benefit.
Are you using customs scripts to build the BLFS packages or are you copy-and-paste directly from the book? > Automating LFS is one thing. > BLFS is a whole different animal. Agree. For BLFS only a semi-automatization is possible. We can create the base scripts and Makefile, but the user will need to read the book to figure-out what changes should do to those scripts and Makefile to install the packages he want in the way that he want. > There are simply too many intangibles > that will have to be addressed: configuration, That is also true for any distro. The user must to configure several packages after installation to can use it > which package to use > when you have a required dependency of packageA or packageB, User choice, via a command switch or editing the Makefile. > dependencies not having instructions in BLFS, I hope that no "Required" ones. > do you run the test suites. Already handled. > I could go on but I think you get the message. Yes, there is many issues that must be take into account to can do the system work. > We have close to, or > at, 100 bugs in BZ. Adding an automated build system is going to > increase this plus put a drain on the Editor load. I doubt it. > We already have > some packages in BLFS that won't build using GCC4. And now you want to > add more complexity. What complexity is added by those small tags changes? When it place, their maitenance work will be negigible. > I realize that now it will be suggested that Jeremy and Manual will > be glad to help out in getting this done, however, my belief is that > there will be one issue after another which will have to be addressed. I hope that no others requiring XML changes. And that changes are due that there ir no other easy way to extract that info. > I suppose one thing is that I am just not a fan of automated builds. > This may be tainting my opinion. Maybe. I was trying to avoid any change on the XML due that I was sure about your answer :-/ -- Manuel Canales Esparcia Usuario de LFS nº2886: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org LFS en castellano: http://www.escomposlinux.org/lfs-es http://www.lfs-es.com TLDP-ES: http://es.tldp.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
