On 12/27/2018 9:09 PM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote:
[putolin]
Hello, Well for me personally, I never update an existing version of lfs/blfs. I do a full clean rebuild of each and every package. Each time a new version of lfs/blfs is pending, I do a baremetal re-installation. I also have all of my previous buildnotes on hand and actually edit my own local copy of the book at the same time. I try building as per my previous notes and update them accordingly. Of course I am not employed, so this is my form of entertainment. The time taken when you are employed, and have family commitments is drastically reduced, hence updating an existing system is, even with issues caused by newer versions most probably less time consuming than the 3 to 4 days it takes me to fully install 400+ packages in building from scratch. I know for me, that when I do a clean install and get the absolute latest of everything (for me even lfs is not excluded from me updating to the latest.) that everything that I want installed works well with everything else. If we had our own package manager and had enough people to actually have a security team, then I would just do the updates.
I use rpm package manager to build LFS and I have some of BLFS completed. It is on github.com
I have tried forcing myself to write scripts and to try to get a distro independent package manager to work, but my mind just totally shuts down on that, as I detest programming as much as trying to do accounting.
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