Hi all, Many of you may be wondering what is up with the GNOME-2.14 update. So, I thought I'd pass along a status update. I've sort of been feeling guilty about not updating GNOME, but seeing how paldo.org just updated to 2.14.1 in the last week, I know we're not that far behind. I'd bet not many distros are shipping 2.14.x and for that matter, I'd bet there are still distros shipping 2.10 or less!
Anyway, here are things that I've been thinking about that have affected my decision to hold off on the GNOME update. 1. I'd like to get new DBUS, HAL and gnome mount into the mix. 2. I'd like to use GNOME-2.14.2. 3. I thought LFS would have already by now put a package freeze so that we can get a new release out (hint, hint) 4. I needed to check KDE against the newer Udev/DBUS/HAL stuff. 5. I was waiting to see if LFS would move with different Linux headers (incorporate Inotify) If I had to do it over, I probably would have put GNOME-2.14.0 in the book right after it was released, and then updated versions later. Oh well. Hindsight doesn't help us here. Anyway, here are some notes: 1. GNOME-2.14.2 is due out in 10 days, it only makes sense now to use that version. Hopefully, LFS will get something together and publish a release, and BLFS should be right behind that. GNOME-2.14.3 isn't due out until the beginning of August, I don't think it wise to count on that version as I hope we've released by then. So 2.14.2 is the most logical choice. 2.16.0 isn't due out until September, so that is out of the question. 2. I've now managed to get *many* new packages tested. Current LFS SVN with new CUPS, DBUS, HAL, Apache, OpenSSL/SSH, NFS Utils and the newest GTK/Cairo/ATK/Glib/Pango stuff. The only thing I have left to do is check out GNOME Mount with KDE. Unfortunately, new HAL/DBUS without fstab sync won't auto-mount drives any more. Gnome-Mount will have to be the solution. 3. The new libpng seems to work fine. We still need to check out the Gimp with it, but Joerg seemed to indicate the fix was trivial if needed. So, we should be able to move with that. 4. CUPS-1.2.0 is a much-needed update to that package. It seems to be fine. KDE required a trivial patch, and by the time we release we should have been able to fully test new CUPS. I expect to have GNOME-2.14.2 in the book by the end of the first week of June (it will be released 5/31). That should give us plenty of time for testing before release. Plus many have been using 2.14.0/1 (including me), so I don't anticipate any issues. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.27] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 08:24:00 up 9 days, 24 min, 1 user, load average: 0.22, 0.07, 0.02 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
