lfs-book/TODO

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

* Rewrite all of the mailinglist info (book and website) and give more
  information how you can set to things like digest, digest2, vacation
  and other useful modes.

* Move the explanations in MAKEDEV's installation to the "Command
* explanation" section (also move from chap6 to chap5)

* Unmount $LFS/proc when done with chapter 7

* Check out alternative findutils patch in
* http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/findutils-4.1.alternative-patch

* Check to see if the man pages from the ld.so package also come with
  the man-pages package.

* Incorporate LFS FAQ in the book

* In console-tools-0.2.3/doc/man, there are more files ending in *.in
  that need to be renamed and copied to /usr/share/man. But before we
  copy any files we should modify them first and change the @datadir@
  occurances in those files to it's proper location (/usr/share IIRC)

* Work on intel/preface/whoread.sgml and change the working to make it
  flow and sound nicer. Use
  http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/whoread-draft.txt as a base
  (this is a draft by Oren Byer, based on an earlier draft by Gerard
  Beekmans).

* After entering chroot check the $TERM variable and set it properly if
  needed

* Add dedicated package version number entities (to avoid having to make
  changes to 2-7 files to just change the version number of a package).

* Get rid of the codes 'pp' in chapter 5 entities, 'in' in chapter 6
  entities and the like with other chapters.

* Re-arrange the list in chapter 3 to match the order in which 
  packages are installed.

* Find out why zoneinfo file are not installed when installing Glibc in
  chapter 6

  From an email to lfs-discuss:

    I agree.  Let me ask you this, though.  Is there anything that
    doesn't get 
    installed besides the zoneinfo?  I figured out how to install that
    manually, if it's all that's missing.  It's simply:
        zic /path/to/glibc/source/timezone/<continent>
    If that's all it's missing, no need to install a static perl even.

	Another lead: possibly cross-compiler detection. Fix with:
		sed s,"cross-compiling = yes","cross-compiling = no", \
			config.make > config.make~ && mv config.make~ config.make
		make && make install


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

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

* Mention security patches that can be applied to packages.

* At the end of the book suggest the user create the /etc/lfs-<version>
  file and give a few reasons why the user would want
  such a file (example: it's easy to forget after a while which LFS version
  you run; it makes debugging easier for us knowing which LFS version a user
  is running).

* Check to see if we need the configparms file when installing Glibc.
  Rumours have it that the --prefix=/usr we use causes
  slibdir=/lib and sysconfdir=/etc to be assumed.

* Explain how changing runlevels works. Use the file written by Simon
  Perreault at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/runlevels.txt

* 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

* Sed'ing the MAKEDEV script gives us hda[1-20], hdb[1-20] and so forth.
  Mention that all of these can't actually be used due to kernel
  limitations (IDE goes to 16 max for example).

* Type in chapter 2 - how to install software: Last paragraph: 
	s/There is on exception/There is one exception/

* Rewrite chapter 2 a little bit. Add that export LFS=/mnt/lfs could be
  added to root's .bash_profile/.bashrc (outside chroot) to make sure
  that between build sessions the variable is still set.

* Add to chapter 2 how to use .gz files (not just .tar.gz)

* Mention LFS should be installed as user root

* 'init S' has been reported not to work properly. Test this.

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

* Use /etc/HOSTNAME for setting the hostname. This is a bit more
  compliant with other distributions and therefore less confusing to
  people.

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

* Modify the killproc function in the functions script. Right now it
  works roughly as follows: killl, wait 2 secs, check if pid's are gone.
  If not, kill with -KILL (aka -9), wait 2 secs, checkif pid's are gone.
  If no, print error message.

  Change this into: kill, don't wait 2 secs but check for pid's right
  away. If pid's are still there, then wait 2 seconds and kill -KILL,
  wait, if pid's still there, print error. Most daemons will exit
  immediately and the 2 second wait for every daemon slows things down
  unnessary.