On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:14:52 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> More to the point, I've long thought that we don't really cover
> "the long-term care of your LFS system" (e.g. I don't think we point out
Care and maintenance of any complicated entity, a house, a garage, a
method of building an OS, maint
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 05:48:15PM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote:
>
> A minor Glibc version upgrade can typically be done a lot easier. Often
> there aren't any problems as far as I can remember.
>
No doubt if I keep casting aspersions on the likely appearance of
2.5.1 I'll aggravate one of the d
> From memory it's a major PITA to upgrade gcc or glibc on a running
> system--I don't think I was ever successful. I never tried binutils but,
> again from memory, the general rule was that anything in the toolchain
> was going to present its own special set of piles of problems.
Like Steve s
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:57:46 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Has anyone tried rebuilding and installing these packages in place on
> the current system? If so, what experiences have you had?
>From memory it's a major PITA to upgrade gcc or glibc on a running
system--I don't think I was ever success
I've been thinking about how to upgrade a system without going through a
full LFS build. AFAICT, almost every package on a system can be
upgraded without a reboot. BLFS packages are very straight forward as
well as gcc, and most of the other LFS packages.
Of course a kernel upgrade would need a
