On 7/18/19 9:36 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote:
On 7/7/2019 5:28 PM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote:
On 7/7/19 5:23 PM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote:
On 7/3/2019 10:06 AM, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev wrote:
On 7/3/19 1:17 AM, DJ Lucas via lfs-dev wrote:
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Just a quick (but functional) mock-up using update-ca-certificates
as an example. Can clean it up if this would be good for the book.
Would need to move to chapter 7, after networking configuration
(won't work without /etc/resolv.conf).
This is an interesting idea, but I think for LFS it would be better
to host the files on anduin for download. The update is really not
very critical. After all we have been working with the current
version since 2008 without issue.
(Looking at the current XML files, protocols was last updated
2017-10-13 but services was updated 2019-07-02 (yesterday). )
Right now we create a tarball with all packages that is available
for download. After that, for LFS, an internet connection is not
needed. I'd like to keep it that way.
We could but the script on anduin to keep the files updated like we
do with firmware. We could also put the update script into BLFS
similar to make-ca.
Another thought for BLFS is to just download the xml files with wget
and use xsltproc and a custom .xsl file to parse the xml.
https://github.com/djlucas/iana-etc <-- In the interim. I emailed
Seth, haven't heard from him in several years.
Are you going to update the book?
Okay, I've heard back from Seth, and he is cool with me taking over
maintenance (he hasn't used it in some time) if we'd even like to keep
it in the book. I've created a 4.0 release (per his suggestion, since
somebody else has long ago done an unrelated 3.0 release and forgotten
it). Whether we continue to use it is up to y'all. I'm fine with just
downloading a static copy for LFS and making mention of the two awk
scripts at some point as well, or putting a script in BLFS to update
them occasionally.
My preference would be for the last suggestion. LFS can just install
the two files. An optional script in BLFS to do updates would be
reasonable, but we could even do without that since the missing changes
since 2008 do not seem to affect any of our users.
On that note, at some point I'd like to create an LFS organization for
github, specifically to host little things like make-ca, this, or
initd-tools as I do expect to make some fairly minor, but functional
changes to that one (to account for systemd-compat and missing
facilities). I've not yet gotten a hold of Dan (I haven't done anything
other than import it yet).
You can do that if you want, but we do have anduin for hosting.
-- Bruce
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