On 10/5/19 7:57 PM, Kevin Buckley via lfs-dev wrote:
On Sat, 5 Oct 2019 at 19:25, Bruce Dubbs via lfs-dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
...
This might be yet another package that could be in a "Reinstalling
LFS packages for a BLFS system" section of the BLFS Book, along
with Shadow.
Perhaps. You can probably add grep after pcre to that list. Would you
like to write that section?
-- Bruce
Certainly happy to have a crack at something that might be used,
as a base for such a section, however, Shadow is currently already
in BLFS, albeit in the Security section, which leads to the question
of whether some packages could appear in two, or more, sections
of the BLFS book.
I was not thinking of a section with actual build commands, just a
section to mention which packages a user might want to consider
rebuilding after LFS is complete. For instance grep can use pcre, but
the rebuild instructions are identical to those in LFS Chapter 6 after
the dependency is built. Other packages include shadow. vim, and
systemd but they are in BLFS. Just a mention about why they are in both
places may be useful to some users.
Furthermore, I have a question about the wording of the BLFS
Shadow section, in that it lists
Linux-PAM-1.3.1 or CrackLib-2.9.7
in the
Required
subsection,
From my perspective, neither is actually "required" for Shadow,
so they should be listed as
Recommended
or, perhaps,
Optional
Thoughts ?
There is no useful purpose for rebuilding shadow in BLFS without PAM or
Cracklib so one or the other is required to establish that purpose.
-- Bruce
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