Linux From Scratch

[kitepilot at kitepilot.com]

I built a (humble) sort-of-kindda "dpkg" system for LFS.
It allows me to build "development" and "production" packages, and can be 
installed (by some knowledgeable folks) from (again by some knowledgeable 
folks) a "simple" script. 

It also has the capability to replicate itself and (not straight forward but 
included in the features) upgrade itself. 

The project is kind of dormant because I am in Alaska teaching bush pilots 
(DREAM!!!) and I've been happily busy, also the tornadoes around my house a 
few weeks ago didn't make my life any easier. 

I am at a stage where I am testing the "provisioning" script (to create a 
new machine), and then it should be usable. 

Also, the end result of a "debug" install, is a box that mirrors to the bite 
a "book built LFS" plus it has an extra directory for all the packages. 

If anyone can use it (and I need it myself) I'll crank it up again.
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Nathan England writes: 

> Sorry for the re-post but I sent the original from a different email
> address. I'm not sure if it went through or not... 
> 
> Hello hello! 
> 
> I needed to build an LFS system for some personal projects yet again. I
> looked and looked but could not find an already built LFS system ready to
> go. I tried using jhalfs latest version, but it only works against LFS 6.3.
> The newer versions have a lot of problems and I did not want to spend all
> day fixing jhalfs problems, nor did I want to spend all day compiling LFS
> from scratch. In the end, I needed a newer LFS than 6.3, so I built it by
> hand, which brings me to my current announcement. 
> 
> I have put a completed LFS system (up to chapter 7) on my web server for
> your download! It is from the LFS development snapshot, 20110515-svn. It has
> the latest of just about everything, glibc-2.13 and the 2.6.38.6 kernel. If
> you would like to use it please download it and have at it! It is completed
> up through chapter 06, then I stopped because I need to modify the boot
> scripts and replace grub2 with grub-legacy. So you will pick up from chapter
> 07. 
> 
> I hope this helps anyone who is in need for an LFS and does not have the
> time to build it manually! 
> 
> http://www.nmecs.com/pub/linuxfromscratch/ 
> 
> I have it broken into 3 files. 
> 
> lfs-svn-20110515-complete.tar.bz2  - this is the complete ready to go
> system.
> lfs-svn-20110515-sources.tar.bz2 - this is just the source packages.
> lfs-svn-20110515-tools.tar.bz2 - this is just the /tools dir so you can use
> for your compiling pleasure! 
> 
> and of course the pdf of the book I used is up there too, along with MD5s of
> each file for verification. 
> 
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