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  1. These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0):
  2. * After entering chroot check the $TERM variable and set it properly if
  3. needed
  4. * Add dedicated package version number entities (to avoid having to make
  5. changes to 2-7 files to just change the version number of a package).
  6. * Get rid of the codes 'pp' in chapter 5 entities, 'in' in chapter 6
  7. entities and the like with other chapters.
  8. * Re-arrange the list in chapter 3 to match the order in which
  9. packages are installed.
  10. * Find out why zoneinfo file are not installed when installing Glibc in
  11. chapter 6
  12. From an email to lfs-discuss:
  13. I agree. Let me ask you this, though. Is there anything that
  14. doesn't get
  15. installed besides the zoneinfo? I figured out how to install that
  16. manually, if it's all that's missing. It's simply:
  17. zic /path/to/glibc/source/timezone/<continent>
  18. If that's all it's missing, no need to install a static perl even.
  19. * Full dependency list. This list isn't a list of "package a depends on
  20. package b" but a list like "package b depends on the files c, d and e
  21. from package f".
  22. * Bring the book up to speed with the current FHS specs.
  23. * Mention security patches that can be applied to packages.
  24. * At the end of the book suggest the user create the /etc/lfs-<version>
  25. file and give a few reasons why the user would want
  26. such a file (example: it's easy to forget after a while which LFS version
  27. you run; it makes debugging easier for us knowing which LFS version a user
  28. is running).
  29. * Check to see if we need the configparms file when installing Glibc.
  30. Rumours have it that the --prefix=/usr we use causes
  31. slibdir=/lib and sysconfdir=/etc to be assumed.
  32. * Explain how changing runlevels works. Use the file written by Simon
  33. Perreault at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/runlevels.txt
  34. * Don't run lilo from inside chroot anymore. This causes severe problems
  35. sometimes including LILO not bootstrapping properly.
  36. * Bring back the PPC book (recreate from scratch using current intel
  37. book) using Jesse McCrosky's notes at
  38. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-notes.txt
  39. and the patch to the 'patch' package at:
  40. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-patch.patch
  41. * Add descriptions what the patches do we use (like the console-tools and gzip
  42. patches)
  43. * Try out Slackware's MAKEDEV script and see if it's any better than the
  44. currently used one. A copy can be found at
  45. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/Slackware-MAKEDEV
  46. * Sed'ing the MAKEDEV script gives us hda[1-20], hdb[1-20] and so forth.
  47. Mention that all of these can't actually be used due to kernel
  48. limitations (IDE goes to 16 max for example).
  49. * Type in chapter 2 - how to install software: Last paragraph:
  50. s/There is on exception/There is one exception/
  51. * Rewrite chapter 2 a little bit. Add that export LFS=/mnt/lfs could be
  52. added to root's .bash_profile/.bashrc (outside chroot) to make sure
  53. that between build sessions the variable is still set.
  54. * Add to chapter 2 how to use .gz files (not just .tar.gz)
  55. * Mention LFS should be installed as user root
  56. * 'init S' has been reported not to work properly. Test this.
  57. * Add netkit-base and net-tools to Appendix A.
  58. * Use /etc/HOSTNAME for setting the hostname. This is a bit more
  59. compliant with other distributions and therefore less confusing to
  60. people.
  61. * Suggest using this command to strip debug symbols after you finish
  62. chapter 6: find $LFS -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'
  63. * Modify the killproc function in the functions script. Right now it
  64. works roughly as follows: killl, wait 2 secs, check if pid's are gone.
  65. If not, kill with -KILL (aka -9), wait 2 secs, checkif pid's are gone.
  66. If no, print error message.
  67. Change this into: kill, don't wait 2 secs but check for pid's right
  68. away. If pid's are still there, then wait 2 seconds and kill -KILL,
  69. wait, if pid's still there, print error. Most daemons will exit
  70. immediately and the 2 second wait for every daemon slows things down
  71. unnessary.