On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:26:59 +0100 Michiel Faber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson schreef: > > >On 12/20/05, Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:44:16 -0000 (GMT) > >>"S. Anthony Sequeira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On Tue, December 20, 2005 11:48, Jeremy Byron said: > >>> > >>> > >>>>Dan Nicholson wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>Yep, no reason why not. You can script everything if you want. > >>>>>In fact, I doubt there are any veteran LFSers who don't script > >>>>>the build. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>[...] > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>Long story short: I may be an idiot, but there's at least one > >>>>veteran LFSer who doesn't script the build. :) > >>>> > >>>> > >>>I'm an idiot too, because I cut and paste (and reread). > >>> > >>> > >>Me too, although I do use scripts for BLFS - one per package. > >> > >> > > > >Well, color me corrected. The first time I did LFS it was all > >C-and-P, and I was so tired of waiting for the packages to finish > >that I vowed to never do it that way again. I guess that feeling's > >not as widespread as I thought. > > > >-- > >Dan > > > > > I start writing scripts myself, but how can i script things if first > a user has to do something and later root. > I.e as user i do "./configure & make", but i have to do "make > install" as root. > > How you guys solve this? Of course i can do everything as root, but i > learned; " only use root when you have to" sudo - nice package, solves the problem of scripting su. It's not in BLFS (but should be), however it's a straight CMMI package. Personally I prove the script works with a DESTDIR/-prefix, and then run it as root - it's my computer, so I use my rules! R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
