> Hi! > > > > I had been using LFS for half a year until I realized that keeping it > > up-to-date is a pain. I feel I'd like to have some hard work again:), > > so now I'm trying to upgrade that system. As far as I know It could > > be a failure, but definately not an easy task... I'm confused about > > how to upgrade the toolchain. I believe constructing a temp. system > > can be skipped, as I have a functional LFS. I'm doing the "project" > > chrooting into LFS. I have updated the arithmetic packages that gcc > > need, and binutils. Ok, to make it short I don't know the order of > > the packages to update. > > > > Any clue would be appreciated! > > Why do you want to upgrade? Is something not working or do you just > want the latest of each package. > > I have to agree -- I'm still running a venerable LFS 6.1.1 build which is quite capable of supporting, for example, the latest Erlang and Postgres packages.
I do have a question, however, regarding vulnerabilities in old packages. Does anybody know of a good website that lists vulnerabilities as they are found. That would enable us to replace just those packages in old builds that represent a security risk. Richard
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