Allard Welter wrote these words on 11/15/10 05:10 CST: > Hi, > > It has been about four years since my last build of (b)lfs. There are > reasons (I went walkabout, and the got a job). I haven't finished yet, > but here are some comments up to now. I have not gone through the > archives to check if any of these issues have been raised. Should any > be of my doing, resolved, reported or otherwise, I sincerely > apologise. > > Using LFS-6.7 and blfs-svn-2010-11-13 > > First some typos:
I will catch these right now. > Other issues in no particular order. > > TeTeX: This package is no longer being maintained. There is no problem > as it stands, except that the check aborts because the packaged > sources are more than 5 years old. This is easily hacked. I use LaTex > a lot (I lecture physics) and pretty much everything in TeTeX is still > ok, there is no issue updating style files from CTAN for the odd > package that has since acquired extra functionality (most notably > pstricks). Most distros go with TeXLive. I don't have internet at home > so TeXLive is a bit impractical. I will be investigating a means of > ripping the packaged sources from somewhere. I think the entire bundle > is a dvd's worth, which is also impractical and certainly no needed. > TeXLive is distributed as a xz compressed archive. Perhaps xz and 7z > can get a mention somewhere? XZ is going into the book to replace lzma. I am working on TeXLive right now. I hope to have a functional built-from-source setup in the book real soon. I will also look at all the others as well. Thanks for taking the time to report the bugs. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.28] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6] [Linux 2.6.14.3 i686] 10:29:00 up 13 days, 17:23, 1 user, load average: 0.05, 0.03, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
