On 2012-09-05 15:34, Baho Utot wrote: > On 09/05/2012 09:55 AM, Jasmine Iwanek wrote: > > Leaping before looking is what I do well and it has taught me a great > deal. Following a path by others may be a very good guide, but to > truly > learn requires ones to deviate from the beaten path and strike out on > your own. How else can you create a truly giant mess in which to > learn > from? Like taking LFS and adding pacman packager. > > By scripting your builds you learn a great deal about linux and > admin. > One also has the opportunity to learn some debugging skills. > Scripted > builds also give one repeatability once they are working. > > I have scripted my LFS builds and incorporating the pacman package > manager. I started with 6.8 and I am currently completing 7.2. I did > so > that I can confirm that my scripts produce a proper build, i.e. it > was > tested over the four builds which gave me the opportunity to weed out > non apparent errors. I then took those same packages produced by the > build and installed them onto 5 other machines so I could check to > see > if the build was generic for the i686 and x86_64 platforms. > > I now have a solid platform in which to create a distribution system > ( > as well building BLFS ) as for the computers under my care. I have > learned many things. > > I still think that helping others even if they have failed to follow > the > book is a worthy goal as it shows where the book my be improved. Who > knows by some not following the book new things are learned? > > Helping others is always good.
Oh, I agree with you fully, don't get me wrong, but people should be starting at the start, not the end. -- Jasmine Iwanek -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
