On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 21:55:11 +0200 "Angel Tsankov" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What I'm trying to say is that upgrading a package (major) is > > possible imho. > > > If updating (or should I say "upgrading"?) a package is dangerous, then how > can one keep a LFS system up to date? <snip> > > P.S. How often do you reinstall your Linux systems? > I usually rebuild my whole system from scratch about twice a year (I have scripts for most of it). In between rebuilds I rebuild any package other than binutils/gcc/glibc - the c-lib and it's toolchain I usually take a root system snapshot to a spare partition before rebuilding anything critical though - I have never had to use it. One can get too paranoid about these things in my opinion. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
