On 08/04/2013 05:05:56 AM, akhiezer wrote: > > Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2013 18:07:43 -0500 > > From: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> > > To: LFS Developers Mailinglist <[email protected]>, > > BLFS Development List <[email protected]> > > Subject: [blfs-dev] Planning ahead > > > > We have reached a milestone. The SVN versions of both LFS and BLFS > are > > now up to date. There are no major outstanding issues that need to > be > > fixed. > > > > There are a couple of minor changes that I have to LFS, but those > will > > be committed soon, but are not critical. KDE is slightly out of > date, > > but a new version is due anyway in the next two weeks. > > > > Of course, upstream will continue to release additional updates and > we > > need to stay on top of that, but keeping up is a lot less problem > than > > getting caught up from being behind on literally hundreds of > packages. > > > > With that in mind, I would like to freeze LFS (mostly) on August 15 > and > > release LFS-7.4-rc1. The target date for LFS-7.4 will be 1 > September. > > During the freeze period, some packages may be updated, but not gcc, > > binutils, or glibc. Any update in the freeze period will be > considered > > by the impact to the rest of the books - both LFS and BLFS. > > > > In that two week period, beyond normal fixes, I propose to start > > rebuilding BLFS and marking packages for lfs74. Shortly after the > LFS > > release, I'd like to produce a 'stable' BLFS-7.4 with all packages > in > > BLFS tested against the new LFS. Then sometime in September we can > > release BLFS-7.4. > > > > Comments? > > > > > Could you (or whomever) take the current-revision (or similar) > blfs-svn, and > cut a 'blfs-svn-rNNNNN-lfs73_allchecked', with xml src and with > rendered html > & pdf, plus relevant auxiliary stuff like bootscripts/patches/&c, and > put it in > its own directory under '/downloads/....' on the web? Like was done > for > blfs/lfs-72 back in early Nov 2012.
s/_allchecked/-rc1/ That's what a release candidate _is_. Rob -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
