Hi,

I had just downloaded the LFS 5.0 packages and had a small problem and now there's a new LFS bok(5.1). Is it worth to download all the packages again or should i just try the 5.0?

How long will it take for a new version to appear?
And how about the BLFS book? Is there a specific version of this book that follows one LFS book version?

Thanks.

in order to get BLFS up and going first do LFS..........
just stick with 5.0 for now.........no since in d/l all those pkgs again....
there is also a BELFS...........bleeding edge LFS
if you want an LFS with all the latest packages and kernel......IE--2.6x

That's ok, but i my question was more like this:imagine you just finished you LFS 5.0 book. Can you trust that everything in BLFS will work with your not-so-up-to-date system, or is there always a correspondent BLFS to each LFS version?
My idea is that both books are independent and are developed in different time rates. Am i wrong?

Anyway i am going to continue to build the LFS 5.0 system. Wish me luck!

I think the only real danger is the slight (hope so~) possibility that a package you want to compile and install has a required package whose version number is higher than what is offered in LFS 5.0. That is, you may have to occationally get a newer version of a required package for the package that you actually want to install. For instance, I think I had to upgrade a few installed programs in order to switch to a 2.6 kernel. I dont recall the details. My bad! (Lunch time hacky sack)

I am using 5.0 and have no problems. Good luck!