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<para>
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LFS Commands is a tarball containing files which list the installation
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-commands for the packages installed in this book. These files can be
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-used to dump to a shell and install the packages, though some files
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-need to be modified (for example, when the kbd package is
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-installed, you needed to select the keyboard layout file, becaue it can't
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-reliably be guessed).
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+commands for the packages installed in this book.
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</para>
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<para>
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-These files can also be used to quickly find out which commands have been
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-changed between the different LFS versions as well. Download the
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-lfs-commands tarball for this book version and the previous book version
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-and run a diff on the files. That way it is possible to see which packages
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-have updated installation instructions, so any scripts you may have can
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-be modified, or you can reinstall a package if you think that
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+These files can also be used to quickly find out which commands have
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+been changed between the different LFS versions as well. Download the
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+lfs-commands tarball for this book version and the previous book
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+version and run a diff on the files. That way it is possible to see which
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+packages have updated installation instructions, so any scripts you may
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+have can be modified, or you can reinstall a package if you think that
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necessary.
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</para>
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+<para>
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+A side effect is that these files can be used to dump to a shell and
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+install the packages, though some files need to be modified (for
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+example, when the kbd package is installed, you needed to select the
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+keyboard layout file, becaue it can't reliably be guessed). Keep in
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+mind, please, that these files are not checked for correctness,
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+integrity and so forth. There may be bugs in the files (since they are
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+manually created, typo's are often inevitable) so do check them and
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+don't blindly trust them.
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+</para>
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+
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+<para>
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+If you decide to use these files for scripting purposes, then don't
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+place the files inside the directory of a package. For example, don't
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+put the autoconf file from the lfs-commands package into the autoconf
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+directory. The files may interfere with the actual package files, which
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+may contain a file with the same name. Autoconf is one
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+example of this: if an autoconf file is present in the autoconf
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+directory, the configure script won't create a new autoconf file. You
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+will end up with /usr/bin/autoconf containing autoconf's installation
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+instructions, rather than the real autoconf perl script. There may be
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+other packages that behave in similar ways, so just keep the
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+lfs-commands files outside the package directory.
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+</para>
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+
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<para>
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The lfscommands can be downloaded from <ulink
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url="http://packages.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-commands/">
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