> I've been reading and attempting to apply in my spare time Matthias > Benkmann's hint, 'More Control and Package Management using Package > Users'. There are *many* aspects of that hint that I find extremely > helpful and useful, especially from an educational perspective. > Especially I like knowing what things are being installed setuid root > and why and knowing what packages are 'broken' in that they try > unecessarily change ownership or permissions on files.
Interested to read that one the "core folk" has been trying this out, as I've just been playing with myself. I'd like to agree with Jeremy Huntwork that, in terms of "learning" (rather: gaing a better understanding of) what gets installed where, what ends up being setuid/setgid, what files "get used/accessed" by which system utilities etc, it is quite a useful and enlightening side-show to the main task of building a system from scratch. I'd been trying it out against a recent SVN book and coddling the HTML source as I went along so as to provide a record of what I'd done for my own reference. Just in case anyone is interested, I've put the coddled HTML, as it was a few days ago, here: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/~kevin/LFS-SVN-051107-kmb.html Basically, as rendered at my end, commands from LFS that I no longer needed to follow are tagged with a RED background to the <pre class="userinput"></pre> parts and commands I added in have a LIGHT-BLUE background. All of this pretty much applies from Chapter 6 onwards. This helped me see what was LFS and what wasn't as well as making it easier to check any misaligment when patching agaist newer vesrions of the book. By the way, I can well appreciate (even before reading the follow-up/fall-out to the original posting !) that the approach is not for everyone but I have since followed it through into the BLFS stage of building a system at home and, other than moving the package user home directories across to /usr/local/src after creation, it seems to be working well. As to Jeremy Huntwork's "playful" suggestion that the concepts be adopted into LFS proper, I'd probably side with the -1 people, however, it does strike me that some of the issues "More Control and ..." raises might well provide some useful additional commentary to the core LFS storyline. -- Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Kevin M. Buckley e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * Systems Administrator * * Computer Centre * * Lancaster University Voice: +44 (0) 1524 5 93718 * * LANCASTER. LA1 4YW Fax : +44 (0) 1524 5 25113 * * England. * * * * My PC runs Linux/GNU, you still computing the Bill Gate$' way ? * ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
