I'm making reasonably good progress on my effort to compare the package versions in BLFS to the latest released versions.
http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/blfs-currency.html I'm up through Chapter 30. Only 17 to go! The only really long chapter left is Multimedia Libraries and Drivers. I'd appreciate it if others reviewed the results. There is a lot of information encoded in the scripts and I may have gotten some things wrong. The logic really depends on specific packages. If a package version is encoded as major.minor.micro, sometimes the minor needs to be even, sometimes the minor or micro values > 90 (or 80) need to be ignored -- sometimes not. Sometimes the directory with the sources is not directly viewable, so web pages need to be parsed. There was even one package that required parsing xml. The starting point for the analysis is the book's wget-list which is taken from the book source. Eventually, I'll put the whole thing in a cron job and update daily. Feedback is welcome. -- bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
