Randy McMurchy wrote:
Archaic wrote these words on 07/11/05 02:02 CST:
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:46:48PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
What's the harm in that?
The fact that the repo is starting to look like a junkyard.
I don't mean this the wrong way, Archaic, so don't take it as a
demeaning comment. Please take it as a simple disagreement with your
suggestion that some patches don't 'belong' on the LFS server.
Randy, the problem here is why aren't they sent upstream, is it my job
to send them upstream. If so then I have a problem with it. When do we
say enough is enough?
But to me, your comment above is an insult to everyone who has sent
in a patch in good faith thinking their contribution may just help
out somebody down the road.
That's why they should be sent upstream instead of our repo.
In fact, I myself have sent in patches, and there are some currently
in the repo that are for packages not in the BLFS or LFS book. These
are good patches that make a package build successfully. Additionally,
some of these patches I've sent in have been located by others and
have been incorporated into valid web sites for these packages. I'm
almost certain that one of these patches has been incorporated into
the CVS version of a package.
This is a situation of how long do we keep the patch, forever or until
the next release. Everyone is against the deletion of patches, so what
are we suppose to do?
To say that these types of patches make the repo look like a junkyard
is an insult.
Here is a couple of cases in point, aka the junkyard
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/coreutils
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/gcc
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/glibc
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/linux
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/util-linux
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