On 06/26/2013 11:33 PM, Armin K. wrote: > On 06/25/2013 10:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> 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 >> > > Packages which use odd/even minor version numbering (unstable/stable) > p11-kit > pixman > poppler > graphviz > colord > dbus > webkitgtk > all packages hosted at gnome.org except libxklavier, libnotify, > polkit-gnome, libsecret, networkmanager and network-manager-applet.
Add gtk-doc to this list - basicaly all packages which don't have "patch" version, only major and minor one. For now only packages in blfs are gtk-doc and libsecret iirc. > gstreamer 1.x releases > > > Packages which add .9xx version number which marks release as unstable > > fontconfig > udisks > xorg packages > ibus > networkmanager > network-manager-applet > packages in Xorg chapter > kde.org hosted packages > > As for Xfce, they don't release any development versions or if they do, > they don't mark any as development version. > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
