On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 05:31:02PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Fernando de Oliveira wrote: > > >As you might have already noticed, I decided to take the risk of keeping > >gcc-5. > > I think that's reasonable. > Given that Fernando fixed his problem(s) with LLVM, I'm sure he can probably handle any issues which come up in the future. I don't think I would do so well, but my point was initially about the unspecified problem(s) which Fernando did not mention. > > >Reason I don1t do like Ken: first my scripts are individual. For each > >package-version I have a package-version.sh. And I keep all old ones in > >an "old" directory. This lets me compare when things get wrong. > > I do the same, although my scripts are executable. I keep both old scripts > and old package versions. For instance I was just looking at wget and have: > > make-wget-1.13 > make-wget-1.13.4 > make-wget-1.14 > make-wget-1.15 > make-wget-1.16.1 > > And the associated tarballs.
For released versions, keeping old tarballs wastes space - on your backup media. Also, the changes are not just from the package version - sometimes other packages (libraries) require a change in their users, like the libvpx fix in old gst-ffmpeg, other times it is a toolchain change, and occasionally the kernel headers caused a change - although that is unlikely now. I now keep my scripts in git - occasionally, I have to branch back to really old versions to try to work out when something dropped out (git blame is nicer than svn blame, but equally useless if you need to work out when a command fell out), but mostly I can look at commits to see what changed. > > >However, this makes building a new system very slow, so, my work > >updating packages is much better than when I need to start building a > >new system for tagging. And the consequence is always a lot of tickets > >accumulated. > > Been there, done that. > Yeah, between 7.6 and 7.7 I only built about one set of test systems. Updating my LFS and BLFS scripts took ages. This time, not so much has changed since 7.7, but I still missed two package updates in BLFS. > >Thanks again, and please, wish me good luck. > > Good luck. However I don't think you need it. You make your own. > > -- Bruce > If I make my own luck, I again think I must have been really bad in a previous existence (not that I believe in previous existences). So I'll wish Fernando and everybody else Good Luck. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
