Le 25/08/2013 17:16, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > Rob Landley wrote: > >> So if there's a vacuum, I note that I'm finally updating my old >> automated LFS 6.8 build to 7.4-rc1, and once I've got that I'd like to >> automate the corresponding BLFS release. (I automated 80 or so BLFS >> packages before, but that was for an employer and got left behind when >> the contract ended.) > > I'm not sure what you mean about automating BLFS. A lot of users create > scripts for each package. Do you mean that you are tying these scripts > together in a super script, creating a Makefile, or something else? > >> This is building Linux From Scratch on top of an arbitrary host >> environment, and I'm testing it using the aboriginal linux base system >> for several different targets qemu supports (building natively on each >> target under an emulated build environment). It's slow, but not _that_ >> slow on modern hardware and I've got distcc set up calling out to the >> cross compiler on the host to speed it up a little and take advantage >> of SMP. >> >> The potential advantage of this for BLFS is regression testing: you can >> plug in a new package and see what effect it has on all the others. > > That's a very good observation. > >> What I don't currently have is a way to parse the docbook and generate >> automated builds from that. I'm currently doing it by hand. If the >> instructions are regular enough that a machine can be programmed to >> follow them, it would probably be a good idea to do that. > > Take a look at jhalfs. That does a very good job with LFS, but the BLFS > side is somewhat less used. What you seem to need is to be able to > extract the commands with xsltproc, but writing that is somewhat of an > arcane art. Looking at the lfs and blfs stylesheets may give you some ideas. > > I think the closest to what you are seeking is the ablfs (automatic BLFS) project, which is an upgrade of the old jhalfs BLFS project. You can get it at: svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/ALFS/jhalfs/branches/ablfs
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