An idea for a new development model

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

TheOldFellow wrote:
> If you use some little odd-ball PM, rather than, say RPM you will end
> up spending more development effort on the PM than on the LiveCD.
>   

I have tried privately (but together with Jeremy) to add RPM to /tools 
in LFS and convert all instructions to spec files. Result: I abandoned 
the effort because I could not get it right. RPM is indeed suitable for 
easy removal of packages, but my copy didn't pass the "all official 
features are supported" test. AFAIR, it failed to handle file conflicts 
correctly. So, after more than two weeks of fighting with it, I was with 
the rpm binary that is only marginally more capable than the 
pre-existing (and tried) Slackware scripts.

And BTW, could you please test the 6.3 pre-releases of the CD? 6.2 is dead.

As for installation instructions: the 6.3 CD can be run from an ISO file 
without burning it (support for this is built into initramfs, see the 
README file on the CD). Maybe this is good enough as a substitute for 
full installation onto a partition you only lose the ability for your 
changes to survive the reboot).

-- 
Alexander E. Patrakov