On Sat, Nov 29, 2014 at 08:23:03PM -0300, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > On 29-11-2014 20:02, Christopher Gregory wrote: > > > Well its come to this. I will no longer report anything that I find does > > not compile. What people here are failing to realise is that they are not > > actually building against a system that is a totaly new installation with > > everything updated to the latest newest versions. > > This is true. When we freeze for the next release is the right time for > doing that. Doing it in the middle of the terms only delays the updates. >
Actually, on _this_ one point I'm with Christopher. I was here before we became a rolling release, and I prefer to build things in a fresh system (i.e. lfs-svn) before I commit them. For me, there are a few exceptions such as firefox and sundry CVE fixes where I have been willing to commit after merely testing on an existing released LFS. I think I'll be devoting my BLFS time to doing builds in fresh systems. Some of this will be in qemu, where for me a lot of things are pointless (e.g. audio, video, power management, fcron, postfix), and there are as always a lot of things which I do not build. The problem with a rolling release is that breakage is not detected until somebody tries to build from nothing, just like the problems which the big distros find when they rebuild everything before a release. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
