Hey All, Had a question about the use of tar commands in the LFS book. It is a trivial matter, and probably doesn't make a bit of difference, but I was interested in people's opinions anyway.
Currently, in the LFS book, tar is used twice (at leas in the gcc4 book - haven't checked development). Once for the glibc-linuxthreads package in chapter six, and once for the bash-docs package, also in chapter 6. Two nitpicks: For the glibc-linuxthreads package we use 'tar -xjvf' and for the bash-docs package we use 'tar -zxf'. Should we continue to use verbosity for one and not the other? Also, at this point in the game, since we are using our installed tar to unpack the tarballs, we know that we have a version of tar that can auto-discover the compression format. The -j and -z flags are unnecessary. As I said, trivial matters. However, should we try to follow some form of consisitency here? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
