Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sat, Dec 13, 2014 at 10:27:47AM -0800, Paul Rogers wrote:
Sorry, Ken, I got a version of the BLFS book that was contemporaneous
with LFS-7.2, "Version 2012-11-02". It always seems to say: "This
package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.2 platform."
8-)
Well in that case, any old kernel - there have been _so_many_
vulnerability fixes since then (kernel, nss, ssl, xorg).
Don't forget bash.
I don't have any problem with you building old versions of things,
but I would not use them, except with extreme caution.
ĸen
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