On 07-08-2014 15:05, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > On 07-08-2014 13:01, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
>>>> 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). >> >> I could do this, but it means that packages need to be updated in both >> -rc1 and trunk. That is, if we mark a package that is tested for 7.6 in >> -rc1, then we need to do it in svn too. Is that what would like to do? >> >> Typically -rc releases don't change. > > Yes, I was thinking in creating an rc1 branch, separated from svn. While > fixing rc1, at least some packages, e.g the fastest ones to build, could > be updated, still, rc1 would stay frozen. Thought a little more and you are right. How would we keep track of the packages tagged. I read again what you wrote and it convincend me you are right. Sorry for the noise. Thanks for the patience. -- []s, Fernando -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
