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 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
