Tobias Gasser wrote: > > is it a wise decision to use upgrade to 5.0 for the 7.3 release? > > as far i can understand there are no security issues with 4.13a but as i > can see from google there are quite some compatibilty issues in > different packages with 5.0 (coreutils, gcc, wget, qemu, docbook...)
We've worked around the gcc problems by avoidign building the .info files (does anyone really use them?). I didn't see a problem with coreutils. The other packages should update fairly soon to the new texinfo. Is strikes me as a similar issue with glibc or gcc updates that provide stricter enforcement of standards, but not as critical. I just did a test build of wget-1.14 with lfs-7.3-rc1 and got no errors. > i prefer to keep the 4.13a until more packages are ready for 5.0. > otherwise blfs has to add quite a bunch of texinfo patches. Possibly, but if the changes are only to .info files, does it really matter? > for the kernel i'd like to see the 3.8 branch in lfs 7.3, as 3.7 won't > be a LTS kernel. i just finished a complete 7.3rc build (including xfce, > mozilla, gimp, libreoffice, qemu) with kernel 3.8 without any issues > (with texinfo 4.13a, not 5.0). > ubuntu 13.04 will probably use 3.8 - i assume the 3.8 will be supported > much longer than 3.7 This is probably OK. It certainly is a minor change to the book. Matt, what do you think? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
