I've gone through the LFS process several times now, and recently I've started integrating dpkg into the process (pretty much along the lines of the dpkg hint, though I came up with it independently). During the last time, I decided to start writing down the steps formally, so for the few packages not supporting DESTDIR I wouldn't have to keep rediscovering what to use. And I thought, what better way to record it than by editing the book sources.
So, the process has been coming along a bit slowly as I learned the docbook format (mostly by copying examples from elsewhere in the book). Anyway, I've gotten up through the end of chapter 5 now, and I thought I might as well post my work so far in case anybody else might be interested. In addition, I would hope that even if you don't like dpkg, anybody using some variant of the "fakeroot" installation method might find it useful as a reference. I do realize there's little chance of this being integrated into mainline, though, according to the comments in the "Package Management" section of chapter 6 - which is why I posted to lfs-chat instead of lfs-dev. It's based on the SVN systemd branch. Locations: HTML: http://dschepler.github.io/lfs-dpkg/ Source: git clone -b dpkg https://github.com/dschepler/lfs-dpkg.git -- Daniel Schepler -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
