On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Steve Jones <s...@slohj.org> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, DJ Lucas wrote: > >> On 03/14/2011 12:03 AM, Nathan Coulson wrote: >> > >> > >> >On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:45 PM, DJ Lucas <d...@linuxfromscratch.org >> ><mailto:d...@linuxfromscratch.org>> wrote: >> > >> > On 03/13/2011 11:39 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> > > * LSB Compliance - For LFS we are nearly there anyway. >> > > >> > > * Dynamic boot script - No more static list of links, this kind >> > of ties >> > > into LSB Bootscripts, but there are other options. >> > > >> > Again, these two go hand in hand for me. In the current >> > lfs-bootscripts >> > tarball, I've been working on and using exclusively the contrib/lsb-v3 >> > boot scripts for over 3 years now. They are an extension of something >> > that Nathan Coulson and Alexander Patrakov had started on. These are >> > completely lsb-v4 compliant as well and are IMO a huge improvement >> > over >> > the current boot scripts. I've been using Dan Nicholson's initd-tools >> > package to provide the install_initd and remove_initd programs. Aside >> > from the fact that there is no longer any need to maintain a list of >> > symlinks for startup order, they add a lot of niceties, including >> > boot-logging and conditional startup for trouble-shooting. >> > >> > >> > >> >ah, I miss the bootscript days. I'll have to take a look, and >> >find out what I have been missing out on >> > >> >> Yes, please! Another set of eyes and additional brain power is >> always welcome! You should still have commit privs so feel free to >> help yourself. The current 'stable' boot scripts are the remnants >> after we ripped out the i18n additions. Though they are stable, they >> still contain a lot of cruft such as boot_mesg which is largely >> unneeded. I wound up doing a complete rewrite of rc and a single >> conditional source of the configuration files in lsb-v3. IOW, at the >> cost of possibly faster conditional logic, they only get sourced by >> the script if running outside of rc in the lsb-v3 directory. I >> honestly don't remember what the 'stty sane' issue was caused by, >> but I have never been able to reproduce it since and saw no reason >> to source the files in every single sub-shell. BTW, Dan's >> initd-tools has moved. He is currently hosting them in his home >> directory on freedesktop.org. > > Do you have the link to initd-tools. I've searched all morning and > can't find anything. I'm thinking of trying the LSB scripts on my next > build now that linux=2.6.38 is out.
http://people.freedesktop.org/~dbn/initd-tools/ I haven't migrated the git repo over there yet, but I also haven't made any more commits since the last release. :) -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
