On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 05:57:54PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote: > Over the last couple of weeks I have been building a new version of LFS/BLFS > using DJ Lucas' elogind branch. With the addition of elogind and a few > other changes, we will be able to add gnome to the System V version of the > book. >
Congratulations to everyone who has been involved in this. It's not something I particularly want - at the moment - but I know it's been a lot of work. > The process will look like this: > > a. Freeze update to the current svn version of the book. > b. Synchronize the current version into the elogind branch. > c. Move the current trunk to a branch > d. Move the elogind branch to the trunk, > e. Touch up titles, changelog, attribution, etc > I'm once again glad that _you_ understand how svn works - trying to do that would give me a dose of the screaming heebie-jeebies. > Individual scripts should continue to work for the most part, but some > instruction changes may be required. > > The systemd version of BLFS should be unchanged, but it's possible that some > of the System V changes may sneak in. > > I'll note that adding gnome is a lengthy task. Just building the required > and recommended dependencies requires building about 325 packages after LFS > is complete. > > The timing of this change is being made now in order to have the entire > month of July for testing and debugging before the August push for a > September release. > > My thought right now is to make the next LFS/BLFS version become 9.0 due to > the magnitude of the changes. > > Please post any questions or concerns on the blfs-dev mailing list (not > support). > > -- Bruce In theory I'm not doing any updates at the moment. In practice, vulnerabilities continue to breed like rabbits (and I'm still working through the recent ones on my systems, before I get back to my 'tuning' experiments which are currently turning into 'hardening'). So, please can you give some warning before this starts. 9.0 sounds good - it's obviously 0.5 better than 8.5 (as Nigel Tufnel would say). ĸen -- Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE, two, three, four" [...] The cataclysmic power chord that followed was the creation of time and space and matter and it does Not Fade Away. - wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Music_With_Rocks_In -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
