Thanks for the reply, Ken. Please, read inline.
--- Em ter, 22/11/11, Ken Moffat <k...@linuxfromscratch.org> escreveu: > De: Ken Moffat <k...@linuxfromscratch.org> > Assunto: Re: [lfs-dev] Binutils 2.22 > Para: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" <lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org> > Data: Terça-feira, 22 de Novembro de 2011, 17:49 > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 08:59:04AM > -0800, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: ... > > How safe is the upgrade to Binutils 2.22? > > > *any* upgrade of the toolchain is unknown territory on an > LFS > system. Seriously, if it becomes too old to build a > current kernel > (been there, seen it) then *add* a recent binutils and gcc > in a > different prefix and use that to build a current kernel, > and then > build a new system using the old system with new kernel as > the host. Please, let me know if I understand correctly: with this, I do not need to build chapter 5? ... > What are you expecting to gain from upgrading binutils > ? I'm just > curious. > ... > ĸen I would like to understand: 1. What is exactly a or the toolchain. 2. How far can one upgrade LFS 3. Why the toolchain cannot be upgraded. To do that, first I decided to make a copy of a virtual machine (I think it was LFS 6.5) and tried to upgrade everything. Of course, did not work. After I started using Paco, it is easier to keep packages upgraded, so I started upgrading BLFS and other non-*LFS packages but Gnome (of which I use a small subset just to satisfy dependencies). At the risk of breaking the so-called toolchain, I decided to do the same with some LFS which I see other distributions upgrading regularly, and now only 9 packages remain unchanged. LFS (7.0) SVN-20111116 chapter 6 consists of 55 packages. With respect to SVN-20111116, my LFS - 6.5 6.7 6.8 have: 1. 9 packages older (unchanged) 2. 1 package upgraded and older 3. 4 packages upgraded and more recent 4. 41 packages upgraded Below, you can find a list of the unchanged and more recent packages. Package versions unchanged as in the original LFS - 6.5 6.7 6.8: 1. Linux API Headers 2. Glibc 2.10.1 2.12.1 2.13 3. Binutils 2.19.1 2.20.1.20100303 2.21 4. Coreutils 7.4 8.5 8.10 5. Bash 4.0.28 4.1.7 4.2.0 6. GRUB-1.98 7. Man-DB 2.5.5 2.5.7 2.5.9 8. Psmisc 22.8 22.12 22.13 9. Sysvinit 2.86 2.88dsf 2.88dsf (probably) Package version upgraded but older version than LFS (7.0) SVN-20111116: 1. GCC-4.5.2 Package versions upgraded more recent than LFS (7.0) SVN-20111116: 1. Ncurses-5.9.20110404 2. Grep-2.1.0 3. Udev-175 4. Vim-7.3.353 []s, Fernando de Oliveira Natal, RN, BRAZIL -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
