Michael Kipper wrote:
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
Hello Michael (apologies on the Mark name - don't know where that come from)
interesting history of the scripts.
Perhaps now that a few things have moved on - you could perhaps move
these towards intergration with the alfs/ablfs projects, as actually
looking through them more they look straight forward yet effective.
Matt
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