Jonathan Oksman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: >> Although I really don't want to add any new packages right now, I'll add >> those that are needed due to updating other packages. >> > > I've noticed it's still difficult to find a lot of stuff that was on > kernel.org unless you're prepared to do some git pulls, so just a > heads up that it might take a while before we can reliably get http or > ftp addresses for packages such as PAM without creating them ourselves > and hosting mirrors. Poor kernel.org... seems like they have a lot of > work to do over there still rebuilding their web of trust.
I've already put several LFS packages on the mirrors because they are no longer available on kernel.org. As they do get things back in order, we'll change back. I can do the same for BLFS packages. Personally, I generally don't use PAM. To me it gets in the way, but then the systems I build are basically single user without any outside access. In the rare (for me) case where there are a lot of users, I would add it. > At a glance there does seem to be a number of packages that won't have > version upgrades and will just need testing. For example lynx has not > released 2.8.8 yet outside of their dev revisions. Yes. The first package I build is bc because I use it for build statistics in my scripts. That hasn't changed since 2001. <aside>It still needs the 4 seds though. I note that there is a development version of bc-1.06.95.tar.bz2 from 2006 that doesn't need the seds.</aside> > I'm planning on putting some time forward once my 7.0_rc2 is finished > baking in the oven. Looking forward to helping out if I can! Any help will be appreciated. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
