#2205: Blanket notes for updated builds (SVN-DJL-20080825) ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected] Type: task | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Future Component: Book | Version: SVN Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: | ----------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Replying to [comment:8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Is there a way to automate downloading and incorporating the patches? Rolling up the current list seems to be a lot of work that will need to be redone with every one of the relatively frequent patches. > > I did this for autofs in BLFS and it should be considered for vim. I ought to write this before. This is not possible, unless: a. we are going to extend the instructions to extract also the extra sources, otherwise there are going to be patches that don't apply or b. in the hypothetically given loop, we are going to blacklist some patches or c. maintain an external script to filter also some patches based on their header I am sure most people here don't want to add bloat in their disk to extract mac, dos, vms or windows stuff, so I don't give many chances for the first possibility. b is possible, but we still have to keep updated the list with the blacklisted patches, if we don't want to have broken instructions and it's a little bit ugly. c is possible but it's also an extra step, so again there is bloat that people might want to avoid However and if we follow one of the above solutions or something else that I don't have in mind right now, this will sets a precedent, with the meaning that: - we are going to provide instructions for users, to apply patches without testing beforehand by an editor - the codebase is going to be different from build to build, so support (especially) and testing is going to be also problematic Another problem; what we are going to do in the case of a stable book release? -- Ticket URL: <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2205#comment:15> LFS Trac <http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/> Linux From Scratch: Your Distro, Your Rules. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-book FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
