diff --git a/chapter05/gzip-exp.xml b/chapter05/gzip-exp.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..ceabd4d47 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter05/gzip-exp.xml @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ + +Command explanations + +cp $LFS/usr/bin/gunzip $LFS/usr/bin/gzip $LFS/bin && +rm $LFS/usr/bin/gunzip $LFS/usr/bin/gzip: The reason we don't +simply use mv to move the files to the new location is +because gunzip is a hardlink to gzip. On older distributions you can't +move a hardlink to another partition (and it's very possible that $LFS and +$LFS/usr are seperate partitions). With more recent distributions this +isn't a problem. If you run mv to move hardlinks across partitions it'll +just do a regular cp and discard the hardlink. But, we +can't assume that every host distribution has a new enough kernel and +fileutils that works this way. + + + diff --git a/chapter05/gzip.xml b/chapter05/gzip.xml index 9ae7efa96..0155e02e1 100644 --- a/chapter05/gzip.xml +++ b/chapter05/gzip.xml @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ Estimated required disk space: &gzip-compsize-static; &c5-gzip-inst; +&c5-gzip-exp; &aa-gzip-desc; &aa-gzip-dep; diff --git a/index.xml b/index.xml index 79a70a1a4..3f56a44d5 100644 --- a/index.xml +++ b/index.xml @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ +