On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Alain Toussaint wrote: > Good to know, I will test out. > > speaking of kernel, I always use $(uname -r) instead of 2.6.32 in the > configure step. > > Alain > Depends on what you want to do with it. From time to time I test -rc kernels, with the expectation that at some really awkward time I'll need to bisect for a regression. And that can sometimes mean going back acouple of nominal versions.
More pertinently - when I really screw up, or if a drive dies, I might need to use a rescue disk (or rescue stick, if I ever work out how to create one). I use systemrescuecd, if I want to chroot to the broken system e.g. to fix up grub, then glibc needs a minimum kernel version less than or equal to what the rescue system provides. Actually, I'm not totally sure how modern stable kernels (those starting with 3 or 4, where linus's release is always .0 and later point releases come from a stable maintainer) fit in the glibc version checking, but I guess that all works fine. ĸen -- I live in a city. I know sparrows from starlings. After that everything is a duck as far as I'm concerned. -- Monstrous Regiment -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
