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 What is the point in releasing a book that is obsolete even before it is published?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

2006-06-26 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 What is the point in releasing a book that is obsolete even before it is published?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 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 a book that is obsolete even before it is published?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 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 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 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 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 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 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