Re: Potential problems with the LFS and BLFS 12.3 release

在 2025/2/27 3:19, Bruce Dubbs ([email protected] via blfs-dev 
Mailing List) 写道:
> We have a potential problem with LFS and BLFS that I am asking for 
> feedback on how to proceed.
> 
> CURRENT
>    We have LFS and BLFS almost ready to go with a few packages (3) that 
> still need testing on specialized hardware. There are also a few tweaks 
> needed to some instructions, but there are no show stoppers.
> 
> PROBLEM
>    I was testing some LFS packages that have come in during the package 
> freeze and ran into a problem with udev/systemd. This problem is caused 
> by a change in the kernel headers for linux-6.13.4 that cause udev/ 
> systemd to fail. This problem can be fixed with two seds or by upgrading 
> to systemd-257.3 but we cannot be sure that the
> rest of the many applications and libraries that depend on systemd/udev 
> will work
> properly unless we go through extensive testing. The changes are not 
> needed for
> what we have now using the linux-6.13.2 kernel.
> 
>   The problem now occurs if a user upgrades the kernel when building 
> LFS.  We say:
> "The Linux kernel is updated quite frequently, many times due to 
> discoveries of security vulnerabilities. The latest available stable 
> kernel version may be used, unless the errata page says otherwise."
> 
> Here are our options:
> 
> 1. Continue with the 12.3 release.  We can add to the errata to tell 
> users NOT to
>     use the latest kernel or we can remove that quote above.
> 
> 2. We can release a new lfs-12.3-rc2 and restart the testing process. This
>     will delay the release schedule by one to two weeks but will make 
> upgrades
>     easier for users. It will also allow us to incorporate newer package 
> versions
>     that have published security issues.
> 
>     I'll note here that there is no guarantee that during the delay that 
> new
>     packages with security issues will not be released. Sometimes a new 
> package
>     is not an issue, but the current problem is that udev/systemd 
> touches a huge
>     number of packages and we don't have a good way to ensure everything is
>     consistent without re-testing everything.
> 
> I am asking for community feedback about how we should proceed.
> 
>    -- Bruce
> 
> 
I vote for option 1. Using a kernel slightly behind upstream is not a 
problem for me, it makes no real difference to test everything related 
to PostgreSQL, libxml2, and Exiv2 before or after releasing lfs-12.3 IMO.

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