> Hi Paul, since you mentioned firefox I'll just mention (to everybody > else, I suspect you don't care ;) that 48.0.2 almost certainly has > vulnerabilities. At the moment ff45 apparently has ESR releases - > until ff-52 is out. But that still means rebuilding on every point > releasse.
Good point. I guess I don't mind building 45. (I really don't like this "rapid release" paradigm, but on the other hand with so many miscreants exploiting any vulnerabilities...) > But I'm glad you are updating. I was going to suggest that you read > the errata, but in fact those for sysv probably don't specifically > mention anything you build - in practice, the versions in svn for the > xorg packages (not libXfont-2), openssl, openssh, gnutls, gdk-pixbuf [ > that is probably a newer minor version ], ImageMagick (-6, in your > case) and probably some others are vulnerability fixes. No, I will checkout at least the 7.10 stable release errata. One of the reasons I trail is to let the adventurous deal with the svn hassles. I _want_ there to be errata! I've put a second i7 into service as a compiling engine, or I wouldn't have even considered it. I've been using my own infrastructure for over a decade, and it takes a good long time to check on and reconcile differences. It has to be worth the effort. > The point is that we're continually trying to get better. I Not me. I appreciate the work you all do, but I make systems to _use_, not for the glory of making them. (And it has been so since I soldered up my first IMSAI in 1976!) > recognize that for Paul moving to 7.10 is a big jump forward, but No, actually it the shortest jump yet! I did 4.1, 6.1, 2.1, 6.6, 7.2, & 7.7. > old versions are not maintained. If anybody is starting now and > intending to keep using LFS, my advice is to use svn and to watch for > what changes until 8.0 is released. At a certain point one is entitled to believe "Life's too short." I still don't know what I'll do with it. 7.7 satisfies me. p.s. I supplied Bruce with a new md5sums file. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - mmm... Fastmail... -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
