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authorTimothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-05-11 19:12:19 +0000
committerTimothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org>2003-05-11 19:12:19 +0000
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<title>Installation of Coreutils</title>
<para>Normally the functionality of uname is somewhat broken, in that
-the -p switch always returns "unknown". This patch fixes that behaviour:</para>
+the -p switch always returns "unknown". This patch fixes that behaviour
+for Intel architectures:</para>
-<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-&coreutils-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-&coreutils-uname-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>We do not want Coreutils to install it's version of the hostname
+binary, because it is inferior to the version provided by Net-tools.
+Prevent the installation of hostname with this patch:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../coreutils-&coreutils-hostname-patch-version;.patch</userinput></screen></para>
<para>Prepare Coreutils to be compiled:</para>