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 Method will work for what I want (since i actually will have two-three servers, four desktops, and a few single use Linux boxes) and i want to be able to compile once and then use on all the systems. From what I was ready GNU Stow looks like a good program to use. Here are my questions
1st Is it possible/a prudent Idea to use something like stow for all packages (with the exception of GCC, Binutils, Glibc, and the API Headers)? If other packages should be install directly which ones? 2nd is an upgrade question. I have my nice working LFS system and being the good administor find that one of my packages(example ncurses) releases a 5.1 where all I have is 5.0. a bunch of my other packages depend on this package can I just complie and install the one package or is there something I have to do for all the other packages that depend on it? Thank You, Casey -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
