On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 03:30:04PM +0000, John Burrell wrote: > It would be very nice if these two books had the same packages occupying the > same sections. > > For the most part this is the case but I noticed that > > Appstream-Glib-0.3.3 > > is in 'General Utilities' in BLFS-systemd > > while > > Appstream-Glib-0.3.1 > > is in 'Libraries' in KBLFS > > This may seem trivial but if it's the thin end of a wedge, then you are > heading for chaos. > > My script installs BLFS packages section by section and works well if the > packages and sections are consistent in each version of the book. Gets tricky > though if a package starts leaping around! > > Trust you all enjoyed 'Black Friday' :-( > > jb.
Unless you are intending to install _everything_ from whichever book you are currently _using_, it sems to me that building section by section is not a useful approach. For example, mail servers almost always provide a 'sendmail' command, so only one of them can be used at a time. And if you *are* installing everything to test the instructions, I assume you are working with the xml? Could you, at an early stage in your process, create a list of the sections, and then for each section a list of packages with some sort of pointer to where you will find the commands/dependencies for that package ? Alternatively, follow one book at a time, and if you change to a different book then accept that you may need to change parts of your scripts. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
