Em 19-01-2016 13:32, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers escreveu:
> Hi Bruce, 
> 

Although I am intruding and replying, will not any take action. Will
wait for Bruce.

> may I contribute with some remarks according to my actual experiences ?
> 
> 1.) Until xorg is installed and running, I have to use "lynx" to download and 
> compile the programs. There are however difficulties with this. Lynx does not 
> work with "https", so I have to download this files on another box and 
> transfer to the new one with the help of rsync. Could "https" be avoided ?
> 

Long ago, Bruce asked me to replace where possible http with https. He
does not remember that any longer. But I use wget (it is a circular
dependency, to install the ca-certificates). Bruce and many other people
do something like that. I remember that when I started using BLFS, I did
install as root some packages.

I careless if it is either way.

> 2.) the addresses given for all xorg programs, 
> "ftp.x.org/pub/individual/proto" ( this one as an example ) does'nt work for 
> me. Lynx cannot find the files. I had to use the systemd book addresses: 
> "xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/proto"
> 

If you use:

http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/search?q=xorg.freedesktop.org

will notice that I personally only use http://xorg.freedesktop.org/.

I careless if it is either way.

> 3.) The installation e.g. xorg protocoll headers etc. as user with the help 
> of 
> "as_root" did not function for me, as sudo asked everytime for a password and 
> could not perform the task. sudo is in my opinion very nasty. To allow the 
> system administrator to execute programs without typing passwords, you gave 
> an 
> example how to change sudoers. However, sudoers cannot be changed with normal 
> editors like vi, you have to use "visudo". I didnt manage it. The visudo 
> instructions are in my humble opinion terrible. I do not know, if it would be 
> possible to add the example ussage in BLFS with the corresponding "visudo" 
> commands.
> I had to install all the multiple packages in the Xorg-scripts as "root" !

Visudo will use a system installed text editor. I use vim, so, visudo is
open as a vim file.

You can modify the editor used by visudo in many ways. I just searched
in the internet "editor default visudo" and used the first result to
change my sudoers file, adding the line:

Defaults editor += /usr/bin/nano

(Actually I prefer to customize sudo with files under /etc/sudoers.d and
edit them with

visudo -f /etc/sudoers.d/my_custom_sudoers_file_name)

Then, visudo opened with nano.

> By the way, thank you very much for the LFS Book ( sysvinit ). It is 
> excellent. I went through in 1 1/2 days with the complete installation, 
> withouth problems

Yes, LFS Book is excellent. Unfortunately BLFS seems not to have a good
reputation, no matter I try to improve it.

Sorry for your problems, although they did not originate from me.

-- 
[]s,
Fernando, aka Sísifo
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