patches in LFS
i am building LFS,i dont have any idea about patches,can any one tell me what is patches,where can i use,how to use and when to use ,i am following this document
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...ble/index.html |
Hi,
A patch can be a bugfix or an enhancement or a security fix or ..... on a package. Sometimes patches are temporary (next version will have implemented the patch) and sometimes they are used for specific functionality which the user needs. The only time you 'use' a patch is when you (re-)build a package. LFS uses them for different reasons, and most of the time you do need to install them (example: take a look at 5.11. GCC-4.1.2 - Pass 2 or 6.28. Bash-3.2). The LFS book shows how to implement them. Hope this clears things up a bit. |
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