Bruce Dubbs wrote: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/svn/ is built nightly from the > book. The list of patches comes from: > > xsltproc --xinclude stylesheets/patcheslist.xsl index.xml > > copy-blfs-patches.sh > > Basically, it is looking for a url that ends with .patch, not .txt. The > patches > repository is not the right location for a License. It should be on Anduin. > > -- Bruce > The issue is licensing, and the patches repo must hold the license if we are to keep the patches in the repo. Because we are not dealing with a typical FOSS license, the patches have to have a readme file in the same directory (or include the readme in a 'prominent place' with our sources). This is covered in the patches project, but not by the copy operation for BLFS. Where is the proper place to create a directory on anduin that would not be affected by rsync? After this directory is created, then the the patches and readme should be there and the book updated to point to that location.
That said, since it is obvious that Sun doesn't give a dang about us or the BSD folks (who need the updated source much worse than we do), my personal preference now is to ditch the source build completely until OpenJDK reaches a stable release. I hate to see my own work go to waste, but that's the breaks, Sun owns the code and can do with it what they choose. Greg Lewis (BSD JDK maintainer) and myself have done everything we can do to convince the project managers at Sun to kick out another release. I have empathy for the BSD group, but for us, the only thing lost is Xinerama support. Further, with the big warning in place, how many people actually use the source build now that there are 8 security vulnerabilities identified against u3 when we reached u5 (and likely more with u6,7,8...that aren't mentioned in the current warning)? I don't use the source build anymore. Do any of our devs? -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
