On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, DJ Lucas wrote: > On 03/14/2011 12:03 AM, Nathan Coulson wrote: > > > > > >On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:45 PM, DJ Lucas <[email protected] > ><mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > > > On 03/13/2011 11:39 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > > > * LSB Compliance - For LFS we are nearly there anyway. > > > > > > * Dynamic boot script - No more static list of links, this kind > > of ties > > > into LSB Bootscripts, but there are other options. > > > > > Again, these two go hand in hand for me. In the current > > lfs-bootscripts > > tarball, I've been working on and using exclusively the contrib/lsb-v3 > > boot scripts for over 3 years now. They are an extension of something > > that Nathan Coulson and Alexander Patrakov had started on. These are > > completely lsb-v4 compliant as well and are IMO a huge improvement > > over > > the current boot scripts. I've been using Dan Nicholson's initd-tools > > package to provide the install_initd and remove_initd programs. Aside > > from the fact that there is no longer any need to maintain a list of > > symlinks for startup order, they add a lot of niceties, including > > boot-logging and conditional startup for trouble-shooting. > > > > > > > >ah, I miss the bootscript days. I'll have to take a look, and > >find out what I have been missing out on > > > > Yes, please! Another set of eyes and additional brain power is > always welcome! You should still have commit privs so feel free to > help yourself. The current 'stable' boot scripts are the remnants > after we ripped out the i18n additions. Though they are stable, they > still contain a lot of cruft such as boot_mesg which is largely > unneeded. I wound up doing a complete rewrite of rc and a single > conditional source of the configuration files in lsb-v3. IOW, at the > cost of possibly faster conditional logic, they only get sourced by > the script if running outside of rc in the lsb-v3 directory. I > honestly don't remember what the 'stty sane' issue was caused by, > but I have never been able to reproduce it since and saw no reason > to source the files in every single sub-shell. BTW, Dan's > initd-tools has moved. He is currently hosting them in his home > directory on freedesktop.org.
Do you have the link to initd-tools. I've searched all morning and can't find anything. I'm thinking of trying the LSB scripts on my next build now that linux=2.6.38 is out. -- Steve Jones [email protected] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
