#362 closed defect (invalid)
should we give up the lfs user bit now that we use $LFS/static in ch-5
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| Component: | Book | Version: | CVS |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | |
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Description
now that all the stuff in ch-5 uses $LFS/static the reason why we make software as a non root user is no longer valid - it would be easier to make the ch5 stuff as root again - takes some commands out of the book and makes life a bit easier for all... and there is no longer a risk of trashing your system or am i way off on this one?
Jay
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You can still trash your systme if you make a simple type in --prefix=something option.
Suppose you make a simple typo like:
--prefix=$LFS/ static
And when the $LFS variable isn't set, then prefix will be equal to / - bad thing to do.
We don't want to do anything as user root when in chapter 5 other than absolutely necessary things. It simply helps against making silly mistakes.
Sure, you can still trash your system by running chapter 6 commands and forgot ot enter chroot (i've done it when I ran the chown -R / commannd...I was wondering why I took so long, then realized I was outside of chroot).
Anywyas...mistakes can still be made but we try to minimize them.