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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-materials-introduction">
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Introduction</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>This chapter includes a list of packages that need to be downloaded
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| 14 | for building a basic Linux system. The listed version numbers correspond
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| 15 | to versions of the software that are known to work, and this book is based
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| 16 | on their use. We highly recommend not using newer versions because the
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| 17 | build commands for one version may not work with a newer version. The
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| 18 | newest package versions may also have problems that require work-arounds.
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| 19 | These work-arounds will be developed and stabilized in the development
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| 20 | version of the book.</para>
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| 21 |
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| 22 | <para>Download locations may not always be accessible. If a download
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| 23 | location has changed since this book was published, Google (<ulink
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| 24 | url="http://www.google.com/"/>) provides a useful search engine for
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| 25 | most packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the
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| 26 | alternative means of downloading discussed at <ulink
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| 27 | url="&packages-root;"/>.</para>
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| 28 |
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| 29 | <para>Create a directory called
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| 30 | <filename class="directory">${CLFS}/sources</filename> and use it to store
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| 31 | your sources and patches. All packages should be compiled there as well.
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| 32 | Using any other location for compiling may have unexpected results.</para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <para>To create this directory, execute, as user <systemitem
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| 35 | class="username">root</systemitem>, the following command before
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| 36 | starting the download session:</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <screen><userinput>mkdir -v ${CLFS}/sources</userinput></screen>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>Make this directory writable and sticky. When a directory is
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| 41 | marked <quote>sticky</quote>, that means that even if multiple users have
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| 42 | write permission on that directory, any file within that directory can only be
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| 43 | deleted or modified by its owner. The following command will enable the
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| 44 | write and sticky modes:</para>
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| 45 |
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| 46 | <screen><userinput>chmod -v a+wt ${CLFS}/sources</userinput></screen>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | </sect1>
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