Hello friends: I'm returning to the list because I'm in trouble updating to LFS-6.4 my central server (an IBM xSeries 206m) who is a LFS-6.2 with a patched kernel 2.6.13.5. Yes, I know I shouldn't let you alone with that few late newbies who DON'T READ THE BOOK, but I've had a lot of work this late months (years?).
Well, this is my little story: I've installed and worked LFS in production systems since LFS-5.1.1. Thanks a lot to Gerard, Matthew, Jeremy, Ken, Dan, Bryan, Alexander and Manuel and the community for this treasure. I'm reading/following the brilliant 6.4 book. I downloaded the wget list of packages and run wget with it. I didn't see the download error (file not found) at the glibc-2.8-20080929 item from ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/glibc/snapshots/glibc-2.8-20080929.tar.bz2 I started the Chap.5 and I've completed the first steps (binutils, gcc, linux api headers) when I detected the missing tarball (glibc-2.8-20090929.tar.bz2). I connected to sources.redhat.com and that tarball isn't there. My error: I don't «google» for it and I don't seek in the list archives in LFS website. My ¿second error?: I went to http://www.gnu.org/software/libc and downloaded the last version available (glibc-2.8-20081215) I proceeed with the rest of Chap.5 without problems. The questions: What is the probability to have problems if I walk into the Chap. 6 with glibc-2.8-20081215? Must I install the glibc patches of the book in this case? Must I download, like the book reads, glibc-2.8-20080929 from a mirror site and walk across the Chap.5 again (I'm so lazy :-) ) Thanks a lot in advance. Un abrazo. J.C. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
