source: general.ent@ 6c4bb8f

<!-- $LastChangedBy$ $Date$ -->

<!ENTITY day          "03">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY month        "07">                   <!-- Always 2 digits -->
<!ENTITY year         "2016">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "2001-&year;">
<!ENTITY copyholder   "The BLFS Development Team">
<!ENTITY version      "&year;-&month;-&day;">
<!ENTITY releasedate  "July 3rd &year;">
<!ENTITY pubdate      "&year;-&month;-&day;"> <!-- metadata req. by TLDP -->
<!ENTITY blfs-version "svn">                  <!-- svn|[release #] -->
<!ENTITY lfs-version  "development">          <!-- x.y|development -->
<!ENTITY lfs-versiond "systemd">              <!-- x.y-systemd|systemd -->
<!ENTITY last-commit  "$Date$"> <!-- Automatic update -->
<!ENTITY lfs-domainname       "linuxfromscratch.org">

<!ENTITY maintainer-fullname  "The BLFS Team">
<!ENTITY maintainer-firstname "BLFS">
<!ENTITY maintainer-address   "blfs-maintainer@&lfs-domainname;">


<!ENTITY lfs-website          "http://www.&lfs-domainname;">
<!-- downloads_root must have an entity because it is needed for scripts
     change svn to x.y for release. Note:  s/_/-/ in comment to avoid grep error -->
<!ENTITY downloads-root       "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/svn">
<!ENTITY downloads-project    "http://downloads.&lfs-domainname;">

<!ENTITY sources-anduin-http  "http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS">
<!ENTITY sources-anduin-ftp   "ftp://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS">

<!ENTITY hints-root           "http://www.&lfs-domainname;/hints">
<!ENTITY patch-downloads      "http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads">
<!ENTITY patch-root           "http://www.&lfs-domainname;/patches/blfs/svn">
<!ENTITY errata               "http://www.&lfs-domainname;/blfs/errata/&blfs-version;/">
<!ENTITY blfs-ticket-root     "http://wiki.&lfs-domainname;/blfs/ticket/">

<!ENTITY lfs-root             "../../../../lfs/view/&lfs-version;">
<!ENTITY lfs-rootd            "../../../../lfs/view/&lfs-versiond;">
<!ENTITY lfs-dev              "../../../../lfs/view/development">
<!ENTITY kernel               "http://www.kernel.org/pub/">
<!ENTITY gstreamer-dl         "http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src">
<!ENTITY gnu-alpha-ftp        "ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/">
<!ENTITY gnu-alpha-http       "http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/">
<!ENTITY sourceforge-repo     "http://downloads.sourceforge.net">
<!ENTITY sourceforge-repo2    "http://sourceforge.net">
<!ENTITY gentoo-ftp-repo      "ftp://mirror.ovh.net/gentoo-distfiles/distfiles">
<!ENTITY fedora-http-repo     "http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/repo/pkgs">
<!ENTITY jaist-ftp-repo       "ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub//sourceforge">
<!ENTITY lxqt-http-repo       "http://downloads.lxqt.org/lxqt">
<!ENTITY publisher            "Unknown">
<!--<!ENTITY xorg-download-http   "http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual">-->
<!ENTITY xorg-download-http   "http://ftp.x.org/pub/individual">
<!ENTITY xorg-download-ftp    "ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual">
<!ENTITY mozilla-http         "https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org">
<!ENTITY mozilla-ftp          "ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub">

<!-- These entities are used to identify versions of LFS
     packages referenced throughout the BLFS book. -->
<!ENTITY lfs-autoconf-version         "2.69">
<!ENTITY lfs-coreutils-version        "8.23">
<!ENTITY lfs-e2fsprogs-version        "1.42.11">
<!ENTITY lfs-flex-version             "2.5.39">
<!ENTITY lfs-gcc-version              "4.9.1">
<!ENTITY lfs-gdbm-version             "1.11">
<!ENTITY lfs-m4-version               "1.4.17">
<!-- this was originally the perl version used by the corresponding
 version of lfs, in those days always for i686, but now BLFS is a rolling
 release -->
<!ENTITY lfs-perl-version             "&lt;5.x.y&gt;/&lt;arch-linux&gt;">
<!ENTITY lfs-shadow-version           "4.2.1">
<!ENTITY lfs-vim-version              "7.4">
<!-- End LFS versions -->

<!ENTITY blfs-bootscripts-version     "20160415">
<!ENTITY systemd-units-version        "20160602">


<!ENTITY blfs-wiki                    "http://wiki.&lfs-domainname;/blfs/wiki">

<!-- These entities are used to annotate the current status of a package as it
     relates to the version of LFS it will build/work against -->
<!ENTITY lfs79_checked        "<para>This package is known to build and work
                              properly using an LFS-7.9 platform.</para>">
<!ENTITY lfs79_built          "<para>This package is known to build using an LFS
                              7.9 platform but has not been tested.</para>">

<!-- usage: <para>&lfssvn_checked;ccyymmdd&lfssvn_checked2;</para> -->
<!ENTITY lfssvn_checked       "This package is known to build and work properly
                               using an LFS-SVN-">
<!ENTITY lfssvn_checked2      " platform.">
<!ENTITY lfssvn_built         "This package is known to build using an LFS-SVN-">
<!ENTITY lfssvn_built2        " platform but has not been tested.">
<!-- End special entities about LFS compatibility -->

<!ENTITY as_root "<note><para>When installing multiple packages in a script,
  the installation needs to be done as the root user. There are three general
  options that can be used to do this:</para>

  <orderedlist>

  <listitem><para>Run the entire script as the root user (not
  recommended).</para></listitem>

  <listitem><para>Use the <command>sudo</command> command from the <xref
  linkend='sudo'/> package.</para></listitem>

  <listitem><para>Use <command>su -c &quot;command arguments&quot;</command>
  (quotes required) which will ask for the root  password for every iteration
  of the loop.</para></listitem>

  </orderedlist>

  <para>One way to handle this situation is to create a short
  <command>bash</command> function that automatically selects the appropriate
  method.  Once the command is set in the environment, it does not need to be
  set again.</para>

  <screen><userinput>as_root()
{
  if   [ $EUID = 0 ];        then $*
  elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo $*
  else                            su -c \\&quot;$*\\&quot;
  fi
}

export -f as_root</userinput></screen>
</note>">

<!ENTITY not-katamari         "<para>This package is not a part of the Xorg
                              katamari and is provided only as a dependency to
                              other packages or for testing the completed Xorg
                              installation.</para>">

<!-- Problem with some packages introduced by a given dependency version -->
<!ENTITY gcc-490                        "gcc-4.9.0">

<!ENTITY gcc6_checked           "<para>This package is known to build 
                                properly using the gcc-6 compiler.</para>">

<!ENTITY % package-entities SYSTEM      "packages.ent">
%package-entities;

<!ENTITY parallel_issues "<note><para>This package may occasionally fail when
                          building with multiple processors.  See <xref
                          linkend='parallel-builds'/> for more information.</para></note>">