Changeset b7d9d404 for chapter06/nettools-inst.xml

Timestamp:

01/16/2003 07:55:00 PM (21 years ago)

Author:

Timothy Bauscher <timothy@…>

Branches:

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Children:

a78a9b4

Parents:

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Message:

Converted m4, bison, less, groff, textutils, sed, flex, binutils, fileutils, shellutils, gettext and net-tools to new layout.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2353 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

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• chapter06/nettools-inst.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter06/nettools-inst.xml

@@ +1 @@
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Net-tools</title>
-
-<para>Install Net-tools by running the following commands:</para>
-
-<para><screen><userinput>make &amp;&amp;
-make update</userinput></screen></para>
-
-<para>If you want to accept all the default answers, you can run these
-commands instead:</para>
-
-<para><screen><userinput>yes "" | make &amp;&amp;
-make update</userinput></screen></para>
 
 <para>If you don't know what to answer to all the questions asked during
@@ -25 +16 @@
 it's up to the kernel to make them available to the system.</para>
 
+<para>If you intend to accept the default settings, you may skip
+the questions generated by <emphasis>make</emphasis> by runing
+<userinput>yes "" | make</userinput>.</para>
+
+<para>Compile the package:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Finish installing the package:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make update</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>The <emphasis>update</emphasis> option to <userinput>make</userinput>
+works similarly to the <emphasis>install</emphasis> option, with one
+exception: it doesn't make backups of files it's replacing. One of the
+things net-tools replaces is sh-utils's version of /bin/hostname
+(net-tools's version is far better than sh-utils's version).</para>
+
+<para>Also, if you decide to reinstall this package at some point in the
+future, a make update won't backup all the files from a previous net-tools
+installation.</para>
+
 </sect2>