Rumor has it that Jeremy Huntwork may have mentioned these words:
It does? Odd. What other rumors are spreading out there about me... ;)
I'll prolly just bundle up the patches I did and stick 'em on a webpage... Oh, and BTW - that one patch you informed me about earlier did work; it built straight through.
Cool. Good to know. :)
What I'm trying to do is make a "Stick in CD, out comes qmail server" type of project -- maybe not completely, but with all the major distros on this "Throw more hardware at it" kick, I'm trying to make a way to fairly quickly build a linux server from scratch, with all the packages I need (python, qmail, tcpserver, etc.) that I could rebuild a mail server in a fairly speedy manner and "known-working" platform to do it with.
Well... Much of your idea could really be independent of the cd, inasmuch as the cd just provides the build tools. What you really want to be looking at doing, from what I can see, is a custom nALFS profile to build all the packages you need. Right now there's a BLFS nALFS profile (note that I havne't used it yet) that could be used in addition to a customized LFS profile to build exactly the system you're looking for. The profile *could* be on the cd, or it could be easily loaded from a network. What type of automation are you hoping for here?
So the packages on the CD could be a bit "malleable" yet...
To some extent, yes.
Joined... Notalotta activity there currently, tho...
Yeah, we've had spurts, and I really would like to get it jumping there again. We need a developer with time on his/her hands. I'd be happy to jump in and start on it myself, but that involves sitting down and learning first and there are other responsibilities that keep that from happening right now.
It's that "get involved" part... ;-) Don't wanna spread myself too thin, now. ;-) However, it's more the "create something by committee" that I'm not accustomed to; most all of my programming experience has been lonely nites, all alone, bang on the keyboard until it works good enough for me. ;^>
I totally understand. With the community though, there's added benefit of them throwing ideas in and helping improve your work/end result. This livecd wouldn't be half as good without the help/suggestions from the community, even though up to recently I had been doing nearly all of the work.
Well, you can count me in as a helping hand...
Cool. :) But as I mentioned before, what ALFS really needs right now is someone to read the SRS and just *start* the coding. Get the thing moving. Man... As I write about this now I'm getting kind of upset with myself for letting that just sit. Got to get that going again...
BTW, Python isn't on the Live CD, is it? (It doesn't seem to be on the 6.1-pre2 I have here...) If not, it might not be a bad idea to include it in the next pre-release to gear up for the new ALFS tool... Just a thought.
No, it's not. And honestly, unless we are actually including a tool that *needs* it, I don't really intend to put it on. If and when the next tool requires it, it will go in. In the meantime, I'm trying to keep the size down and keep it simple.
Thanks for all the thoughts and comments Roger. Keep 'em coming. :) It's good to see activity and interest on these lists. :)
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