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  1. These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0):
  2. * When installing Glibc in chapter 6 glibc-build/login/pt_chown isn't
  3. installed (we'll copy manually for now) and the mtrace program isn't
  4. build. Find out why.
  5. * Rewrite all of the mailinglist info (book and website) and give more
  6. information how you can set to things like digest, digest2, vacation
  7. and other useful modes.
  8. * Check out alternative findutils patch in
  9. * http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/findutils-4.1.alternative-patch
  10. * Check to see if the man pages from the ld.so package also come with
  11. the man-pages package.
  12. * Incorporate LFS FAQ in the book
  13. * In console-tools-0.2.3/doc/man, there are more files ending in *.in
  14. that need to be renamed and copied to /usr/share/man. But before we
  15. copy any files we should modify them first and change the @datadir@
  16. occurances in those files to it's proper location (/usr/share IIRC)
  17. * Work on intel/preface/whoread.sgml and change the working to make it
  18. flow and sound nicer. Use
  19. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/whoread-draft.txt as a base
  20. (this is a draft by Oren Byer, based on an earlier draft by Gerard
  21. Beekmans).
  22. * After entering chroot check the $TERM variable and set it properly if
  23. needed
  24. * Add dedicated package version number entities (to avoid having to make
  25. changes to 2-7 files to just change the version number of a package).
  26. * Get rid of the codes 'pp' in chapter 5 entities, 'in' in chapter 6
  27. entities and the like with other chapters.
  28. * Re-arrange the list in chapter 3 to match the order in which
  29. packages are installed.
  30. * Full dependency list. This list isn't a list of "package a depends on
  31. from package f".
  32. * Bring the book up to speed with the current FHS specs.
  33. * Mention security patches that can be applied to packages.
  34. * At the end of the book suggest the user create the /etc/lfs-<version>
  35. file and give a few reasons why the user would want
  36. such a file (example: it's easy to forget after a while which LFS version
  37. you run; it makes debugging easier for us knowing which LFS version a user
  38. is running).
  39. * Explain how changing runlevels works. Use the file written by Simon
  40. Perreault at http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/runlevels.txt
  41. * Don't run lilo from inside chroot anymore. This causes severe problems
  42. sometimes including LILO not bootstrapping properly.
  43. * Bring back the PPC book (recreate from scratch using current intel
  44. book) using Jesse McCrosky's notes at
  45. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-notes.txt
  46. and the patch to the 'patch' package at:
  47. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/ppc-patch.patch
  48. * Add descriptions what the patches do we use (like the console-tools and gzip
  49. patches)
  50. * Try out Slackware's MAKEDEV script and see if it's any better than the
  51. currently used one. A copy can be found at
  52. http://download.linuxfromscratch.org/misc/Slackware-MAKEDEV
  53. * Sed'ing the MAKEDEV script gives us hda[1-20], hdb[1-20] and so forth.
  54. Mention that all of these can't actually be used due to kernel
  55. limitations (IDE goes to 16 max for example).
  56. * Type in chapter 2 - how to install software: Last paragraph:
  57. s/There is on exception/There is one exception/
  58. * Rewrite chapter 2 a little bit. Add that export LFS=/mnt/lfs could be
  59. added to root's .bash_profile/.bashrc (outside chroot) to make sure
  60. that between build sessions the variable is still set.
  61. * Add to chapter 2 how to use .gz files (not just .tar.gz)
  62. * Mention LFS should be installed as user root
  63. * Single user mode has been reported not to work properly. Shutdown
  64. doesn't seem to unmount file systems and the shell doesn't come up
  65. properly when 'telinit S'.
  66. * Add netkit-base and net-tools to Appendix A.
  67. * Use /etc/HOSTNAME for setting the hostname. This is a bit more
  68. compliant with other distributions and therefore less confusing to
  69. people.
  70. * Suggest using this command to strip debug symbols after you finish
  71. chapter 6: find $LFS -type f -exec strip --strip-debug '{}' ';'
  72. * Modify the killproc function in the functions script. Right now it
  73. works roughly as follows: killl, wait 2 secs, check if pid's are gone.
  74. If not, kill with -KILL (aka -9), wait 2 secs, checkif pid's are gone.
  75. If no, print error message.
  76. Change this into: kill, don't wait 2 secs but check for pid's right
  77. away. If pid's are still there, then wait 2 seconds and kill -KILL,
  78. wait, if pid's still there, print error. Most daemons will exit
  79. immediately and the 2 second wait for every daemon slows things down
  80. unnessary.
  81. * Transform SGML DocBook into XML DocBook