Thanks Pierre! Actually, I didn't know there were any XML sources :-) My idea was just "get python to do for me what I've been doing manually"
I'll post to lfs-support as well then. Joao On Sat, Apr 4, 2020 at 4:20 PM Pierre Labastie <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2020-04-03 at 18:42 +0200, João Moreira de Sá Coutinho wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > This is to announce the availability of a software I wrote to > > automate > > the LFS build. > > > > On https://github.com/joaomdsc/pkg you will find a set of python > > scripts that parse the LFS book and generate shell scripts to perform > > the build. You will need to set a few variables first, then run the > > scripts, which run mostly unattended, and after several hours your > > Linux system will be ready to boot. > > > > It was tested on versions 9.0-systemd, 9.1-systemd, and 9.1 (the > > python code is really agnostic to the version), building on Debian > > 10.2 and Fedora 31. > > > > The nice thing about generating shell script code is that it lets you > > interrupt the build if needed: you'll just have to edit the scripts > > to > > remove whatever's been done already and launch the script again. > > > > Documentation can be found at https://pkg.readthedocs.io. > > > > A big thanks to the LFS community for this great resource that is the > > LFS book! I'm hoping that this contribution can make it easier for > > people to harness the huge value embedded in the book. Please let me > > know how it runs for you, if you test it. > > > > Joao > > Also, forgot to tell. I do not think many users monitor the alfs- > discuss list. You may want to advertise on lfs-support instead. Also, > you could try #lfs-supports on freenode. > > Pierre > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/alfs-discuss > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
