Martin Ereth wrote:
2) As a not that experienced user you would install (make install) every package you compiled as root. So you have to get problems when you do this installing the temporary system (chapter 5) later on. Maybe you can add a explicit note (like in chapter 5.32) that every command if not specified otherwise should be issued as lfs.
I don't understand. You want a note added, but point to the one that's in 5.32. Where do you want another note added, and why?
3) In chapter 5.1 is a note: "After installing each package, delete its source and build directories, unless specifically instructed otherwise." I wasn't able to see a place where I don't have to delete the sources. As far as I can remember I had to preserve several build-directories in LFS 6.0 .
Good catch. We actually reworked the toolchain adjustment steps so that the keeping the build directories around is no longer required.
4) I know that you can use many different separators for sed, but a clear line would be more uniform. One sed uses the / the next uses the @, the next uses the \ as separator. Maybe it is possible to use everywhere the same one.
The '/' character is the commonly used separator. Where we edit pathnames that obviously won't work without escaping it, so we use '@' instead. The '\' is never used as a separator; it's the escape character.
11) 6.50.2 (configuring shadow): I issued pwconv, it exits without an error. But when I execute passwd, I get "Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 8 characters)". But setting a password with more than 8 characters is no problem. Why is the output of passwd wrong?
That appears to have been fixed in more recent versions of shadow. I get: Enter the new password (minimum of 5, maximum of 127 characters) Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
