I've been looking at LSB and in running a couple of basic checks find that we have some missing libraries and programs in LFS/BLFS to get to compliance. The discussion below is only a start. There may be more needed after I get their more comprehensive test suite running.
Although I've installed several programs on top of my base LFS test system, the program check now gives me: Couldn't find at Couldn't find batch Couldn't find cpio Couldn't find crontab Couldn't find install_initd Couldn't find java Couldn't find lp Couldn't find lpr Couldn't find mailx Couldn't find pax Couldn't find remove_initd Couldn't find sendmail Couldn't find time Couldn't find xdg-desktop-icon Couldn't find xdg-desktop-menu Couldn't find xdg-email Couldn't find xdg-icon-resource Couldn't find xdg-mime Couldn't find xdg-open Couldn't find xdg-screensaver Of course, several of these are in BLFS, but many are not: xdg-utils, pax, cpio, at, batch, and gnu time jump out as being needed. Some (install_initd and remove_initd) are not familiar to me at all. We have fcron, but I'm not sure if we need to create a link from fcrontab to crontab or if Vixie cron is required. Should we be installing some of these (e.g. cpio, pax, Gnu time) in LFS? --------- The library requirements are a bit better. Right now I'm only missing: Unable to find library libasound.so.2 Unable to find library libcups.so.2 Unable to find library libcupsimage.so.2 Unable to find library libjpeg.so.62 Unable to find library libncurses.so.5 Unable to find library libpam.so.0 Unable to find library libqt-mt.so.3 Of course most of these are in BLFS, but I'm concerned about the libncurses requirement. In LFS we install libncursesw. Ubuntu has both. Should we install both in LFS also? We install jpeg7 in BLFS. We used to install jpegsrc.v6b.tar.gz which gives libjpeg.so.62. I'll investigate to see if we need both versions. ---------- What I want to do is to introduce LSB in the Preface of LFS and then continue with more discussion in BLFS "After LFS Configuration Issues". In the appropriate packages, add a comment that "This package is needed for LSB compliance." I some cases there are definite alternatives. For instance the sendmail requirement can be met with any of the MTA packages in BLFS. ---------- Comments and discussion are welcome. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
