lfs-book/TODO

These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0):

* Chapter 5 fileutils, gcc, linux: instead of for example:
	ln -s ../../bin/install install
  change it to
	ln -s ../../bin/install
  This just shortens the command a bit and it looks better.

* Chapter 5, gcc: change the title

* Chapter 5, gzip: don't pass --disable-nls - it has no function on
  the gzip package

* Chapter 5, tar: remove prefix=$LFS/usr from the 'make install'

* Chapter 5, mawk: instead of putting -static in CFLAGS which is sloppy
  sed the Makefile to add an LDFLAGS variable similar to what we do
  with bzip2 in chapter 5

* Chapter 5, makedev: instead of sed "s/.../.../" put the quotations
  marks inside the search reg ex (sed s/"..."/.../).

* Chapter 5, makedev: cd to $LFS/dev first, then cp to makedev-temp and
  patch it.

* Chapter 6, glibc: after copying pt_chown set mode 4755 on it (Glibc
  doesn't do this because it failed to copy pt_chown. It tried to chown
  root it which failed because glibc wasn't fully installed yet)

* Chapter 5, bash: add note that when error occurs regarding
  install-info (on Debian systems for example) it can be safely
  ignored.

* Chapter 5, kernel: Remove the exessive explanations. Just the
  commands in sequence like with any other package and explain below
 in the "command explanations"

* Chapter 5, bash: when the 'install-info' error corrurs on Debian
  systems, check if this affects && (the message is Error 2 (ignored)
  but does that mean the return value is set to 0 as well...)

* Check if findutils dumps binaries in /usr/local/bin

* Try out latest shadow suite. If it fails with "nflg undefined" change
  this in useradd.c : line 1768:
	-if (! (nflg || gflg)) {
	+if (!gflg) {

* Make a note that during the first reboot an error from sysklogd is
  normal due to missing /etc/services|protocols files which are
  installed when netkit-base is installed later on in chapter 9

* Chapter 3: mention lfs-packages isn't for CVS

* Fix the static link problems some distro's are causing

* Clean out the ethnet script (for interface in $(ls 
  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg* | grep -v ifcfg-lo)
  do) needs some updating for example)

* Don't use \u in PS1 when entering chroot to avoid the 'i have no
  name'. After Glibc installation we could modify the PS1 (export
  PS1=newvalues) and test that way if glibc is working properly. This
  saves us the having to exit and re-end chroot environtment. Another
  idea is to run 'id' or 'whoami' after Glibc installation and check if
  it's able to find a matching username with root's id.

* Instead of rm file && ln -s source dest, use ln -sf source dest

* e2fsprogs apparently needs ldconfig. Check if there are other
  packages before e2fsprogs which use ldconfig when it's present

* Mention more hints through out the books (like BSD hint before
  staring with chapter 7, devfs hint before running MAKEDEV, etc)

* Fix the layout of intel/chapter7/usage.xml
 
* Consider ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/kbd/
  to replace console-tools/console-data

* Try new procps install:
	make OPT="$CFLAGS" INCDIRS='-I/usr/include -I.' XSCPT='' install	
* When installing Glibc in chapter 6 the mtrace program isn't
  build. Find out why.

* Incorporate LFS FAQ in the book

* Full dependency list. This list isn't a list of "package a depends on
  package b", but a list of "package a depends on b and c from
  package d"

* Bring the book up to speed with the current FHS specs.

* Mention security patches that can be applied to packages.

* Don't run lilo from inside chroot anymore. This causes severe problems
  sometimes including LILO not bootstrapping properly.

* Bring back the PPC book (recreate from scratch using current intel
  book) using Jesse McCrosky's notes at
  http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-notes.txt
  and the patch to the 'patch' package at:
  http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-patch.patch

* Add descriptions what the patches do we use (like the console-tools and gzip
  patches)

* Try out Slackware's MAKEDEV script and see if it's any better than the
  currently used one. A copy can be found at
  http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/Slackware-MAKEDEV

* Add netkit-base and net-tools to Appendix A.

* Suggest using this command to strip debug symbols after you finish
  chapter 6: find $LFS -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'