> On 10/24/19 4:54 PM, Paul Rogers wrote: > >> Is there any reason LFS does not include WGET? > > I think so. wget is just the tip of an iceberg. I do/would not let ANY > > (B)LFS system have any network connection until it was suitably prepared, > > "armored-up". So IPTABLES would have to come first, then my firewall, > > neither of which are part of LFS. > > Problem with that is LFS does setup a network connection.
No, it doesn't. In 7.5 it shows how to setup the common metwork configuration files. YOU have to decide if you want to do that at this time, even so, no problem there. There is no network connection unless and until YOU select the network drivers in the kernel build options, and there is no instruction for you to do so in 8.3. LFS doesn't setup a network connection, YOU do! Building an LFS system is educational, but isn't for newbies. You are expected to have experience, to be a qualified sysadmin knowing what is appropriate to do in building your own system. An experienced sysadmin may well not know how to do that step by step, and that's the educational experience the book provides. If you DON'T know what you're doing and why, and put an unprotected system on the internet, then you are responsible for, and deserve, everything that happens! Putting an unprotected system on the internet is not adviced by anyone, anywhere! Look at the tests that have been done for how many minutes an unprotected system survives before it is pwned. > > I spend the extra time before running the first things in Ch. 4 to plan out > > what I'm going to want, packages and versions, and make my build scripts. > > I download those immediately, while I'm protected by my host system. Then > > when I finish LFS, I begin BLFS with everything I need. Everything is > > stand-alone until I have about 20 packages installed. Generally far beyond. > > Still should have a convenient method to get all those to the host you > are building on. You did when you got the LFS packages, presumably with a well protected host, so what's the problem with getting the BLFS packages? BLFS provides wget lists to get them if you look at it before running off before being ready. -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
