On 9/23/06, David Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Notes:
1). I would like to see the D-BUS/Hal updates real soon. They are
required now for several packages, and I had no luck building the new
versions.
My opinion here. I think we should stick with hal-0.5.7.1 and
dbus-0.61. I don't see a real need to upgrade right now (besides hal,
which has a fix for 2.6.17 kernels). hal-0.5.8.x changes A LOT of
things. And dbus-0.9x breaks stuff and would only really be needed if
we tried to upgrade to gnome-2.16 (I think). And my opinion is...
2). We need a firm decision on the gtk+-2.8.x/gnome-2.14.x or
gtk-2.10.x/gnome-2.16.0. I vote for update, the new versions are solid
here for gtk+apps including firefox etc.
I don't think we should do it. I'm all pumped up for gnome-2.16.0,
too, but we need to cut off major updates and get the release done.
This is just like LFS a couple months ago. Would it be really cool if
we had the newer toolchain version in the book? Yes, but it would have
pushed back the release considerably.
I think we should just hammer out the low hanging and critical bugs.
Then we can get a release done and start adding new stuff.
I could possibly do:
2036: ImageMagick-6.2.9-5, seems okay, version will likely change!
Seems alright to me. I'll probably grab this one if you don't first,
but don't let it stop you from fixing it.
2041: cURL-7.15.5, don't use, but could test.
2042: Links-2.1pre23, don't use, but could test.
Same for me on both. In fact, I was just about to build links (though
I prefer elinks if I've gotta be stuck in a text mode browser).
2112: ALSA 1.0.12, seems okay, lots of tools & firmware that I cannot
test, but who can.
Right. I don't think we should lose sleep trying to test all the
various hardware configurations. We don't do it for anything else (see
X).
2150: Firefox-1.5.0.7, seems okay.
2151: Thunderbird-1.5.0.7, hate to mess up my mail, but could test.
For both of these, please make sure that you can apply both the nss
and pangoxft patches. They both play with configure and reference line
numbers, so sometimes they can't apply together. I should create
cleaner patches for both.
Also, there's a new version of Enigmail to use with thunderbird.
Now, my notes.
2038: Zip-2.32 - Just built this. Seems fine. I'll test it a little and update.
1995: [Mplayer] dev/dvd symlink: I'll take a look at this and make
sure it works in context with the udev version in LFS-6.2.
2028: XFSProgs - David and I both put a bunch of notes in there. I'll
create an XFS partition and play around with it. Should be
straightforward, though.
2010: Seamonkey - Bruce, I think you're the only one who builds
seamonkey. I'd do it, but those Mozilla builds take like 3.5 hours on
my box. If you (or whoever) builds it, please test the --enable-pango
functionality. You can probably copy the firefox pangoxft patch
directly as the fix is in the graphics backend.
2024: Linux-PAM - This is kind of Randy's baby, I think, but if it's
an orphan I can give it a home. I don't really stress test the
configurations, but I certainly use PAM and can make sure it works.
2053: Postfix - I always thought Archaic would handle this because I
think he's something of an expert (I know he lurks on their mailing
list). But he doesn't seem to be around. I'm about to build it again
and set up a semi-advanced system, so I can look into it.
2047: Subversion-1.4.0 - Worth it? I don't know. Somebody has to go do
all the BDB testing again. Not fun. The build configuration changes
could be a hassle, too. I think we should just bump to 1.3.2 and leave
it at that for the release. I just upgraded on my box and everything
seems fine.
2087: Dhcpcd - I'd like to take this one. There were also a couple
bootscript patches sent in for this and dhclient a while back. Please
look in the lfs-patches archives as they looked useful. Also, the
--sysconfdir setting is bogus.
2119 and 2121: Xorg --datadir - Certainly worth looking at. I don't
build the way the book says, and there were only one or two packages
where this was an issue, IIRC. They might be fixed up now as I wrote
most of my scripts against 7.0 and the autotools were still pretty raw
then.
2125 ALSA udev rules - let's get these guys out. The device rules are
in the LFS-6.2 rules. We just need to set the group and add the RUN+
rule for alsactl. Whoever does this should coordinate with Bryan so
that everything is hunky dory w.r.t udev.
2057: OpenLDAP - I can handle this one. Seems fine. Tests passed successfully.
Not yet ticketed:
Security vulnerability in libXfont. Should be able to merge in the
patch pretty easily.
--
Dan
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