OK I'm getting more familiar with the source and have created several patches for ALFS's current jhalfs system:
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/ticket/1684 http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/ticket/1685 I'm mainly posting it here because the tracker seems to be pretty dead and I wanted to make sure the right people see it. Also note that I do realize that my wget fix doesn't include the bottom wget logic, but honestly the whole download section needs to be redone to work properly. I am currently eyeing the usage of $SRC_ARCHIVE. This setting in the menu makes little sense. It says the sources are automatically downloaded here, but that is not true. It seems the purpose of $SRC_ARCHIVE is really to copy all of the downloaded sources to a backup folder. If this is the case, wouldn't it make much more sense to have a "Create a backup of downloaded packages" boolean, with a sub-entry called "Backup directory"? Currently it literally defaults to ($SRC_ARCHIVE), with a very misleading help description. If the above patches are OK, I may make much bigger changes to the download logic as there are some logical knots in the way things are done right now. It's just hard to do since I am juggling multiple patches on SVN in the same area. Also, would anyone be interested in me adding a new option called "output type" with options like "Compile to file system", "Create bootable ISO" (with possible ISO sub-options), "Install on local system" (for running on a live cd) and such like this? Any other ideas would be appreciated as well. Thanks, Tim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
