[Clfs-dev] CLFS 3.0 RC1

[William Harrington]

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Chris Staub <chris at beaker67.com>
> Date: June 29, 2014 3:53:18 AM CDT
> To: William Harrington <kb0iic at berzerkula.org>
> Subject: Re: [Clfs-dev] CLFS 3.0 RC1
>
> On 06/27/14 23:21, William Harrington wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> there isn't much left in the book to add or take away for content.  
>> I'd
>> like to let it settle for a couple of weeks and get confirmed  
>> builds and
>> test suite info.
>>
>> Remember for builds try to get a cross compile which builds from 32  
>> bit
>> to 64 bit for same arch targets such as an x86_64 host to an x86_64
>> pure64 or multilib target.
>>
>> We can at lest test most of the cross compilers with any target  
>> from x86
>> or x86_64 for mips, ppc, sparc
>>
>> Some hardware we are lacking such as ppc64 and sparc/sparc64 and
>> mips/mips64.
>>
>> We can at least test the cross compiling.
>>
>> Are all versions of packages good as of now without any issues? Is  
>> there
>> any reason why we wouldn't be sorry we didn't include the newer  
>> version
>> of e2fsprogs? I haven't checked the changelogs, yet.
>
> I don't see anything vital in the RELEASE-NOTES for the latest  
> e2fsprogs, though most of the changes mentioned are for stuff I  
> don't use, like quotas, so I'm not sure if anyone else might find  
> the upgrade useful.
>
>> I'd say an RC1 in July could be a good target.
>
> Yeah, I think that's reasonable.