Am Donnerstag, den 09.04.2020, 20:28 +0200 schrieb Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev: > > <snip> > > > I'm planning to do a full rebuild this year, if time permits, shall I > > > refrain from updating stuff until then? > > > > Yes, I think you probably should do that. I do not update my day-to-day > > system that oftern (maybe once a year), but I think most editors have > > separate development systems that have the latest packages. > > Ok. I just bought another 16 GB of RAM for my development server, after > putting it in I should be able to start a new full build while leaving > my current system up and running.
Just as a side-note: Sometimes, packages shows strange behaviour when compiled on new tool chain. That happens sometimes when gcc and/or glibc has been updated. Than, a newer gcc might complain about constructs while older gccs does not or glibc hides definitions which were visible previously so we encounter that a package might be needed to be patched somehow. This is one of the reasons why the toolchain should be kind of recent. IMHO building on VMs is sufficient. Just prepare a VM (using VirtualBox (i'm a big fan of that software) which also can be built using LFS!) and you can try stuff just as you like. Create snapshots, test something, rollback, clone it and throw it away and so on. I use VMs (i686,x86_64) with three disks: sda /boot, /home, swap (~32 GB) sdb System 1 (~20 GB) sdc System 2 (~20 GB) So i can build Sys2 from Sys1, and than build Sys1 from Sys2 and so on... Using same layout for machines (again i686 and x86_64) installed with the "LFS releases": sda /boot, /home, swap sdb lfs-9.0 sdc lfs-9.1 Disk sizing quite similar to the devel-VMs. Next time, when 9.2 is released, I'll install 9.2 on sdb using lfs-9.1. If there is really something which needs the hardware directly, its easy to tar up a built system and extract it on a physical partition and boot it there. Since the SBU is relative by nature, it is not that relevant that a VM might be a tiny bit slower than the physical machine. Ok, backup is somewhat time consuming when transferring the vdi to NAS, but thats something for which night+fcron is good for. Just my 2ct ... and please don't stop taking tickets (on a recent toolchain ;-) )! -- Thomas -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
