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From those who follow your work, but rarely interact with you directly,
a huge thanks. I have been creating/updating B/LFS systems since 2012
and so have seen both yuour woek and how patiently you treat these on
this forums who have both real and self-inflicted problems.
Good luck in whatever you are pursuing in the future, and thanks again.
Pat
On 5/13/25 1:21 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 Now that my font analysis and comparison website has been archived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.
>
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