mirror of
https://git.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs.git
synced 2025-01-19 05:27:39 +00:00
ae79672711
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4425 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
61 lines
2.7 KiB
XML
61 lines
2.7 KiB
XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
|
|
<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
|
|
<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
|
|
%general-entities;
|
|
]>
|
|
<sect1 id="materials-introduction">
|
|
<title>Introduction</title>
|
|
<?dbhtml filename="introduction.html"?>
|
|
|
|
<!--
|
|
<para>Below is a list of packages you need to download for building a basic
|
|
Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond to versions of the
|
|
software that are <emphasis>known</emphasis> to work, and this book is
|
|
based upon them. Unless you are an experienced LFS builder, we highly
|
|
recommend not to try out newer versions, as the build commands for one
|
|
version may not work with a newer version. Also, there is often a good
|
|
reason for not using the latest version due to known problems that haven't
|
|
been worked around yet.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>All the URLs, when possible, refer to the project's page at
|
|
<ulink url="http://www.freshmeat.net/"/>. The Freshmeat
|
|
pages will give you easy access to the official download sites as well as
|
|
project websites, mailing lists, FAQs, changelogs and more.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>We can't guarantee that these download locations are always available.
|
|
In case a download location has changed since this book was published, please
|
|
try to google for the package. Should you remain unsuccessful with this,
|
|
try one of the alternative means of downloading listed on
|
|
<ulink url="&lfs-root;lfs/packages.html"/>.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>You'll need to store all the downloaded packages and patches somewhere
|
|
that is conveniently available throughout the entire build. You'll also need a
|
|
working directory in which to unpack the sources and build them. A scheme that
|
|
works well is to use <filename class="directory">$LFS/sources</filename> as the place to store
|
|
the tarballs and patches, <emphasis>and</emphasis> as a working directory.
|
|
This way everything you need will be located on the LFS partition and available
|
|
during all stages of the building process.</para>
|
|
|
|
<para>So you may want to execute, as <emphasis>root</emphasis>, the following
|
|
command before starting your download session:</para>
|
|
-->
|
|
|
|
<screen><userinput>mkdir $LFS/sources</userinput></screen>
|
|
|
|
<!--
|
|
<para>And make this directory writable (and sticky) for your normal user - as
|
|
you won't do the downloading as <emphasis>root</emphasis>, we guess:</para>
|
|
-->
|
|
|
|
<screen><userinput>chmod a+wt $LFS/sources</userinput></screen>
|
|
|
|
<!--
|
|
<para>For your convenience the top of the list contains a link to a file
|
|
you can use with the <ulink url="http://wget.sunsite.dk">wget</ulink>
|
|
program. Using this file and the <command>wget</command> program will
|
|
make it easy to download all the files at once, rather than downloading each
|
|
and every individual file manually.</para>
|
|
-->
|
|
|
|
</sect1>
|