On Saturday 21 April 2007 07:33, Luca2 wrote: > Hi Matthew and Dan! > > The new "HASH" code should have been already pushed in current svn FSF > binutils.
So, we'll pick it up when the maintainers make a new release. > Anyway I took it as an example; months ago I used other file-systems > requiring other bare system packages as example but there's XEN too and > these are bare system features. > > My opinion is that steps towards future are needed or at least LFS > should give the user the chance to decide. See 1.5.1: "Deviating from this book does not mean that we will not help you. After all, LFS is about personal preference. Being upfront about any changes to the established procedure helps us evaluate and determine possible causes of your problem." So, users can feel free to deviate from the book, if they so wish. I don't see anything in the book that prevents folks from using a different filesystem if they so wish (in fact, I used to build on an XFS partition for a long time). Likewise, if they really need virtualization features like Xen, I don't see anything in the book that prevents them from running a kernel configured like that. However, I'd question whether the majority of users really need those features and therefore its suitability to become the default presented in the book. > I mean that being conservative is not always the best thing and does not > cover the current times anyway, as already said, I think that at least > the LFS users have the right to decide to use, examples, new HASH or a > XEN-kernel etc... Well, we've played around with CVS/SVN versions of upstream sources before and one quickly gets to a point where you end up chasing your own tail to keep the various toolchain and kernel packages in sync with each other to take advantage of all the bleeding edge features. From the benefits reported by the new --hash-style option, it looks like a no-brainer to put in the book when upstream are confident enough to make a release with that feature in. Regards, Matt. PS: Please read http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/#netiquette, in particular the bits about not top-posting and trimming your quotes. Thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
