Le jeudi 29 décembre à 14:21, Ulrich Dangel a écrit :
- Philippe Delavalade wrote [29.12.11 13:17]:
Now, I realise that the new grml is nomore suitable as host system to build linuxfromscratch ; previously I recommanded it as livecd for this purpous but now, important packages are missing...
Which packages exactly are missing?
For instance : bison, m4, texinfo, etc.
You must download the sources for your LFS system anyway. So typically you have a working network connection and can install the packages anyway. If we have snapshot.d.o URIs in the sources.list you can do that without updating your whole system. So i don't see any reason to ship these packages.
Yes but sources can be download with any system (not necessarly a linux one) ; the most important is that the lfs build is long and often people stop and restart later ; so, they'll have to update each time the missang packages. And, one time, I have built on a computer with no network but it was a long time ago and the lfs livecd was uptodate ; now, there's nomore specific lfs livecd...