On Sunday 05 April 2009 10:44:54 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Simon Geard wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 14:32 -0700, Jason Erickson wrote: > >> For the book, it could be 6.4.X where X is the latest version > >> of the 6.4 book. Only changes made would be spelling, > >> grammar, and FTP locations. > > > > Makes sense to me... any time you have something that would > > require an errata page, just change the text instead, and bump > > the patch level to 6.4.x+1... > > Creating even a minor release is quite a bit more work than that. > New directories have to be made and populated, tarballs created, > websites updated, etc. I'd estimate it to be about a full day's > work. I try to automate as much as I can, but there's still a > lot of manual work to do. > > If you want the latest packages, then use -dev. > > It's always helpful to actually read the book: > > vii. Errata > > To check whether the package versions or instructions in this > release of LFS need any modifications to accommodate security > vulnerabilities or other bug fixes, please visit > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/errata/6.4/ before > proceeding with your build. > > 3.1. Introduction > > Download locations may not always be accessible. If a download > location has changed since this book was published, Google > (http://www.google.com/) provides a useful search engine for most > packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the > alternative means of downloading discussed at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/packages.html#packages. > > -- Bruce
You don't need to change the book number just make the changes in the book. On the page where the people will download the book just warn them to check there for the newest version. This is what other major open source developers do. Why do you want to make it complicated. You are not empressing any one by doing it the old hard way. To deliberately limit yourself in that manner with a live flowing electronic document is just foolish. Why limit your flow of communication by following the traditions of an old technology that does not have a better choice? -- http://www.wowgreen.net/11324 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
