> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 07:25:08 +0100 > From: TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: nALFS or jALFS? > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 01:49:58 +0100 > "Kevin Barlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Been reading the discussion on jhALFS being the new and improved ALFS >> program but I had loads of problems with it and couldn't figure it >> out. The readme wasn't much help ether. >> >> >> >> I've been using nALFS quite happily, even changed the XML to use a >> few new packages (GLIBC 2.3.6 mainly) and modified the xml for those >> packages that don't like parallel builds. >> >> >> >> Is their a good 'idiots guide' for jhALFS yet? >> > > No and it's not suited to idiots (not suggesting that you are one - > particularly if you made nAlfs work for you! :-) ) > > My very recent experience is that it's currently very good for building > a straight 'Book' {,c}lfs, even svn, but the blfs part needs a lot of > fiddling. Almost every script that it builds needs editing, and in the > end it's just not worth the effort unless you want to help the devs. I > am impressed by the work to date though, it might well shape up in the > future if we keep testing it and feeding back. > > BLFS is incredibly difficult to automate for a number of reasons, not > least the optionality (both location and dependency), the external (not > in book) dependencies, and the rapid rate of change. > > R.
TheOldFellow, I'm certainly by no means an idiot I can assure you... I couldn't even get jhALFS to build from the book never mind anything else... I'm not interested in automating anything from BLFS book since I have shell scripts the does it all for me... For example, to get KDE the script grabs XFree86 off my file server, copys it to /src and builds it as well as copying modified files... it then builds the dependencies for KDE by the same method and the KDE itself followed by the KDE additional packages... if at any point there is an error, the script stops and exits... only thing is that it doesn't pick up where it left... I've only once had a script error, and it errored for a darn good reason... I know scripts are out of date but I like em, takes me back to the good ol days of dos 6.22 & windows 3.1, 40mb hard drives and 16MHz 286's... And yes, I have built LFS from scratch typing out every command in the book... (bangs head on desk) and I thank the people that helped with nALFS for giving it to us. :p Next on my list is hard drive encryption... something that's not covered at all by BLFS. Thanks guys. Kev -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
