2009/12/28 Mikie <[email protected]>: > Hello list, > > I have made a script file at: > > http://www.mikienet.com/linux/LFS-6.5-untar-list > > ... to unTAR my packages so I don't have to do it manually. > > When I run it I get: > > tar: /mnt/lfs/sources/zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2\r: Cannot open: No such file or > directory > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > tar: Child returned status 2 > tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors > > > etc ..... for each package. > > What am I doing wrong? > No idea, but maybe the tarballs are not where you think they are. Try instrumenting it (e.g. in this case echo $PWD, ls -l /mnt/lfs/sources ... ) to gather information which will help you identify what you are doing wrong - we all make errors in scripting, the important thing is to learn from them, and to try not to repeat them unnecessarily.
I also suggest that in general it is better to stop after an error. I have difficulty understanding *why* you want to do this mass extraction. The general process is: untar the next package cd to the directory run the commands to configure, build and install this package remove the source and any -build directory. NB occasionally a package or documentation might be untarred into another package's directory (things like gmp and mpfr). Of these steps, untarring a package is generally trivial and can be easily added to a more useful script (AFAIK, all the packages in LFS itself are nicely packaged in directories, but that is not always true). When building LFS on an empty filesystem, you can probably afford not to care about having all the source code taking up space, but if you move on to use the new system you will be unnecessarily taking up space (and that might make your backups bigger). More seriously, whenever you rebuild a package (either because you built it in chapter 5 and are now in chapter 6, or because a build failed) you should use freshly-extracted source. The interesting question comes when you move on and one day discover that the directory name you need to cd into is not necessarily the same as the versioned tarball name. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
