On 3/31/20 11:13 PM, Kevin Buckley wrote:
On Tue, 31 Mar 2020 at 04:06, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev <[email protected]> wrote:I would like to propose keeping the kernel at the most recent long term support (LTS) version for the book. Users can, of course, use whatever version they want. What do you think? -- BrueeA slightly different take on this to most of the other postings, but would there be any gain, for the LFS Book, in promoting (and documenting) the use of incremental kernel updates? I'm aware that Thomas Trepl does this, even though it's not documented in his Multilib patch. The thinking would be that whilst the LFS Book development line pinned itself at a given revision, the Book would document the process whereby incremental updates were made to the kernel sources and, where any given patch-level of the kernel was thought to have beome significant enough to be needed in a LFS system, ahead of a release, that recommendation to upgrade could be made in the current Book's Errata, as well as the SVN head. Just my thr'pen'th though: probably file under "you distro: your rules",
Updating a kernel is just a rebuild and install as in Chapter 8 of the book and then an edit of grub.cfg. Nothing else is really needed. The incremental updates (I assume you mean patches) just is a minor variation that affects download time/disk space.
It's really not a big difference from rebuilding the current kernel with different options.
Do remember that you should never reinstall the kernel's API headers Section 6.7). glibc depends on that.
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