Re: Issues with host system Debian

Following idea of Ken Moffat's post, browse at
http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/livecd/2016-March/thread.html 
.

It may revive my interest in LFS.


On 6/25/2016 12:52 PM, Daniel Bernhardt wrote:
> I checked the DFS links, I'm sure it was an interesting project.
> Finding the old source might be impossible at this point. I also
> went through the FAQ's and I see where it cautions against
> Fedora-core 4, (I might even have an old cd of that somewhere in
> a box.) What I didn't see were the refs to Debian. This may take
> some time, but I'm going to struggle on with it just because I
> can't let it win.
>
>
> Having fun with it regardless ��
>
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> *From:* lfs-chat <[email protected]> on
> behalf of Richard Owlett <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Saturday, June 25, 2016 11:32:33 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [lfs-chat] Issues with host system Debian
> On 6/25/2016 6:14 AM, Daniel Bernhardt wrote:
>> I have successfully built LFS 7.9 twice using Slackware as the
>> host system with a default full-install. I'm currently trying to
>> build 7.9 Systemd. I've been using various versions of Linux off
>> and on for the last 18 years or so, but never too deeply into the
>> technical aspects. (Yes, I still use Microshaft too) I'm in my
>> late 50's. I can manage most simple scripting issues, but I'm not
>> a 'programmer'. I started with RH, I've used Mandrake, Debian,
>> Slackware and others just to play with them. I currently have
>> Debian (stretch) onboard with Slackware on a second partition,
>> and several other partitions available between 2 drives totaling
>> 2.4 TB. I'm using an Intel Core i3 @ 3.2Ghz, with 8GB ram. I
>> always have a spare computer around just for experimentation,
>> which is what I use this one for.
>>
>>
>> To date I have not successfully built LFS using Debian (Wheezy,
>> Jessie, or Stretch). I'll get into glibc on the build tools when
>> it fails.
>>
>>
>> I've checked the system requirements and I appear to meet them
>>
>> I added build-essential, bison, gawk, and vim (I hate vim-tiny).
>> I fixed the link to /bin/bash from /bin/dash, Is there something
>> obvious here that I'm missing? The version-check script shows
>> everything as ok with a clean compile on the dummy.c.
>>
>>
>> I've wiped the system clean and getting ready to start over, any
>> suggestions before I begin again? I gather from all the
>> references that the LFS team has used Debian as a host before.
>> Any additional packages that I need to get into Debian before
>> trying again?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Daniel
>>
>
> There once *WAS* a project called "Debian from scratch".
> I've no idea how closely related to LFS it was.
>
> Interesting links at
> https://www.google.com/search?q=+"debian+from+scratch"+site:debian.org
>
> A relevant thread begins at
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/06/thrd2.html#00617
>
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=570272
> evidently removed supporting packages from the Debian archive.
>
> HTH
>
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