On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 at 21:48, Pierre Labastie via lfs-dev <lfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > > Can anyone think of any reasons why I would not be able to use the su > > from Util-linux, until such time as Chapter 8's (nearly typed Chapter > > 6's > > there) Shadow get's built? > > Actually, We have looked at it (you may have noticed that we needed to > add a regular user for tests), and the conclusion is that util-linux's > "su" uses linux-PAM. So, a no-go for lFS. > > On the other hand, nothing prevents you from building shadow at the > beginning of chapter 8, as you seem to have been doing already (except > the chapter number was 6).
Not quite. I was adding it at the end of Chapter 5, so now, Chapter 7. It's going to take a bit of getting used to these new numbers. (Deep joy!) > Now, I see a problem: all the packages that are rebuilt in chapter > eight are installed in place of the corresponding temporary package. If > you install the final package as a regular user, it won't be able to > replace the temp package that has been installed as root... Cheers for that: hadn't picked up on that yet: forewarned is forearmed. > ... I must > confess we have not thought of the pkguser method when redesigning the > book. And nor should you have to. FWIW, in building under MC&PM/PkgUser conditions, there were a few places where one had to change ownership/permissions and/or explicitly replace a root-owned link with a file that could then be overwritten by the PkgUser owned link. Once I've had a go at it, I'll let you know what I've found, in case it's of any use to the vanilla LFS. Cheers for the feedback. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
