From 74296e21af8203070166e6d38db0ff088f5eb98c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Dubbs Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:56:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add a paragraph in Chapter 3.1 about obtaining and using md5sums for the packages in the book. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9624 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter01/changelog.xml | 10 ++++++++++ chapter03/introduction.xml | 13 +++++++++++-- general.ent | 4 ++-- 3 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index cd38ed88f..9c4edd4e6 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -36,6 +36,16 @@ --> + + 2011-10-10 + + + [bdubbs] - Add a paragraph in Chapter 3.1 about obtaining and + using md5sums for the packages in the book. + + + + 2011-10-08 diff --git a/chapter03/introduction.xml b/chapter03/introduction.xml index c89f2ee11..232751371 100644 --- a/chapter03/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter03/introduction.xml @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ url="http://www.google.com/"/>) provides a useful search engine for most packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the alternative means of downloading discussed at . + url="&lfs-root;lfs/packages.html#packages"/>. Downloaded packages and patches will need to be stored somewhere that is conveniently available throughout the entire build. A working @@ -53,6 +53,15 @@ wget-list as an input to wget. For example: - wget -i wget-list -P $LFS/sources +wget -i wget-list -P $LFS/sources + + Additionally, starting with LFS-7.0, there is a separate file, + md5sums, can be used to verify that all + the correct packages are available before proceeding. Place that file in + $LFS/sources and run: + +pushd $LFS/sources +md5sum -c md5sums +popd diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent index 4e913da33..2f406b2ac 100644 --- a/general.ent +++ b/general.ent @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - - + +