On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 2:21 PM, DJ Lucas <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On 1/23/2016 11:07 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> Douglas R. Reno wrote:
>>
>>> On Jan 23, 2016 1:18 AM, "Sami Tarazi" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Please, what is the status of BLFS systemd
>>>>
>>>> Sami
>>>>
>>>> Hi Sami,
>>>
>>> We are still in development. I pretty much returned from a long
>>> exodus, and
>>> we are currently in the process of merging changes from trunk since we
>>> are
>>> extremely out of date. DJ Lucas has joined me to help.
>>>
>>> We apologize in advance for any regressions that may occur from our
>>> merging
>>> procedure. After we are done merging, I will run through a complete book
>>> build to make sure that nothing is broken. However, if you see anything
>>> wrong, please report it to us. We appreciate it.
>>>
>>
>> Douglas, if you wait for the package freeze in about three weeks, then
>> you can release a stable version after checking all the packages.
>>
>>    -- Bruce
>>
>
> Very cool!!! But as to waiting, I'm not so sure. I'm thinking that the
> missing security updates, and the amount of work itself necessitates a need
> to get to some of the backlog out of the way now. The plan as of now is to
> go chapter by chapter comparing with trunk and accounting for systemd
> specific configuration changes (similar to how we did single-file xml years
> ago). I suppose it would significantly reduce the number of back changes to
> wait for package freeze though (changes that come into trunk after we've
> already done the chapter). Right now, we are around 260 commits out of date
> (at best estimate as -systemd hasn't focused on keeping 1:1 with trunk
> previously) and there are around 100 additional packages (a rough guess
> based on grep -c "ENTITY" general.ent). Opinions?
>
> --DJ
>
> I was going to keep on merging/updating so that we can freeze at the same
time that trunk freezes, so that we can release around the same date.
Opinions?

Douglas R. Reno
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