Lars Bamberger wrote: > On 25.08.2012 20:15, Nate Muench wrote: >> I'm curious, is BLFS ever going to get a stable release again? It's been >> 4 years since the last one (6.3). I'll be honest, I've been putting off >> a rebuild of BLFS (LFS) because if the, more frequent, uploads to the >> BLFS svn branch. > > This has been discussed here and the consensus was that BLFS will be a > 'rolling release'. Due to the huge amount of packages, that does make > some sense. > > Basically, take any snapshot of BLFS and go ahead and build it. > > On the other hand, not having stable releases from time to time can be > frustrating. Me for example, I try to keep my BLFS system reasonably > up-to-date since this is my production system. (Probably not a very good > idea, I dunno.) That leads me to have to rebuild the whole system when > an basic lib that is a dependency for a lot of other packages get's > updated and some combination of versions of packages do not work > together. (The recent update of libffi forced me to rebuild almost > everything. I now keep old libs around in /opt/legacy to avoid that > dependencies get pulled out from under other packages.) > > For me, a decision point when to rebuild my system would be a new major > version of GNOME or Xorg. In BLFS, that is entirely up to you to decide.
My decision point is when I am missing some features that I want. See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/files/updating-lfs.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
