Thanks for your response, Ken. I do things a little differently (I'm not part of the LFS-dev team after all), but the extra context helps me.
> Personally, I think you are literally wasting your (build) time I'm always bringing up the rear, a couple years behind. My goal is to have usable systems I use until I _have to_ update. Currently LFS-6.6 & BLFS-6.3 with minor updates. I'm not planning to stop with FF-15, just take it a couple updates at a time until the number of dependency upgrades needed get's too out of step with what I consider _my_ "system version". I'd rather take the time to do that than making too far a leap and have a headache of dependencies to straighten out. > for no obvious benefit. On my fastest machine (with 4 CPUs), a > firefox upgrade typically takes about 45 minutes just for firefox. I have an i7 for a compiling engine, but my "daily driver" is an old 1.4MHz P-3. It may not make sense, but that's it for now. An upgrade to a Core-2 "Conroe" might be in the foreseeable future. > Certainly ff-15 has so many known vulnerabilities that I would be > very reluctant to use it, but the same is true (albeit fewer > vulnerabilities) for every version up to and including 28! For the > .0.1 versions I am unsure if they actually bring anything to linux - > as I noted the other day, on _one_ of my machines 29.0.1 reinstated > the "menu" bar which went missing in 29.0. The previous .0.1 was, I > think, a windows-only fix. This is 15.0.1 actually, presuming it's got initial glitches fixed. > I find the idea of checking out each old version of the book where > firefox was upgraded "weird", but I am sure that BLFS trac can handle I don't use BLFS trac yet. I got into that version from a Google search. > it. I am more inclined to believe that you have managed to mix > versions of the dependent packages, and that an old version of > firefox does not like the version of sqlite that you are now using. That's what it seemed to me. Thanks for the confirmation! I'll backtrack. > Seriously, what I recommend is that you upgrade to 29.0.1, with all > the current dependencies, I am NOT going to keep up with Mozilla's rapid release strategy!!! Not sure I need to go that far. I'm rather modest in my demands on what my browser must do. And every package/update one adds just increases the potential for a flaw that much more (not that my base system is necessarily flawless, but my openssl was!) Thanks again. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
