Em 11-09-2012 21:08, Ken Moffat escreveu:
>  I'm about to step back from editing BLFS for a while.  This year,
> I've spent far too much time on it, and the other things that I put
> aside must now take priority.  At the moment, I'm preparing one of
> my irregular lists of what I've built, and in what order.  After
> that, I don't see myself doing much, if anything, here for the rest
> of this year.

I understand, but will miss your posts (which are much enjoyable), your
careful commits and your kind attention to everybody here (which I am
particularly very thankful).

Of course, I will miss your good humour

Hoping to have you back soon.

>  One of the things I now need to do, while things on the development
> side are quiet, is a heavy overhaul of my buildscripts (move to
> DESTDIR installs before the real install, to get an accurate list of
> everything that gets installed).

Changing my scripts to have the alternative of DESTDIR is one of the
causes I am getting delayed with my upgrades and with following the lists.

>  I still have _some_ interest in the following package updates, but
> I'm in no hurry to spend time on them, at least until I get tired of
> banging my head agaisnt the screen during my DESTDIR changes:
> 
> 1. audacious-3.3.1 - works mostly ok, time indications seem b0rken,
> but that isn't unusual, nor critical.
> 
> 2. firefox/xulrunner-15.0.1 : I had hoped to take a look at this,
> but I've got problems with 15.0 on my old, slow, LFS-6.6 system
> (installed ok, but crashes on almost every page - much of that
> system is now obsolete, but 14.0.1 in the non-xulrunner form worked
> fine there), and no time to spend on measuring, nor on confirming
> that the xulrunner build is again bigger and slower.
> 
> 3. apache-2.4.3 - works fine for me, but I only serve myself static
> pages from the LFS and BLFS books :)
> 
> 4.  I'm also leaving gutenprint-5.2.9 out - as I put in the ticket,
> 5.2.8 works fine on my Epson, but might be broken on newly added
> canon printers - that's why 5.2.9 came out so soon.  If I get my
> updated buildscripts to a usable state, I will be trying 5.2.9 - but
> that is probably a couple of months away [ I'll want to build
> everything after LFS by-hand, one package at a time, to confirm that
> it will adapt to one of the DESTDIR variants, or to do a pre-build to
> a user-writable directory if it won't, and also improve some other
> parts of my scripts.
> 
>  So, I'll still be reading the lists, but perhaps not every day.
> 
> ĸen
> 

Wish the best for you.

Sincerely,

-- 
[]s,
Fernando
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