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From: Michael Black on 2 Mar 2010 00:13 Who knows what was going on, but today, March 1st, there are a massive number of updates listed in the changelog page, 25 pages as seen by Lynx. I don't really see anything to indicate why it took a month from the last update, but while I'm getting better at reading the changelog because I'm reading it regularly now, I'm not yet an expert. Michael
From: Robby Workman on 2 Mar 2010 00:54 On 2010-03-02, Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: > Who knows what was going on, but today, March 1st, there are a massive > number of updates listed in the changelog page, 25 pages as seen by Lynx. Yep, and at least two problems. 1. Go ahead and upgrade gmp early in the process. 1a. If you don't, you'll later need to manually extract the package to / and then ( cd / ; sh install/doinst.sh ; rm -rf /install ) 2. libpng is an unmitigated disaster. Apparently the concept of *why* shared libraries have those annoying numbers after them is entirely foreign to them. Kill the manual symlink kludge in the build script and build 1.4.0 yourself and all will be fine, at least for now. 2a. I speak for me, not for Slackware, BoB, Jehovah, or Ginsberg, unless of course he Howls at me. > I don't really see anything to indicate why it took a month from the last > update, but while I'm getting better at reading the changelog because I'm > reading it regularly now, I'm not yet an expert. Patience, grasshopper. :-) -RW
From: Grant on 2 Mar 2010 01:07 On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:13:42 -0500, Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: >Who knows what was going on, but today, March 1st, there are a massive >number of updates listed in the changelog page, 25 pages as seen by Lynx. > >I don't really see anything to indicate why it took a month from the last >update, but while I'm getting better at reading the changelog because I'm >reading it regularly now, I'm not yet an expert. Got an email saying there are 3 security patches, so I guess my rsync for them will also pickup the new stuff. Might be worth trying out slack-current now? Grant. -- http://bugs.id.au/
From: Mikhail Zotov on 2 Mar 2010 03:54 On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:13:42 -0500 Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: > Who knows what was going on, but today, March 1st, there are a massive > number of updates listed in the changelog page http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-changelog-stalling-or-not/ -- Mikhail
From: John K. Herreshoff on 2 Mar 2010 08:26
Mikhail Zotov wrote: > On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 00:13:42 -0500 > Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: > >> Who knows what was going on, but today, March 1st, there are a massive >> number of updates listed in the changelog page > > http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-changelog-stalling-or-not/ > Take your time with this :-) John. -- Using the Laptop at home. |