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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-04-29 15:06:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-04-29 15:06:46 +0000 |
| commit | f44985dc48f6c86b52434f51fc95ae05b021737e (patch) | |
| tree | 1cb141070229c6a0da584628779cc0d35f1386eb | |
| parent | d9760bffa13dbfd0c727877af7ba2b513d453dd6 (diff) | |
revised the "how to download the software" section
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@1857 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter02/download.xml | 22 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | index.xml | 4 |
2 files changed, 14 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/chapter02/download.xml b/chapter02/download.xml index 451457ec4..b6ffa3edb 100644 --- a/chapter02/download.xml +++ b/chapter02/download.xml @@ -5,17 +5,19 @@ <para>Throughout this document, we will assume that all the packages that were downloaded are placed somewhere in $LFS/usr/src.</para> -<para>A convention you could use is having a $LFS/usr/src/sources directory. -Under sources, you can create the directory 0-9 and the directories a -through z. A package like sysvinit-&sysvinit-version;.tar.bz2 is stored under -$LFS/usr/src/sources/s/. A package like bash-&bash-version;.tar.bz2 is stored -under $LFS/usr/src/sources/b/, and so forth.</para> +<para>While it doesn't matter at all where you save the downloaded +packages, we recommend storing it at least on the LFS partition. This just +makes sense because you would still have access to those files when you boot +into the LFS system. $LFS/usr/src is just a logical place to store source +code, but by no means a requirement. You may even want to create a +subdirectory under $LFS/usr/src for tarball storage. That way you can +seperate tarballs from temporary build directories, but again that's up +to you.</para> -<para>The next chapter contains the list of all the packages that need to be -downloaded, but the partition that is going to contain our LFS system isn't -created yet. Therefore, you should store the files somewhere else and later -on move them to $LFS/usr/src/ when the chapter in which the new partition is -prepared has been finished.</para> +<para>The next chapter contains a list of all the packages that need to be +downloaded. The LFS partition isn't created yet, so you can't store it +there yet. Just save it elsewhere for now, and when the LFS partition is +created, move them over.</para> </sect1> @@ -4,8 +4,8 @@ <!ENTITY book SYSTEM "book/book.xml"> -<!ENTITY version "20020426"> -<!ENTITY releasedate "April 26th, 2002"> +<!ENTITY version "20020429"> +<!ENTITY releasedate "April 29th, 2002"> <!ENTITY ftp-root "ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org"> <!ENTITY http-root "http://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org"> |