Luca wrote: > Luca wrote: > >> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> >> >>> Luca wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> Some days ago I found and started using T2 Open System Development >>>> Environment scripts (http://www.t2-project.org) to build a system and >>>> Live/Installation CDs. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> According to the information on that site, the developers did almost >>> the impossible: crosscompiled Xorg. So the approach looks promising. >>> >>> >>>> Now after testing again the system, I'll begin to modify the scripts and >>>> then talk again with Rene; after the lfs projects are built using these >>>> scripts I'll put them into tests to see and check the results, failures >>>> etc... and then if he said that there are no problems, if someone is >>>> interested I could post the original and modified tarball. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Do I understand correctly that, once the scripts are created, they >>> have to be manually maintained and updated, so that changes that >>> happen in the books are propagated to the scripts? >>> >>> >>>> The idea was to modify scripts to build the stable or svn/development >>>> versions of the books; something like ALFS but with the opportunity to >>>> create even CDs/DVD Live and Installation images. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> This also has the value of build-testing BLFS against CLFS and >>> identifying problem spots. So go ahead, we'll see the results. >>> >>> If you want to get notes on i18n, RW support, and release goals of the >>> past CD, mail me privately. >>> >>> >>> >> Hi Alexander, >> >> yes, you understood correctly, the scripts need to be maintained and >> updated by hand, but I'll try to fix this (to update the original >> T2-<version> it's possible to add a cron job that download the sources >> from svn). Actually I began to modify the scripts to take care of LFS >> (I'll try to add additional configuration options too), but I don't know >> exactly when I'll put on fire the modified scripts (it takes a lot of >> work and until now I modified everything about system and configuration >> - but only for x86 for now to test - and autoconf, automake, bash, >> berkeley-db, binutils, bison, bzip2 and coreutils files from >> LFS-SVN-20061008 book. >> Since the first stages are cross-compiled I'll take a look to see how to >> patch packages only for that stages, and not in the final/native system >> (the way CLFS does with the posix compliance patches). >> I think that the result should be a mix of CLFS and LFS, not exactly the >> pure standalone books... >> >> Thanks, if I need something related I'll email directly to you, however >> I'll post from time to time on the list the work done. >> >> Not sure, but from what I read, if I understood correctly, it should be >> possible to create a DVD image too with these scripts. >> >> Luca >> >> > I put the scripts on fire although for now they build only bare lfs > system x86 version, just began stage 5 of compilation, the first 4 > stages built without problems but I'll wait all the remaing stages to > begin to trace out all logs (until now 40MB of log files). > > Luca > > Just finished to run the scripts and created the 2 CDs set Installation images after 2 days of compiling. Finished the 7 stages compilation and checked through 150M of logs. I had only 7 packages that failed, in stage 5 (blender, embrace - e17, gnupg2, koffice, qemu, transcode and vnc), which I'll inspect.
Now, after burning the isos I'll install the system (full lfs/clfs plus blfs and various extra software) and start testing. Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
