Hello, This looked like the appropriate list for an introduction.
Hi, I'm Alice Wonder. I have been through LFS several times but not in many moons. I first went through it in 1999 or 2000 starting with Yellow Dog Linux 1.2 or 2.0 or something, I forget, I believe based on RH 5.2. - and there was no official PPC guide. I was credited in one of the early LFS books for differences needed to get it working on PPC. At that time I used my given name of Michael A. Peters. I prefer to go by Alice now but I don't want/need to discuss it here, only mentioned my given name because of my former involvement in LFS using that name. I went through LFS again some years later, I believe version 4 of the book, on a Thinkpad T20 running Fedora as host OS. I built RPM on it, bootstrapped it in RPM, and wrote a working text installer. I will be going through it this time running CentOS 6.2 as host OS. Again bootstrapping it in RPM but this time adding mock to the build chain for better integrity of the bootstrapped RPMs. I will probably be again building a simple installer for installing just the core system, and src.rpm interface allowing additional software to be added via fetching src.rpm's, building them in mock, and adding to a local repository that yum can then use to install. Reason for this gymnastics is mainly to see if I can do it, but since source code is considered free speech, things like full ffmpeg can be distributed that way w/o worrying about patents (but of course user may have to worry depending on what they do with it) It will take awhile to do what I want to do, but I'm getting rusty at some CLI stuff and that's the real motive - relearn stuff I have forgotten. Once done, I doubt I'll maintain what my finished project is. Not much point really. Just want to do it for the exercise. So hello, that's me, and my overly ambitious project. Now time to start downloading some source code and start the initial build. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
