On 14-12-2014 20:43, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 02:49:55AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: >> 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 > > To save time for those who think everything should be tested on > 7.6, I will now restrict my testing to only those packages I care > about. > > ĸen
I do find your tests important. I was surprised reading this, but understood, after reading the -book list messages. Didn't take the ticket, because involved lots of things that I have no knowledge. Thanks for the ticket and thanks to Pierre for taking it. -- []s, Fernando -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
