Sorry if my previous message was posted to the wrong list (if that's the reason for nobody responding). Could somebody at least tell me if I posted this wrong and where I should post it? Thanks.
----- Forwarded message from Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Hi, I just subscribed to this list so I guess a short introduction would be in place. I'm leading a project called LinuxFromScratch which, as the name says, deals with the manual creation of a new Linux distribution. The documentation on how to do this is written in the form of a book. There are a lot of reasons why somebody would want to do this. One example is where somebody just wants to learn what makes Linux tick. By manually building your very own distribution from scratch (in a nutshell: from scratch as in creating a partition, creating the ext2 file system, install a couple of static programs to provide a development environment so that the rest of the system can be build) and using nothing but the sources of programs you need (in no case pre-compiled packages are used. Everything is compiled manually: kernel, glibc, compiler, and all other stuff that's used on a typical system). Another example (which covers the main group of current users who are using LFS, but was not LFS's original target) is the group of people who aren't happy with their current distribution. Naturally a distribution enforces certain standards which aren't always easy to change (the file system structure, the way the boot scripts in /etc/init.d or /etc/rc.d/ini.d or /sbin/init.d or other places). The LFS project offers a change in that. Though the book is based on certain structures, the reader has the chance to change it and even encourages this. This way the reader gets the thrill of being able to say "this a system I build myself and not some system installed from my xxx distribution's cdrom". Also, the reader knows what's on the system, where is and why it is there. And the list of examples could go on a while. But I'm not here to promote LFS now. Although the reader is not forced to follow the structure of things (directory structure, boot scrips structure, etc) the way the book does it, we do want LFS to abide to certain standards so that if somebody chooses to follow the Linux standards, he or she can just follow the book. For example the directory structure (almost) completely abides the FHS (2.0 - I haven't had the time yet to see if there are any significant changes in FHS 2.1). I guess you can see where this is leading to: I'd like to make a default LFS system LSB compliant in areas where it isn't already LSB compliant. How would I go about that? Thanks for your time. -- Gerard Beekmans www.linuxfromscratch.org -*- If Linux doens't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Gerard Beekmans www.linuxfromscratch.org -*- If Linux doens't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*-
