Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-18 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote:
 BTW, I have no 64-bit PC.
   

This is no longer true. Now I have a system with Intel BLKDG965SSCK 
motherboard, Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 CPU, and 2 GB or RAM. My first task 
is to fix the LiveCD so that it works well on this computer (this means 
updating the kernel).

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-16 Thread Bryan Kadzban
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Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
 As far as a native x86_64 build is concerned, I think that would be a
  good candidate for 7.0.

Agreed.  Personally, I'd like to see multilib support (since there is
only a 32-bit zsnes, and I do use the Flash plugin from time to time in
FF also (but note: not enough to get rid of the flashblock extension, of
course)).  However, I have a feeling that multilib would be harder to
support than pure64.

 And the LiveCD could be useful for that end, as well, since these
 days it comes with the option to boot a 64-bit kernel.

While that is true, and the LiveCD works great to run 64-bit stuff
inside a chroot, the CD does not come with a 64-bit userspace.  (So you
can't run 64-bit binaries outside a chroot.)  To build a pure64 system,
you'd therefore have to cross-compile, and I'm not sure we want to do
that in the book (since it's what CLFS is for).

OTOH, adding an entire 64-bit userspace to the livecd probably won't
work either.

Possibly the only solution would be a separate 64-bit livecd, but that's
a bunch more work for the maintainers (and may not even be possible for
them to build, I don't know).  :-(
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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
 Hmmm... Looking at the livecd repo, I'm seeing that Alexander has 
 included a 64-bit gcc and binutils. So a step in that direction has 
 already been taken.

They are cross-tools, and are installed in /tools (and thus, they don't 
appear on the real CD). Also, gcc is just bare bones good enough only for 
the kernel. Maybe patching gcc in Chapter 6 like Debian does (so that gcc is 
32-bit by default, but produces 64-bit code with -m64) is a better solution 
- but I have not tried to build this.

BTW, I have no 64-bit PC.

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-15 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/14/07, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 07/14/07 12:52 CST:

  It's their stable branch which contains many backported bug fixes and
  they're not producing any more releases. Is it better to use a known
  buggy glibc-2.5? If glibc-2.5.1 was imminent, I'd say wait, but recent
  history would suggest it's not likely.

 I'm just mentioning it, doesn't really matter to me. However I'm
 curious about something else. These branch update patches are huge,
 these are all bug fixes? There's no enhancements in these patches?
 I'm asking because I don't know the answer, but it would be nice to
 know.

As far as I know, yes. But I'd be implying a lot more knowledge of
glibc internals than I have if I tried to claim that. You can see all
the changes here:

http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/ChangeLog?cvsroot=glibconly_with_tag=glibc-2_5-branch

This is also what would become glibc-2.5.1 if it's released.

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-15 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dan Nicholson wrote:
 I think most of the issues brought up in this thread have been
 addressed. I'd like to see if glibc-2.5.1 will happen, but we can
 certainly just use the latest branch_update patch. The LiveCD is still
 kind of up in the air, but I think most of the big concerns have been
 addressed, and now Jeremy is back on the prowl helping out.

Too many things to respond to in this thread... Since I'm mentioned 
here, seems a good place to reply.

Being a little out of the loop these days, I'm not really in much of a 
position to speak about what things need to be done to get 6.3 ready. 
Still, it's my opinion that we should get a release out sooner rather 
than later. I'll help out wherever there's a need...

As far as a native x86_64 build is concerned, I think that would be a 
good candidate for 7.0. It really shouldn't be that big of a deal to 
make generic commands that work for both native builds - there would be 
a handful of commands specific to whichever platform you're building, 
but most would be the same. And the LiveCD could be useful for that end, 
as well, since these days it comes with the option to boot a 64-bit kernel.

Just making some noise and pitching in my half a cent or so. ;)

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-14 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/8/07, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 So, I think it's about time we start pushing out a 6.3 release. What
 do you guys think? Here are the outstanding issues I can think of.

Matthew, ping? Any thoughts on this?

