Hi,
There are two issues I found regarding the creation of the
lfs user (chapter 4.3). All cases are from opensuse hosts.
First, the command used to create the user:
useradd -s /bin/bash -g lfs -m -k /dev/null lfs
does not return 0, since it fails to copy from /dev/null.
I noticed this when run
Thanks.
>> from my original message
> from reply by Bruce Dubbs
>> useradd -s /bin/bash -g lfs -m -k /dev/null lfs
>>
>> does not return 0, since it fails to copy from /dev/null.
The return value us 12. ('echo $?' gives 12)
> Does 'SKEL_DIR=/dev/null useradd -s /bin/bash -g lfs -m lfs' work?
Since NIST doesn't host expect anymore, and sourceforge doesn't
have version 5.43.0, the new download url
(http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/LFS/lfs-packages/6.6/expect-5.43.0.tar.gz)
should probably add to the 6.6 errata page.
Additionally, NIST returns its "NIST Error Page" with a "20
O.k. I'll jump in and risk the consequences...
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Jeremy Huntwork
wrote:
> It's interesting what logs will show.
>
> For instance, the access logs for community.linuxfromscratch.org show 117
> unique
> IP addresses viewing the site yesterday, and 76 unique IPs today
Thanks Jeremy,
Since the reply was mostly of the agree/disagree/interesting
variation, I'll just
comment on some random points.
> Thanks for this, this is exactly the sort of discussion I was after...
That's good.
> It's over 500 distinct email addresses.
This implies that the list is alive in
Thanks Bruce,
>>> From a previous discussion here, I got the impression the people
>>> use their own scripts to automate lfs.
>
> That's part of the learning process.
A fair point, but it sets a pretty high standard for even building a second
time, and likely loses many potential developers who b
Andrew wrote:
> I think that's a difference of perspective. Automated building and a
> package manager are important if you think LFS is a distro, however,
> many of us think of LFS as an education tool that forces the user to
> think hard about system building
Not exactly. No package management m
Thanks DJ,
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:19 AM, DJ Lucas wrote:
> The problem with package management is that one flavor or the other is
> not perfect for everyone. I personally prefer a simple tar.gz package
Since, as Bruce and others mentioned, package management is not
necessary for the LFS sys
Dan wrote:
> I hope no one resents my "uninformed" intrusion into this discussion.
> This may be long, so I ask forgiveness in advance.
Don't worry about either count. Such discussions are often between
developers or potential developers, and the views of the "regular users"
is forgotten. It is re
> I have a question regarding Chapter 5 Bzip2 build.
> When you compile Bzip2 you only issue make. But how do I tell it that the
> compiler I want to use is the gcc compiled in the /tools/ directory? Am I
> missing something?
Remember that you set your PATH to include /tools/ before the
normal hos
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I've noticed that there is a spurious file, /t, created in the latest
> builds of LFS. The file is 2 bytes long, a 0xff followed by a newline.
>
> It is a file generated by one of the tests in grep. I'm not sure how to
> find which test.
I w
> I agree, but my point is, does it harm to state it? For example it
> might go well in the page header:
>
> Approximate build time: 0.1 SBU
> Required disk space: 511 MB
> Package: linux-3.0.4.tar.gz
>
> (The linux package is just an example, I would do this for all packages)
I second this sugges
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 11:32 PM, Pierre Labastie
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not long ago, I had some problems with the building of check, which
> I traced back to some problem with binutils pass2 (see
> http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2012-December/067444.html).
> But it seemed that nobody ha
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> It now sounds like a problem with a 32-bit system on 64-bit hardware.
My report was on a 64 bit system on a 64-bit virtual box.
--yaacov
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