On 2020-09-12 13:48 +0200, Tim Tassonis via lfs-dev wrote: > Hi all > > I'm finally doing a full new build of LFS (Version 10.0) and have > noticed that in chapter 6, the temporary tools are now installed > directly into $LFS, unlike in older versions, where they went into > $LFS/tools. > > I assume this has some advantages, but I liked the old approach, as it > gave me a clean $LFS before chapter 8. > > In my case, I used a package manager from chapter 8 on, and my package > would npw be complaining about overwriting unknown files a lot. > > I can add an option abouit forcing to overwrite files, but I wondered if > installind chapter 6 into $LFS/tools is still supported somehow?
No. If you do that you'll risk to have some hardcoded paths to /tools, in some executables and scripts of your final system. The most significant advantage of the new approach is that we won't need to track and develop workaround for those faulty paths anymore. -- Xi Ruoyao <xry...@mengyan1223.wang> School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
