Changeset 1f5a586

Timestamp:

05/29/2020 10:05:38 PM (4 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

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, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, 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:

b51bb68

Parents:

18fa909

Message:

Tweak additions and deletion of tester user.
Explain test filures in bash.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@11868 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Location:

chapter06

Files:

• bash.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• createfiles.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• revisedchroot.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter06/bash.xml

@@ -82 +82 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="test">su tester -c "PATH=$PATH make tests"</userinput></screen>
-<!--
-    <para>The <command>su</command> command above is slightly different from
-    other places in the book. The
-    reason is that the <option>-c</option> option runs the command without
-    a controlling terminal, while the bash test suite needs one.</para>
--->
+
     <para>The <systemitem class="username">tester</systemitem>
     user does not have enough permissions for all the tests to pass. This shows
-    up in some <quote>diff</quote> output in four test results.</para>
+    up in some <quote>diff</quote> output in four test results. Portions of the 
+    run-execscript, run-lastpipe, run-read, and run-test programs
+    are known to fail in the LFS chroot environment, but pass if the tests
+    are run in a full system.</para>
 
     <para>Install the package and move the main executable to

chapter06/createfiles.xml

@@ -346 +346 @@
   user here and delete this account at the end of the chapter.</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>echo "tester:x:101:101::/tmp:/bin/bash" &gt;&gt; /etc/passwd
-echo "tester:x:101:dummy" &gt;&gt; /etc/group</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>echo "tester:x:101:101::/home/tester:/bin/bash" &gt;&gt; /etc/passwd
+echo "tester:x:101:dummy" &gt;&gt; /etc/group
+install -o tester -d /home/tester</userinput></screen>
 
   <para>To remove the <quote>I have no name!</quote> prompt, start a new

chapter06/revisedchroot.xml

@@ -74 +74 @@
    beginning of this chapter.</para>
 
-<screen><userinput>sed -i '/tester/d' /etc/passwd /etc/group</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput>sed -i '/tester/d' /etc/passwd /etc/group
+rm -rf /home/tester</userinput></screen>
 </sect1>