On 02 Sep 2005, you wrote in lfs.chat: > Hello Mark,
It's Michael, but no problem. > > my question / comments are as follows > > 1.) Why do this ? There is an official automation project (alfs) ? Okay, some background is in order. These scripts were originally written and used with LFS 4.x, on my pentium 4. ALFS was not an option for me, as I was learning, and wanted to enter the commands myself. Problem was, as most LFS noobs do, I would make a mistake that would require me to start over. So, third time around, I started putting the commands for each script in a bash script, rather than having to type them in a fourth time. Then, rather than rebuilding each package every time one screwed up, I added the logfile guards to prevent rebuilding a target. That logically made the switch to make a good idea, and then I forgot about it for a long while. Then I got my AMD64. So I started tinkering with my old scripts, to add lib64 support to them. I made them a little prettier, and more uniform along the way, and here we are. > 2.) Why make these available to the list when they are to build (I > assume) a 32bit system on YOUR amd64 - with YOUR motherboard, > harddisk, graphics card etc etc As I see it, they're pretty generic, save my specific preferences in a few things, namely: optional package selection, certain package placement (/opt vs /usr), lib64 vs lib32 choice, etc. > > Why not support the alfs project if your interested in the automation > side ? > At the time, there were some ABLFS scripts, but the XML markup and hard to navigate interface made using them extremely difficult. If I wanted, for example, to build X in /opt/xfree86, then a lot of changes needed to be made to the other scripts (--x-libraries=, etc) which I found hard to do with ALFS. Doing them myself just seemed like the best idea at the time. > Matt > > > But I'm rambling. I like them, they work for me great, and Jeremy Huntwork seems interested in hearing about these things from the community: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2005- August/052811.html But, as I said, I enjoy constructive criticism, so onward with it :) -mk -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
