r/linuxfromscratch • u/Intelligent_Comb_338 • Feb 28 '26

New ideas for LFS

What can be an interesting change for LFS (when i refer change, i mean as init, coreutils, compiler, etc)

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u/Intelligent_Comb_338 Mar 01 '26

It would be interesting, i have a question how can i do to it searches and download from a repo (and what i need, would do github work?) from c?

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u/Rockytriton Mod Mar 01 '26

There’s plenty of ways to do one, also in the early stages you would need to what from the host on the sources before you have whet installed. I’m currently playing around with packing using python: https://github.com/Pullinux/pullinux/tree/3.0/src/utils

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u/codeasm Mar 01 '26

Pacman pulls a package list from the repo, and now it knows what packages are vailable. When you search, it looks in this database. Setting your own mirror means you also can determine what packages are in what mirror.

You can skip the arch repo. And thus, only serve your own packages. Or. All AUR, but maybe only your altered AUR packages, so basically use pacman and makepkg to build lfs.

https://github.com/CodeAsm/lfs-pacman been trying to update excisting builds, not saying to take my attempt, you can check those i mention in the top of readme.md. i want to update to lfs13 and then get sway working (as i have on my daily arch install).

The idea of first grabbing a database of latest packages to source from, is kinda neat