libera #lfs

15 Jun 2025

LFS offtopic chat and banter, friendly discussion for the LFS community outside the scope of support. LFS questions in #lfs-support.

• 00:00
  zedmatrix
  you should fire up a vm to test the / use :)
• 00:01
  zedmatrix
  nsITobin: you know the number of times i have copy and pasted the vkfs/chroot/ unmount i couldof just made a single script :)
• 00:12
  zedmatrix
  hmm now i gotta check out man grep to help my http nano colorizer
• 00:14
  nsITobin
  "http nano colorizer"?
• 00:15
  zedmatrix
  yea in nanorc to highlight a url between =[https://] .... color cyan "(https?|ftp)://[^\s\]]+"
• 00:15
  nsITobin
  btw like you .. i can get majorly distracted as well LOL
• 00:15
  zedmatrix
  i started with the sh.nanorc and been tweaking it to zbc.nanorc
• 01:15
  zedmatrix
  ax562: sup?
• 02:39
  ax562
  sup zedmatrix? My bad, in the middle of a study.
• 03:01
  zedmatrix
  nice
• 03:01
  zedmatrix
  i have been fighting with a nanorc regex
• 03:21
  ax562
  bbl
• 04:12
  zedmatrix
  ax562: i am building a new squashfs, that version i think has too much, and maybe i can shrink it to cd size
• 04:13
  ax562
  cool, I just dd it onto a flash drive and it looks OK.
• 04:13
  ax562
  Should I wait to try out your new version?
• 04:14
  ax562
  I'm in the middle of a few things and probably wont be able to test drive it until tomorrow or Mon.
• 04:15
  ax562
  Super interesting though. Never seen a squashfs in a bootable flash drive :)
• 04:27
  zedmatrix
  gentoo has it in there min iso, but there is no build environment til you extract their stage3
• 04:28
  zedmatrix
  also kinda fun using just the lfs tools to build it
• 04:29
  zedmatrix
  well ive burned it to a dvd and used it to build off of 2x
• 04:58
  ax562
  Did you use squashfs for the small size capabilities or did you just wanted to try it out?
• 05:00
  zedmatrix
  kinda both