Re: SLFS book chapter proposals

On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 20:14, Christos Gioran wrote:

> 
> The point not clarified (at least IMO) as of yet is whether we will mention 
> only differences from the LFS book or list *all* compilation commands. My 
> proposal is that after deciding on the contents of the book, we will have a 
> clear idea of the extent of differences. If it is tolerable then document the 
> differences only. Otherwise (most probably) we will have to include all 
> instructions from the beginning.
> 
The only problem I have with patching the LFS book so to speak, is that
there may be some more in-depth issues with local application
hardening...  ie. the base GCC builds insecure applications, so we
replace that with a secure gcc that builds hardened apps...  How many
applications have to bre rebuilt? Will that break anything? What about
libraries? Do we have to rebuild glibc in a hardened mode? How many
applications and packages will that break, and have to rebuild against
the new glibc?  It may very well become far bigger a project than a
fresh build...
And again, if publication is the end goal here, it has to be a contained
book, with most everything included in the book, at bare minimum,
everything needed to build the SLFS system - so it could be SLFS and LFS
published in the same book I guess, but is that really the best way?

  Rob Day (BOFH)


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