Stef Bon escribió: > Hello all, > > well I've posted a howto on howtoforge with something about LFS: > > http://www.howtoforge.com/ihlfs_full_control_over_what_youre_installing > > It's about the control you can get over a installation (or everything that > does modifications on your system) with the use of unionfs and chroot. > > You all know that the mainwebsite www.linuxfromscratch.org is not there > anymore? > > > But now something else: > > I've been working with the unionfs in combination with the chroot and I > thought we also could use it for building LFS. > > In stead of creating a tools directory on the new partition where the system > will be installed, and creating a link to it, > > you can also do: > > mount -t unionfs -o dirs=/mnt/lfs:/=ro unionfs /mnt/union > > and > > mount --bind /dev /mnt/union/dev > mount -t devpts devpts /mnt/union/dev/pts > mount -t tmpfs shm /mnt/union/dev/shm > mount -t sysfs sysfs /mnt/union/sys > mount -t proc proc /mnt/union/proc > > After these steps make the new "virtual" environment complete with a chroot: > > chroot /mnt/union /bin/bash --login > > Now you can compile everything in this chrooted environment as normal, thus > without the /tools directory: so with normal options like --prefix=/usr in > stead of the --prefix=/tools.
As pointed out by Vladimir, this isn't a good idea. > > This works - I think - in step 5. When everything is done in chapter 5, and > the chroot session is ended, in /mnt/lfs there should be a temporary > system, with all the normal paths. I've not tested this, but there is a > hint about this: > > http://www.nl.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/package_management_using_trip.txt > > In chapter 6 the unionfs is not necessary anymore. And the tools directory > is not used, which is making things easier. But there the unionfs may be > used for packagemanagement. > > > What do you think? > The existing situation works, but this new construction looks good. The last two systems I built, I used castfs (from SourceMage), and worked very well. It was designed with that purpose on mind, and is better because it's a FUSE fs. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
