Author: bdubbs
Date: Fri May 29 15:05:38 2020
New Revision: 11868
Log:
Tweak additions and deletion of tester user.
Explain test filures in bash.
Modified:
trunk/BOOK/chapter06/bash.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter06/createfiles.xml
trunk/BOOK/chapter06/revisedchroot.xml
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/bash.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/bash.xml Fri May 29 06:26:19 2020 (r11867)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/bash.xml Fri May 29 15:05:38 2020 (r11868)
@@ -81,15 +81,13 @@
class="username">tester</systemitem> user:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make
tests"</userinput></screen>
-<!--
- <para>The <command>su</command> command above is slightly different from
- other places in the book. The
- reason is that the <option>-c</option> option runs the command without
- a controlling terminal, while the bash test suite needs one.</para>
--->
+
<para>The <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem>
user does not have enough permissions for all the tests to pass. This shows
- up in some <quote>diff</quote> output in four test results.</para>
+ up in some <quote>diff</quote> output in four test results. Portions of
the
+ run-execscript, run-lastpipe, run-read, and run-test programs
+ are known to fail in the LFS chroot environment, but pass if the tests
+ are run in a full system.</para>
<para>Install the package and move the main executable to
<filename class='directory'>/bin</filename>:</para>
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/createfiles.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/createfiles.xml Fri May 29 06:26:19 2020
(r11867)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/createfiles.xml Fri May 29 15:05:38 2020
(r11868)
@@ -345,8 +345,9 @@
<para>Some tests later in the chapter need a regular user. We add this
user here and delete this account at the end of the chapter.</para>
-<screen><userinput>echo "tester:x:101:101::/tmp:/bin/bash" >> /etc/passwd
-echo "tester:x:101:dummy" >> /etc/group</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>echo "tester:x:101:101::/home/tester:/bin/bash" >>
/etc/passwd
+echo "tester:x:101:dummy" >> /etc/group
+install -o tester -d /home/tester</userinput></screen>
<para>To remove the <quote>I have no name!</quote> prompt, start a new
shell. Since a full Glibc was installed in <xref
Modified: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/revisedchroot.xml
==============================================================================
--- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/revisedchroot.xml Fri May 29 06:26:19 2020
(r11867)
+++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/revisedchroot.xml Fri May 29 15:05:38 2020
(r11868)
@@ -73,5 +73,6 @@
<para>Finally, remove the temporary 'tester' usr account created at the
beginning of this chapter.</para>
-<screen><userinput>sed -i '/tester/d' /etc/passwd
/etc/group</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>sed -i '/tester/d' /etc/passwd /etc/group
+rm -rf /home/tester</userinput></screen>
</sect1>
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