On 3/21/2013 2:57 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Pierre Labastie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I do not know who reads this list, but I have recently found that there
>> was a "new" (January) bug report on the ALFS Trac.
>>
>> It was about a minor typo and easy to fix (bug #1687). Bruce gave me the
>> privileges on the ALFS Trac system, so that I could close that one.
>>
>> OTH, I discovered quite a few other active bugs, mainly about nALFS and
>> ALFS.
>>
>> Maybe it is not my job, but I propose to close all the {n,}ALFS bugs as
>> "wontfix", with a comment "{n,}ALFS is not developped anymore."
>
> Sounds good to me. We probably need to remove all reference to to on
> the ALFS web page and re-write the whole page. Do you want to do that?
>
> The wiki page also needs an associated update.
>
> In the alfs tree, I suggest creating a new directory, archive, and move
> everything not jhalfs there. The most recent update, other than jhalfs,
> was 6 years ago.
Do you wanna take care of these Pierre?? I can take care of them if you
would rather not.
>
>> As of the few bug reports concerning jhalfs (2 active bugs), I have the
>> following proposition:
>
>> - for #1686 "BLFS-Tools Error parsing XML dependencies of Xorg", I
>> propose to close it as "wontfix", adding the comment "Jhalfs BLFS-Tools
>> is not maintained anymore. Please use the ablfs branch:
>> svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/ALFS/jhalfs/branches/ablfs"
>
> I doubt many users use jhalfs for blfs at all. Most develop their own
> custom scripts. If it doesn't work, the function should be removed.
I know I don't, I do much like you say and run my own scripts.
>
> One other comment. When exiting the jhalfs make, there needs to be an
> option for the user to just quit and not have the Makefile try to continue.
Could you clarify this for me Bruce, not quite sure what you mean.
Thomas
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