On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 6:32 AM, Ken Moffat <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 27 June 2010 03:38, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
>>
>>> If it would help to speed up the contributions I think we just should
>>> have a free for all, that is just work with whatever version of LFS you
>>> have and submit to the BLFS-SVN. If there are any issues picked up due
>>> to differences in LFS then a ticket should be raised. Surely the
>>> majority of applications should not have problems between differences in
>>> LFS.
>>
>> The biggest issue would probably be the gcc version.
>>
>> Actually I agree with the 'free for all' concept. Just document what
>> you are doing like the sentence: "This package is known to build and
>> work properly using an LFS-6.5 platform." Just change to 6.6 or
>> whatever you are using. You could even put in LFS-SVN-xxxxxx if that is
>> what you are using.
>>
>> An update with different LFS versions is better than no update at all.
It would work, if we just skip 6.5 and go to 6.6 directly.
>> -- Bruce
>> --
> I agree that gcc is the major variable for versions (although my cups issue
> - I was deviating from the book for added functionality ) turned out to be
> recent glibc.
>
> I'm also comfortable, at least for now, with free-for-all if we mark
> packages as LFS-SVN-xxxxxxxx. I suspect it will mean we don't have
> releases in future, but that there will be more frequent updates of the
> packages that people care about.
>
> I was going to put on my pedant's hat and say that often I can't be sure
> if a package is working properly (it builds, seems good for what I use
> it for, but there's a lot of it I don't use). Then I actually looked in
> general.ent. We already have lfs65_checked and lfs65_built. So, I
> can stick to _built if I'm not feeling lucky.
>
> ĸen
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