[c9a095c] | 1 | These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0).
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| 3 | * Full dependency list. This list isn't a list of "package a depends on
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| 4 | package b" but a list like "package b depends on the files c, d and e
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| 5 | from package f".
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| 6 |
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| 7 | * Bring the book up to speed with the current FHS specs.
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| 8 |
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| 9 | * Mention security patches that can be applied to packages.
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| 10 |
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| 11 | * At the end of the book suggest the user create the /etc/lfs-<version>
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| 12 | file and give a few reasons why the user would want
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| 13 | such a file (example: it's easy to forget after a while which LFS version
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| 14 | you run; it makes debugging easier for us knowing which LFS version a user
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| 15 | is running).
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| 16 |
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| 17 | * Check to see if we need the configparms file when installing Glibc.
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| 18 | Rumours have it that the --prefix=/usr we use causes
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| 19 | slibdir=/lib and sysconfdir=/etc to be assumed.
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| 20 |
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| 21 | * Explain how changing runlevels works. Use the file written by Simon
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| 22 | Perreault at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/runlevels.txt
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| 23 |
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| 24 | * Don't run lilo from inside chroot anymore. This causes severe problems
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| 25 | sometimes including LILO not bootstrapping properly.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | * Update ld.so's official location to ftp://ftp.ods.com/pub/linux/
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| 28 |
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| 29 | * metalab.unc.edu/sunsite.unc.edu have changed to ibiblio.org. Use this
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| 30 | for the URL's in Appendix C.
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| 31 |
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| 32 | * Add the gzip patch to Appendix C.
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| 33 |
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| 34 | * Bring back the PPC book (recreate from scratch using current intel
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| 35 | book) using Jesse McCrosky's notes at
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| 36 | http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-notes.txt
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| 37 |
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| 38 | * Add descriptions what the patches do we use (like the console-tools and gzip
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| 39 | patches)
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| 40 |
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| 41 | * Try out Slackware's MAKEDEV script and see if it's any better than the
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| 42 | currently used one. A copy can be found at
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| 43 | http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/Slackware-MAKEDEV
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| 44 |
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| 45 | * Sed'ing the MAKEDEV script gives us hda[1-20], hdb[1-20] and so forth.
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| 46 | Mention that all of these can't actually be used due to kernel
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| 47 | limitations (IDE goes to 16 max for example).
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| 48 |
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| 49 | * Install Glibc in chapter 6. This means chapter 5 needs mawk and
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| 50 | texinfo added as extra static packages. Test if this really works and
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| 51 | doesn't have unexpected problems. mawk needs the CFLAGS=-static
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| 52 | variable during the compile stage, texinfo needs LDFLAGs=-static.
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| 53 |
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| 54 | * Type in chapter 2 - how to install software: Last paragraph:
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| 55 | s/There is on exception/There is one exception/
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| 56 |
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| 57 | * Rewrite chapter 2 a little bit. Add that export LFS=/mnt/lfs could be
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| 58 | added to root's .bash_profile/.bashrc (outside chroot) to make sure
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| 59 | that between build sessions the variable is still set.
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| 60 |
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| 61 | * Add to chapter 2 how to use .gz files (not just .tar.gz)
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| 62 |
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| 63 | * Mention LFS should be installed as user root
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| 64 |
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| 65 | * 'init S' has been reported not to work properly. Test this.
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| 66 |
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| 67 | * Add netkit-base and net-tools to Appendix A.
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| 68 |
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| 69 | * Use /etc/HOSTNAME for setting the hostname. This is a bit more
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| 70 | compliant with other distributions and therefore less confusing to
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| 71 | people.
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| 72 |
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| 73 | * Suggest using this command to strip debug symbols after you finish
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| 74 | chapter 6: find $LFS -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'
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| 75 |
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| 76 | * Modify the killproc function in the functions script. Right now it
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| 77 | works roughly as follows: killl, wait 2 secs, check if pid's are gone.
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| 78 | If not, kill with -KILL (aka -9), wait 2 secs, checkif pid's are gone.
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| 79 | If no, print error message.
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| 80 |
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| 81 | Change this into: kill, don't wait 2 secs but check for pid's right
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| 82 | away. If pid's are still there, then wait 2 seconds and kill -KILL,
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| 83 | wait, if pid's still there, print error. Most daemons will exit
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| 84 | immediately and the 2 second wait for every daemon slows things down
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| 85 | unnessary.
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| 87 |
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