Over the last couple of weeks I have been building a new version of
LFS/BLFS using DJ Lucas' elogind branch. With the addition of elogind
and a few other changes, we will be able to add gnome to the System V
version of the book.
The process will look like this:
a. Freeze update to the current svn version of the book.
b. Synchronize the current version into the elogind branch.
c. Move the current trunk to a branch
d. Move the elogind branch to the trunk,
e. Touch up titles, changelog, attribution, etc
Individual scripts should continue to work for the most part, but some
instruction changes may be required.
The systemd version of BLFS should be unchanged, but it's possible that
some of the System V changes may sneak in.
I'll note that adding gnome is a lengthy task. Just building the
required and recommended dependencies requires building about 325
packages after LFS is complete.
The timing of this change is being made now in order to have the entire
month of July for testing and debugging before the August push for a
September release.
My thought right now is to make the next LFS/BLFS version become 9.0 due
to the magnitude of the changes.
Please post any questions or concerns on the blfs-dev mailing list (not
support).
-- Bruce
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