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On 5/13/25 12:21 PM, Ken Moffat ([email protected] via blfs-dev
Mailing List) wrote:
> Now that my font analysis and comparison website has been archived
> at https://typosetting.linuxfromscratch.org I'm just about done.
>
> 1. I hope to be around for a few days if there are problems with
> that website (e.g. missing files). I'm currently getting some
> posts from the texlive list. If you have not looked at the
> previous site recently, everythng (except some C or C++ code
> which I copied and is licensed under GPL2 or GPL3) is now
> under the MIT License, so you should be able to copy and
> adapt anything which is useful to you.
>
> 2. I obviously bit off a lot more than I could chew in the last
> year. To update my 'fonts' machine (Zen1, but masses of RAM)
> I cross-built for Zen1 on my Zen2 machine. That went fairly
> well, although transferring the build logs got screwed up.
>
> After that, among other things I looked at xfce for xwayland
> and during that I had a lot of changes which I never committed
> because I did not like the results. Meanwhile, for the fonts
> machine I concentrated on revising the fonts website and my
> many working files.
>
> Later, building 12.3 I seem to have severely screwed things
> up (successful builds on three machines, but the build order
> seems to have become corrupted - LLVM some time after the
> SPIRV LLVM stuff).
>
> Also, I used to be able to build a chunk of BLFS in chroot,
> and then after booting I could go back to chroot. Now, I
> am unable to umount /mnt/lfs and forced rebbot causes a lot
> of filesystem damage (missing files). Unfortunately, the
> things I rely on for a fresh system use a series of scripts
> which do not lend themselves to converting to individual
> items.
>
> The result is that on my font machine I am unable to build
> a usable 12.3 system.
>
> Summary: if you use your own scripts, you *really* need to
> build LFS-dev and BLFS-dev frequently, to keep abreast of
> the changes. That, of course, is a big amount of time for
> most people.
>
> 3. So, I'll be out of here in the next few days. I'd like
> to thank everyone who has assisted or critiqued what I've
> done here over the years.
>
> 4. Finally, although in BLFS I have correctly moved to an
> ex-editor in the credits, at https://www.linuxfromscratch.org
> I am still listed as an editor. I think that is probably
> in the www2 repo, but I no-longer know where that is.
> Please can someone delete that line ? Thanks.
>
>
> Ken, aka Marvin the Paranoid android.
Hi Ken,
I wanted to thank you for everything that you've done over the years,
and also for your friendship! Emailing back and forth with you over the
years has always been a highlight of what my time in *LFS. You've done
very great work with fonts, mutt, security stuff, Texlive, and the
Mozilla packages and I'm very grateful for everything you've done and
how much you've helped me over the years!
I hope nothing but the best for you, and if you need anything I am but
an email away :)
- Doug
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