Hi,
As you know I coordinate a French support network for lfs on a forum, a
mailinglist and an irc channel (anyway I invite every French-speaking to
subscribe as we are not numerous to be able to help and we sometimes
have to forward questions on #lfs-support because we don't have any
idea, not enough good on this :D).
In this support network, a lot of users have problems and are confused
with understanding where they can put the packages tarballs, unpack
them, put the patches... It's a classical question anyway. Ok they don't
read general instructions chap5 I think, but I think too something could
be added to make it still clearer. Here's a patch I added, I created it
from the help experience on the French forum. I let you give your
opinion about it and merge it if you like.
Regards,
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Vice-Président de l'association traduc.org
Coordinateur du projet Linux From Scratch
Index: generalinstructions.xml
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--- generalinstructions.xml (révision 9373)
+++ generalinstructions.xml (copie de travail)
@@ -76,11 +76,14 @@
<screen role="nodump">
1. Place all the sources and patches in a directory that will be accessible from the
- chroot envronment such as /mnt/lfs/sources/. Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> put sources in /mnt/lfs/tools/.
-2. Change to the sources directory.
+ chroot envronment such as /mnt/lfs/sources/. Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> put sources or
+ unpack them in /mnt/lfs/tools/ or in /mnt/lfs/ (as they will be the
+ root of temporary and final systems and <systemitem class="username">lfs</systemitem>
+ is not allowed to write inside himself).
+2. Change to the directory where you downloaded the sources and the patches.
3. For each package:
a. Using the tar program, extract the package to be built.
- b. Change to the directory created when the package was extracted.
+ b. Change to the directory created by the unpacking process.
c. Follow the book's instructions for building the package.
d. Change back to the sources directory.
e. Delete the extracted source directory and any <package>-build
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