Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> To me, I'd like to see two things. First, an update to the packages. This >> is >> relatively straight forward, but of course has a lot of detail. > > I think DJ and Randy are handling that so far? I wouldn't mind lending > some fingertips and half a brain here but I've not yet caught up with > everything that's been going on in the blanket ticket.
I've committed to testing. I'll also make typo/minor changes if appropriate. >> Second, I'd like to see a new page on how we are addressing building LFS as >> a >> 64-bit system. Then add a section to each page that needs it any special >> 64-bit >> instructions. > > Well most of what is needed to allow 64-bit systems is done already, > since the separate branch I made a while ago was aiming for that. The > principles and method there should work fine, but the packages are out > of date. In fact, most of the current differences between the branch and > trunk outside of package versions and related changes are quite small. > The one thing I hadn't done yet was adjust the boot-loader section > because grub won't work with 64-bit. Yes, I know that. It was the motivation for doing the 64-bit instances first. > So what do you still require in 'a new page'? The new page would introduce the issues and provide information for a user to use to decide if they want a 32-bit system or a 64-bit system. Yes, I think that page is necessary. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
