[CLUE-Talk] LFS and Slackware

[Brandon N]

LFS is great for one or two machines or if you want to learn a lot
about Linux.  It's not practical for large enviroments however, unless
you want to make your own packaging tool.  That's why I use slackware
right now, it's very close to LFS but I get a simple packaging tool. 
When I was building LFS I found it best to get the sources from the
Slackware site, which is almost always up to date as long as it's
stable (they don't use 2.4 kernels yet.)  In the same directory as the
pristine source file slackware has a patch of any changes they made and
a script of how they did the install.  No smoke and mirrors involved.

Brandon
--- David Anselmi <anselmi at intradenver.net> wrote:
> Since you mentioned it, I plan to install LFS next and build a
> firewall with it.  Here's why:
> 
> Last year we had a server with SuSE 6.3 on it.  Needed to upgrade
> Samba.  Oops, the version we need it only available as a source tar. 
> Got the tar, ./configure, make, make install.  Doesn't work. 
> Eventually found
> and removed the SuSE version that was installed differently than make
> install did.
> 
> When using other distros, I always feel unsettled that I don't really
> know what's there and what isn't.  So I'm going to try to roll my own
> and keep track of what I use.  Should be fun.
> 
> I've heard that LFS can be pretty difficult.  But I've yet to run
> into something I couldn't compile and run on Linux - kernels, XFree,
> others.  In fact, the only way I've ever had a successful X config
> was building
> XFree from scratch and using their config tool (sorry, can't keep
> them straight so I don't remember which it was).
> 
> Not knocking distros, just don't think I need one.  Probably feel
> different if I used one daily and was comfortable with how it worked.
> 
> Dave
> 
> Daniel Chenoweth wrote:
> 
> > Anyone try out Mandrake 8 yet?
> >
> > I am currently using SuSE 7.1 on most of my boxes, and really like
> it so far.  I also have a couple Mandrake 7.2 servers and 1 Debian
> 2.2 box (I was a RedHat user since 1995, until I discovered Mandrake
> & SuSE).
> >
> > Two more distros that I would really like to try (for learning more
> about how things work):
> > - Slackware
> > - LFS (Linux From Scratch / http://www.linuxfromscratch.org)
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any input on any of the above.
> >
> > Dan
> >
> > --
> >
> > Daniel Chenoweth
> > daniel at chenoweth.net
> >
> >  
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