[6a5de1b] | 1 | These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0):
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[c9a095c] | 2 |
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[2c6bec9] | 3 | * Rewrite all of the mailinglist info (book and website) and give more
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| 4 | information how you can set to things like digest, digest2, vacation
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| 5 | and other useful modes.
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| 6 |
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[86c5b20] | 7 | * Move the explanations in MAKEDEV's installation to the "Command
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[6ca39ca] | 8 | * explanation" section (also move from chap6 to chap5)
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[86c5b20] | 9 |
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| 10 | * Unmount $LFS/proc when done with chapter 7
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| 11 |
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[8dd5e03] | 12 | * Check out alternative findutils patch in
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| 13 | * http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/findutils-4.1.alternative-patch
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| 14 |
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[a9bccebf] | 15 | * Check to see if the man pages from the ld.so package also come with
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| 16 | the man-pages package.
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| 17 |
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[504a804] | 18 | * Incorporate LFS FAQ in the book
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| 19 |
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[1e4c1ae] | 20 | * In console-tools-0.2.3/doc/man, there are more files ending in *.in
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| 21 | that need to be renamed and copied to /usr/share/man. But before we
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| 22 | copy any files we should modify them first and change the @datadir@
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| 23 | occurances in those files to it's proper location (/usr/share IIRC)
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| 24 |
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[4ea9f08] | 25 | * Work on intel/preface/whoread.sgml and change the working to make it
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[1e7f8b0] | 26 | flow and sound nicer. Use
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| 27 | http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/whoread-draft.txt as a base
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| 28 | (this is a draft by Oren Byer, based on an earlier draft by Gerard
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| 29 | Beekmans).
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[4ea9f08] | 30 |
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[610bade] | 31 | * After entering chroot check the $TERM variable and set it properly if
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| 32 | needed
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| 33 |
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[a1ca0e1] | 34 | * Add dedicated package version number entities (to avoid having to make
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| 35 | changes to 2-7 files to just change the version number of a package).
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| 36 |
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| 37 | * Get rid of the codes 'pp' in chapter 5 entities, 'in' in chapter 6
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| 38 | entities and the like with other chapters.
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| 39 |
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[a35e5d4] | 40 | * Re-arrange the list in chapter 3 to match the order in which
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| 41 | packages are installed.
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| 42 |
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[38276229] | 43 | * Find out why zoneinfo file are not installed when installing Glibc in
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| 44 | chapter 6
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| 45 |
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[04cd87e] | 46 | From an email to lfs-discuss:
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| 47 |
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| 48 | I agree. Let me ask you this, though. Is there anything that
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| 49 | doesn't get
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| 50 | installed besides the zoneinfo? I figured out how to install that
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| 51 | manually, if it's all that's missing. It's simply:
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| 52 | zic /path/to/glibc/source/timezone/<continent>
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| 53 | If that's all it's missing, no need to install a static perl even.
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| 54 |
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[2a581bd] | 55 | Another lead: possibly cross-compiler detection. Fix with:
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| 56 | sed s,"cross-compiling = yes","cross-compiling = no", \
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| 57 | config.make > config.make~ && mv config.make~ config.make
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| 58 | make && make install
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| 59 |
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| 60 |
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[c9a095c] | 61 | * Full dependency list. This list isn't a list of "package a depends on
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| 62 | package b" but a list like "package b depends on the files c, d and e
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| 63 | from package f".
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| 64 |
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| 65 | * Bring the book up to speed with the current FHS specs.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | * Mention security patches that can be applied to packages.
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| 68 |
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| 69 | * At the end of the book suggest the user create the /etc/lfs-<version>
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| 70 | file and give a few reasons why the user would want
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| 71 | such a file (example: it's easy to forget after a while which LFS version
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| 72 | you run; it makes debugging easier for us knowing which LFS version a user
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| 73 | is running).
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| 74 |
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| 75 | * Check to see if we need the configparms file when installing Glibc.
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| 76 | Rumours have it that the --prefix=/usr we use causes
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| 77 | slibdir=/lib and sysconfdir=/etc to be assumed.
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| 78 |
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| 79 | * Explain how changing runlevels works. Use the file written by Simon
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| 80 | Perreault at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/runlevels.txt
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| 81 |
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| 82 | * Don't run lilo from inside chroot anymore. This causes severe problems
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| 83 | sometimes including LILO not bootstrapping properly.
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| 84 |
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| 85 | * Bring back the PPC book (recreate from scratch using current intel
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| 86 | book) using Jesse McCrosky's notes at
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| 87 | http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-notes.txt
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[77290a3] | 88 | and the patch to the 'patch' package at:
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| 89 | http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-patch.patch
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[c9a095c] | 90 |
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| 91 | * Add descriptions what the patches do we use (like the console-tools and gzip
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| 92 | patches)
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| 93 |
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| 94 | * Try out Slackware's MAKEDEV script and see if it's any better than the
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| 95 | currently used one. A copy can be found at
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| 96 | http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/Slackware-MAKEDEV
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| 97 |
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| 98 | * Sed'ing the MAKEDEV script gives us hda[1-20], hdb[1-20] and so forth.
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| 99 | Mention that all of these can't actually be used due to kernel
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| 100 | limitations (IDE goes to 16 max for example).
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| 101 |
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| 102 | * Type in chapter 2 - how to install software: Last paragraph:
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| 103 | s/There is on exception/There is one exception/
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| 104 |
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| 105 | * Rewrite chapter 2 a little bit. Add that export LFS=/mnt/lfs could be
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| 106 | added to root's .bash_profile/.bashrc (outside chroot) to make sure
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| 107 | that between build sessions the variable is still set.
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| 108 |
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| 109 | * Add to chapter 2 how to use .gz files (not just .tar.gz)
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| 110 |
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| 111 | * Mention LFS should be installed as user root
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| 112 |
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| 113 | * 'init S' has been reported not to work properly. Test this.
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| 114 |
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| 115 | * Add netkit-base and net-tools to Appendix A.
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| 116 |
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| 117 | * Use /etc/HOSTNAME for setting the hostname. This is a bit more
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| 118 | compliant with other distributions and therefore less confusing to
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| 119 | people.
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| 120 |
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| 121 | * Suggest using this command to strip debug symbols after you finish
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| 122 | chapter 6: find $LFS -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'
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| 123 |
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| 124 | * Modify the killproc function in the functions script. Right now it
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| 125 | works roughly as follows: killl, wait 2 secs, check if pid's are gone.
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| 126 | If not, kill with -KILL (aka -9), wait 2 secs, checkif pid's are gone.
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| 127 | If no, print error message.
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| 128 |
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| 129 | Change this into: kill, don't wait 2 secs but check for pid's right
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| 130 | away. If pid's are still there, then wait 2 seconds and kill -KILL,
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| 131 | wait, if pid's still there, print error. Most daemons will exit
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| 132 | immediately and the 2 second wait for every daemon slows things down
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| 133 | unnessary.
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| 134 |
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