Le 01/03/2014 22:58, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Pierre Labastie wrote: >> Le 28/02/2014 23:24, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > >> Now, I have a question. I have never been involved in development, so just >> take my question as a mark of curiosity: what is the reason to expect release >> of LFS and BLFS to be close in time? I would think of something like: >> >> - LFS rc1 (duration: a few weeks, unless there is a need for rc2): >> - freeze packages on LFS >> - extensive testing of LFS build; correct security issues and blockers >> - update BLFS svn as usual >> - LFS stable, BLFS test against LFS (duration: a month or so): >> - restart updating LFS svn >> - stop testing/updating BLFS against the previous LFS release >> - begin building/updating/tagging BLFS against the recent LFS release >> - BLFS rc1 (duration: a few weeks + possibly rc2,3...): >> - freeze packages on BLFS. >> - extensive testing of BLFS build; correct security issues and blockers >> - tag untagged packages >> - BLFS stable >> >> What I see as an advantage is that during the LFS rc stage, it is still >> possible to change a few things on LFS, without risk to break already tagged >> pacakges in BLFS. But there may be drawbacks I do not see... > > The problem is that upstream changes packages very often and it takes > time to check BLFS. We did a package freeze two weeks ago and LFS has > had 7 packages update. BLFS has had about 40 update in the same time. > If we update a library, then what does that say about the testing of > packages that may need that library but have already been tested? > > For many years, we didn't release a 'stable' BLFS at all. We just used > a rolling release. We've got some more help now, so the freeze time is > relatively short. > > Testing the LFS build is actually fairly quick. With alfs and skipping > checks, we can do it in a couple of hours. The real test is whether > BLFS builds on it. Unfortunately, as you know, it's difficult to > automate BLFS. > > It's all a tradeoff. We are almost ready. The only things left right > now are fretts, gnash, and sendmail. >
Yeah, I have seen that this morning, only two packages left, it is incredible! + sendmail in archive. I feel bad I have done such a small part, and you have done a wonderful job. I cannot test any multimedia app (no sound). I can have a look at sendmail, if nobody is working on it (tomorrow... it is late here). Pierre -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
