#1673: Why is each package in the book?
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: [email protected]
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: Future
Component: Book | Version: SVN
Severity: normal | Resolution:
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Sed - allows you to edit text in a file without opening it in a text
editor. Good if you just need to change a single bit of text (or multiple
occurences of the same text) quickly. Sed is also needed by most packages'
configure scripts.
Grep - searches for text in files. Also used in many packages' configure
scripts.
Bzip2 - probably self-explanatory (allows you to {,un}compress files, and
is certainly needed by LFS to unpack the source tarballs)
Gzip - ditto
Tar - also needed to unpack the sources
Diffutils - obviously, helps to view differences between files. Can be
used to create patches. Also used by many packages' build procedures,
often in testsuites.
E2fsprogs - self-explanatory? (you need this package to create and check
ext2/3 filesystems)
Findutils - obviously, lets you find files. Also allows various options
(-exec, the xargs program, etc) to allow you to run the same command on a
long list of files in multiple subdirectories. Also needed for many LFS
packages to build.
Less - Very useful text file viewer.
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