On 03-08-2014 14:16, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > We need to do some planning for the upcoming release. Right now all > books are looking pretty good. > > I would like to plan a coordinated release of LFS and BLFS for both > trunk and systemd on September 1. In preparation, we will need to do a > package freeze on August 15. At that time, we will release a -rc1 for > the both lfs versions. > > After that, any updates to package versions in either lfs or blfs will > need to be coordinated on the respective mailing list. For blfs, I'll > add a new entity > > "<para>This package is known to build and work > properly using an LFS-7.6 platform.</para>" > > And ask all editors to methodically work through blfs to check all the > packages. As the packages are checked, we can update each section.
I didn't understand this sentence. Packages in one section deponds on packages on other section. > > The August 15 date may slip. I am anticipating a new release of glibc > any time now and would like to get it into the books, but we won't know > the actual release date until it happens. I also anticipate version > 3.16 of the kernel by that date, but I don't see that version as critical. I have asked this before. I would like to have an rc1 for BLFS, so packages could be updated in svn, during the freeze time of BLFS-rc1. It took more than a month of intense work to catch up the lost time, for 7.5 release (IIRC). -- []s, Fernando -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
