On 10/31/2016 02:58 PM, Samuel Tyler wrote:
I have a few questions for the editors: For your main (production) system, do you use a stable build of LFS or the development build? And why? Thanks, Samuel
Define main system. :-) If you are referring to the laptop that I use most, development constantly. I've been playing with our toolchain build a bit lately, so it's been getting replaced frequently--I don't bother with updates on it unless it affects something that I plan to commit. Build, boot, test with a shared /home (and network storage). If no good, scrap it. If good (or close enough), remove original, do it over again on that partition.
If you are inquiring of production systems (plural), main is not something I'd care to define. This message gets much longer and includes Arch, CentOS, as well as LFS - though LFS has the prominent role of primary network storage, and is updated much more conservatively than any of the others (except for maybe the CentOS box). Latest != greatest. I'm guessing that updating is at least part of the question above. An intelligent backup scheme (including packaging), and planning/testing on a similar box go a long way to avoiding and/or circumventing any surprises that result in any significant downtime.
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