On Thu, Nov 04, 2010 at 08:57:25AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I would sure like to see a new version of BLFS released. [...] > Here's my take on the state of > BLFS. I am encouraging everyone to contribute to this discussion because > I have been out of the loop for so long. > > Section 4: Security > Seems to be close to up-to-date, except for OpenSSL which would be nice > to get to 1.0.0 for a release. Ken has been doing extensive testing, as > I will as well. I'm now mostly into only doing build tests, because I've already looked at most of what I actually use. Even so, some of the remaining apps are unlikely to get tested. If you hadn't reappeared, I would soon have been proposing to update it, with the packages I know need fixes, and then wait to see if anyone noticed breakages.
> Sections 8-11: > Seems to be more or less up-to-date. We are probably stuck with outdated > versions of the GLib/GTK+/ATK/Pango stack if we stay with GNOME-2.30.2. > Not sure if that is a big deal or not. For unzip there is a valid ticket re 64-bit, but I haven't looked at that yet because I've continued to use the older version with different instructions. Needs to be fixed before a release. I'd also like to see xz here (/me ducks behind a blast-proof wall) because packages are starting to move to this instead of bzip2, and it will allow up to use the smaller versions - it can replace lzma. > Sections 35-38: > Multimedia, audio and video utils and CD/DVD tools. Again, Ken has done > quite a bit of work here (thanks again!). K3b probably needs to be > updated, and I will cave in and ditch XMMS and the entire suite of > GTK+-1 tools. I've got audacious on my list of things to pick up - 2.4 is nice, and builds with make-3.82. Beyond that, there are always audio or video libs to update. Last time I looked at gstreamer and gst-base, the newest release still needed to be modified for make-3.82, so the instructions need updating to build against LFS-6.7. For all the *hard* questions like kde or gnome, I have no opinion. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
