id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc
5938	Accept new rust based utilities in host requirements	pierre	pierre	"Some distros (presently at least ubuntu-26.04-LTS, but debian should follow) begin to use rust based utilities instead of original ones. The problem is the rust based utilities have versions different from (and usually lower than) the original ones. For example, some (but not all) of the core utilities from GNU coreutils have been replaced with the same utilities from uutils coreutils. I've verified that those utilities allow building LFS, but they don't pass our version check (version is 0.8.0).

(for the record, but it concerns only jhalfs, there is also a new rust based sudo-rs that is used by default on ubuntu, and which does not pass the version check either.)

I am not sure how this should be managed. GNU coreutils can be forced in Ubuntu, but not very easily (it's not just a matter of using the right alternative in the alternatives system of Ubuntu). And there is no reason to force it anyway, since the utilities are compatible.

Changing the text in ""Host Requirements"" should be easy. But we need to change the version-check.sh program too."	task	closed	normal	13.1	Book	git	normal	fixed