-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Nicholson Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 2:56 PM To: ALFS Discussion and Development List Subject: Re: Ubuntu?
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'. I stand corrected on something I posted earlier... Michael was not bashing the developers.... I read his message a little too hastily and misunderstood the tone... sorry for the misunderstanding! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
