On 22/05/2019 01:12, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote:
> 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.
> 

Still learning English. I didn't know that "sometimes" could mean "always" :)

Pierre


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