On 07/09/2013 03:09 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 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 >
Hi, I've noticed some mistakes First one, source package which ends its name with a number Think krb5, lcms2, bind9 Adds the number to the version field, so it becomes libcap2 2_2.22 krb5 5-1.11.3 lcms2 2-2.5 bind9 9-9.9.3 Correct versions should be without the ending numbers, ie for libcap is 2.22, for krb5 is 1.11.3, for lcms2 is 2.5. Also, bind10 is not a new version, it's completely different thing from bind9. Fontconfig should read its latest stable version as "latest", but display that we have newer one, as done with librsvg. In Xorg Drivers, xf86-input-wacom says that 0.21.99.1 is the latest version, but that's unstable as I pointed out once. In the Xfce chapter, there is an error with package versions. Namely, 4 packages which are from gnome.org are old versions (GTK+2 ones) and need to be latest release from *that* major version (which I doubt will ever get released again). libwnck needs to be latest from 2.30.x gtksourceview needs to be latest from 2.10.x vte needs to be latest from 0.28.x and libunique needs to be latest from 1.1.x Again, I doubt any of these will see new release since they are GTK+2 versions of the package and GTK+2 is deprecated. Otherwise, good work! I'll point out if I notice anything else. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
