Pierre Labastie wrote: > 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).
I've just started sendmail. Actually I'm most interested in getting the slackware issue settled for LFS. That's our only holdup for release. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
