joel kammet wrote: > Greetings. > > Working my way through my first build of LFS 7.4. I'm wondering, > after building and installing all of the packages in Chapter 6, can > the /tools directory be deleted? I see that find and strip are used > in Section 6.65, but we have new copies of those in /bin and > /usr/bin.
Yes. See Section 6.66. Cleaning Up. > Also, regarding backing up prior to stripping, is it ok to exclude > all of dev, proc, and sys from the backup. I'm thinking something > like: tar --exclude=dev --exclude=proc --exclude=sys > --exclude=sources \ -cjvPf lfs-7.4.tar.bz2 /mnt/lfs > > Is that reasonable? Yes. You don't want to back up any virtual filesystems. Exclude /run, /proc, /sys, and /dev. Excluding sources is optional. You can always recover those. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
