On 06/25/2013 10:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've just finished a new build of a substantial (about 230 packages) > part of BLFS. After I finished and got a working system, I decided to > go back and check the sources' websites to see if the packages we have > are current or not. In many cases, we are current but there are quite a > few cases where we are not. > > I have a question about gnome based packages. My understanding is that > even numbered minor packages are stable versions and odd numbered > versions are development versions. For instance, we are using > pango-1.32.5, but there is a 1.34.1 version. I think the 1.35.0 version > is development only. > > On the other hand, we are using libxklavier-5.3, which is the latest, > but shouldn't we be using libxklavier-5.2.1? > > I'm going to follow this up with a much longer post with what we have > and what I find that is the latest versions, but sometimes I'm unsure > what really is the latest stable package version. Really, the only site > I have a problem with is those at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ > > Generally, it takes a lot of effort to check the currency for all the > different packages because of the different styles of the way upstream > developers present their packages. For now I'm going to skip Xorg, KDE, > and XFCE and concentrate on the support packages I've already built. > > -- Bruce >
Packages which use odd/even minor version numbering (unstable/stable) p11-kit pixman poppler graphviz colord dbus webkitgtk all packages hosted at gnome.org except libxklavier, libnotify, polkit-gnome, libsecret, networkmanager and network-manager-applet. gstreamer 1.x releases Packages which add .9xx version number which marks release as unstable fontconfig udisks xorg packages ibus networkmanager network-manager-applet packages in Xorg chapter kde.org hosted packages As for Xfce, they don't release any development versions or if they do, they don't mark any as development version. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