I think most of the issues brought up in this thread have been
addressed. I'd like to see if glibc-2.5.1 will happen, but we can
certainly just use the latest branch_update patch. The LiveCD is still
kind of up in the air, but I think most of the big concerns have been
addressed, and now Jeremy is back on the prowl helping out.

Would it help to have someone else handle the release? I'm pretty tied
up until August, but could probably play a bigger role then.

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 07/14/07 10:34 CST:

 I think most of the issues brought up in this thread have been
 addressed. I'd like to see if glibc-2.5.1 will happen, but we can
 certainly just use the latest branch_update patch.

Just out of curiosity, why are we continually updating the Glibc
patch?  After this branch_update 3 patch, Glibc probably isn't even
close to a stable release any more. Doesn't this sort of go against
a long-standing policy?

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-07-14 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 07/14/07 12:52 CST:

 It's their stable branch which contains many backported bug fixes and
 they're not producing any more releases. Is it better to use a known
 buggy glibc-2.5? If glibc-2.5.1 was imminent, I'd say wait, but recent
 history would suggest it's not likely.

I'm just mentioning it, doesn't really matter to me. However I'm
curious about something else. These branch update patches are huge,
these are all bug fixes? There's no enhancements in these patches?
I'm asking because I don't know the answer, but it would be nice to
know.

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote:
 So, what are the major bugs?

1) Unclear status of wireless network support. The CD doesn't contain 
wpa-supplicant and doesn't have firmware for most wireless network cards 
(even though we qualify as ISV and thus can redistribute ipw firmware). 
However, I can't test this because I don't have a wireless card.

2) Incorrect contents of /etc/issue with the toram boot option. The 
sources are intentionally not copied to RAM (so that one can use toram on 
a 512M box), but the message still says they are available in /lfs-sources. 
Since it is easy to add generation of the no-sources ISO, we may want to 
cover this case, too.

3) Undocumented initramfs boot options. Maybe we should document things like 
noapic pci=noacpi, too.

4) It is necessary to add back the reiser4 and loop-aes kernel patches once 
the kernel version in LFS stabilizes.

5) I have updated the packages blindly too frequently. Many of them are 
simply untested. Someone should go through _all_ of them and attempt to make 
sure that the basic functionality is there.

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote:
 1) Unclear status of wireless network support. The CD doesn't contain 
 wpa-supplicant and doesn't have firmware for most wireless network cards 
 (even though we qualify as ISV and thus can redistribute ipw firmware). 
 However, I can't test this because I don't have a wireless card.
 
 2) Incorrect contents of /etc/issue with the toram boot option. The 
 sources are intentionally not copied to RAM (so that one can use toram on 
 a 512M box), but the message still says they are available in /lfs-sources. 
 Since it is easy to add generation of the no-sources ISO, we may want to 
 cover this case, too.
 
 3) Undocumented initramfs boot options. Maybe we should document things like 
 noapic pci=noacpi, too.
 
 4) It is necessary to add back the reiser4 and loop-aes kernel patches once 
 the kernel version in LFS stabilizes.
 
 5) I have updated the packages blindly too frequently. Many of them are 
 simply untested. Someone should go through _all_ of them and attempt to make 
 sure that the basic functionality is there.

6) In Japanese locales, fontconfig chooses the wrong default font (AR PL New 
Sung, while it should use Kochi fonts)

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
I want to just say out front what my opinion of the LiveCD is before I
respond to individual points. The most important task of the livecd is
to provide a host with a known working kernel and toolchain to allow
people to build *LFS. Next, it should provide tools that allow the
*LFS support channels to be reached. Everything else is a bonus and
should not determine whether a livecd release is made. IMO.

On 6/11/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I wrote:
  1) Unclear status of wireless network support. The CD doesn't contain
  wpa-supplicant and doesn't have firmware for most wireless network cards
  (even though we qualify as ISV and thus can redistribute ipw firmware).
  However, I can't test this because I don't have a wireless card.

I'd say don't bother. We don't even have a working wireless setup in
BLFS. I don't think it's asking people too much to plug in an ethernet
cable if they want to use the livecd. This would be a great feature,
but it shouldn't stop a release from being made.

