2007/11/18, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 06:44:20PM +0500, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > 2007/11/14, Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > My initial reaction is to use either current or 2.6.2, with 2.6.2 > > > (slightly) preferred. > > > > -1 for "current", because this way two users, one starting from Fedora > > and one from Ubuntu, will end up with different glibc binaries. > > > But does that matter ? For an individual's builds, identical > biaries are good. But for two different builders, why would it > matter when we don't expect anybody to distribute the compiled > versions ?
We still want consistent builds for consistent bug reports. > 1. Existing users now building a newer LFS from their old one. They > can easily build the new kernel first. I agree. > 2. People using an LFS Live CD - the kernel version normally matches > the sources on the CD. I would agree when someone adopts the LiveCD project. For the next version of LFS, there will be no LiveCD made by me, because, IMHO, it does more harm than good, by removing the pre-requisite skill check. > 3. Other users who can build a kernel suitable for their system, and > should perhaps be encouraged to do this before building LFS (for one > thing, it separates any issues in their .config from issues caused > by attempting to follow the book). Good point. > 4. People who cannot build a suitable kernel until LFS is completed > (e.g. people following the book with the correct downloaded package > versions, but booting from e.g. an ubuntu or knoppix Live CD, or > people whose distro requires them to build a kernel with an initrd > or initramfs. Note that some of these people may even be running a > _newer_ kernel (e.g. rawhide, if that uses initramfs or whatever). The initramfs case should be addressed by educating users to use the mkinitrd or mkinitramfs script provided by the distro. And the next version of LFS may well support and encourage creating initramfs (e.g., this is mandatory for all users of LVM or dmraid, because of userspace setup needed before accessing such block devices, and for owners of SCSI cards made by QLogic, or IBM Power RAIDs, because of the firmware). The non-LFS LiveCD case is probably valid, but both Ubuntu and Knoppix provide a way to install a LiveCD to the hard drive. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
