Ken Moffat wrote: > > The question is: > > Who is gonna test it? Because I believe most of the editors (myself > > included), doesn't have a 6.3 LFS release around anymore - it's been > > almost a year (sorry). > > on this particular point, I still have a full 6.3 system from the > back end of last year, and a slightly more recent 6.3 where I added > extra packages to handle some of the things in the book that I > normally ignore (e.g. valgrind and texinfo), until that ran out of > space. That's not to say that I'm still using 2.6.22 kernels, I > think at least one of the kernel fixes that I grabbed from debian > for (clfs) 2.6.24 is also relevant to 2.6.22.
I still have a LiveCD (but no real LFS) and can test single packages. > > Is it maybe a solution to postpone the release indefinitely or cancel > > entirely the release? Why not? Gentoo did it last year. > > I'm reluctant not to release at all, because that makes us one of > those projects where you have to take a random svn version and hope > it all works. But, 6.3 does look increasingly old. We are _already_ one of those projects, because all bugs and vulnerabilities and incompatibility with the stable LFS apply to our "stable" BLFS release, too. So the situation can't become worse. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