  2) Incorrect contents of /etc/issue with the toram boot option. The
  sources are intentionally not copied to RAM (so that one can use toram on
  a 512M box), but the message still says they are available in /lfs-sources.
  Since it is easy to add generation of the no-sources ISO, we may want to
  cover this case, too.

If you're using the toram option, you must remount the CD to use the
package tarballs in /lfs-sources.

I don't know if that's all that's correct. I didn't investigate when I
was using toram yesterday.

  3) Undocumented initramfs boot options. Maybe we should document things like
  noapic pci=noacpi, too.

That'd be nice. Is it possible to add more documentation pages to
isolinux? We could add options2.msg and add F2 options2.msg to
isolinux.cfg, right?

  4) It is necessary to add back the reiser4 and loop-aes kernel patches once
  the kernel version in LFS stabilizes.

I suppose. I don't consider that high priority at all. If you're
depending on functionality that's not in the mainline kernel, then
it's a huge bonus if anyone supports you out of the box.

  5) I have updated the packages blindly too frequently. Many of them are
  simply untested. Someone should go through _all_ of them and attempt to make
  sure that the basic functionality is there.

Well, LFS-6.3 will put a test to that. It's not a problem if bugs are
found and a -2 release needs to be made. It seemed to work fine for
me, although I didn't do too much. Like I said above, the main two
tasks for me are the toolchain and the support tools. I hope the
toolchain is fine or LFS is in trouble, too. I played with seamonkey
and pidgin briefly. My network was setup fine out of the box, and I
was able to jump right onto the internet and irc. So, from my end, it
was working fine.

The only package I saw that I thought was borderline was
xf86-video-intel-2.0.0. You and I both read the xorg mailing list and
know that it's not stable yet. If you're curious, the G965 is
supported just fine in xf86-video-i180-1.7.4. I've been using it for
months. It doesn't have all the fancy functionality of intel-2.0.0
(but neither does the livecd since it's using libXrandr-1.1.2), but
it's working fine. What was the reason for updating to 2.0.0?

 6) In Japanese locales, fontconfig chooses the wrong default font (AR PL New
 Sung, while it should use Kochi fonts)

Is there any way to change this in fonts.conf? It looks like you're
adding configuration for firefly, but not for kochi.

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote:

 If you're using the toram option, you must remount the CD to use the
 package tarballs in /lfs-sources.
 
 I don't know if that's all that's correct. I didn't investigate when I
 was using toram yesterday.

Now we have an additional variable: the -nosrc CD, which doesn't contain 
sources, but must contain the same /etc/issue file, because root.ext2 is the 
same. If we don't find a wording that covers all three cases, I will have to 
generate /etc/issue during boot. Anyway, the /lfs-sources symlink should be 
removed during boot if it is dangling, so a script (or part of initramfs 
/init) is needed anyway.

 3) Undocumented initramfs boot options. Maybe we should document things like
 noapic pci=noacpi, too.
 
 That'd be nice. Is it possible to add more documentation pages to
 isolinux? We could add options2.msg and add F2 options2.msg to
 isolinux.cfg, right?

Yes.

 The only package I saw that I thought was borderline was
 xf86-video-intel-2.0.0. You and I both read the xorg mailing list and
 know that it's not stable yet. If you're curious, the G965 is
 supported just fine in xf86-video-i180-1.7.4. I've been using it for
 months. It doesn't have all the fancy functionality of intel-2.0.0
 (but neither does the livecd since it's using libXrandr-1.1.2), but
 it's working fine. What was the reason for updating to 2.0.0?

Ability to set modes that the monitor prefers (e.g., native resolution on 
LCD monitors). According to forums, 915resolution is not too reliable (e.g., 
Xorg and the monitor disagree upon the synchronization frequencies). 
However, now I am not sure whether xf86-video-intel-2.0.0 is really better. 
Anyway, it supports more hardware (new: i965GM, found in laptops).

