El Miércoles, 1 de Agosto de 2007 20:54, Dan Nicholson escribió: > Manuel, I completely sympathize with the interest of tearing out > compatibility code, but IMO jhalfs shouldn't exceed the LFS Host > Requirements limits: coreutils-5.0 and tar-1.14. Or, if that's a > problem, then jhalfs should probably ship its own version checking > script to tell users that they'll need to update their utilities if > necessary.
Current jhalfs-2.3 already checks for Tar-1.15 and Bash-3.0. What is the minimum Coreutils version with md5sum support for stdin? My three-years-old system is using Coreutils-5.2.1 > Another thing that would help in situations like this would be to make > use of more make variables. For instance, unpack should be calling > $(TAR) with a default of TAR = tar in the Makefile. Then if someone > needs to override things, they can do it in a systematic way: > > make TAR=my-tar-wrapper MD5SUM=md5sum-that-handles-stdin Might be a compromise, but I don't have time right now to try it. -- Manuel Canales Esparcia Usuario de LFS nº2886: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org LFS en castellano: http://www.escomposlinux.org/lfs-es http://www.lfs-es.info TLDP-ES: http://es.tldp.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
