Re: [lfs-dev] Editors only: stable vs development
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. HTH --DJ -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [lfs-dev] Editors only: stable vs development
On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:58 PM, Samuel Tyler < samuel.ty...@education.nsw.gov.au> 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? > > I use a development build (I am a nut for security, and as a result, I don't like having vulnerabilities open). My workstation is running SVN-20161014-systemd. I am still building it though, and I probably use a lot more packages regularly than Bruce does. The programming environment that I need to use for one of my classes has a ton of GNOME integration / dependencies, so I have to build a large majority of GNOME in order for it to work properly (or reliably, for that matter). Thanks, > > Samuel > > > -- > Samuel Tyler > > *** > This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain > privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not > the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [lfs-dev] : Editors only: stable vs development
On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 06:58:48AM +1100, 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 > Both. I suppose that arguably my main production system is my SandyBridge i3, and for that I now only normally build stable LFS and the corresponding BLFS release (takes so long, even for only the parts I use!). If I manage to get time (not likely now), my machine for photo editing and sound recording happens to be running svn from a few weeks before 7.10. For what I want to do there (particularly, more playing with 16-bit photos in gimp-2.9) that build is good enough. My Haswell is running 7.10. I build LFS svn and enough of BLFS (openssl, openssh, ntp, nfs, git, etc) to check it was usable when I did the updates the other week. But now it is waiting for the next Xorg server upgrade to be released. In any case, if I tag a package in BLFS for 7.10 then I ought to be running close to 7.10. But in practice I'm not going to do much at the moment - too many other problems, mostly not computer. ĸen -- `I shall take my mountains', said Lu-Tze. `The climate will be good for them.' -- Small Gods -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
[lfs-dev] Editors only: stable vs development
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 -- Samuel Tyler *** This message is intended for the addressee named and may contain privileged information or confidential information or both. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify the sender. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
