On 7/31/07, Michael J. Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > First, I'm using an older Ubuntu distro (Hoary). There were two > major problems I ran into. > > The first problem was with the "md5sum" command. For whatever > reason the md5sum command on Ubuntu Hoary won't allow use of > stdin as the source of the "checkfile" argument. The "checkfile" arg > must come from a real file. So my fix was to modify the func_download_pkgs > file to write the MD5 variable to a temporary file and then change the > actual check to: > > if ! md5sum -c .t >/dev/null ; then > > The change was required in two places. > > The second problem was with the tar command. For whatever > reason the tar command on Ubuntu Hoary can not untar files with > .bz2, .gz, etc. extensions. The files must be uncompressed before > being unarchived. Solving this problem took a little more work. I had > to make a wrapper script (TAR) for tar that checked the extension > and then used the correct uncompressor and piped the output to > tar as follows:
Michael, what version of the tools are these? You should be able to get that with `md5sum --version' and `tar --version'. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
