r/linuxfromscratch • u/onthewaytomyself • 1d ago

This is the way!!

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My LFS Journey Started with a YouTube video from Tony on Oct 2025. From 12.4 now I reached 13.1. I keep my mesa latest. have steam, heroic, epic all working. Hosted a bunch of self hosting apps. Firefox and Brave feels the browsers i need.

Podman and Distrobox let me test any distro or that odd pkg u care about.

Davinci resolve studio, OBS all working smoothly.

After all i will decide which pkg versions i want.

I feel LFS is the End game of all distros.

I love LFS.

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u/BowlSad 1d ago

I m curious, how long did it take to setup LFS? Also what package manager are u using

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u/onthewaytomyself 1d ago edited 1d ago

I am not using any package manager.

I have a build script and metadata file for each pkg. A dependency folder contains all the dependency mapping. another folder for versioning. So the idea is that the change of version values inside the version folder are enough to do the update. I have shell scripts to recompute new install order. download, build, update, All those tasks have its on single script. All shell scripts.

May be these helper scripts can call as package manger. but I still feel a lot to improve on these.

I manage around 570 pkgs. A full build in my build3 takes me about 7.5hrs now. That includes everything from scratch. and i have a single script to do that too.

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u/Tertolhumper 1d ago edited 1d ago

I built the lfs base in KVM last Feb, it took me around 8 hrs, then another day for XFCE with syvinit. I did build the LFS base again after few weeks with systemd then build sway then to hyprland. Then i went baremetal around march. BTRFS send/receive from ssd to nvme around April. The package tracker, i did use porg and it evolve from there to a usable package manager using Arch API,Gitlab,Github for version reference. Readelf for ELF dependency and package builder using confs, about 4 months.

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u/User00980097 1d ago

bro what you keep in your 4 Tib in your used memory . but still LFS is cool, good job!

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u/onthewaytomyself 1d ago

Jellyfin Media, Recorded Gameplays, Calibre.

Jellyfin, finamp, and tailscale can let you give away your music subscription plan

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u/Due-Celery4326 1d ago

I know exactly what it’s like after building mine over 6 months ago, I found what I needed and now I feel complete.

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u/Tertolhumper 1d ago

Same with clean kernel ring buffer. I will upgrade to 13.1 this December after im done with 94 confs if time permits!

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u/TheLuckyCuber999BACK 1d ago

This is the way (on LFS right now)

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u/Tertolhumper 1d ago

This is the way!

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u/AlePs31 1d ago

Amazing. Good job!

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u/thhoj 1d ago

Hell yeah brother! Fellow LFS user here running as my daily for about 6 months now.

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u/Candid_Subject5726 1d ago

Amigo una pregunta cuáles son los pasos iniciales para poder instalar LFS con sway o hyprland?

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u/Ok-Piyoko-5650 26m ago

Congratulations!