Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dimitry Naldayev wrote:
>
>> + Ported r7273 from trunk.
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What is this news entry about?
>> Is this about a trunk? (but in the case it is unclear why we need porting
>> something from trunk to trunk) Or this is about a some branch (but in the
>> case it is unclear what branch this about)
>
> Yes, it was a change committed to the alphabetical branch:
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-book/2006-January/017902.html.
>
>
>> Sorry if I miss something...
>
> No, you're not missing something - the news generation script could do
> with mentioning which area of the repository the commit affected.
+ vote for this ;-)
but modification of the news generation script to do this can be not easy
(the svn do not know what part of repo you commit to) In the case the autor
of the commit can write correspondent change log entry. For example:
+ Ported r7273 from trunk to alphabetical branch
>
>> PS: Are there descriptions of available LFS branches on the site?
>
> I remember there was, when we had a gcc-4 branch for example.
> However, that info hasn't been added for the alphabetical branch.
>
> http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/viewcvs.cgi/branches/ has a list of
> the current branches of LFS. 'cross-lfs' and 'multi-arch' can be
> ignored for now - they are covered better by the Cross-LFS book.
>
> The 'LFS-RNG' branch is a pretty old branch, concerning XML
> infrastructure changes that will be required for the next version of
> the DocBook XML standard.
>
> The 'Alphabetical' branch is the only currently maintained branch, and
> its aim is to make the installation of packages be in alphabetical
> order unless toolchain, dependency or build cleanliness (as determined
> by ICA/farce techniques) require otherwise.
>
BTW, what ICA mean? and where I can read about it?
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Dimitry
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