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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:38:50 -0800
From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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To: Dwight Tuinstra <tuinstra@clarkson.edu>
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Subject: Re: LFS
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Dwight Tuinstra wrote:
> 
> André Luiz dos Santos wrote:
> >
> >   Hi...
> >
> >  Is there anybody working on porting LFS to freebsd? Have anybody here had
> > problems with it?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
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> 
> I am contemplating setting up an effort to do this, beginning
> sometime in the next academic semester.  I asked a similar
> question a few months ago in this list; there were a number
> of positive responses.  If you search the archives for "LFS"
> you should find them.
> 
> Perhaps now is the time to begin discussion/planning of a
> porting effort, so that work can begin in earnest in the
> new year.  I'm inclined to do more than a simple port.
> The LFS code has a lot of entropy in it, as well as some
> design/implementation decisions that make it difficult to
> modify the code in the direction my research will go.
> I'm in favor of a redesign/refactoring, with portability
> and modifiability among the primary goals.

don't forget that the original freebsd LFS files are still in the CVS tree

check them out using the CVS browser on the freebsd homepage.....


> 
> Is anyone out there willing to set up a mailing list for
> a FreeBSD LFS effort?
> 
>   --Dwight Tuinstra
>     tuinstra@clarkson.edu
> 
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