On 10/26/10 12:03, Michael Schmidt wrote: > Hi everybody! > > > I was wondering: one of the things that gives me a headache when > installing LFS, is that there is no generic package management system > that you can use to install the basic system software (Chapter 6). I > know, that the point of lfs is to built everything from scratch, but > that not necessarily conflicts with dpkg, the only thing you would > have to explain, is how a deb package is built from scratch eg. a hint > would do the trick, then you could use dpkg to install all the > packages in chapter 6. I know that dpkg is very light weight, and it > should be no problem to include it at the beginning of chapter 6 (If > you install the package without dselect). Just curious to get > feedback, as of why this isn't a good idea. > > Greetings > > Michael
It is left as challenge/exercise to your new found/gained experience. BTW I use arch linux pacman for package management, dpkg gives me heart burn. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
