Hi! First of all I hope I'm writing to the right list, apologies if this isn't the case.
I've been building (B)LFS systems for quite some time now and I thought it would be cool to contribute something. I noticed that there is a new version of XFSprogs out there but the BLFS-book still uses the old one, which isn't even availible for download anymore (see also ticket# 2411). The last time I updated my box (LFS 6.3, BLFS 6.2.0) I already used the new version (2.9.4-1) and it compiled fine using the commands for version 2.9.3. Creating a new filesystem worked too, no errors so far. So I thought this would be a good opportunity to help keeping the book up to date. Right now I am working my way through the BLFS editors guide and a few questions arose: 1.) Calculating the SBUs for the new package: The time-program reports 3 different times as I'm sure you know. I think I should use the "user" time, correct? 2.) Is the md5 sum of the package simply calculated by invoking "md5sum xfsprogs-2.9.4-1.tar.gz"? I didn't find any md5 values at the download location, but maybe I overlooked something. 3.) I've never worked with svn before, so the last question is about editing the xml-sources of the book: As far as I understand it, in my case I only would have to edit BOOK/postlfs/filesystems/xfs.xml (change md5 sum, build size, SBU, etc.) and the BOOK/general.ent file (update xfsprogs-version). Then I run "svn diff > xfsprogs.patch" and mail it to the list. If I "svn up" the next time my changes would be overwritten by the current file versions of the server, right? 4.) Is there anything else I should do before sending in a diff-file? Maybe there are some tests which are usually done or something else I don't know... Thanks in advance for your help, Christian -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
