On Nov 28, 2009, at 1:25 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> 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.
Actually, LFS does include a basic ftp client
2009/11/28 Glen :
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 sani
Glen wrote:
> Hi there LFS users, developers, and maintainers. I'm on my journey through
> the LFS book, but I can't help noticing (to the point of stopping me and
> making me go to the IRC room and ask questions) that the book may be lacking
> some critical information. For example, in section 3.1
Hi there LFS users, developers, and maintainers. I'm on my journey through
the LFS book, but I can't help noticing (to the point of stopping me and
making me go to the IRC room and ask questions) that the book may be lacking
some critical information. For example, in section 3.1, it mentions that w
