Changes between Version 15 and Version 16 of WikiStart

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03/21/2013 10:00:52 PM (11 years ago)

Author:

Thomas

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 == How is ALFS implemented? ==
-The  official implementation of ALFS is called jhalfs. Originally created by Jeremy Huntwork, but since developed and maintained by Manuel Canales Esparcia, George Boudreau, and Thomas Pegg, jhalfs has become a light-weight, practical method of automating an LFS build. jhalfs is a Bash shell script that makes use of Subversion and xsltproc to first download the XML sources of the Linux From Scratch book and then extract any necessary commands, placing them into executable shell scripts. If you do not already have the necessary source packages in place on your system jhalfs can fetch them. Finally, jhalfs generates a Makefile which will control the execution of the shell scripts, allowing for recovery if the build should encounter an error. A way to use package management has been added by Pierre Labastie.
+The official implementation of ALFS is called jhalfs. Originally created by Jeremy Huntwork, but since developed and maintained by Manuel Canales Esparcia, George Boudreau, and Thomas Pegg, jhalfs has become a light-weight, practical method of automating an LFS build. jhalfs is a Bash shell script that makes use of Subversion and xsltproc to first download the XML sources of the Linux From Scratch book and then extract any necessary commands, placing them into executable shell scripts. If you do not already have the necessary source packages in place on your system jhalfs can fetch them. Finally, jhalfs generates a Makefile which will control the execution of the shell scripts, allowing for recovery if the build should encounter an error. A way to use package management has been added by Pierre Labastie.
 
-ALFS jhalfs is maintained as a subversion repository. There is only a development version, which you can fetch with the command:
+To download the latest stable version of jhalfs, click [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/downloads/jhalfs/stable/ here].
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+jhalfs is maintained in a subversion repository. To fetch the latest development version, you can use this command:
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 svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/ALFS/jhalfs/trunk jhalfs
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 == History ==
-Before jhalfs, an implementation named nALFS was developped. A more ambitious project, named simply alfs was designed around 2004, but was never pushed to completion.
+Before jhalfs, an implementation named nALFS was developed. A more ambitious project, named simply alfs was designed around 2004, but was never pushed to completion.
 
 === nALFS ===
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 === alfs ===
 
-There were many in-depth features that had been requested for ALFS implementations. Because of this, development had been slated for an entirely new build tool which would have been called alfs. To see a list of features that would have appeared in alfs, please read our [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/view/alfs-srs/alfs-srs.html Software Requirements Specification]. Eventually, the ease of use of jhalfs definitely burried the alfs project.
+There were many in-depth features that had been requested for ALFS implementations. Because of this, development had been slated for an entirely new build tool which would have been called alfs. To see a list of features that would have appeared in alfs, please read our [http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/view/alfs-srs/alfs-srs.html Software Requirements Specification]. Eventually, the ease of use of jhalfs, ultimately pushed development of alfs to the bottom of the stack.
 
 == Who's who: ==
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 ||Developer (jhalfs):||Manuel Canales Esparcia||
 ||Developer (jhalfs, ablfs): ||Pierre Labastie||
-||Developer (alfs):||Tim Sarbin||