On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 08:14:30AM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > Resending due to mail issue... > > We are now in the final phase of finishing the 8.4 release. We are well > ahead of schedule for a Friday release. > > What we have left is two tickets, libreoffice and a systemd patch > (applicable to LFS also). Doug will commit those changes as soon as his ISP > fixes his connectivity. There are also three xorg drivers to tag and Doug > tells me he will do those also. >
I'm running my Xorg build (with amdgpu) at the moment, can maybe tag that. > I would like to get everyone to review the books as they use them in order > to pick up little things we can fix before release. > > We also may want to review the current 8.5 tickets to see if we want to > promote anything to 8.4. > > For BLFS, ticket #11712 IO-Socket-SSL-2.061 (Perl Module) appears to have > fixed the test hang. If we update that, we might also want to update #11695 > Test-Differences-0.65. > > We also might want to update bind, mariadb, and NetworkManager since they > all have CVE fixes. > > On the LFS side, we might want to update the kernel to 4.20.12, but that > isn't essential. We do say in Chapter 3 "The latest available 4.20.x > kernel version should be used, unless the errata page says otherwise." > > Anything else? > > -- Bruce In LFS there was a comment about a configure switch for man-db, instead of my hack to just remove the systemd files. I haven't reviewed it, but it was reported to work. ĸen -- The beauty of reading a page of de Selby is that it leads one inescapably to the conclusion that one is not, of all nincompoops, the greates. -- du Garbandier -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
