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8. To Be Done

If anyone has any suggestions (or better, patches) for these, please let me know.

  1. Distribute a copy of libc-lite.so with Yard. Libc.so has become so large (500K) that this has become desirable again. I don't know how to create libc-lite, though I've scanned the ELF-Howto and the libc source code. Is this no longer possible with ELF? From the libc source code it looks as if the ability has been stripped out, leaving nothing but a few stubs in the Makefiles.

    An alternative to libc-lite is to dynamically create a rescue libc.so by extracting symbols from the binaries.

  2. Implement the base+extra option for $disk_set. This would probably require extensive hacking.
  3. Better handling of PAM features.
  4. Better handling of Libc6 (GNU libc).
  5. I haven't yet done anything about the new GNU Libc-2 (GLIBC) because it's still experimental. Eventually I'll upgrade and modify Yard. Until then, here are some notes that other people have written on getting Yard to work with it: http://www.cs.umass.edu/ fawcett/yard/gnu_libc.html


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