On 10/19/05, Jeremy Byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tushar, you say the toolchain programs are backwards compatible but that > library names can be changed and so they must be preserved. You aren't > completely removing the old version in this case, you are creating a > merged mess of installations.
That is true. One needs a suitable pacakge manager to determine which files can be removed after an upgrade. Libraries have to be handled in a special way if there is an soname change, the dependent packages need to be recompiled. This also requires some form of script to determine which pacakges need to be recompiled. > Of course, if you are a technically informed reader, you already know > whether or not it is safe to replace your toolchain packages with a > given version difference and what packages will be affected and so you > can feel free to ignore the 'bad idea'/'should never remove' warnings, > knowing full well what you are doing. Unfortunately, many people who > need to reference the BLFS book do not come close to fitting into this > category; in fact, I'd be surprised if any but most of the devs do. :-) So basically guys who know how to upgrade the toolchain packages don't need to read the LFS book :) -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
