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  1. These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0):
  2. * Update binutils section in Appendix A:
  3. I have successfully compiled binutils, but the files created doesn't
  4. match the LFS documentation :
  5. I get 3 extra files : gasp, gprof and readelf. I don't get nlmconv
  6. * Consider ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/kbd/
  7. to replace console-tools/console-data
  8. * Try new procps install:
  9. make OPT="$CFLAGS" INCDIRS='-I/usr/include -I.' XSCPT='' install
  10. * When installing Glibc in chapter 6 glibc-build/login/pt_chown isn't
  11. installed (we'll copy manually for now) and the mtrace program isn't
  12. build. Find out why.
  13. * Incorporate LFS FAQ in the book
  14. * Full dependency list. This list isn't a list of "package a depends on
  15. package b", but a list of "package a depends on b and c from
  16. package d"
  17. * Bring the book up to speed with the current FHS specs.
  18. * Mention security patches that can be applied to packages.
  19. * At the end of the book suggest the user create the /etc/lfs-<version>
  20. file and give a few reasons why the user would want
  21. such a file (example: it's easy to forget after a while which LFS version
  22. you run; it makes debugging easier for us knowing which LFS version a user
  23. is running).
  24. * Explain how changing runlevels works. Use the file written by Simon
  25. Perreault at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/runlevels.txt
  26. * Don't run lilo from inside chroot anymore. This causes severe problems
  27. sometimes including LILO not bootstrapping properly.
  28. * Bring back the PPC book (recreate from scratch using current intel
  29. book) using Jesse McCrosky's notes at
  30. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-notes.txt
  31. and the patch to the 'patch' package at:
  32. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-patch.patch
  33. * Add descriptions what the patches do we use (like the console-tools and gzip
  34. patches)
  35. * Try out Slackware's MAKEDEV script and see if it's any better than the
  36. currently used one. A copy can be found at
  37. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/Slackware-MAKEDEV
  38. * Sed'ing the MAKEDEV script gives us hda[1-20], hdb[1-20] and so forth.
  39. Mention that all of these can't actually be used due to kernel
  40. limitations (IDE goes to 16 max for example).
  41. * Mention LFS should be installed as user root
  42. * Single user mode has been reported not to work properly. Shutdown
  43. doesn't seem to unmount file systems and the shell doesn't come up
  44. properly when 'telinit S'.
  45. * Add netkit-base and net-tools to Appendix A.
  46. * Use /etc/HOSTNAME for setting the hostname. This is a bit more
  47. compliant with other distributions and therefore less confusing to
  48. people.
  49. * Suggest using this command to strip debug symbols after you finish
  50. chapter 6: find $LFS -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'
  51. * Modify the killproc function in the functions script. Right now it
  52. works roughly as follows: killl, wait 2 secs, check if pid's are gone.
  53. If not, kill with -KILL (aka -9), wait 2 secs, checkif pid's are gone.
  54. If no, print error message.
  55. Change this into: kill, don't wait 2 secs but check for pid's right
  56. away. If pid's are still there, then wait 2 seconds and kill -KILL,
  57. wait, if pid's still there, print error. Most daemons will exit
  58. immediately and the 2 second wait for every daemon slows things down
  59. unnessary.