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Unsupported distribution. Failed to identify distribution. #422

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Ahab-snake opened this issue Jan 23, 2025 · 2 comments
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Unsupported distribution. Failed to identify distribution. #422

Ahab-snake opened this issue Jan 23, 2025 · 2 comments
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build Issue relates to the build process. os-lfs Issue applies to Linux From Scratch. packaging Issue relates to packaging.

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Ahab-snake commented Jan 23, 2025

So apparently, the scripts do not see my distro thus, failing a build. I'm using my LFS distro, and I don't have a package manager, isn't there a way to build this theme on my XFCE4?

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@rozniak rozniak added packaging Issue relates to packaging. build Issue relates to the build process. os-lfs Issue applies to Linux From Scratch. labels Jan 23, 2025
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rozniak commented Jan 23, 2025

I haven't got any experience with LFS yet - do you just need a make install ? 🤔

At the moment the build is largely tuned for typical binary packaging formats. There's some open issues for various things that need doing on the build: #355 / #346 for a switch to specify a target format, #200 for things like Gentoo which need a source build, some stuff related to install/setup.

It's on my list of things to do, cannot give a date on when though, been a bit busy irl lately. 🧐


If you're a developer you might be able to have a fiddle around under /packaging because there is a raw output option to not include any packaging metadata during build. Potentially if you make distid.sh just return raw, then pass the -z switch to buildall.sh to skip any final packaging step, it should produce essentially just the binaries under/packaging/build .

You may be able to make install these binaries from each dir, but if you try this I strongly recommend doing so on a VM with snapshots because it's untested and might cause Total Unmitigated Chaos(TM).

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I haven't got any experience with LFS yet - do you just need a make install ? 🤔

I do believe, I need that type of file so I can build it without any package managers. I'm not so experienced in linux yet, so I don't know how would I tweak your installation

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