First, Xmas felicitations to everyone!
People on -support might remember that I used to update my recent
desktop systems for important vulnerability fixes (or for new
versions of my preferred browser - firefox), but that after
firefox-58 I was no-lomger able to update my oldest systems, and
gave up.
In theory, BLFS is a rolling release, and therefore everybody
updates everything. I suggest that in practice nobody updates
everything.
For various reasons, with the release of qt-5.12.0 (not yet in the
book, because although the full build including qtwebengine is fine,
building qtwebengine separately does not work : to my surprise,
there has been activity this week on the ticket I raised, but it is
not yet sorted) I decided to try updating an old LFS/BLFS-8.0 system
to see if I could. And I could!
That desktop system now appears to be up to date for major issues
(in particular, firefox-64.0 and deps, and qt-5.12.0, as well as
recent versions of some other packages). But udated mupdf seemed
terminally broken - so for such systems (also applies to BLFS-8.1)
I've reverted to dropping system libs from mupdf.
So, for my attempts to keep old systems viable, things are looking
better, at least until firefox-65 appears (that will need a newer
version of rustc, but for me 1.31.1 fails to build from source).
This building everything rom source is a fun game, isn't it ?
ĸen
--
The Laird o’Phelps spent Hogmanay declaring he was sober,
Counted his feet to prove the fact and found he had one foot over.
-- Louis MacNeice, Bagpipe Music
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