Re: `backticks` or $(command) syntax

Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I also note, not that it means much, that the backquote form is easier > to type for lazy typists. :) The backquote is 2 keystrokes. The $() > for is six, counting the shift key three times. Depends on your keyboard settings. I need six keystrokes for the backtick form as we

Comments on Trac ticket mails

I noticed two things in the many mails I'm receiving from the Trac ticket system: 1. The subject lines always start with the full project name in square brackets and the ticket number. Example subject: "[Linux From Scratch] #1715: bash-3.1.010". This is unfortunate, because when the subject can't

Date format in Trac

Hello, can the dates shown by Trac be modified so that they use another format, preferably -MM-DD? Example: On http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/1791>, in the Change History section, you can read: > 02/01/06 11:36:05: Modified by [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm confused by this date format,

Re: OpenSSH 4.3p1 released

Tim van der Molen wrote: > OpenSSH 4.3p1 has recently been released. Besides several bug fixes one > security bug has been addressed. The announcement is available at > . This is BLFS ticket #1791 http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.

Tool to generate BLFS dependency graph

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello! I wrote a small program that allows you to get a graphical representation of the BLFS dependencies. (In fact, that's why I asked how I could produce a working huge flattened XML file containing the BLFS book; thanks to Manuel for the help.

Re: BLFS-XML: internal subsets and XIncludes

M.Canales.es wrote: [...] > To fix this bug all entities found in Xincluded files must be replaced by > their values in the output, and that, for the BLFS sources, is equivalent to > tell to xmllint that must to replace all entities in the output using: > > $ xmllint --nonet --xinclude --noent

Re: BLFS-XML: internal subsets and XIncludes

Hi! I'm having a problem with the BLFS XML sources and xmllint. I wrote on blfs-support about 22.5 hours ago: > I'm taking this to -support first, because I don't know whether this is > my fault or whether xmllint is behaving wrongly. Hmm ... no replies? Perhaps I should better post this to -de

Re: gnome-doc-utils does not need --localstatedir

Andrew Benton wrote: > Nico R. wrote: > >> The gnome-doc-utils package does not require the --localstatedir >> configure parameter (anymore). >> According to the ChangeLog, the change was made on 2004-11-21. >> >> Current instructions cause no harm, but I su

gnome-doc-utils does not need --localstatedir

The gnome-doc-utils package does not require the --localstatedir configure parameter (anymore). According to the ChangeLog, the change was made on 2004-11-21. Current instructions cause no harm, but I suggest dropping the switch. -- Nico signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: Packages that don't work in UTF-8 locales

Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: a2ps-4.13b, Enscript-1.6.4: no way to say that the input file is in UTF-8 encoding. gnome-u2ps could help, but it is not have as many options as a2ps, AFAIK. -- Nico signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listi

Re: install program exits with error on GTK+-2.8.9 docs installation

Randy McMurchy wrote: Nico R. wrote these words on 12/23/05 17:47 CST: Can somebody please confirm this (as I was trying this on a system which is not strictly as per the books)? Confirmed. Sorry about that. What is odd though, is that on my system it doesn't fail the command. It

install program exits with error on GTK+-2.8.9 docs installation

The GTK+-2.8.9 installation instructions seem to be buggy: the command > install -v -m644 docs/faq/html/* /usr/share/doc/gtk+-2.8.9/faq fails with > install: omitting directory `docs/faq/html/stylesheet-images' and exitcode 1. Same for the next command: > install -v -m644 docs/tutorial/html/* \ >