Simon Geard wrote: > On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:32 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> If the community's expectations are that we have the most current >> release of every package in the most recent BLFS book, then the >> expectations are too high and are unreasonable. > > It's not a reasonable expectation that the book will *always* have the > most recent release, at any point in time. But it's somewhat troubling > if we can't get the latest release into the book before it ceases to be > the latest release. > > I guess that to my mind, it seems reasonable that a new package release > might be incorporated into the book within a few months of release. As > you say, incremental Gnome releases don't tend to be all that different > to build, and I've typically had my home system upgraded within a few > weeks.
The problem is volume. There are about 300 packages in the book. Most are updated 2 or more times a year. I'd estimate there are two packages a day on average. Some of the packages are very large and complex, e.g. firefox, gcc, gnome, kde. They also need ot be integrated -- you can't really update just a part of kde or gnome. They have to be done pretty much all at once. > Now, since that clearly isn't possible at the moment, can you comment on > why, and how people might help improve the situation? Patches to the xml for sets of the complcated packages on a regular basis would be helpful, but editors still need to check those until the submitter has shown quality work. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
