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- These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0):
- * 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
- * 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).
- * Install Glibc in chapter 6. This means chapter 5 needs mawk,
- texinfo and msgfmt from gettext added as extra static packages. Test if
- this really works and doesn't have unexpected problems. mawk needs the
- CFLAGS=-static variable during the compile stage, texinfo needs
- LDFLAGS=-static and msgfmt from gettext needs to be compiled with:
- cd src && make LDDFLAGS=-all-static msgfmt
-
- * 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.
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