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</itemizedlist>
+ <para>To re-emphasize the build process:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump">
+1. Place all the sources and patches in a directory that will be accessible from the
+ chroot envronment such as /mnt/lfs/sources/. Do <emphasis>not</emphasis> put sources in /mnt/lfs/tools/.
+2. Change to the sources directory.
+3. For each package:
+ a. Using the tar program, extract the package to be built.
+ b. Change to the directory created when the package was extracted.
+ c. Follow the book's instructions for building the package.
+ d. Change back to the sources directory.
+ e. Delete the extracted source directory and any &lt;package&gt;-build
+ directories that were created in the build process.</screen>
+
</sect1>