On 6/21/19 2:15 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-dev wrote:
On 21/06/2019 00:57, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
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).
Although they're not working as smoothly as I would like, the blfs tools for
jhalfs allow to build a full blfs within a couple of days (or more, depending
on the amount of time you accept to spend fixing scripts each day :). So, as
soon as we have something close to the final version, I can test it.
That would be great. We do need to make a couple of tweaks, but we
should get those done soon.
What I've done is to checkout the full repo:
svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS
cd BLFS/branches/BOOK-elogind
make
to get the book rendered. One of the problems is that BLFS/trunk/BOOK
is a moving target. DJ has been merging trunk into elogind periodically
and it needs to be done again. I think that after the next merge, you
should be able to start a test build and any changes to trunk after the
test build kicks off wouldn't materially affect the results.
-- Bruce
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