| 1 | These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0):
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| 2 |
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| 3 | * Update binutils section in Appendix A:
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| 4 | I have successfully compiled binutils, but the files created doesn't
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| 5 | match the LFS documentation :
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| 6 | I get 3 extra files : gasp, gprof and readelf. I don't get nlmconv
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| 7 |
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| 8 | * Try to merge
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| 9 | ft:06:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
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| 10 | and
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| 11 | su:S1:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
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| 12 | into
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| 13 | id:S016:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
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| 14 |
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| 15 | * Consider ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/kbd/
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| 16 | to replace console-tools/console-data
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| 17 |
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| 18 | * Try new procps install:
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| 19 | make OPT="$CFLAGS" INCDIRS='-I/usr/include -I.' XSCPT='' install
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| 20 | * Since flex sits in ftp.gnu.org/non-gnu/flex it suggest the main
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| 21 | download site for flex is elsewhere.
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| 22 |
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| 23 | * When installing Glibc in chapter 6 glibc-build/login/pt_chown isn't
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| 24 | installed (we'll copy manually for now) and the mtrace program isn't
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| 25 | build. Find out why.
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| 26 |
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| 27 | * Rewrite all of the mailinglist info (book and website) and give more
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| 28 | information how you can set to things like digest, digest2, vacation
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| 29 | and other useful modes.
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| 30 |
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| 31 | * Incorporate LFS FAQ in the book
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| 32 |
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| 33 | * Add dedicated package version number entities (to avoid having to make
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| 34 | changes to 2-7 files to just change the version number of a package).
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| 35 |
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| 36 | * Full dependency list. This list isn't a list of "package a depends on
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| 37 | package b", but a list of "package a depends on b and c from
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| 38 | package d"
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| 39 |
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| 40 | * Bring the book up to speed with the current FHS specs.
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| 41 |
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| 42 | * Mention security patches that can be applied to packages.
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| 43 |
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| 44 | * At the end of the book suggest the user create the /etc/lfs-<version>
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| 45 | file and give a few reasons why the user would want
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| 46 | such a file (example: it's easy to forget after a while which LFS version
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| 47 | you run; it makes debugging easier for us knowing which LFS version a user
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| 48 | is running).
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| 49 |
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| 50 | * Explain how changing runlevels works. Use the file written by Simon
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| 51 | Perreault at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/runlevels.txt
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| 52 |
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| 53 | * Don't run lilo from inside chroot anymore. This causes severe problems
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| 54 | sometimes including LILO not bootstrapping properly.
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| 55 |
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| 56 | * Bring back the PPC book (recreate from scratch using current intel
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| 57 | book) using Jesse McCrosky's notes at
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| 58 | http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-notes.txt
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| 59 | and the patch to the 'patch' package at:
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| 60 | http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-patch.patch
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| 61 |
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| 62 | * Add descriptions what the patches do we use (like the console-tools and gzip
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| 63 | patches)
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| 64 |
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| 65 | * Try out Slackware's MAKEDEV script and see if it's any better than the
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| 66 | currently used one. A copy can be found at
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| 67 | http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/Slackware-MAKEDEV
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| 68 |
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| 69 | * Sed'ing the MAKEDEV script gives us hda[1-20], hdb[1-20] and so forth.
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| 70 | Mention that all of these can't actually be used due to kernel
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| 71 | limitations (IDE goes to 16 max for example).
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| 72 |
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| 73 | * Type in chapter 2 - how to install software: Last paragraph:
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| 74 | s/There is on exception/There is one exception/
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| 75 |
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| 76 | * Rewrite chapter 2 a little bit. Add that export LFS=/mnt/lfs could be
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| 77 | added to root's .bash_profile/.bashrc (outside chroot) to make sure
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| 78 | that between build sessions the variable is still set.
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| 79 |
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| 80 | * Add to chapter 2 how to use .gz files (not just .tar.gz)
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| 81 |
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| 82 | * Mention LFS should be installed as user root
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| 83 |
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| 84 | * Single user mode has been reported not to work properly. Shutdown
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| 85 | doesn't seem to unmount file systems and the shell doesn't come up
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| 86 | properly when 'telinit S'.
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| 87 |
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| 88 | * Add netkit-base and net-tools to Appendix A.
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| 89 |
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| 90 | * Use /etc/HOSTNAME for setting the hostname. This is a bit more
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| 91 | compliant with other distributions and therefore less confusing to
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| 92 | people.
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| 93 |
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| 94 | * Suggest using this command to strip debug symbols after you finish
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| 95 | chapter 6: find $LFS -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'
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| 96 |
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| 97 | * Modify the killproc function in the functions script. Right now it
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| 98 | works roughly as follows: killl, wait 2 secs, check if pid's are gone.
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| 99 | If not, kill with -KILL (aka -9), wait 2 secs, checkif pid's are gone.
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| 100 | If no, print error message.
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| 101 |
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| 102 | Change this into: kill, don't wait 2 secs but check for pid's right
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| 103 | away. If pid's are still there, then wait 2 seconds and kill -KILL,
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| 104 | wait, if pid's still there, print error. Most daemons will exit
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| 105 | immediately and the 2 second wait for every daemon slows things down
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| 106 | unnessary.
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| 107 |
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