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| author | Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> | 2022-10-02 19:11:57 +0800 |
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| committer | Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site> | 2022-10-02 19:11:57 +0800 |
| commit | 9b2dedc676a0377d5101986aa97576b8215676ea (patch) | |
| tree | ec6c383eb1aa2e6dafa735c865a530289972b7f1 | |
| parent | bde421e48d7a25e38fb4a6114bd2a1ca1506ea30 (diff) | |
package: add optional instruction to change the owner of downloaded packages to root
Many users will create a user with the same username and UID so the
files will still be owned by his/her. So make it optional by "If you
won't assign the same UID for your user in the LFS system".
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter03/introduction.xml | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter03/introduction.xml b/chapter03/introduction.xml index 1a69187a2..0e90508ae 100644 --- a/chapter03/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter03/introduction.xml @@ -104,4 +104,14 @@ popd</userinput></screen> <para>This check can be used after retrieving the needed files with any of the methods listed above.</para> + <para>If the packages and patches are downloaded as a non-&root; user, + these files will be owned by the user. The file system records the + owner by its UID, and the UID of a normal user in the host distro is + not assigned in LFS. So the files will be left owned by an unnamed UID + in the final LFS system. If you won't assign the same UID for your user + in the LFS system, change the owners of these files to &root; now to + avoid this issue:</para> + +<screen role="nodump"><userinput>chown root:root $LFS/sources/*</userinput></screen> + </sect1> |