Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev wrote:
The LFS team would like to announce a new book, Basic Packages for
Linux From Scratch
This book is under development and is designed for new BLFS users and
is an excerpt of the full BLFS book. It provides guidance for getting
started with BLFS and suggests command line tools suitable for all
types of systems. This short book provides merged instructions for
users of both the System V and systemd versions of LFS.
The book is available on-line only at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/basic/
As always, feedback is appreciated.
The packages in the Basic BLFS book seem to be more oriented towards
building a small server
but not so much for a desktop/laptop workstation.
I've built a few LFS/BLFS systems over the years, always of the
"workstation" kind.
I dislike the idea of working inside chroot because I'm eager to know if
my kernel and grub installations work
properly after finishing LFS. I also don't like having to use another
machine and to ssh into my new LFS.
These are the only two options recommended in the introduction but I
find neither of them satisfying.
Before rebooting, there are only 3 other packages that I install, these
are make-ca, GPM and lynx.
The reason I prefer lynx over links is that, with GPM, it is extremely
easy to copy&paste, you just select from lynx
with the left mouse button, switch virtual terminals with Alt-Fn and
paste into the shell with the right button.
After booting, I move the laptop close to the router, attach a cable and
continue from there; using lynx to follow
the BLFS book and install dhcpcd and wpa_supplicant.
Once these are done, I can "cut the cord" and continue with Xorg.
lynx also works extremely well inside xterm, just select with the left
button and paste with the middle button or the
ctrl-insert key combination. People tend to complain about how old, etc
xterm is, but I find it quite ok once you
change the options to see the scrollbar, change the font size and enable
reverse video. The trick here is to use the
ctrl key together with the mouse buttons. If your mouse only has 2
buttons, then you can also compile xterm
with the --enable-toolbar configure option.
From there, I build Xfce this way.
Having destroyed a system once by a careless use of sudo, nowadays I
never install it. I always do su -c "command"
and double check the "command" while typing the root password.
Regarding the other packages, as I'm building a "workstation", I don't
bother with the command line mail tools.
I also don't install fcron and don't think that Wireless tools add much
to what can already be done with wpa_cli.
I like, however the inclusion of all the programs that help in debugging
the system (for lack of a better word).
hdparm, lm-sensors, pciutils, usbutils, net-tools, traceroute are good
as they can help you find problems with
the system. Maybe changing the title of the chapter from Administration
Tools to something else and putting a
small introduction about fine tuning the system, solving common
problems, getting the right drivers in the kernel,
etc, would be a good idea.
Maybe also getting the "Configuring for Adding Users" section somewhere
near the beginning and the
"Vulnerabilities" section near the end would help.
Please direct any comments about this beta release to the LFS
development team at [email protected] or
[email protected]. Registration for the mailing lists is
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-- Bruce Dubbs
linuxfromscratch.org
Regards,
Eduardo
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