Changeset 74296e2 for chapter03/introduction.xml

Timestamp:

10/10/2011 05:56:39 PM (13 years ago)

Author:

Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@…>

Branches:

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Children:

1c2d208

Parents:

a7f0b27

Message:

Add a paragraph in Chapter 3.1 about obtaining and using md5sums
for the packages in the book.

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@9624 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

File:

• chapter03/introduction.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter03/introduction.xml

@@ -25 +25 @@
   most packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the
   alternative means of downloading discussed at <ulink
-  url="&lfs-root;lfs/packages.html#packages"/>.</para>
+  url="&lfs-root;lfs/packages.html#packages"/>. </para>
 
   <para>Downloaded packages and patches will need to be stored somewhere
@@ -54 +54 @@
   <command>wget</command>. For example:</para>
 
-  <screen role="nodump"><userinput>wget -i wget-list -P $LFS/sources</userinput></screen> 
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>wget -i wget-list -P $LFS/sources</userinput></screen> 
+
+  <para>Additionally, starting with LFS-7.0, there is a separate file, 
+  <ulink url="../md5sums">md5sums</ulink>, can be used to verify that all
+  the correct packages are available before proceeding.  Place that file in 
+  <filename class="directory">$LFS/sources</filename> and run:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>pushd  $LFS/sources
+md5sum -c md5sums
+popd</userinput></screen> 
 
 </sect1>