Re:Build your own Linux
by alethiophile on Wednesday August 16, 2017 @06:10PM
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LFS current stable comes from February 2017. The current version rc1 was released today. It's hardly dead, archaic styling aside. (Anyone else remember when books on specific software suites were relevant...?)
The links they give are to upstream. Some are already HTTPS, some redirect from HTTP. I found one case where upstream provides both HTTP and HTTPS and they link to HTTP. They should fix that.
They also provide md5sums of the tarballs, which get checked automatically in their automated build. They should switch to sha256, but there at least exists an integrity check.
I agree it's much more an educational project than a production one. But that would be true regardless; any system you're putting together by hand like this shouldn't be one that's going into production anywhere.
The links they give are to upstream. Some are already HTTPS, some redirect from HTTP. I found one case where upstream provides both HTTP and HTTPS and they link to HTTP. They should fix that.
They also provide md5sums of the tarballs, which get checked automatically in their automated build. They should switch to sha256, but there at least exists an integrity check.
I agree it's much more an educational project than a production one. But that would be true regardless; any system you're putting together by hand like this shouldn't be one that's going into production anywhere.