Changeset c7d3040

Timestamp:

01/17/2003 03:29:35 AM (21 years ago)

Author:

Timothy Bauscher <timothy@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

51a594db

Parents:

d6871c7

Message:

Billy's ed conversion.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2366 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• appendixa/ed-dep.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• appendixa/ed-desc.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• appendixa/ed-shortdesc.xml (added)
• appendixa/ed.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/ed-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/ed.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• entities/ed.ent (modified) (1 diff)

appendixa/ed-dep.xml

@@ +1 @@
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
 <sect2>
 <title>Ed Installation Dependencies</title>

appendixa/ed-desc.xml

@@ -1 @@
-<sect2><title>Contents of Ed</title>
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
+<sect2><title>Descriptions</title>
 
 <para>Last checked against version &ed-contversion;.</para>
 
-<sect3><title>Program Files</title>
-<para>ed and red (link to ed)</para></sect3>
-
-<sect3><title>Description</title>
+<sect3><title>Program file description</title>
 
 <sect4><title>ed</title>

appendixa/ed.xml

@@ -4 +4 @@
 
 &aa-ed-down;
+&aa-ed-shortdesc;
 &aa-ed-desc;
 &aa-ed-dep;

chapter06/ed-inst.xml

@@ +1 @@
+<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
+
 <sect2>
 <title>Installation of Ed</title>
+
+<note><para>Ed isn't something you would personally use. It's installed here
+because it can be used by the patch program if you encounter an ed-based patch
+file. This happens rarely because diff-based patches are preferred these
+days.</para></note>
 
 <para>This package requires its patch to be applied before you can
 install it.</para>
 
-<para>Ed isn't something you would personally use. It's installed here
-because it can be used by the patch program if you encounter an ed-based patch
-file. This happens rarely because diff-based patches are preferred these
-days.</para>
+<para><screen><userinput>
+patch -Np1 -i ../ed-&ed-patch-version;.patch
+</userinput></screen></para>
 
-<para>Install Ed by running the following commands:</para>
+<para>Prepare Ed to be compiled:</para>
 
-<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ed-&ed-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;
-./configure --prefix=/usr &amp;&amp;
-make &amp;&amp;
-make install &amp;&amp;
-mv /usr/bin/{ed,red} /bin</userinput></screen></para>
+<para><screen><userinput>
+./configure --prefix=/usr</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>And finish off installing the package:</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
+
+<para>Move the Ed binaries to the root partition.</para>
+
+<para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/{ed,red} /bin
+</userinput></screen></para>
 
 </sect2>
 
+<sect2>
+<title>Command explanations</title>
+
+<para><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ed-&ed-version;.patch:</userinput> This
+patch fixes a symlink vulnerability in ed. The ed executable creates files
+in /tmp with predictable names. By using various symlink attacks, it is
+possible to have ed write to files it should not, change the permissions
+of files, etc.</para>
+
+<para><userinput>mv /usr/bin/{ed,red} /bin:</userinput>
+The Ed binaries are moved to the /bin directory so they may be used in
+the event that the /usr partition is unavailable.</para>
+
+</sect2>
+

chapter06/ed.xml

@@ -6 +6 @@
 Estimated required disk space:  &ed-compsize;</screen>
 
+&aa-ed-shortdesc;
+&aa-ed-dep;
 &c6-ed-inst;
-&c6-ed-exp;
-&aa-ed-desc;
-&aa-ed-dep;
 
 </sect1>

entities/ed.ent

@@ -4 +4 @@
 <!ENTITY c6-ed SYSTEM "../chapter06/ed.xml">
 <!ENTITY c6-ed-inst SYSTEM "../chapter06/ed-inst.xml">
-<!ENTITY c6-ed-exp SYSTEM "../chapter06/ed-exp.xml">
 
 <!ENTITY aa-ed SYSTEM "../appendixa/ed.xml">
+<!ENTITY aa-ed-shortdesc SYSTEM "../appendixa/ed-shortdesc.xml">
 <!ENTITY aa-ed-desc SYSTEM "../appendixa/ed-desc.xml">
 <!ENTITY aa-ed-dep SYSTEM "../appendixa/ed-dep.xml">