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[3f8be484]1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-materials-introduction">
9 <?dbhtml filename="introduction.html"?>
10
11 <title>Introduction</title>
12
13 <para>This chapter includes a list of packages that need to be downloaded
14 for building a basic Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond
15 to versions of the software that are known to work, and this book is based
16 on their use. We highly recommend not using newer versions because the
17 build commands for one version may not work with a newer version. The
18 newest package versions may also have problems that require work-arounds.
19 These work-arounds will be developed and stabilized in the development
20 version of the book.</para>
21
22 <para>Download locations may not always be accessible. If a download
23 location has changed since this book was published, Google (<ulink
24 url="http://www.google.com/"/>) provides a useful search engine for
25 most packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the
26 alternative means of downloading discussed at <ulink
[35b75e6]27 url="&packages-root;"/>.</para>
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29 <para>Downloaded packages and patches will need to be stored somewhere
30 that is conveniently available throughout the entire build. A working
31 directory is also required to unpack the sources and build them.
[07114c98]32 <filename class="directory">$CLFS/sources</filename> can be used both
[3f8be484]33 as the place to store the tarballs and patches and as a working
34 directory. By using this directory, the required elements will be
[a8f30b25]35 located on the CLFS partition and will be available during all stages
[3f8be484]36 of the building process.</para>
37
38 <para>To create this directory, execute, as user <systemitem
39 class="username">root</systemitem>, the following command before
40 starting the download session:</para>
41
[07114c98]42<screen><userinput>mkdir -v $CLFS/sources</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]43
[35b75e6]44 <para>Make this directory writable and sticky. When a directory is
45 marked <quote>sticky</quote>, that means that even if multiple users have
46 write permission on that directory, any file within that directory can only be
47 deleted or modified by its owner. The following command will enable the
48 write and sticky modes:</para>
[3f8be484]49
[07114c98]50<screen><userinput>chmod -v a+wt $CLFS/sources</userinput></screen>
[3f8be484]51
52</sect1>
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