lfs-book/prologue/standards.xml

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  <title>LFS and Standards</title>

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     <para>The structure of LFS follows Linux standards as closely as 
     possible.  The primary standards are:</para>

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      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="http://www.unix.org/single_unix_specification">The 
        Single UNIX Specification Version 3 (POSIX)</ulink>.  Note: 
        Free registration is required.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html">Filesystem 
        Hierarchy Standard (FHS)</ulink></para>

      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para><ulink url="http://refspecs.freestandards.org/LSB_4.0.0/">Linux 
        Standard Base (LSB) Core Specification 4.0</ulink></para>

        <para>The LSB has five separate standards: Core, C++, Desktop,
        Runtime Languages, and Printing. In addition to generic requirements
        there are also architecture specific requirements.  LFS attempts to
        conform to the architectures discussed in the previous section.</para>

        <note><para>Many people do not agree with the requirements of the LSB.
        The main purpose of defining it is to ensure that proprietary software
        will be able to be installed and run properly on a compliant system.
        Since LFS is source based, the user has complete control over what
        packages are desired and many choose not to install some packages that
        are specified by the LSB.</para></note>

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    <para>Creating a complete LFS system capable of passing the LSB
    certifications tests is possible, but not without many additional packages
    that are beyond the scope of LFS.  Most of these additional packages have
    installation instructions in BLFS. </para> 

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      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages supplied by LFS needed to
          satisfy the LSB Requirements</bridgehead>
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        <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils, File, Findutils, Gawk,
                Grep, Gzip, M4, Man-DB, Ncurses, Procps, Psmisc, Sed,
                Shadow, Tar, Util-linux-ng, Zlib</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB C++:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Gcc</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Desktop:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>None</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Runtime Languages:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Perl</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Printing:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>None</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Multimeda:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>None</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

    <variablelist> 
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages supplied by BLFS needed to
          satisfy the LSB Requirements</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Bc, Cpio, Ed, Fcrontab, PAM, Sendmail (or Postfix or Exim)
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB C++:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>None</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Desktop:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>ATK, Cairo, Desktop-file-utils, Freetype, Fontconfig,
                Glib2, GTK+2, Icon-naming-utils, Libjpeg, Libpng, Libxml2,
                MesaLib, Pango, Qt3, Qt4, Xorg</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Runtime Languages:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Python</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Printing:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>CUPS</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Multimeda:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Alsa Libraries, NSPR, NSS, OpenSSL, Java</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

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      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Packages not supplied by LFS or BLFS 
      needed to satisfy the LSB Requirements</bridgehead>
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      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Core:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>At, Batch, Install_initd, Lsb_release, Remove_initd, Test
          </para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB C++:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>None</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Desktop:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>None</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Runtime Languages:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>None</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Printing:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>None</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry>
        <term><emphasis>LSB Multimeda:</emphasis></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>Xdg-utils</para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

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