Hi. Daniel Myers wrote:
> First, could have a little more free-form wiki, free-form more being in what > is added or included in the wiki. So if someone were to build openvpn say > for example's sake, they could add an entry to the wiki on openvpn. > Organize the entries by software, and version. Maybe with some general > notes over the program as a whole. This would obviously be outside of the > blfs page with no actual guarantees as to how said program would work on > version x of LFS or if it will or will not work with specific versions, even > how stable it may or may not be. But would be helpful to those building and > resolving dependency of packages that don't have a page in blfs. That's a rather good description of what I had in mind. The individual pages shouldn't be too free-form, however. A template would be very helpful, as it helps you to not forget half of the important points. > Second. Maybe a script or small program that can take a tar file, and a > requirements document and build a package to that. Hm. Sounds a bit like my jim. > It's only other purpose > would be to track what is currently installed on the system, for versioning > and dependency tracking. Now no longer, it doesn't do dependency tracking. Maybe my understanding of dependency tracking is wrong, but I certainly don't want something that tells me to remove everything that depends on gtk+ if I wanted to remove that (for whatever reason). I don't need a system that enforces some kind of "consistency". I'd rather have something that just tells me what I need to build before the package that's my primary goal. Installed files and versions should be tracked, of course. > Any ways, just a couple of ideas, I don't know if the blfs book wiki can > have other software builds or anything of the sort. What if it did? Someone's got to start the ball rolling. You and me would have to show some contribution, not just talking about it. ;-) Thanks for thinking, Hans-Joachim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
