Re: Initial Thoughts, migration from Ubuntu ahead

On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 11:41 AM, Henri Tuhola <[email protected]> wrote:
> Are you serious or are you joking?
He is serious, but I wouldn't take him too seriously.
> I just read the LFS again and realised it can be summarized:
> 1. prepare the toolchain and a target file system
> 2. compile everything and install into the file system
> 3. install boot scripts you need to start it up.
>
> Therefore I were wrong with the proposal that I'd learn something new
> from actually doing the things in LFS.
>
> It seems to be essentially same for GoboLinux. Just instead of
> installing programs into specific places, you install them into the
> hierarchy provided by GoboLinux and provide symbolic links into the
> /System directory. The /boot seems to sit in /System/Kernel/Boot .
>
> Also, you already have automatic installer, that I used to install it
> into virtualbox at the first time. It is located in
> /Programs/Installer. It's even written in my favorite language, which
> means I can easily read there how GoboLinux goes to my hard drive.
> Apparently no "Gobo From Scratch" is needed here.
It's possible that doing it from LFS will help just because everything
on the CD is so old - it's a real pain to get an up-to-date system
from an 014.01 installation. There are some (probably slightly dated
themselves) instructions around for updating things here:
<https://gist.github.com/hishamhm/1360997>. The separate repositories
are no longer required, but the rest is probably pretty close.

I wouldn't be surprised if LFS-with-obvious-changes were easier to
manage, but that's really up to you. It is possible to do either way,
and you will need to do a lot of exploring on your own however you do
it.

The Udev issue is real and will be something you have to deal with -
in essence, udev has been merged into systemd and is no longer
independently maintained, which means either switching to systemd or
using one of the forks.
>
> The current kernel in my virtualbox installation seems to be of
> version 2.6.24. On the new versions of gcc etc.. Doesn't GoboLinux
> allow multiple installations of gcc, that I can swap? The software
> that goes behind.. Couldn't I just tell them to use older versions of
> gcc and ld at compiling?
You can switch between them at will, but consistently using the newest
one will give you the best result.
> You were correct with your first post.. Maybe I should just hop into
> this new system and really take it my own! If something is missing,
> I'd be able of *creating* it anyway. You're also right about the
> documentation though. I should document what I am going to do, and
> what I've already done.
This is good.
-Michael