On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 02:49:55AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Forgot to add two qualifications to that:
(i.) Now that all my systems are bigger, I've stopped doing my
"reduced" LFS builds (without acl and potentially other things on
some machines). My scripts can still _theoretically_ cope with
systemd differences - I'm not in a hurry to test that path, but it
seems very likely that my first build of LFS/BLFS will take a bit
longer than usual while I fix up errors from my conditional
processing.
(ii.) One of my reasons for actually getting round to _using_ qemu
was to look at my (development) texlive-test scripts in other
distros (even FreeBSD, with bash from 'ports'). This has indicated
some "deficiences" (in my view) of what is available in some distros
(my old friends asy and biber), as well as highlighted problems with
context in several distros, and with xindy in one. Several
different things to look at, and I will might also go back to the
old ('broken' for my usage) biber in 7.6 for more testing. These are
ALL things which I'm only going to look at in qemu guests. And I
have only one (not highly powered) machine with enough free space to
keep a number of qemu images. So, this conflicts with me using qemu
for LFS/BLFS testing.
Summary : don't hold your breathe waiting for results.
ĸen
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