I know that (at least) Bruce and Pierre have been known to work throgh BLFS chapter-by-chapter when tagging, but I always take a different approach : build things I need and can use for my starting point, and for applications I want to be _sure_ before I tag them (twice in the past I've been bitten by inadequate versions of ImageMagick, so I try to test thoroughly - for AV, that includes ripping and recoding). So, to minimise us stepping on each others' toes, this is my current plan:
I had hoped I was going to start from a Fedora host this time, but as I've just noted on lfs-support: that no longer boots to a working desktop (it was fine when I shut it down a few hours before, and I was actually looking forward to the challenges). So, my first two builds, and perhaps all of them, will again be from LFS. The first will be on my haswell, I'll try building my normal desktop, followed by most of xfce, most of gnome (I cannot test cheese, so I ignore that and clutter, cogl, v4linux), and then midori. Although I will be building cups and gutenprint, for the moment the haswell does not see the printer - not sure what the problem is, that part can wait. My second build will be on my kaveri (not connected to a printer), and there I will, I think, be building _all_ of Xorg that is in the book : but obviously I cannot sign off things like nouveau as "tested". On that build I will then try to build all of kde4 - at least, I think it is all of it, I vaguely remember that last time I tried kde4 something wanted mysql or mariadb and I do not build either at the moment). Then I'll be back on the haswell to build kde5 (except kdenlive - again, I cannot test that). Perhaps I'll waste an hour or two trying to install OpenSuSe as a host for that [ no idea if that will work ]. BTW - have we frozen yet ? ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
