On 02/17/2014 08:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
>> Em 17-02-2014 14:34, Pierre Labastie escreveu:
>>
>>> I do not know the icedtea installer, so I do not know how
>>> it gets its information about the LSB. But I think the best
>>> would be to consider that everything, which is in LFS, is installed
>>> (including /etc/lsb-release), and that lsb-release executable is
>>> optional. Ideally, then, the icedtea installer should be taught
>>> not to use the executable. Now, if the executable is needed
>>> for an easier installation of icedtea-JDK, then it should go to
>>> recommended.
>>
>> Once more:
>>
>> icedtea install OK without lsb_release
>>
>> icedtea does not install OK if lsb_release accidentally was installed,
>> but the user did not configure it in LFS.
>>
>> Problem is the divide in configuring before installing, in LFS
>> (optional), but nothing being written about configuration in BLFS.
> 
> Add a sed to the lsb_release install instructions:
> 
> sed -i "s|n/a|unavailable|" lsb_release
> 
> Also add a note about configuration and point to LFS.
> 
> If it's really necessary, we can create an LFS specific lsb-release-1.5 
> tarball.  But I think that's overkill.  It really is only a bash script 
> and a man page generated from the script.
> 
>    -- Bruce
> 

The simple fix is just to link to LFS page and say that /etc/lsb-release
must be set up using the instructions in LFS.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter09/theend.html

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