Re: Questions on Upgrading and Package Management

2011-04-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Casey Daniels wrote: > I finally was able to finish my first LFS system and it was a fun time. > Now I have some questions. I plan on building my second build that I > actually plan on using but didn't understand much about Package > Management or Upgrading. From the Short info in the Book i

Re: Questions on Upgrading and Package Management

2011-02-09 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 17:00 -0500, Casey Daniels wrote: > How specific do you mean when it comes to architecture? something as > generic as 64 bit? or you talking more specific down to AMD or Intel and > what flags the CPU has? Generally I will do most of my work on a laptop > which has a AMD

Re: Questions on Upgrading and Package Management

2011-02-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Feb 08, 2011 at 05:00:46PM -0500, Casey Daniels wrote: > > I have no opinion on your preferred package management. In theory, > > build once, run on multiple machines of the same architecture > > *probably* works. Certainly, LFS does its best to build down to a > > "lowest common denomi

Re: Questions on Upgrading and Package Management

2011-02-08 Thread Casey Daniels
> I have no opinion on your preferred package management. In theory, > build once, run on multiple machines of the same architecture > *probably* works. Certainly, LFS does its best to build down to a > "lowest common denominator" (i486 when most people with 32-bit x86 > can probably use i686).

Re: Questions on Upgrading and Package Management

2011-02-07 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:34:56PM -0500, Casey Daniels wrote: > I finally was able to finish my first LFS system and it was a fun time. > Now I have some questions. I plan on building my second build that I > actually plan on using but didn't understand much about Package > Management or Upg

Questions on Upgrading and Package Management

2011-02-07 Thread Casey Daniels
I finally was able to finish my first LFS system and it was a fun time. Now I have some questions. I plan on building my second build that I actually plan on using but didn't understand much about Package Management or Upgrading. From the Short info in the Book it looks like the Symlink Met