Re: Can I create my own Teo En Ming Linux distribution just by following the Linux From Scratch book?

Am Mittwoch, den 03.10.2018, 06:44 +0000 schrieb Turritopsis
Dohrnii Teo En Ming:
> Good afternoon from Singapore,
> 
> As per subject/topic, can I create my own Teo En Ming Linux distribution just by following the Linux From Scratch book?
> 
> I have always wanted to create a Linux distribution of my own, just like Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, CentOS, etc.

First of all, Yes you can.

But you have to keep in mind that LFS provides you
instructions to build a running Linux system on the machine
on which you are going thru the instructions. It does not
create a distro out of the box. For a distribution, you open
the box of pandora in terms of

* Compile CPU architecture independend
Your distro should run on several different CPUs (Core-2,
i7, AMD, ... 

* Package manager
(B)LFS does not use any of them as LFS does not use
precompiled binaries (which distros usually provide). LFS
builds all from source, right on the target machine

* Instruction sequence & target
Some instructions of (B)LFS packages needs to be run on the
target machine before/after the binaries has been placed on
it, and not on the build machine.

* Dependencies
Binaries may have dependencies to other packages. You need
to keep track which package depends on which other package.
Difficult to handle are circular dependencies (A needs B, B
needs A or A needs B, B needs C, C needs A)

* Take care of user changes
Do not overwrite config files on the target machine. The
user might have made changes which then would be lost.

* ...
Many other more or less difficult issues

It all can be handled but its non-trivial.

--
Thomas


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