Robert Connolly wrote:
The most advisable way to construct a server system would be to build a complete hlfs system first, as a mother system. Then follow something like the boot-floppy howto, copying programs and libraries you want to an image or tarball. This was you have a proper mother system, and you can avoid installing development docs, headers, and other unneeded files to the server.
I figured something like this would be true. Thanks for the tip on the HOWTO. My first google searches turned up some rather ancient (~2000) docs, that referred readers to LFS for more info ;)
It can all be done from the chroot without rebooting to the mother system, and /mnt/hlfs wouldn't need to be on its own partition either.
Good point. In my admittedly special case, however, I'm building /mnt/hlfs inside a VM, so the "partition" ends up being a file on the host system. The nice things about this are that (a) it can be versioned, and (b) I can easily mount it on any other VM that I want to build out.
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