Re: Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread TheOldFellow
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:50:12 -0500 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The reason I say what I do (opinion, that is), is because I bought a > couple of new SATA drives (7200 rpm, 500 gigabytes) recently for less > than $80.00 each. > > Prices are incredible (here in the USA, anyway). I b

Re: RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
2008/4/22, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be > >> compliant with the Linux Standards Base. > > > > Which version? 4.x and 5.x are completely different beasts. > >

Re: RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be >> compliant with the Linux Standards Base. > > Which version? 4.x and 5.x are completely different beasts. According to www.rpm.org, the current version is 4.4.2.3. >

Re: BLFS 6.3 outstanding tickets

2008-04-21 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > There are a few unclaimed 6.3 tickets that we need to address: > > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2065 : Sane UDEV > > Looks like this one should be handled by Randy or Alexander Or retitled to "drop the usb group" and moved to the future, because it is a too-

Re: RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/21/08 22:56 CST: >> I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be >> compliant with the Linux Standards Base. > > Cool. You're thinking it would be just another package like all the > others? > > What I mean

Re: RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be > compliant with the Linux Standards Base. Which version? 4.x and 5.x are completely different beasts. Anyway, LFS contains a severe deviation from LSB (no libncurses.so.5 by default, only a non-stand

Re: RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/21/08 22:56 CST: > I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be > compliant with the Linux Standards Base. Cool. You're thinking it would be just another package like all the others? What I mean is; that we won't be recommending fo

RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be compliant with the Linux Standards Base. It doesn't have to be for 6.3, but it is relatively easy. The install issues: Requires beecrypt (CMMI) RPM is basically CMMI, but needs --without-selinux for LFS The install puts

Re: Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 04/21/08 19:37 CST: > It's not me you need to convince, but the other LFS users. Our man > utility supports compressed pages, and people seem to want this > functionality. I'm just trying to keep the script maintained while > fixing obvious bugs in it. Well, per

Re: Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 04/21/08 18:37 CST: > >> Today I finally spent some time addressing a few patches people have > >> sent in about compressdoc and some other bugs I noticed along

Re: Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 04/21/08 18:37 CST: >> Today I finally spent some time addressing a few patches people have >> sent in about compressdoc and some other bugs I noticed along the way. > > I appreciate your efforts, though I sort of look at repairing the > c

Re: Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 04/21/08 18:37 CST: > Today I finally spent some time addressing a few patches people have > sent in about compressdoc and some other bugs I noticed along the way. I appreciate your efforts, though I sort of look at repairing the compressdoc script akin to fixing

Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
Today I finally spent some time addressing a few patches people have sent in about compressdoc and some other bugs I noticed along the way. Here's the current copy: http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/files/BLFS/svn/compressdoc This has the automatic compression that Lars sent in a long time ago,

My editing status

2008-04-21 Thread David Jensen
Hi all, I don't want to resign, however I currently do not have ssh available and may lose internet access for a time. I have Mpg123 assigned to me, they are at 1.4 and climbing, I will not be updating it. Someone should reassign it, I cannot. I hope to be active one day soon! --- David Jense

Audio File-0.2.6

2008-04-21 Thread David Jensen
Audio File-0.2.6 should have it's m4 fixed, the distros patch it. averting this warning on every invocation of aclocal: warning: underquoted definition of AM_PATH_AUDIOFILE run info '(automake)Extending aclocal' or see blah ... this sed could be prepended to the instructions: sed -

Re: BLFS 6.3 outstanding tickets

2008-04-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:45:14AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > There are a few unclaimed 6.3 tickets that we need to address: > > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2479 : goffice > > Reported by Ken > Thanks for the reminder - I've moved it to "future". ĸen -- das eine Mal als Trag

BLFS 6.3 outstanding tickets

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
There are a few unclaimed 6.3 tickets that we need to address: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2065 : Sane UDEV Looks like this one should be handled by Randy or Alexander - http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2395 : /etc/X11/ http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/t