On Saturday 03 February 2007 01:07, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 11:12:44PM +0000, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > On Friday 02 February 2007 22:55, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2007-February > > >/032433.html > > > > Wow, that's very useful information indeed. > > > > > I'd like it if he'd put that info on the Wiki, but I don't know > > > where to tell him to put it or how anyone would be able to find > > > it. > > > > There's a Table of Contents on each page, so I guess a link in > > there is as good a place as any. Is 'Notes' descriptive enough? > > I hadn't realised until now that the LFS info was in a wiki. To > me, the content, and indeed the format in which it was posted, are > a hint. Hints have a couple of differences from wikis - the text > remains under the control (and copyright, license) of the author, > and isn't subject to random edits by someone who (maybe) knows > something about it.
For this particular case (timezone data update) I share the same "hint reflex". However, the notes link to the wiki still sounds like a great idea. > Wearing my "cause maximum trouble" hat, surely changing > the zoneinfo happens a long time *beyond* linuxfromscratch ? Yes and no. If you mean to imply that it belongs with BLFS, I don't really think that BLFS is the place to start redoing the core of LFS. And glibc is a pretty fundamental base component to the system that one should 'get right the 1st time'. On the other hand, it is indeed a problem specific to supporting and maintaining ancient systems with ancient glibc, thus temporaly far *beyond* LFS, and therefore has little to do with a fresh LFS build of a new system. So we are left with the question of where this nice, useful contribution belongs. A hint, no? -- Barius -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
