B/LFS 7.9 is released.

ReaperX7 · 03-09-2016, 09:23 AM

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LFS 7.9 Stable Release
Bruce Dubbs - 2016/03/08
The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS Stable Version 7.9. It is a major release with toolchain updates to glibc-2.23, binutils-2.26, and gcc-5.3.0. In total, 25 packages were updated and changes to text have been made throughout the book.

You can read the book online, or download to read locally.

Please direct any comments about this release to the LFS development team at lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org. Please note that registration for the lfs-dev mailing list is required to avoid junk email.

Source: http://linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/news.html

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BLFS 7.9 has been released!
Bruce Dubbs - 2016/03/08
The BLFS Team is proud to present version 7.9 of Beyond Linux From Scratch. This version includes approximately 800 packages beyond the base Linux From Scratch Version 7.9 book. The book has 595 updates from the previous version plus many other text and formatting changes. You can view the 7.9 version on online or download to read locally.

Source: http://linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/news.html

Happy building everyone!

Keith Hedger · 03-10-2016, 04:28 AM

And again just as as I get my latest LFS setup how I like it they release a new version, I am absolutely not going to upgrade this time I really am going to skip this version ... really ... I mean it this time ...

kcirick · 03-10-2016, 08:10 AM

Will be upgrading this sooner or later. Also plan on putting it on RPi3 when I get around to getting one

Keith Hedger · 03-10-2016, 10:03 AM

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Originally Posted by kcirick

Will be upgrading this sooner or later. Also plan on putting it on RPi3 when I get around to getting one

Be interested in the details of that when you do it as I have a pi2 that I use as a web/email server and at the moment use raspberian on it as I didn't have any luck installing LFS on it, though that was a couple of years ago.

kcirick · 03-10-2016, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Keith Hedger

Be interested in the details of that when you do it as I have a pi2 that I use as a web/email server and at the moment use raspberian on it as I didn't have any luck installing LFS on it, though that was a couple of years ago.

I have LFS 7.8 on my RPi2. Systemd version didn't work (I couldn't figure out the RPi specific configuration files for systemd), but the sysvinit version worked very well. So far BLFS is working as expected (webkitgtk (and webkit2gtk) doesn't seem to work (got "bus error"), haven't figure out why yet). Right now I'm trying to build chromium. compilation works fine, but linking is nightmare because of limited RAM on the Pi. I have USB stick to act as swap, but read/write speed is killing me.

I haven't tried building Apache/http server on it. I was going to do that after getting a web browser. So far no web browsers work (besides Dillo, but I need a modern web browser. I might try netsurf next if chromium doesn't work).

Keith Hedger · 03-10-2016, 04:41 PM

Did you useba normal LfS build on the pi or did you cross compile?

kcirick · 03-10-2016, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Keith Hedger

Did you useba normal LfS build on the pi or did you cross compile?

Built it on the Pi. I don't think there was anything specific that I had to change from the normal LFS build. I used raspbian as host and it worked fine. I think I did need a swap file to build gcc.

Keith Hedger · 03-10-2016, 07:56 PM

Thanks, maybe I'll give it another go, what kernelnconfig did you use?

ReaperX7 · 03-10-2016, 09:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Keith Hedger

And again just as as I get my latest LFS setup how I like it they release a new version, I am absolutely not going to upgrade this time I really am going to skip this version ... really ... I mean it this time ...

*Dangles 7.9 like a chocolate chip cookie in front of Keith.*

Come on, you know you want it.

Keith Hedger · 03-11-2016, 04:37 AM

Mmmmm ... Cookies ...

kcirick · 03-11-2016, 08:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Keith Hedger

Thanks, maybe I'll give it another go, what kernelnconfig did you use?

That's one of the few areas I cheated. I used Raspberry Pi Foundation's kernel/boot image directly:

https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmw...ee/master/boot

Their github also has their own RPi kernel source tree, then I guess you could get the config file from Raspbian and compile it yourself.

Keith Hedger · 03-11-2016, 08:43 AM

thanks

anak_bawang · 03-14-2016, 08:31 PM

I just want to start LFS 7.8. Reading this news, seem that I should skip version 7.8.

Okay, I'll download the packages, and start doing version 7.9.

kcirick · 03-16-2016, 07:58 AM

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Originally Posted by anak_bawang

I just want to start LFS 7.8. Reading this news, seem that I should skip version 7.8.

Okay, I'll download the packages, and start doing version 7.9.

Going from 7.8 to 7.9, I expect some security updates in some packages (I haven't been keeping up with the changelogs, so I don't know which ones), so starting with the latest stable release is usually the best thing to do. Especially in LFS where there is no package manager (unless if you crafted your own), making security updates is not always a trivial task.

ReaperX7 · 03-16-2016, 09:30 AM

I imported Slackware's pkgtools and use custom buildscripts for my needs. Works great in my opinion. The only packages never replaced are:

aaa_base-7.9_x64-locked.txz (file system root tree)
glibc_kernel_headers-7.9-linux_4.5-noarch-locked.txz
glibc-2.23-7.9-x64-locked.txz

I labeled them as "locked" simply for the fact that if I ever have to replace them, it would just be best to rebuild everything, and aaa_base is NEVER touched. Pkgtools doesn't do dependencies, but then again, I don't need that kind of functionality, plus it solves the headache of looped dependencies.