On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:56:05PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > Creating the branch is easy, as you said. Using it is less so, > IMHO. > By which I meant 'transferring commits between trunk and branch'. You've *almost* persuaded me to get involved in BLFS again, Bruce. But, apart from finding time to sort out my tax return, I'm still on a 6.8 system and other interests are taking some of the time I used to spend on LFS/BLFS.
For me, the big question is "which version of LFS do people wish to see used in a BLFS release?". Iff there is interest in a 6.8 release, I might be persuaded to sketch out a branch where lots of things are marked out as deprecated, together with my own ideas on finding security fixes and looking at other distros (what I was suggesting earlier in the year, before the lack of editorial interest drove me away). For the servers, mostly using current versions of the releases in the book at the moment. For xorg, newer versions of (some) things, but keeping to the 1.9 server. For gnome, in general the old versions that are in the book at the moment - and there's no way I will again *run* things such as gdm. For kde : 3 should be deprecated unless someone is willing to maintain trinity. Kde4 would be whatever is currently in the book. I have to say that the thought of again using cmake fills me with despair, but for the moment I'm willing to have a go. Actually, rather than marking things as "deprecated", I might just say something like "build instructions for this package are unlikely to be maintained, unless someone comes forward to do it". My aim would be to start this at the beginning of November, and complete by 31/12. In theory, most of the development book probably builds on 6.8. Any changes would go into the branch, others can pull them to trunk, or not, as they choose. Umm, I have the impression that at the moment "others" might only be Bruce. Alternatively, people would rather use LFS-7.0. If that is the case, package versions ought to be generally reviewed, and I'm not up to the task - instead, I'll devote my LFS time to 7.1 (once I've got a 7.0 desktop built). Why do I have such an attachment to 6.8 ? Easy, I've just built my normal desktop on LFS-6.8, with various (slightly) newer versions of some of the packages, and at the moment I'm planning to move my server (git, svn, ssh, mail, nfs, dhcp, backups, all the source code and my av data)) to 6.8 once I've figured out exactly what I need to build (e.g. I realised only last night that I no longer have a current build script for mdadm), and satisfied the taxman. 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
