On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 08:06:25PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >We are getting pretty close to the package freeze for LFS-7.8. I am > >currently waiting for util-linux-2.27 which should be released very soon. > > > >Doe anyone know of any other LFS packages that have imminent releases of > >new stable packages? > > Just got a note from the util-linux maintainer and he doesn't anticipate > release until Aug 25/26 time frame. Should we hold the 7.8 package freeze > that long? > > If we do, we may also be able to get in KDE Applications 15.08 which are > scheduled right now for Aug 19th. Plasma 5.4 is also due on Aug 20. > > On the other hand, if we wait for the latest on everything, we will end up > waiting forever. > > To freeze or not to freeze, that is the question. > > -- Bruce > My current view is that BLFS (on LFS as of a few days ago) is not ready for release. For me, qt-5.5.0 appears to not work adequately if built in /usr, and appears to be very fragile when trying to build it (see my post from a few minutes ago). Also, sddm did not work reliably (poweroff, reboot, suspend) when I last tested it, i.e. it seems to need more daemons but we haven't worked out which. To reiterate on that - I was unable to use startkde (i.e. plasma) with kde5 in /opt because there was nowhere to tell sddm how to find plasma. If I ran startkde from runlevel 3 I could, after stopping that, telinit 5 and get all of sddm working - until I rebooted, at which time I lost poweroff, reboot, suspend.
But last time I looked, the main book did not have plasma, so why do you care about a point increase of that ? I shall continue to look at my qt5 issues (I really want to get qupzilla built with qt5 again), but at the moment I seem to be going two steps forward, three steps back and I have no idea whether I will manage to solve any of these issues. However, I should also add that I've never been particularly keen on fixed 6-monthly release dates and I consider that releasing an -rc in August/September is not an ideal time for those of us in the northern hemisphere. Reputedly, Americans do not take vacations - most other peoples who can afford to use computers do take them. ĸen, who appears to be drifting towards the "it will be ready when it's ready" attitude - I must have inhaled something from hyperion during the pain of the AmigaOne years (pain as in "trying to get a working 2.6 kernel on flakey hardware which turned out to not do coherent DMA" - the phrase I quoted was from hyperion when asked about OS4). -- This one goes up to eleven: but only on a clear day, with the wind in the right direction. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
