Walter Barnes wrote:
> <snip>
> However, I never intended to start a big debate about the best way to
> transistion from LFS to BLFS; my original question was if LFS includes some
> tool to convert HTML/PDF files to a form readable in LFS. The answer is no so
> I'm ready to move on.
>
> Sorry for making such a big stink.
>
> Walter
>
>
I've only built one {,b}lfs system so far, & i added these packages from
blfs while still in the chroot:- iptables, gpm, openssl, lynx, wget.
With those installed, i then rebooted into my new system & continued the
build from there.
After reading this thread, i've had a bit of a play & discovered that it
would be possible (but not particularly convenient or secure) to install
just wget for source-downloading, & save a copy of the blfs-book
locally, as html-pages can be read with 'less' - navigation is fiddly
without hyperlinks, & these's no stylised boxes to highlight codeblocks,
but the text is properly formatted. It's certainly no worse than
plain-text or info-style formats, & requires no conversion (i'd still
recommend gpm as well as wget, though, for copy/paste functionality in
the console).
Apologies if 'less' was mentioned earlier - it's become quite a long
thread... ;)
taipan
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