Now that Bruce has been assigned as the release manager, we can hopefully move forward towards a release. With that in mind, I would like to suggest that anyone who plans on testing for the upcoming release use jhalfs to build.
The reason is that jhalfs is the ultimate testing tool for the LFS book. Since it directly dumps the commands that will be on the page (i.e. what people will see when they try to build LFS), it is the closest test of whether the LFS build works or not. For the ambitious, there is code to do ICA builds which _really_ test the build. I'm not suggesting that anyone abandon their own technique for building. I certainly have my own customized setup and wouldn't use jhalfs for that purpose because I do things slightly differently than what appears on the page. I'm sure any experienced builder does the same thing. But, for the purpose of testing what's on the page and telling a new user that "Yes, the LFS book works", it would really be great if people used jhalfs. There would be a consistency in testing that probably hasn't been achieved before. So, if you have a spare partition and would like to help test LFS, please try using jhalfs for the build. All you have to do is sit back and collect the results. You need to pull the jhalfs from svn right now to build LFS svn. I just did a build with it the other day, and it works fine. Manuel said that he will try to get a release done before LFS goes to release. He and George have gotten the tool in very good shape. See this thread here for that discussion: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/alfs-discuss/2006-June/008460.html Very quickly, here are some relevant links and locations if you want to try jhalfs. It won't take long to get familiarized with the tools. If you find anything you think is a bug, please report to alfs-discuss. George and Manuel are "on the ball" as they say (although Manuel says he'll be busy for the next few weeks). http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/download.html svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/ALFS/jhalfs/trunk jhalfs-trunk http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss/ -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
