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These are the TODO items for the next LFS release (3.0):
* chapter6/chroot.sgml - "Make sure you execute all the following
commands in this chapter" -> "Make sure you execute all the following
commands in this and the remaining chapters"
* Note when you reboot the system and not done with the book yet you
have to mount $LFS/proc again and enter chroot before continuing where
you left of.
* New shadow password suite link: ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/
* When installing Glibc in chapter 6 glibc-build/login/pt_chown isn't
installed (we'll copy manually for now) and the mtrace program isn't
build. Find out why.
* 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.
* 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).
* 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
* Single user mode has been reported not to work properly. Shutdown
doesn't seem to unmount file systems and the shell doesn't come up
properly when 'telinit S'.
* 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.
* Transform SGML DocBook into XML DocBook
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