Hi folks.
A recent article on lwn.net discussing LFS
(http://lwn.net/Articles/192904/) attracted the following comment:
"...it's worrying the number of little patches that the LFS instructions
say need applying to the upstream source: why aren't they included
upstream already?"
As a result, I've put the following web page together which details the
upstream progress of each of the 35 patches currently being applied
during a trunk build:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~matthew/lfs-patch-status.html. The
good news is that 15 patches are backports of fixes already made
upstream and can therefore be dropped once upstream release a new
version. A further 3 patches are specific to LFS' build method so don't
need to go upstream. Unfortunately, that leaves the bad news that we're
currently using 17 patches that either upstream aren't aware of, or they
have rejected.
I'll work on getting those sent upstream, but in the mean time, if
anyone could check over the details on that page and inform me of any
errors or omissions I'll gladly update it.
Thanks,
Matt.
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