How do you calculate SBUS?

[Bruce Dubbs]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> 2009/6/25 William Immendorf <will.immendorf at gmail.com>:
>> Hey,
>>
>> I'm just wondering: How do you calculate the SBU amount for (B)LFS
>> packages? Because I want to see the SBUS for new packages, and recent
>> versions of packages.

> In theory, the same way as in LFS, but using the LFS version
> for which the book is targetted (so, supposedly 6.4 at the
> moment, with gcc-4.3 not 4.4.).
> 
> In practice, I've never found the (small) figures are
> necessarily consistent, so if I'm editing and an SBU is
> different from mine but not manifestly wrong I'll leave
> it.
> 
> I think other editors have taken a different view, hence
> the small SBUs recorded to 2 places of decimals.
> 
> Usually, it's better for a reporter to leave the calculation -
> if I accept a ticket, I'll build the package (often several times)
> and form a view of the time and space required, and I'm
> sure the other editors will do likewise.  Of course, things get
> harder when there are a lot of optional dependencies.

It's in the Editor's Guide and the SBU web page:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/edguide/chapter06.html
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~sbu/about.html

   -- Bruce