Hello all, well I've posted a howto on howtoforge with something about LFS:
http://www.howtoforge.com/ihlfs_full_control_over_what_youre_installing It's about the control you can get over a installation (or everything that does modifications on your system) with the use of unionfs and chroot. You all know that the mainwebsite www.linuxfromscratch.org is not there anymore? But now something else: I've been working with the unionfs in combination with the chroot and I thought we also could use it for building LFS. In stead of creating a tools directory on the new partition where the system will be installed, and creating a link to it, you can also do: mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/mnt/lfs:/=ro unionfs /mnt/union and mount --bind /dev /mnt/union/dev mount -t devpts devpts /mnt/union/dev/pts mount -t tmpfs shm /mnt/union/dev/shm mount -t sysfs sysfs /mnt/union/sys mount -t proc proc /mnt/union/proc After these steps make the new "virtual" environment complete with a chroot: chroot /mnt/union /bin/bash --login Now you can compile everything in this chrooted environment as normal, thus without the /tools directory: so with normal options like --prefix=/usr in stead of the --prefix=/tools. This works - I think - in step 5. When everything is done in chapter 5, and the chroot session is ended, in /mnt/lfs there should be a temporary system, with all the normal paths. I've not tested this, but there is a hint about this: http://www.nl.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/package_management_using_trip.txt In chapter 6 the unionfs is not necessary anymore. And the tools directory is not used, which is making things easier. But there the unionfs may be used for packagemanagement. What do you think? The existing situation works, but this new construction looks good. Stef Bon Voorburg -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
