On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:17:24 -0600 Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Probably not much, but it is a lot different from the rest of the > book. There is also not much difference in just executing the > commands in the proposed script. > > I don't know about you, but I script most of my packages. This is so > I can reproduce the commands and instrument them for data needed by > the book. It also facilitates logging of the output. > > We don't publish my scripts (or any of the other editor's scripts), > but do publish the commands that go in the scripts. We need to keep > this general 'feel' of the sections of the book so users can be > comfortable and be able to learn what they need easily. I prefer to > avoid a change in this paradigm as much as possible. I think we can > do a good job with Xorg7 by just publishing the commands necessary. > Users who want to script them, will do it on their own. My view (for what little it's worth) is that the BLFS book currently has about the right amount of information for someone who has built LFS to build packages. There might be mileage in (either a hint or) a preface/appendix section in BLFS on 'how to script (and log)', or 'approaches to scripting (and logging)', but it shouldn't intrude into the substance of the book. I see Xorg-7 as the division of X11 into 200-odd packages, no longer a whole. Each package provides useful functionality in its own right (to the same extent as the Gnome packages, anyway), and the impetus to the modular build is a way of letting each develop to their full. I, thus, would like to see BLFS with a chapter on providing X11 functionality that builds each package independently. To make this manageable you'll want to have some pages with lists of packages that can just be CMMI-ed after the build environment has been established. On those pages I would expect for each package: a URL, and a one-line description. If somewhere else we had a repository for useful scripts, thats another matter.... R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
