Re: [lfs-dev] Future for LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Ken Moffat via lfs-dev
On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 09:25:04PM +0900, Akira Urushibata via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 Pierre Labastie wrote: > > > the problem is not lfs, but blfs. There are around 750 packages in > > there. If those packages are all updated twice a year (some have > > much more frequent updates...

Re: [lfs-dev] Future for LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Joel Bion via lfs-dev
I must agree with James’ spirit! I got IPv6 (static addresses) working with LFS and gave my changes back - it’s easy to do. And with ARM, the interesting thing about it is that at this point there isn’t much interesting about it. I haven’t built LFS on ARM, but if I did I would probably do so

Re: [lfs-dev] Future for LFS

2020-06-15 Thread James B via lfs-dev
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:44:10 +0200 thorsten via lfs-dev wrote: > > I have a modified LFS running on Rpi 3b+ (aarch64) and on a bananapro > board (arm). I use them as Wireless accesspoints and low budget servers. > Basically the modifications to LFS are not too big. Getting the > Crosscompiler re

Re: [lfs-dev] Future for LFS

2020-06-15 Thread thorsten via lfs-dev
On 2020-06-13 17:02, Saul Tigh via lfs-dev wrote: I’ve noticed that LFS is only targeting i386 and AMD64.  The is a great hunger for LFS to support ARM. Many have wished for the support. What is keeping LFS from supporting ARM? What I have seen while reading forums and IRC chat,

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 19:28 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 18:34, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev > wrote: > > OTOH, personally, I like meson/ninja. I wish it were used more > > often. > > They have nothing to do with systemd. > > For some reason, I had thought that

Re: [lfs-dev] Future for LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Akira Urushibata via lfs-dev
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 Pierre Labastie wrote: > the problem is not lfs, but blfs. There are around 750 packages in > there. If those packages are all updated twice a year (some have > much more frequent updates...), it makes 4 updates per day, 7/7. > Updates mean: get the source, check it is right (g

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 6/15/20 6:28 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: Might I playfully suggest that LFS should find a package that could optionally be built with CMake, so as to introduce new readers to that build system here too, rather than making them wait for that joy in BLFS. It has been considered, but

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
On 6/15/20 2:09 AM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 20:46, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: In the last few weeks, the LFS editors have been working on a major overhaul of LFS. This work can be reviewed at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/cross2-lfs-book/ Was

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 18:34, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev wrote: > > OTOH, personally, I like meson/ninja. I wish it were used more often. > They have nothing to do with systemd. For some reason, I had thought that there was a package in the SysD build that was "so new" that it had never had an a

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev
On Mon, 2020-06-15 at 15:09 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 20:46, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev > wrote: > > In the last few weeks, the LFS editors have been working on a major > > overhaul of LFS. This work can be reviewed at > > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Xi Ruoyao via lfs-dev
On 2020-06-15 15:09 +0800, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 20:46, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev > wrote: > > In the last few weeks, the LFS editors have been working on a major > > overhaul of LFS. This work can be reviewed at > > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/c

Re: [lfs-dev] ANNOUNCEMENT - Major Proposed Changes to LFS

2020-06-15 Thread Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev
On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 at 20:46, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote: > > In the last few weeks, the LFS editors have been working on a major > overhaul of LFS. This work can be reviewed at > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/cross2-lfs-book/ > Was there an SVN reference (branch) to pull the sour