Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-26 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 6/26/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I'm happy to upgrade the toolchain on the understanding that this will set a 6.2 release back by at least another 6-8 weeks. It also means that all of the stabilisation work done by the BLFS team is more or less negated as they've bee

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-26 Thread Jim Gifford
Matt thinking about his more carefully then trying to explain myself. I will say, this is a decision that needs to be made by Gerard and not us. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-26 Thread Miguel Bazdresch
* Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-06-26 17:01]: > Jeremy (Not Huntwork?) That's probably Jeremy Utley. These days you can find him in #lfs-support on IRC as J_Man. -- Miguel Bazdresch http://thewizardstower.org/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linux

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jim Gifford wrote: Bruce, I would rather go with. http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ecl1.php After a very brief look over that license I can't tell any fundamental differences between the ECL and CC by-nc-sa license in Bruce's patch. Would you care to elaborate on *why* you prefer the ECL o

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I propose to send all a message asking for a statement assigning of the copyright for their contributions to Gerard. I don't think copyright assignment is necessary, and is actually likely to hinder progress as it is a legal process which will likely take time and money to

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-26 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: Yep, I think #1765 (update LFS license) can be retargetted as it's not a show-stopper and needs to be done properly so will take time. The current license has served us well enough so far, I think. I would really like to get this into 6.2 so

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/26/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tushar Teredesai wrote: > The latest glibc and gcc releases are atleast 3 months old (which in > terms of LFS timeline is a long time). What is the point in releasing > a book that is obsolete even before it is published? I would vote for > u

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-26 Thread Matthew Burgess
Tushar Teredesai wrote: The latest glibc and gcc releases are atleast 3 months old (which in terms of LFS timeline is a long time). What is the point in releasing a book that is obsolete even before it is published? I would vote for updating the book to glibc-2.4.x and gcc-4.1.x and then stablize

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-26 Thread Andrew Benton
Tushar Teredesai wrote: The latest glibc and gcc releases are atleast 3 months old (which in terms of LFS timeline is a long time). What is the point in releasing a book that is obsolete even before it is published? I would vote for updating the book to glibc-2.4.x and gcc-4.1.x and then stablize

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-25 Thread Tushar Teredesai
The latest glibc and gcc releases are atleast 3 months old (which in terms of LFS timeline is a long time). What is the point in releasing a book that is obsolete even before it is published? I would vote for updating the book to glibc-2.4.x and gcc-4.1.x and then stablize that before releasing th

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Matthew Burgess wrote: >> >>> Yep, I think #1765 (update LFS license) can be retargetted as it's not a >>> show-stopper and needs to be done properly so will take time. The >>> current license has served us well enough so far, I think. >> >> I would r

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-25 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: Yep, I think #1765 (update LFS license) can be retargetted as it's not a show-stopper and needs to be done properly so will take time. The current license has served us well enough so far, I think. I would really like to get this into 6.2 so the BLFS

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Yep, I think #1765 (update LFS license) can be retargetted as it's not a > show-stopper and needs to be done properly so will take time. The > current license has served us well enough so far, I think. I would really like to get this into 6.2 so the BLFS and LFS books us

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-20 Thread Matthew Burgess
Dan Nicholson wrote: * Update test logs and failure info for toolchain: glibc, gcc, binutils I can provide logs for PIII as Archaic asked a couple weeks ago. I'll probably bootstrap a system using jhalfs for testing in the next week or so. Thanks, I think this is ticket #1659 or at least very

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-20 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/20/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 06/20/06 13:31 CST: > * Linux-2.6.17 or stick with 2.6.16 series? > > * Package updates within same series (udev, e2fsprogs, shadow, bison?) If we keep mentioning these types of issues, we will *never* get

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-20 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 06/20/06 13:31 CST: > * Linux-2.6.17 or stick with 2.6.16 series? > > * Package updates within same series (udev, e2fsprogs, shadow, bison?) If we keep mentioning these types of issues, we will *never* get a book out. Package updates (security issue with the ke

Re: Outstanding issues for LFS-6.2

2006-06-20 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/19/06, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, if anyone is aware of any issues that have been reported over the last couple of months and are still outstanding could you please get them into Trac (where, arguably, they should have gone as well as/instead of to the list) if they are