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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2014-03-21 19:34:09 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2014-03-21 19:34:09 +0000
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Add acl and attr packages
Minor grammar fixes Update standards compliance statments Put e2fsprogs executables in /bin git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10512 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
+<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
+ <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
+ %general-entities;
+]>
+
+<sect1 id="ch-system-attr" role="wrap">
+ <?dbhtml filename="attr.html"?>
+
+ <sect1info condition="script">
+ <productname>attr</productname>
+ <productnumber>&attr-version;</productnumber>
+ <address>&attr-url;</address>
+ </sect1info>
+
+ <title>Attr-&attr-version;</title>
+
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr">
+ <primary sortas="a-Attr">Attr</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+
+ <sect2 role="package">
+ <title/>
+
+ <para>The attr package contains utilities to administer the extended
+ attributes on filesystem objects.</para>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>&buildtime;</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>&diskspace;</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>&attr-ch6-sbu;</seg>
+ <seg>&attr-ch6-du;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 role="installation">
+ <title>Installation of Attr</title>
+
+ <para>Modify the documentation directory so that it is a versioned
+ directory:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e 's|/@pkg_name@|&amp;-@pkg_version@|' include/builddefs.in</userinput></screen>
+<!--
+ <para>Prevent installation of manual pages that were already installed by
+ Man-Pages package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -i -e "/SUBDIRS/s|man2||" man/Makefile</userinput></screen>
+-->
+ <para>Prepare Attr for compilation:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>The tests need to be run on a filesystem that supports extended
+ attributes such as the ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystems. To test the
+ results, issue:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make tests root-tests</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>Install the package:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">make install install-dev install-lib
+chmod -v 755 /usr/lib/libattr.so</userinput></screen>
+
+ <para>The shared library needs to be moved to
+ <filename class="directory">/lib</filename>, and as a result the
+ <filename class="extension">.so</filename> file in
+ <filename class="directory">/usr/lib</filename> will need to be recreated:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="install">mv -v /usr/lib/libattr.so.* /lib
+ln -sfv ../../lib/$(readlink /usr/lib/libattr.so) /usr/lib/libattr.so</userinput></screen>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contents-attr" role="content">
+ <title>Contents of Attr</title>
+
+ <segmentedlist>
+ <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed library</segtitle>
+ <segtitle>Installed directories</segtitle>
+
+ <seglistitem>
+ <seg>attr, getfattr, and setattr</seg>
+ <seg>libattr.{a,so}</seg>
+ <seg>/usr/include/attr, /usr/share/doc/attr-&attr-version;</seg>
+ </seglistitem>
+ </segmentedlist>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
+ <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
+ <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>
+
+ <varlistentry id="attr">
+ <term><command>attr</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Extends attributes on filesystem objects</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr attr">
+ <primary sortas="b-attr">attr</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="getfattr">
+ <term><command>getfattr</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Gets the extended attributes of filesystem objects.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr getfattr">
+ <primary sortas="b-getfattr">getfattr</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="setattr">
+ <term><command>setattr</command></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Sets the extended attributes of filesystem objects</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr setattr">
+ <primary sortas="b-setattr">setattr</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry id="libattr">
+ <term><filename class="libraryfile">libattr</filename></term>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Contains the <application>Attr</application> API functions.</para>
+ <indexterm zone="ch-system-attr libattr">
+ <primary sortas="c-libattr">libattr</primary>
+ </indexterm>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ </variablelist>
+
+ </sect2>
+
+</sect1>