On 7/12/05, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > > >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? > It is the submitters job to send it upstream. And he/she may have already done so. As Randy said, not many maintainers respond back especially for the not so well maintained packages (and these are the ones for which patches are usually needed). For the patches I have sent upstream, barely 50% have been acknowledged.
> >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. > See above. > 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? > Keep it for as long as it is deemed useful. Make a policy on when the patches will be deleted. > >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 > That is nothing compared to some of the official package repositories I have seen. Check out the official download locations for the packages that you have mentioned above. Note that only lfsers that stray from the book instructions need to directly access the patches download directory so not many people may be worried that the downloads look cluttered. Note that I am not advocating keeping the patches around forever. Just as long as they are useful erring on the side of caution. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