 6) In Japanese locales, fontconfig chooses the wrong default font (AR PL New
 Sung, while it should use Kochi fonts)
 
 Is there any way to change this in fonts.conf? It looks like you're
 adding configuration for firefly, but not for kochi.

Ignore this. It was a panic from my side after seeing non-antialiased fonts, 
not a real bug. Kochi fonts are known to fontconfig out of the box, but AR 
PL New Sung isn't.

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/11/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dan Nicholson wrote:

  If you're using the toram option, you must remount the CD to use the
  package tarballs in /lfs-sources.
 
  I don't know if that's all that's correct. I didn't investigate when I
  was using toram yesterday.

 Now we have an additional variable: the -nosrc CD, which doesn't contain
 sources, but must contain the same /etc/issue file, because root.ext2 is the
 same. If we don't find a wording that covers all three cases, I will have to
 generate /etc/issue during boot. Anyway, the /lfs-sources symlink should be
 removed during boot if it is dangling, so a script (or part of initramfs
 /init) is needed anyway.

I think that generated would be the best since I can't think of any
words that aren't convoluted. What about something like this in
intramfs/init.in (wording to be improved, of course):

toram=0
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ # This would be 0 or 1 as substituted by the Makefile

...

case ${toram}${nosrc} in
00) cat  /.root/etc/issue  EOF # or however you would access it
from the initramfs
Find the sources in /lfs-sources
EOF
;;
*1) ;; # No sources, so don't bother saying anything?
10) cat  /.root/etc/issue  EOF
Since you are using the toram option, you must remount the CD to
find the sources for the LFS packages.
EOF
;;
esac

  3) Undocumented initramfs boot options. Maybe we should document things 
  like
  noapic pci=noacpi, too.
 
  That'd be nice. Is it possible to add more documentation pages to
  isolinux? We could add options2.msg and add F2 options2.msg to
  isolinux.cfg, right?

 Yes.

I don't know all the options, but I'll play with this a bit.

  The only package I saw that I thought was borderline was
  xf86-video-intel-2.0.0. You and I both read the xorg mailing list and
  know that it's not stable yet. If you're curious, the G965 is
  supported just fine in xf86-video-i180-1.7.4. I've been using it for
  months. It doesn't have all the fancy functionality of intel-2.0.0
  (but neither does the livecd since it's using libXrandr-1.1.2), but
  it's working fine. What was the reason for updating to 2.0.0?

 Ability to set modes that the monitor prefers (e.g., native resolution on
 LCD monitors). According to forums, 915resolution is not too reliable (e.g.,
 Xorg and the monitor disagree upon the synchronization frequencies).
 However, now I am not sure whether xf86-video-intel-2.0.0 is really better.
 Anyway, it supports more hardware (new: i965GM, found in laptops).

I forgot about the 915resolution package. Things have always just
worked for me. Well, until it breaks something, I say keep it in. I
don't think anyone's going to try any xrandr'ing from a livecd,
anyway.

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/8/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Dan Nicholson wrote:
  Anything else?

 LiveCD. I simply have no possibility to fix all known bugs, so LFS 6.3 has
 to be released without the CD and should not mention it at all.

OK. I think this should be top priority because we need to figure out
a long term solution anyway. I've subscribed to the livecd list. I
tried out that snapshot you told me about, r1930. It worked fine on my
Lenovo x60 laptop. I haven't tried my G965 system yet, but will today.
Looks very nice, Alexander.

I tried linux pata. It worked 3/4 times with pata_piix. The one time
it failed was just a race to get the device up. You may want to check
out the initramfs setup that Fedora is using with David Zeuthen's
livecd-tools. The root setup seems to be fairly robust. There's some
Fedora specific stuff in there, but the main init script is pretty
nice. I haven't checked out your changes for the livecd initramfs
setup yet.

http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=users/david/livecd-tools.git;a=blob;hb=HEAD;f=creator/mayflower

So, what are the major bugs? We can take the conversation to the
livecd list if you'd prefer.

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-09 Thread lists
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
 Dan Nicholson wrote:
 Anything else?
 
