stosss wrote:
> Bruce pointed out on the LFS list that tar xf is BSD format tar -xf is
> short Linux format. So is there any special reason for using the BSD
> format in the BLFS book? I have found in the most recent release and
> earlier releases, some possible errors
> 
> blfs-book-svn-html-2009-12-31.tar.bz2
> 
> Linux-PAM tar xf

I just fixed this.

Note that the tar man file does not even mention BSD type options.

The tar info page refers to "long (mnemonic) form, short form, and old 
style".

See http://www.gnu.org/software/automake/manual/tar/Old-Options.html

> Remove the configuration file created earlier by issuing the following
> command as the root user:
> 
> rm -rfv /etc/pam.d
> 
> This removes the pam.d directory and all the contents. If you don't do
> this step, you will overwrite the test file several steps later and
> still have all the config files that were created in between.
> 
> Which way is correct? I did it both ways and both ways seemed to work.

Yes the old style usually works, but one of the goals of LFS/BLFS is to 
teach.  Here we want to teach the current methodology.

> I have a lot more config files in pam.d now than I did the first time.
> Everything looks right now and works but it did not look right before
> but worked any way.
> 
> FreeType2 tar xf

Also fixed.

> On the OpenSSH client page  one can see this "Chapter 21 –
> OpenSSH-5.1p1" but the link goes to chapter 19 and not 21 which is the
> database chapter.

Yes, we moved some things around.  Fixed.  Thanks.

   -- Bruce
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