On 5/20/2016 11:12 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Simon Geard wrote:
On Thu, 2016-05-19 at 07:40 -0500, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
That is not true regarding our updates. DJ Lucas and I are committed
to ensuring that the systemd book stays up to date and a good
resource at all times. However, neither of us have touched GNOME yet.
Out of curiosity, how much actually differs between the systemd and
sysv books? I would have thought that 99% of packages would be
identical, and only trivial differences in most of the rest...
I'm not going to do an exact count, but a quick grep shows 22 of 813 xml
files in BLFS trunk (2.7%) mention systemd.
Actually that would argue for a way to merge the development tree.
Right now sections are put into the book with chapter lines like:
<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"; href="lxrandr.xml"/>
XML does not have an if/then/else statement, but there might be some
xslt magic that could implement it. It would be nice if we could do
make
for the book in trunk and
make systemd
for that book from the same trunk. The place to check that out
initially would be LFS since it is a lot shorter.
An alternate way is to just have separate index pages. The book is
rendered in the Makefile by the validate target:
xmllint --nonet --noent --xinclude --postvalid \
-o $(RENDERTMP)/lfs-full.xml index.xml
with a separate index-systemd.xml that defines the identical trunk files
and then substitutes/adds the specific files needed by systemd would
probably simplify the systemd maintenance a lot.
If Douglas or DJ can identify those files that are specific to systemd
in LFS, I can take a look at prototyping such a system.
-- Bruce
I could probably do that this weekend. Do you want LFS for now, or both
LFS and BLFS? In LFS, we have to add / remove some switches from
packages such as Util-Linux. Would we keep a separate util-linux page in
the book then (as an example)?
--
Douglas R. Reno
--LFS/BLFS systemd maintainer
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