DJ Lucas wrote: > Finally, we provide a fail safe if somebody makes a mistake during the > process. I speak from experience, starting over sucks! I know, and I'm > pretty sure that everyone can remember the dreaded "It would be easier > to start over" response from years ago in LFS-Support. I have no idea > if that response still lives on today, but I'd suspect that there are > still cases of it.
Actually, there are a fair number of these 'start over' cases, but almost all of them are in Chapter 5. If I understand correctly, the proposal to add PM only applies to Chapter 6. BTW, I once (IIRC around 2004) made a suggestion to scan the filesystem after each package and store information about each package's files in a DB. That kinda begs the question about how you get a db installed for use. We really don't want to install mysql in Chapter 5. Having a DB that has the history of every file on the system: what package, date, package version, filename, directory, would be useful. It's also well beyond what I think should be in LFS. If I ever actually implemented something like that, I'd write it up as a hint. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
