Greg Schafer wrote:
It's amazing how such a simple concept can apparently be troublesome for
some folks to grasp.
What I have trouble understanding is the fact that, apparently, one
shouldn't reboot during the ICA cycle. What I thought was trying to be
proved here was that a) any suitable host can build LFS and b)
regardless of the host, the final LFS system should be more-or-less
identical (ignoring timestamps embedded in files, etc.). Therefore my
initial *assumption* would have been to do something along the lines of:
1. Build LFS from any suitable host
2. *Reboot* into that LFS system
3. Build LFS from the LFS system built from stage 1.
4. Compare the systems built in step 1 and 3.
What I gather from the current discussions is that step 2 in the above
introduces too many variables (e.g. kernel configs, environment
settings) to be able to perform a useful/accurate comparison (step 4.) on.
I will freely admit to not having studied the ICA or farce scripts at
all, and that is largely down to me having these assumptions about what
is being compared and what should be compared. As it is, I don't have
the time (nor the patience, probably) to carry out any such tests, so
I'm leaving it up to those more motivated than myself to prove/disprove
either build order as robust enough for LFS' needs.
Regards,
Matt.
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