On 6/25/07, Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tijnema wrote: > > On 6/25/07, Andrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> That's defenitly interesting, but what about optional dependencies? > >>> Does it build them? I mean I want KDE with TTS support, so I want that the > >> script installs Festival, Festival Lite and FreeTTS first... and that it > >> builds KDE with TTS > >>> support. > >>> Is this all possible with jhalfs? > >>> Tijnema > >> Nope... Jhalf not very good for that... Sad, but true - many packages > >> requries some pathes (that not present in book) and most of KDE-3.5.7 > >> depencies does't present in the book at all... > >> I just tell about my own bash shell scripts. It is very good way - fast > >> enough and flexible. In simple way you can take instructions from the book > >> and gather them in text file. Well, I took some ideas from one good project > >> for the russian-ukrainian lfs project... > >> > > > > Seems interesting, can you send those to me? > > > > Tijnema > > > > I would hazard a guess that by the time you've worked out, de-bugged, > and repeated your attempts several times, you could have got a basic > BLFS (x and maybe fluxbox of xfce) built and running happily. Once you > are at that stage, I'd build your specific bits, either scripted or by > hand. But as time seemes to be your primary issue, I'd automate > everything until you have got to a barebones type system. jhalfs will > do that for you. > > One other thing I always do before re-building is to tar up my current > /etc and /home so you have a record of all those personal tweaks and > mods you have done to get it just the way you like. It is THIS bit that > can take quite a bit of time to re-create. > > Some of it might not work straight on top of a new system, but at least > you have a good starting point to re-create from. > > HTH. > > Al
It would be easy if /etc and /home was the only thing i modified ;) I have modified stuff all around the system :P, but that's not a big deal, I was planning to build the new system on a new partition in a chroot environment, and then boot the new partition, once it is working and i've copied all important files, i will remove old partition.. Tijnema -- Vote for PHP Color Coding in Gmail! -> http://gpcc.tijnema.info -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
