-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Greg Schafer wrote: > The Shadow supplied `su' explicitly twiddles with PATH.
Oh cute. Well, that really screws up whatever I was (half-) thinking, then. Still, though: never mind. :-) > Sidenote: next Coreutils release will no longer install install `su' > by default. Even if you install as root, I assume. The pkg-user hint already has a workaround for this in chapter 5 (a simple copy of src/su to /usr/bin -- which should probably pay attention to the umask or use install to explicitly set permissions, but oh well), but the hint does nothing in chapter 6. (Because the su installed by coreutils would prevent shadow from installing its version, and the LFS book currently uses the su from shadow.) So "not installing su when a normal user runs make install" was a good thing for that hint anyway, in chapter 6. Of course the real LFS book builds everything as root in chapter 6 anyway, so (I assume) even then shadow won't copy over the coreutils su. But it's only an issue if we want to use the coreutils su -- if not, then having coreutils avoid installing su is actually slightly good. It won't get overwritten later, and it won't overwrite shadow's su if you have to reinstall coreutils. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHX9FmS5vET1Wea5wRAxjPAKDH0YjyIyxfGkALuhzT5rAeweKwCgCghvKI wUGzLmOOkFiEd0ehHZIniMA= =+mJH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
