Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 03/04/08 02:18 CST: > IMHO, BLFS-6.3 has already missed the train and thus should not be > released at all (of course, with an official announcement that there > will be no release). Look: the LFS book says at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter01/changelog.html: > > This is version 6.3 of the Linux From Scratch book, dated August 28, > 2007. If this book is more than six months old, a newer and better > version is probably already available.
I believe we can get a 6.3 release out to match the 6.3 LFS book. Sure, it may be outdated, but it's stable enough for release. > And yes - there is a book in SVN. As for tickets, I think that some > cleanup is needed. > > As a first step, I propose to remove autofs, because it has four > tickets about its bad state, which confirm that the editors don't use > this package and can't maintain it: > > #2458 (about a woefully incorrect example and a missing > overview/comparison with HAL-based methods) > #2250 (about the latest upstream patches not being in the book) > #2310 (about a year-old typo in the initscript) > #2416 (version update) I'm indifferent on this one. I've never used it, and can't see ever using it. If nobody else comments, I'll remove it (comment it out). > Then, remove Dillo (#2226 - dead upstream) How about a compromise on this one? We add a note saying that Dillo does not handle UTF properly, but leave it in the book for the 6.3 release. > and Links (wish by Randy if > an agreement with Ag cannot be reached, see #2276 and the recent > discussion on blfs-dev). There's an open ticket on this one, so it will be addressed one way or another. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.22] [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] 09:36:02 up 18 days, 1:21, 1 user, load average: 0.35, 0.22, 0.19 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
