On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:48:15PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > > A minor Glibc version upgrade can typically be done a lot easier. Often > there aren't any problems as far as I can remember. > No doubt if I keep casting aspersions on the likely appearance of 2.5.1 I'll aggravate one of the developers sufficiently and it will be released (meanwhile, I note that 2.6.1 is still not out, despite the malloc debug issue Greg pointed to in http://www.diy-linux.org/pipermail/diy-linux-dev/2007-May/001040.html ) so please forgive my scepticism that glibc will ever issue minor version upgrades again.
More to the point, I've long thought that we don't really cover "the long-term care of your LFS system" (e.g. I don't think we point out that people need to monitor security lists). I periodically see mails from people who built LFS in a single partition using all of their disk - maybe we should admit that long term you should be rebuilding your LFS to get to a new version, and therefore you might want to consider your partitioning (e.g. perhaps put /home on a separate partition as well as leaving space for the next build) ? OTOH, I think I can remember a large effort to prevent the book being dumbed-down, so maybe this is something that should be obvious to builders who intend to stay with LFS. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
