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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-06-01 20:07:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2020-06-01 20:07:40 +0000 |
| commit | 83a01db0abc3301436dc6958ab77bd952ffcad2d (patch) | |
| tree | 8aaa10be779eab097a5e33330b400073d8503170 /chapter03/introduction.xml | |
| parent | 3e2daaa35df85fc3288d26d196c3632d7e529760 (diff) | |
Elaborate how to get needed LFS files
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11890 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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1 files changed, 26 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/chapter03/introduction.xml b/chapter03/introduction.xml index e67e62497..3194e3dae 100644 --- a/chapter03/introduction.xml +++ b/chapter03/introduction.xml @@ -49,9 +49,28 @@ <screen role="nodump"><userinput>chmod -v a+wt $LFS/sources</userinput></screen> - <para>An easy way to download all of the packages and patches is by using - <ulink url="../wget-list">wget-list</ulink> as an input to - <command>wget</command>. For example:</para> + <para>There are several ways to optain all the necessary packages and patches + to build LFS:</para> + + <itemizedlist> + <listitem> + <para>The files can be downloaded individually as described in the + next two sections.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>For stable versions of the book, a tarball of all the needed files + can be downloaded from one of the LFS files mirrors listed at + <ulink url="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/mirrors.html#files"/>.</para> + </listitem> + <listitem> + <para>The files can be downloaded using <command>wget</command> and + a wget-list as described below.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist> + + <para>To download all of the packages and patches by using + <ulink url="../wget-list">wget-list</ulink> as an input to the + <command>wget</command> caoomad, use:</para> <screen role="nodump"><userinput>wget --input-file=wget-list --continue --directory-prefix=$LFS/sources</userinput></screen> @@ -61,7 +80,10 @@ <filename class="directory">$LFS/sources</filename> and run:</para> <screen role="nodump"><userinput>pushd $LFS/sources -md5sum -c md5sums + md5sum -c md5sums popd</userinput></screen> + <para>This check can be used after retrieving the needed files with any of the + methods listed above.</para> + </sect1> |