This repo contain scripts to bootstrap base system of venom linux. Venom Linux is distro inspired by CRUX but based on LFS and BLFS with multilib enabled targetting experienced users. Venom Linux use 'KISS' philosophy for packages. It use BSD-style init and BSD-like port system for packages.

You can get prebuilt iso of this distro here which you can install to your machine if you dont want to bootstrap it yourself. The available iso is base, xorg, lxde, lxqt, mate and xfce4.

Run ./01-toolchain to build temporary toolchain (multilib). Then run ./02-base to build base system of Venom Linux. /mnt/lfs directory is used to build this distro, so make sure you dont have any important files in this directory before run the script. Use chroot script to chroot into Venom Linux base system to configure it by running ./chroot /mnt/lfs.

• hostname, timezone, clock, font, keymap and daemon:

    # vim /etc/rc.conf
  

• partitions (/, swap and etc):

    # vim /etc/fstab
  

• locales:

    # vim /etc/locales
    # genlocales
  

• root password:

    # passwd
  

• add user:

    # useradd -m -G users,wheel,audio,video -s /bin/bash <your user>
    # passwd <your user>
  

• install grub:

    # grub-install /dev/sdX
    # grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
  

This distro come with custom package manager called scratchpkg. This some basic command of this package manager that you should know:

• installing packages:

    # scratch install <pkg1> <pkg2> <pkgN>
  

• removing packages:

    # scratch remove <pkg1> <pkg2> <pkgN>
  

• search packages:

    # scratch search <pattern>
  

• update packages repo:

    # scratch sync
  

• full system upgrade (should run after updating packages repo):

    # scratch sysup
  

• fix broken packages (recommended run after full system upgrade or after removing packages):

    # revdep -r
  

• update packages configuration files (recommended run after packages upgraded):

    # updateconf
  

• run scratch help to see available options for scratch
• run revdep -h to see available options for revdep