Am Freitag, den 13.07.2018, 11:17 -0500 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > On 07/13/2018 04:08 AM, thomas wrote: > > Am 2018-07-09 22:08, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > > > ... > > > In addition, upstream changes are released often. The average is > > > about 3.5 packages every day, seven days a week. > > > ... > > > To address this, I am proposing to split BLFS into two (or > > > possibly > > > more) books. My tentative names are BLFS-Basic and BLFS- > > > Advanced. > > > BLFS-Basic is primarily command line tools and programs plus the > > > basic > > > Xorg section of BLFS. This would be updated regularly and a > > > 'stable' > > > version released every six months with the LFS book. > > > > Just a thought: > > > > What if we would use only *stable* versions of packages in the > > BLFS-*Stable* book? > > All of BLFS tries to use only stable releases now. There are some > exceptions when a package uses a development library release, but > it's rare. > > > Ok, the book would than be not so bleeding-edge (but rock-solid i > > assume). This would reduce the amount of updates we would have to > > make > > in order to keep it on the very recent status. For example, bind > > (DNS-server) had two tickets to upgrade to 9.13.1 and a few days > > later > > to 9.13.2. Two tickets which may simply drop out if stable-book > > stick on > > stable version 9.12.2. > > Why do you think bind-9.13 is a development release? If it is and > I've > missed it, I need to update the currency scripts to reflect that. Go to https://www.isc.org/downloads/ and open the dropdown-box for "bind". The list will state 9.13.2 as unstable/development in red letters, 9.12.2 as current-stable in green.
> > The problem here is that different packages use different methods to > designate development releases. Some use even/odd minor > versions. Some > use -RCx or -dev, some use minor or point version numbers >= 80 or > 90. > This list is not exhaustive. > > Add to that that some developers do not bother to do development > releases. Sometimes we see three 'stable' releases in a week. Yeah, all that happens, too :-) -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
