Thanks for the explanation. Seeing the wrong hash, in conjunction with an http source is a little eyebrow raising. Perhaps you could put a note in the errata.
I'm surprised no one has flagged this before. It could be that people don't usually run from the development version. It happens to be the version that raspberry pi linux from scratch is based off of, which is why I was using it. Nate On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 11:06 AM Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 29, 2017 at 01:10:06PM +0000, Nate Costello wrote: > >> I'm getting an incorrect hash for the lfs-bootscripts file. This is > using > >> the development branch. Can anyone attempt to repeat my finding or > >> provide guidance? I apologize in advance if it is bad form to email > this > >> list about the development version. > >> > > > > First, it's perfectly fine to ask about problems building the dev > > book on this list. But, based on what I note below I'll Cc: the > > -dev list because I didn't expect this. > > > >> Thanks, > >> > >> Nate > >> > >> File path: > >> > >> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/development/lfs-bootscripts-20170626.tar.bz2 > >> > >> Supposed Correct Hash: > >> > >> 4d886e7f5c3b092991cd0c56f3d8aa31 > >> > >> Listed at: > >> > >> > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter03/packages.html > > > > I wonder if we have somehow switched to regenerating these ? My > > local copy (downloaded on 19th July) has > > > > c8c20c854d7590662ae04f21949566ea > > > > The 8.1 book, which uses these, says > > > > d4992527d67f28e2d0c12e3495422eab > > And that matches what is in > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/8.1/lfs-bootscripts-20170626.tar.bz2 > > The script that rebuilds the book daily also repackages the boot scripts > and the timestamps will change each time, even though the content does not. > > On my local system, the tarballs are not rebuilt without a change to the > file name because I do not do a fresh checkout of the sources into an > empty directory like the daily scripts do. > > I could update the md5sum in the on-line book daily, but I think that > would also cause problems. > > I suppose I could come up with a way to put in a note that would only > generate in the development versions of the book(s), but right now I think > it is more effort than it is worth. The daily build script has been > unchanged for 18 months and this it the first anyone noticed. > > > All this applies to the lfs systemd development version and blfs tarballs > also. > > -- Bruce > > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > Do not top post on this list. > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style >
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