Ken Moffat wrote: > 2009/6/25 William Immendorf <will.immend...@gmail.com>: >> Hey, >> >> I'm just wondering: How do you calculate the SBU amount for (B)LFS >> packages? Because I want to see the SBUS for new packages, and recent >> versions of packages.
> In theory, the same way as in LFS, but using the LFS version > for which the book is targetted (so, supposedly 6.4 at the > moment, with gcc-4.3 not 4.4.). > > In practice, I've never found the (small) figures are > necessarily consistent, so if I'm editing and an SBU is > different from mine but not manifestly wrong I'll leave > it. > > I think other editors have taken a different view, hence > the small SBUs recorded to 2 places of decimals. > > Usually, it's better for a reporter to leave the calculation - > if I accept a ticket, I'll build the package (often several times) > and form a view of the time and space required, and I'm > sure the other editors will do likewise. Of course, things get > harder when there are a lot of optional dependencies. It's in the Editor's Guide and the SBU web page: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/edguide/chapter06.html http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~sbu/about.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
