On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 02:38:27PM -0700, Paul Rogers via blfs-support wrote: > > And then it bit me. On my development systems, which I also use as > > my normal desktops, I've got multiple LFS systems, with shared > > /home. And I update all those I claim to keep supported. > > Yeah, sooner or later that's *got* to bite one. > I only ever intend to run the latest version on any of these systems (for past BLFS releases I try to support them for security items for a period, and firefox releases usually have security fixes). And when I've updated one system on a box then I make sure not to run firefox on the remaining systems there until I've updated them.
At least this is probably my last set of updates for a BLFS-8.0 system, and I might drop 8.1 sooner rather than later. > Ken, there is another way out! alias ff='firefox -P $xyzzy' In your > bash_profile query uname and find which system you're on, set xyzzy to be the > appropriate for that system and make a separate profile for each particular > system, and Bob' your Uncle. > Yeah, done that in the past when testing beta versions. > And thanks. I've never confuddled /home for exactly this reason--it's *got* > to bite one in the nether regions sooner or later! But if I ever needed to, > now I know what to do. > Great! BLFS is about learning, it's just that sometimes the learning comes at unexpected times. ĸen -- Before the universe began, there was a sound. It went: "One, two, ONE, two, three, four" [...] The cataclysmic power chord that followed was the creation of time and space and matter and it does Not Fade Away. - wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Music_With_Rocks_In -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
