German LFS

2006-08-26 Thread Thomas Reitelbach
Hello, the german translation of LFS 6.2 is now available at the usual ressource: http://oss.erdfunkstelle.de/lfs-de/ I'm sorry for the delay of 3 weeks, i've been busy with other important things. Cheers, Thomas -- There are 10 kind of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don'

Re: Book text updates

2006-08-26 Thread steve crosby
On 8/27/06, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:31 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 7/18/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp > > > +install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp > > > > This syntax looks wrong to me. Seems i

Re: Book text updates

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:31 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 7/18/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp > > > +install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp > > > > This syntax looks wrong to me. Seems it would create a /var/tmp > > dir but not /tmp. > > It's

Re: 8.3.1 doesn't warn about world-writable sources

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 12:27 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote: [snip] > This is a pretty serious flaw if people aren't aware of it, so I think > it needs to be mentioned. Oh, and it could be recommended to use the --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions arguments for tar, in case people wan't to actuall

8.3.1 doesn't warn about world-writable sources

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Rosenstand
Hi, I just read chapter 8.3.1 which states: It is important to note that the files in the kernel source directory are not owned by root. Whenever a package is unpacked as user root (like we did inside chroot), the files have the user and group IDs of whatever they