Posted Saturday, July 4, 2026
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1It has been an interesting challenge maintaining a Linux From Scratch (LFS) virtual machine for the last almost 5 months. With the help of AI, I've managed to create scripts for maintaining the system and building packages. These scripts mostly use the LFS and Beyond LFS (BLFS) systemd development books and extract instructions from them on how to build packages. By "development" I mean the latest developmental branch of the distribution, as opposed to its stable branch. These scripts are far from perfect though. They sometimes fail to update packages, especially big packages like qt6, firefox and rust and groups of packages like plasma-all and frameworks6. Today, in fact, imagemagick and gtk3 both failed to build correctly, so I wrote my own custom build scripts for them that fixed the problem. Many packages in the virtual machine I've actually been maintaining at their latest upstream version, even when that version isn't in the LFS/BLFS book. For instance, I have KDE Plasma 6.7.2 installed, even though 6.6.5 is the latest version packaged in the book. I am actually quite surprised I've managed to maintain the virtual machine for so long, given that it has quite a complete set of packages including both KDE Plasma and GNOME desktop environments. I've also installed GNU Octave, Julia and R as these are useful tools for a mathematician/statistician. The "636" in the hyfetch output refers to the number of LFS and BLFS book packages I have installed and maintained using the book instructions. "57" refers to the number of packages installed from custom packaging scripts I've written. "1" on the same line as the "57" refers to the number of Julia packages I have installed. "74" refers to the number of Python packages I have installed. "29" refers to the number of R packages I have installed. The background to this screenshot is one of my photos taken at Jezzine Barracks in April.
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