On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 08:32:32PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > > Anybody tried that combo yet? I got bored and I am flying > > blind..haven't done an experimental/SVN build in a long time (pre > > 6.3?). > Okay, finished...not tested at all, haven't even booted it yet, but the > build completes. Since I was using jhalfs anyway, I went ahead and > updated a local export of the book. I'm uploading my modified SVN > export, rendered book, and patches in my home directory just in case > anyone would like to review it. LFS-20080825/ The probably 'not so > liked' changes are at the top of the changelog in big paragraphs, then > the usual mess of package updates to all latest and greatest. Maybe it > is usable, maybe not, but it'll be there shortly if anybody wants to > look at it. The changes to existing packages really aren't that much, > but they are there. > The warning that it hasn't been booted is good, the comments about no iterative analysis nor real-world testing are perhaps a little excessive for a version of the develoment book (if a development book causes problems that's par for the course). I'm glad someone is developing again.
Of the 'not so liked', I'd be happy to see the back of Man-DB (and therefore move Berkeley DB back to BLFS - if my memory is correct, it was a dependency of Man-DB). In my own builds, I still use groff-utf8 to render UTF-8 man-pages. [ nostalgic memory: before shadow was orphaned and then taken over by debian, it used to have a nice selection of UTF-8 pages. ] For the bootscripts, I've no opinion at the moment. When I do get back to development (maybe in October), I've got a lot of desktop things to look at for my own needs so I don't expect to be contributing much for a while. The package updates in your version don't look exceptional (I assume MPFR is now needed for gcc). Good luck! ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
