I've just finished a new build of a substantial (about 230 packages) part of BLFS. After I finished and got a working system, I decided to go back and check the sources' websites to see if the packages we have are current or not. In many cases, we are current but there are quite a few cases where we are not.
I have a question about gnome based packages. My understanding is that even numbered minor packages are stable versions and odd numbered versions are development versions. For instance, we are using pango-1.32.5, but there is a 1.34.1 version. I think the 1.35.0 version is development only. On the other hand, we are using libxklavier-5.3, which is the latest, but shouldn't we be using libxklavier-5.2.1? I'm going to follow this up with a much longer post with what we have and what I find that is the latest versions, but sometimes I'm unsure what really is the latest stable package version. Really, the only site I have a problem with is those at http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/ Generally, it takes a lot of effort to check the currency for all the different packages because of the different styles of the way upstream developers present their packages. For now I'm going to skip Xorg, KDE, and XFCE and concentrate on the support packages I've already built. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
