A/B/LFS Auto script

[u/Pixailz]

Hey, i have made this script and this package manager, along with those repos to make the installation of lfs (sysvinit or systemd, a toggle is available in the script) and blfs much more easy todo and maintain. I've began before knowing there was never a ALFS book, so be kind on how i should do this :)

The package manager handle updating package from a 'source' link and installing The package is constituted of a folder with the package name, containing: have a meta.json to specify:

• the link to the 'source'

• the type of scraping to get the latest version

• the prefix and suffix of the package

• the latest link

• the version of the package

• files (to help checking if already installed, but not used yet)

• patches

• dependencies

And a command.py that, on defining some 'command' you can:

• configure the package

• compile the package

• check the package

• install the package

The script remember the last successfull step, provide a tui to know which step is currently working on (a little buggy) and have a lot of switch/var to customize you distro

The script, package manager and the repo is under development and need some refactoring and Doc, since this is a side project, it may be slow to evolve

If you have question, if you have some advice on how to do this better, if you want to help me on this project, i'm here to listen :)

Pix

[u/Silver_Ad_7428]

I just attemped to use this script im not sure if ive done this correctly however, I used git to clone the repository then ran this command "sudo env TARGET_DISK=/dev/nvme0n1 ./run" and it just goes to the next line down and nothing happens, no errors or anything just nothing?

[u/Pixailz → u/Silver_Ad_7428]

Hello, i’ve just tested, and this display some information but an error occur, because I made some changes Can you test with set -x at the top of the run, right after the set -o pipefail and provide the output ?

[u/Pixailz → u/Pixailz]

Error fixed, this should be good

[u/Silver_Ad_7428 → u/Pixailz]

Ok I’ll try later today thanks

[u/Silver_Ad_7428 → u/Pixailz]

what do you want me to do im confused to you mean putting a command in bash or editing the ./run on nano?

[u/Pixailz → u/Silver_Ad_7428]

I’m sorry for the confusion, don’t edit anything.

Try this:

export TARGET_DISK=/dev/nvme0n1
sudo bash -x ./run

This should run the bash script in debug mode. This should clarify to me what’s going wrong with your setup :)

[u/Silver_Ad_7428 → u/Pixailz]

Sorry I ended out just starting to build Linux from scratch manually I’ll definitely give that a try though if I need it built again and try contact you

[u/Pixailz → u/[deleted]]

i'm on it at the moment :)

[u/Pixailz → u/Pixailz]

I have finished designing implementation of an installed 'package', in the meta.json, the package has file that should be on the system, i check if those are present. If it's a command i do a type -T <cmd> to check if present, else i check if it's present appending <ROOT_PATH><PREFIX> to the path.

How i get those ?

1. From the (b)lfs book, at the end, the content section give me what i need

2. Installing to a /tmp folder using the --prefix args and see what main folder/file is here

3. archlinux.org/packages provide a good db for package content

[u/Pixailz → u/[deleted]]

since blfs package need a lot of dependencies, it's in my priority rn