Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 09:50:09PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > >>> Also, branching seems unnecessarily complex and I don't see what it >>> gains (apart from potentially identifying "nobody cares and has >>> time to fix this" packages). >>> >> Detecting broken stuff that nobody cares about was my primary intention. >> The second expected achievement is detecting packages where every editor >> deviates from what's written in the book. Besides, it gives you chance >> not to care about compatibility with the existing stuff. >> >> >>> I think that creating an almost empty >>> branch (chapters with very little in them - but with enough to get >>> it to render) will be a lot of work, and adding package details back >>> in will take more work than just editing what is in trunk. >>> >> Well, there may be other solutions how to get from the current state to 6.4. >> >> > For a release, digging out things that no current editor cares > about might be a good idea. I'm more interested in getting fairly > quickly to a book which is less broken for desktop users of LFS-6.4 > than what we now have, and without making things harder for editors. > > ĸen > Actually, I'm not against Alexander's proposal. But I think it'll be easier to check the properties on the files and see when they were last updated, generate a list, and post it.
I also have a new (to me) P4 waiting for LFS which will include a lot of packages that I don't install on a desktop. It will soon be the swing for my directory server and my primary desktop refresh is already underway (proceeding more carefully than I ever have as I'm working out the bugs in my PM too). As far as xorg, I just need to rebuild the drivers and the last 30 or so packages against the new xorg server (which I had overlooked) and I can do xorg again, if nobody else has plans to do so. The wget lists and instructions are already posted to this list. Gnome is historically a fuster cluck of dependencies and always winds up borked in some subtle way for me, so I have to go back to the beginning and do it a second time. I could probably do the book update for that, but I'd rather let one of the more familiar editors handle that one and work on my swing server and get those lesser used packages done up right. If somebody else doesn't take it, then I'll have a couple sets of logs to work from. ;-) KDE, I just don't mess with much...just enough to make K3B work (which I rarely use anyway and the 3.5.x versions will be fine for that AFAIK). Multimedia packages, I use them in gnome and k3b...so I'll get them when I get them if somebody doesn't get there first (please). -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
