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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> |