Re: common/libs/func_download_pkgs: line 84: [: =: unary operator expected

On Thu, Sep 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM Pierre Labastie
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2025-09-15 at 11:48 +0000, md wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > With
> >
> > jhalfs
> > git show --oneline --no-abbrev --shortstat
> > 540e2dbeccefe3edf0c718c3e1341190b5ab7830 (HEAD -> trunk,
> > origin/trunk, origin/
> > HE  AD) Make test-mismatch configurable
> >
> > lfs
> > git show --oneline --no-abbrev --shortstat
> > 158d47f83d68e159f05f48b07d7be584f07ec559 (HEAD -> trunk,
> > origin/trunk, origin/
> > HE  AD) Add a correction about tcl tests.
> >
> > I'm getting:
> >
> > linux-6.16.tar.xz: using cached file in
> > /vagrant/jhalfs/mnt/build_dir/sources
> > common/libs/func_download_pkgs: line 84: [: =: unary operator
> > expected
> > common/libs/func_download_pkgs: line 85: [: =: unary operator
> > expected
> > md5sum: 'standard input': no properly formatted checksum lines found
> > MD5SUM did not match REMOTE copy
> >
> > It looks like this does not prevent the md5 checks from functioning.
> >
> > Marcin
>
> Hi Marcin,
>
> Sorry for late answer. You do not say which flavor of the book you are
> using (64-bit or multilib?). Looks like something gets wrong when
> reading the md5 of the kernel. But using linux-6.16 is (was) only done
> in multilib IIUC...
>
> Since the md5 is not read correctly, the syntax of lines 84 and 85 in
> common/libs/func_download_pkgs is wrong.
>
> Investigating why this is so, using most recent multilib version. The
> commit ref you give is in the "trunk" branch, but has been merged with
> multilib on September 14th, while your message is dated September 15th.
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Hi Pierre,

I'm on x86_64, and always building the latest lfs-git and jhalfs trunk.
Here is the jhalfs configuration file
https://github.com/marcindulak/jhalfs-ci/blob/7c3c5be2e027126b0f56ae3e2d257531a8536255/configuration

The kernel m5sum problems are discussed here
https://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/arc/lfs-support/2025-09/msg00018.html

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