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