2009/11/28 Glen <[email protected]>: It's nice that the book goes into detail as to the commands for > making directories, but it never says how to mass extract gzip or bzip2 > archives.
For modern versions of gnu tar (probably any version released in the last 5 years), tar -tvf filename | head [ that's just a sanity check, primarily to make sure the tarball will create a directory - shouldn't be needed in LFS itself, but does no harm ], and then tar -xf filename to extract it. Unfortunately, I think some not-so-old versions of certain distributions have stuck with old versions of tar and might need -j (for bzip2) or -z. But, as Bruce said, this is among the general background you need. If you have never felt the need to compile software packages on a linux system, I'm not sure that building a system using LFS is going to be a good use of your time. Among other things, the system we build in the LFS book is so minimal that you won't really be able to do anything much at all with it until you've downloaded and built some other packages - and you really could use another system on which to do those downloads because LFS itself doesn't include even a console browser or wget or an ftp client (that's what BLFS is for. Also, you become responsible for your own security, and you have to manage your own updates. But, people have used LFS as a learning experience without going on to make it their ongoing system, so the choice is yours. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
