2009/12/3 stosss <sto...@gmail.com>: > I started over from scratch. I have captured log files of everything. > I ran tests on everything and captured all those tests. Everything was > going along nicely.
Apart from what others have said, I find it useful to log what got installed. I think the book sketches this out, but basically: touch a known filename before you begin the install run the install command(s) run something like find / -xdev -xtype f -newer the-known-filename \ | grep -v /proc | grep -v /var/log | grep -v /sys \ | sort >your-install-log This doesn't catch everything - sometimes headers or docs are older than the file used for testing - but it's usually good enough to check that *something* got installed, or to later check which package installed a file. You might want to exclude other directories too. NB - if you ever need to uninstall a package after an error in your script, treat this list of files with extreme caution (e.g it contains directory names that had already been created but were updated during the install). HTH ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