 LiveCD. I simply have no possibility to fix all known bugs, so LFS 6.3 has 
 to be released without the CD and should not mention it at all.
 
My own issue with the livecd on the inspiron is actually the hardware,
not your efforts.
The only reliable version is a set of install discs from around the time
the inspiron was new hardware, everything else just fails.
[ *buntu, slak, gentoo, *noppix, debian, even RH 5 through 9 fail. ]
So that is my own issue not a livecd issue.
both my other systems I haven't hit any bugs on, with the patch for the
sis 900 chipset r1904 disc.


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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-09 Thread M.Canales.es
El Viernes, 8 de Junio de 2007 23:23, Dan Nicholson escribió:
 So, I think it's about time we start pushing out a 6.3 release. What
 do you guys think? 

IMHO, just update to the packages listed now on Trac (except, of course, the 
toolchain ones), and do package freezing to release 6.3 very soon.

Toolchain update, bootloader(s) update, and the other remaining open bugs may 
meant to start working on 7.x LFS series.

  * Docbook XML/XSL changes: Manuel, how's that coming along? I haven't
 really been paying attention to this lately.

The DocBook-XSL-1.72.1 release timeframe is a unknow variable. I asked some 
days ago to Bob Stayton about that without answers for now.

Due that 1.72.0 was the first testing release including native support for 
DB-XML-5.0-rcX, I suposse that he might be waiting the final DB-XML-5.0 
release to release the acompaning XSL stable release.

If that DB-XSL release is not done at time for LFS-6.3, we must release the 
book with the current stylesheets or, if really wanted to use the new code, 
to port the full nex-xml branch, included the docbook-xsl-snapshot files (or 
even create our own LFS-XSL tarball).

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Prior
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
 LiveCD. I simply have no possibility to fix all known bugs, so LFS 6.3 has 
 to be released without the CD and should not mention it at all.
 

I would see nothing wrong with using a LiveCD with is running an older 
version of LFS, but simply has the latest 6.3 sources from which to 
build the real LFS box.  While it's nice for the two to be in the same 
ballpark, there's nothing that says the LiveCD needs to be running 6.3, 
just that it should be sufficient to build 6.3.

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Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
So, I think it's about time we start pushing out a 6.3 release. What
do you guys think? Here are the outstanding issues I can think of.

* Linux-2.6.21: Yesterday I read this blog post from the Fedora kernel
maintainer,
  Dave Jones:

   http://kernelslacker.livejournal.com/79957.html

   Doesn't exactly make 2.6.21 sound like the appealing kernel to base
our stable
   release on. I'm not the expert here, but it may be better to wait
for 2.6.22. Food
   for thought, anyway.

 * Docbook XML/XSL changes: Manuel, how's that coming along? I haven't really
   been paying attention to this lately.

 * Udev rules: Alexander has posted in a couple other places that we have broken
   rules for DVB and floppy device setup. Alexander/Bryan, could you
guys look at
   our ruleset and make sure they do everything we want them to?

 * Bootscripts: There are a couple changes that I'd like to get in.
Nothing critical.
   I'll have a separate post on that.

Anything else?

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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-08 Thread Bryan Kadzban
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Dan Nicholson wrote:
 * Udev rules: Alexander has posted in a couple other places that we
 have broken rules for DVB and floppy device setup. Alexander/Bryan,
 could you guys look at our ruleset and make sure they do everything
 we want them to?

Well, I just yanked the applicable SuSE rules, modified them a bit to
fit our group names, and stuffed them into 25-lfs.rules.  See r8152.
Alexander, I'm assuming that should work better?

(We may need to change those rules if we update udev though.  -112 is
out now.)

 * Bootscripts: There are a couple changes that I'd like to get in. 
 Nothing critical. I'll have a separate post on that.

If that includes your post from here:

http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-April/059308.html

on modifying the console logging level, I'm all for it.  Or that part of
it, at least.  :-)
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Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote:
 Anything else?

LiveCD. I simply have no possibility to fix all known bugs, so LFS 6.3 has 
to be released without the CD and should not mention it at all.

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