Incremental upgrades

[Bruce Dubbs]

I've been thinking about how to upgrade a system without going through a
full LFS build.  AFAICT, almost every package on a system can be
upgraded without a reboot.  BLFS packages are very straight forward as
well as gcc, and most of the other LFS packages.

Of course a kernel upgrade would need a reboot.  About the only packages
I can see might cause a problem are glibc and possibly binutils.

Has anyone tried rebuilding and installing these packages in place on
the current system?  If so, what experiences have you had?

  -- Bruce