Hi it's interesting to see some discussion on this. I thought I'd drop in what I do.
I use jhalfs to build LFS and then use nALFS to build BLFS on top because when I started it was practically the only option. I wrote a fair number of XML files for nALFS to provide a "glue layer" on top of the BLFS sources so that the components gelled together. I wrote XML for stuff not in BLFS at all and generally got something together that was good enough for my own experimental server. My build gave me LAMP server, mail with webmail, LDAP, Samba Windows Domain Server amongst other useful stuff along with the glue required to make it all work together. I never felt any of what I did was good enough to warrant sharing with anyone and the hassle of maintaining nALFS XML files made me take it no further than necessary. I've written various scripts to build an LFS system from a "resource CD" that I make that works on any old PC that I can boot from a floppy. However, in recent months I've done very little. I am now running servers in OpenVZ containers on a Ubuntu server host which has let me shut down my LFS server. I would like to get to the position where I can run my desktop environment on an LFS build but I expect that is a very very long way off. The availability of tools may bring it a little closer so I read your post with interest :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
