On Tuesday February 19 2008 11:26:08 am Jaap Struyk wrote: > Robert Connolly schreef: > > Coreutils supports attr without patches, but file capabilities depends on > > Linux drivers marked as "experimental". > > So would pax if it was in vanilla kernel, sounds like a great plan, > maybe at the end of the book and some setup to get rid of suid bins? > I find it also a pity that additional software isn't in the hlfs book > any more (like openntpd in the past was) maybe it's a plan to write an > additional chapter containing specific hardened software/tricks/configs?
I don't know how to handle this yet. There are a lot of choices for dealing
with bhlfs.
#1
One idea is to split chapter 6 into 'toolchain', 'system utilities and
libraries' (coreutils, openssl), 'development' (make, perl), 'daemons and
services' (sysklogd, shadow). The book is close to this now. This way
everything has its place.
#2
Or add a new chapter for blfs packages. We did this before. I didn't update
the packages often, because at the end of the book I forgot about them. It
was eventually deleted.
Both of the above ideas have the problem of duplicating the blfs pages. It's
inefficient.
#3
Or, use the blfs wiki. This idea has a lot of potential and is very flexable
for everyone. There is one flaw, users have to follow the wiki link for every
package. This can also be combined with #1.
#4
Ask blfs for bhlfs links, under their wiki url link on their package pages, to
a bhlfs wiki. So hlfs users jump to the blfs book like normal, and they just
need to keep an eye out for a second wiki link. This is also inefficient, but
less inefficient than copying blfs pages.
And then there's the issue of how hlfs copies lfs pages. A solution to the
libcap page might want to consider this too. The differences between h{,b}lfs
and {,}blfs might be 10%, and is not expected to get significantly greater.
robert
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