Gerard Beekmans wrote these words on 02/20/05 18:34 CST: > On February 20, 2005 03:17 pm, Randy McMurchy wrote: > >>Libol and syslog-ng don't have any program descriptions, lists, >>diskspace used, dependencies or build times. Others that I don't >>remember off-hand need fixing in these areas as well. > > It's a common thing to happen. Packages are added or upgraded but the > contents > and SBUs and things like that are not always rechecked. It's a bother to do > it every time a package upgrades, and some of them update a lot.
What I'm about to say is strictly an opinion, not meant as a flame or anything disparaging towards the editing staff. It is simply my observation, and experience over on the BLFS side. So here goes. What do you mean a bother? For almost all the packages in the book that build in just a minute or two, it would take less than 5 minutes to update the build entities, installed programs and libraries in the book. Build times and disk space used is a no-brainer. Installed programs and libraries is easy as well. Install the package once in an obscure location, such as --prefix=/myhomedir/packagename, then look and see what all is installed. Update the book. Done. Less than 5 minutes. Agreed some packages (not many) might be a tad bit more work to install in an obscure location (edit the Makefile). But still, the LFS Editors are experienced at this kind of stuff. I don't see any need to omit it, because "it's a bother". Seems as though it's just part of the job. Then somebody doesn't have to go behind and do it all at one time in a time-crunch release it tomorrow mode. > We usually go through the descriptions and such when we get a release ready. > It's one of those things done in a testing branch. Right, unfortunately, it just doesn't get done though. -- Randy rmlinux: [GNU ld version 2.15.91.0.2 20040727] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.1] [GNU C Library 2004-07-01 release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.8.1 i686] 18:41:00 up 15 days, 2:30, 8 users, load average: 0.01, 0.01, 0.00 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
