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diff --git a/chapter06/coreutils-inst.xml b/chapter06/coreutils-inst.xml index 1d2df60b2..f1225d77c 100644 --- a/chapter06/coreutils-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/coreutils-inst.xml @@ -4,9 +4,16 @@ <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> |