On Nov 22, 2008, at 4:47 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> Thanks Ken, Thats kind of what I had in mind, but wanted verification. The sample scripts do well.
> Opinions differ. In LFS we build as root. My own scripts for BLFS > to build a new system do the same - worst case I'll blow away the > whole build with a misplaced 'rm -rf'. Some people (not me!) swear by > using sudo to become root only during the install. > > If I'm testing something, I have been known to build as a user and > install as root. The results (for correct commands) are the same, > except that by building as root you won't have to run the chown > commands which sometimes appear in BLFS. > > The text in BLFS is probably targetted at people who initially > follow the book religiously, and who will build the final system in > many discrete steps. It's good to encourage people not to be root > when they don't need to be. > > I can't comment seriously on the script, I'm not familiar with using > bash -e and I prefer to create 'stamp' files so that after an error > (or to rebuild an individual package for some reason) I only do what > is necessary. > > But, I think you might find logging a batch of packages into one > logfile might make the log rather unwieldy. > > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
