Re: skip mismatching check for pages requires the linux tarball

On Sun, 2025-08-31 at 14:54 +0200, Pierre Labastie wrote:
> On Sun, 2025-08-31 at 17:23 +0800, Zhang Wen wrote:
> > Since we're using patch tarball for the kernel in LFS, the check
> > just
> > cannot pass.
> 
> For some reason, replies to this mail are dated earlier than the
> original post. But I have seen all.
> I am to far away from editing now to have any advice about LFS #5785.
> But I think jhalfs is suboptimal in this case, because the test
> cannot
> be disabled. It is easy to add the possibility to disable this
> "mismatch test" (recall that it is detecting a mismatch between
> extracted directory version and package version. This test is handy
> to
> detect errors in the book, but almost of no use to non editors.)
> Actually, there is a "TODO" comment in jhalfs, telling to add the
> possibility to set "TEST_MISMATCH" during configuration. So I'll do
> that... This will be an "all or none" option. Disabling the test for
> only specific packages is more difficult, and maybe not worth the
> hassle. But I am open to other views...
> 
> Pierre

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