But why do you still use /tools/bin/  for bash, file, & strip on page 202?




________________________________
 From: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>
To: joel kammet <[email protected]>; LFS Support List 
<[email protected]> 
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [lfs-support] /tools directory
 

joel kammet wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> Working my way through my first build of LFS 7.4.  I'm wondering,
> after building and installing all of the packages in Chapter 6, can
> the /tools directory be deleted?  I see that find and strip are used
> in Section 6.65, but we have new copies of those in /bin and
> /usr/bin.

Yes.  See Section 6.66. Cleaning Up.

> Also, regarding backing up prior to stripping, is it ok to exclude
> all of dev, proc, and sys from the backup.  I'm thinking something
> like: tar --exclude=dev --exclude=proc --exclude=sys
> --exclude=sources \ -cjvPf lfs-7.4.tar.bz2 /mnt/lfs
>
> Is that reasonable?

Yes.  You don't want to back up any virtual filesystems.  Exclude /run, 
/proc, /sys, and /dev.  Excluding sources is optional.  You can always 
recover those.

   -- Bruce


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