On 02/21/2014 06:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Armin K. wrote: >> >>>>>>> We can do this for 7.5. The rule here is that we can update point >>>>>>> versions but not major or minor versions. >>>>>> >>>>>> Couldn't it be the same for blfs, for almost all packages? >>>>> >>>>> That's worthy of discussion. Perhaps end packages and not libraries >>>>> would be amenable to this type of rule. I'm hesitant to update >>>>> libraries right now because of possible breakages of programs already >>>>> marked as lfs75_checked. For the few packages that are marked >>>>> lfs75_built, then there is no good reason not to update. >>>>> >>>>> Is that a reasonable compromise? >> >>>> I'd prefer not to touch anything (especially modify dependencies at this >>>> late cycle) unless it's really worth upgrading, ie security issues, >>>> feature required by some other packages present in newer version but not >>>> older, etc. >> >>> Also, there's a note in LFS telling people to use latest kernel 3.13.x, >>> so it matters little. API headers don't change much (if all) anyways. >> >> Well there was a pretty big change in the kernel from 3.12 -> 3.13 that >> allowed pftables. Agree that API doesn't change for point versions. >> >> The note is in LFS Chapter3, but we also have a wget-list and md5sums >> file that isn't updated unless we update the book. I'd prefer to have >> that up-to-date at the -stable release. >> >> What I'm suggesting is that packages at the end of the chain such as >> goffice and firefox could be updated within the package freeze period >> without harming the integrity of the overall book if they are built and >> tested using lfs75 components. > > Here are the packages updates we might consider: > > xfburn > gptfdisk > gparted > mpg > goffice > gnumeric > > -- Bruce >
Add libreoffice to that list too. It's minor update anyways and I didn't notice any big change. One could argue to update gdk-pixbuf too since it contains bugfixes, but I don't think any of these is important at the moment. Same goes for webkitgtk-2.2.5. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
