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3.3. Needed Patches
In addition to the packages, several patches are also required. These patches correct any mistakes in the packages that should be fixed by the maintainer. The patches also make small modifications to make the packages easier to work with. The following patches will be needed to build an LFS system:
• Bzip2 Documentation Patch - 1.6 KB:
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/9.0/bzip2-1.0.8-install_docs-1.patch
MD5 sum: 6a5ac7e89b791aae556de0f745916f7f
• Coreutils Internationalization Fixes Patch - 168 KB:
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/9.0/coreutils-8.31-i18n-1.patch
MD5 sum: a9404fb575dfd5514f3c8f4120f9ca7d
• Glibc FHS Patch - 2.8 KB:
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/9.0/glibc-2.30-fhs-1.patch
MD5 sum: 9a5997c3452909b1769918c759eff8a2
• Kbd Backspace/Delete Fix Patch - 12 KB:
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/9.0/kbd-2.2.0-backspace-1.patch
MD5 sum: f75cca16a38da6caa7d52151f7136895
• Sysvinit Consolidated Patch - 2.4 KB:
Download: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/9.0/sysvinit-2.95-consolidated-1.patch
MD5 sum: 4900322141d493e74020c9cf437b2cdc
Total size of these patches: about 186.8 KB
In addition to the above required patches, there exist a number of optional patches created by the LFS community. These optional patches solve minor problems or enable functionality that is not enabled by default. Feel free to peruse the patches database located at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/ and acquire any additional patches to suit your system needs.