%general-entities; ]> Needed patches Besides all those packages, you'll also need several patches. These correct tiny mistakes in the packages that should be fixed by the maintainer, or just make some small modifications to bend things our way. You'll need the following: Patches Bash GNU Fixes Patch - 7 KB: Coreutils Suppress Hostname, Uptime, Kill, Su Patch - 16 KB: Coreutils Uname Patch - 1 KB: Expect Spawn Patch - 6 KB: Flex Brokenness Patch - 8 KB: GCC No-Fixincludes Patch - 1 KB: GCC Specs Patch - 11 KB: Hotplug Bogus Dependencies Patch- 1 KB: Hotplug Fix for USB Coldplugging - 1 KB: Hotplug ISAPNP Coldplugging Patch - 1 KB: Inetutils Kernel Headers Patch - 1 KB: Inetutils No-Server-Man-Pages Patch - 4 KB: Man 80-Columns Patch - 1 KB: Mktemp Tempfile Patch - 3 KB: Net-tools GCC 3.4 Compatibility Patch - 3 KB: Perl Libc Patch - 1 KB: Readline GNU Fixes Patch - 5 KB: Sed Permissions Patch - 1 KB: > Sysklogd Kernel Headers Patch - 3 KB: Sysklogd Signal Handling Patch - 1 KB: Sysvinit /proc Title Length Patch - 1 KB: Util-Linux Kernel Headers Patch - 3 KB: In addition to the above required patches, there exist a number of optional ones created by the LFS community. Most of these solve slight problems, or enable some functionality that's not enabled by default. Feel free to examine the patches database, located at , and pick any additional patches you wish to use.