On Mar 26, 2011, at 9:34, Thomas Trepl <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > in regard to a subtopic of the discussion on possible enhancements for LFS > focusing the LFS-7.0, just a short followup: > > One of the topics was as mentioned DESTDIR-based installation. As in my > opinion it would make more sense in the BLFS area I also started a small > project on this a few weeks ago (totally independently of the recent > discussion in lfs-dev which came up weeks later), but only for BLFS packages. > > The idea behind that project were basically two things: > * Speedup the setup of a new system > * Discover handy mechanisms to build/install those packages > > As some of you may know, years ago I allocated the domain "belfs.org". This > was at the time were the (short-term) fork of LFS named "BELFS" was active. > That was something about 2003-2005 or so. Long time that domain held only a > simple page saying that there is nothing to find. So I thought its time to put > more stuff to it and last month I setup a CMS (drupal) on it and added some > content about the DESTDIR stuff based on a newly created LFS system. > > Some of early findings are that speedup is quite fine (what a surprise;-). It > seems to be not really hard to tweak BLFS instructions that both, direct > build/install as well as building a binary package, is possible. I've done it > now for round about 60 packages and it seems to work fine. > > So, if you are interested in that stuff, I'd like to invite you to have a > visit to www.belfs.org! But don't expect too much - its quite new and of > course quite incomplete (as I'm alone atm). And, when browsing the CVS which > is on another machine, the performance will be a bit poor (the server is a > 800MHz fanless device on a home-DSL). > > Comments and suggestions will be very welcome! > > Maybe you should merge your work with LFScript, which tries to do the same thing but has been around for much longer :) Then the result will be 10x more awesome! :P -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
