suggestion: incorporate LSB test in LFS

[greg@…]

Why do we want this incorporated into LFS? The idea of an LFS system passing the LSB test suite sounds nice in principle, but it won't achieve anything useful from what I can tell. It is oriented towards binary distros who operate as companies. Additionally, there are a number of problems according to here:

​http://www.linuxbase.org/test/lsb-runtime-test-faq.html

• the test suite is supplied as binary in RPM format
• it takes 7 hours to run
• the "pax" program must be installed

Actually getting certified looks to be quite complicated with all sorts of administrivia involved. At this stage, I think the best we can hope for is to make LFS as close as possible to conforming to an "LSB Runtime Environment" so that any "LSB Application" will install and run properly.

Interesting tidbit: Debian is not currently listed in the Certification Register:

​http://www.opengroup.org/lsb/cert/cert_prodlist.tpl

[gerard@…]

The idea was good at the time, but it's more effort than I am willing to spend on it at this point in time. Agree with proposal and closing.