Hello Tom, ET here...
I have done some 9846154 incarnations of LFS and I wrote what I call a 
"Replication System" that allows me to instantiate, maintain and replicate a 
production LFS machine.
I'll be releasing what will be the first real working version to Sourceforge 
when I (someday) get the time to finish it... 

Your script could be improved by:
a.- Use $variables in stead of <placeholders> and pass parameters to it or:
b.- write a complementary sed script to do the replacements because (ask me 
how I know) vim's %s WILL eventually shoot you in the foot. 

If you have any question you will get any answer...   :)
Enrique 

 

Thomas Sapp writes: 

> Hello,
> My name is Tom, I am new to PLUG and am hoping to find time to start 
> attending meetings.  Until then I hope to find some interesting 
> discussions here on this mailing list. 
> 
> I've recently been playing around with creating a working LFS system and 
> have been having lots of fun at learning about all that goes in to putting 
> a working Linux system together.  Now that I am almost done with the BLFS 
> book, I was wondering if I might get some critique on my first, what I 
> would consider, real shell script.  I wrote it while going through the 
> process of downloading and compiling the various packages I wanted/needed 
> on my system.  I basically downloads the needed archives, extracts them, 
> runs the commands provided, and then removes the extracted directory and 
> downloaded archive from the system.  I added a some easily replaceable 
> placeholders that I can us the %s option in vim on.  So far it has worked 
> fairly well for me.  The code for it can be found at 
> http://pastebin.com/ESjVCmTF. 
> 
> I am looking forward to hearing any advice regarding this and also 
> participating in this mailing list in the future. 
> 
> -- 
> Thanks,
> Thomas Sapp
> http://www.sappsworld.com 
> 
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