From 74296e21af8203070166e6d38db0ff088f5eb98c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:56:39 +0000
Subject: Add a paragraph in Chapter 3.1 about obtaining and using md5sums for
 the packages in the book.

git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9624 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
---
 chapter03/introduction.xml | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'chapter03')

diff --git a/chapter03/introduction.xml b/chapter03/introduction.xml
index c89f2ee11..232751371 100644
--- a/chapter03/introduction.xml
+++ b/chapter03/introduction.xml
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
   url="http://www.google.com/"/>) provides a useful search engine for
   most packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the
   alternative means of downloading discussed at <ulink
-  url="&lfs-root;lfs/packages.html#packages"/>.</para>
+  url="&lfs-root;lfs/packages.html#packages"/>. </para>
 
   <para>Downloaded packages and patches will need to be stored somewhere
   that is conveniently available throughout the entire build. A working
@@ -53,6 +53,15 @@
   <ulink url="../wget-list">wget-list</ulink> as an input to
   <command>wget</command>. For example:</para>
 
-  <screen role="nodump"><userinput>wget -i wget-list -P $LFS/sources</userinput></screen> 
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>wget -i wget-list -P $LFS/sources</userinput></screen> 
+
+  <para>Additionally, starting with LFS-7.0, there is a separate file, 
+  <ulink url="../md5sums">md5sums</ulink>, can be used to verify that all
+  the correct packages are available before proceeding.  Place that file in 
+  <filename class="directory">$LFS/sources</filename> and run:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>pushd  $LFS/sources
+md5sum -c md5sums
+popd</userinput></screen> 
 
 </sect1>
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