[LFS Trac] #5938: Accept new rust based utilities in host requirements

#5938: Accept new rust based utilities in host requirements
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 Reporter:  pierre  |      Owner:  lfs-book
     Type:  task    |     Status:  new
 Priority:  normal  |  Milestone:  13.1
Component:  Book    |    Version:  git
 Severity:  normal  |   Keywords:
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 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.
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