Hi there,
I normally add in the Berkeley DB package as part of my LFS build,
just so I can enable the extra server in Inetutils.
I note though that the BLFS version is 5.3.28, whilst the last of that
series, ie before Oracle changed the version-numbering system, is
6.2.32.
I just wanted to point
On 09/24/2018 11:39 PM, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote:
On 2018-09-24 15:09 -0500, Douglas R. Reno via blfs-dev wrote:
Balsa-2.5.6
^ And force everyone to use Thunderbird instead? At least in my
case, Thunderbird is highly unstable for a mailbox
with over 13,000 messages saved. Balsa and Evolu
On 2018-09-24 14:36 -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
> If I do not hear of any objections, I intend to start removing these
> packages around October 1st.
>
> I'm also open to nominations for removal of other packages.
>
>-- Bruce
>
> btrfs-progs-4.17.1
> jfsutils-1.1.15
> ntfs-3g-201
On 24/09/2018 20:36, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
Over the years, BLFS has grown a lot. There are over 1000 individual
tarballs listed in the book. This creates a large maintenance burden.
It is a rare week when we have less than 30 new packages that need to
be updated.
The most time in
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 2:44 PM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev <
blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> Over the years, BLFS has grown a lot. There are over 1000 individual
> tarballs listed in the book. This creates a large maintenance burden.
> It is a rare week when we have less than 30 new
Over the years, BLFS has grown a lot. There are over 1000 individual
tarballs listed in the book. This creates a large maintenance burden.
It is a rare week when we have less than 30 new packages that need to be
updated.
The most time intensive process is preparing for our semi-annual
relea
The LFS team would like to announce a new book, Basic Packages for Linux
From Scratch
This book is under development and is designed for new BLFS users and is
an excerpt of the full BLFS book. It provides guidance for getting
started with BLFS and suggests command line tools suitable for all t
