On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 04:37:53PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > > OTOH the more we change for newer and shinier versions, the less > > reason people have for respecting the -rc name. > > But we are discussing -rc2, not a stable release. If we didn't have the > glibc issue, I wouldn't be suggesting the other packages. > Agreed.
> > Are we going to keep the 7.4 tags showing 7.4 ? On the grounds > > that whatever changes in -rc2 is _unlikely_ to break BLFS, I suppose > > we could leave them. Unless someone finds a problem. > > I think the issue was that we were doing the tests for -rc1 and found > the glibc error. -rc2 would continue to do the testing. We didn't find > the issue until Fernando tried java on a i686. I could do a global sed > and replace lfs74 with lfs74rc1 and then start all of BLFS over. > If you do that, I guess you'll also create an lfs74 or lfs74rc2 tag. > Right now I'm thinking about a potential BLFS release in mid-October or > early November. After 5 years, what's a month or two? > Yeah. I might even have upgraded my own server to 7.4 by then. But to be honest, the sooner the better for cutting a BLFS release. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, dieses Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
