Measuring usage (was: Temporarily remove Courier from BLFS?)

2005-07-29 Thread TheOldFellow
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >>DJ Lucas wrote these words on 07/29/05 21:55 CST: >> > OK. I'm going to take it out until there is an interest in it. There > have been only seven messages in blfs-support this year. The interest > is weak and no one wants to bother with it. F

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread DJ Lucas
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> I have 4 or 5 SBLive! cards (all identical)...lets see >> what happens. Never had more than 2 in a single PC before. :-) > > > For me to remove the FIXME, it would be sufficient to post > /etc/asound.state after setting different volumes on t

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread DJ Lucas
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> I have 4 or 5 SBLive! cards (all identical)...lets see >> what happens. Never had more than 2 in a single PC before. :-) > > > For me to remove the FIXME, it would be sufficient to post > /etc/asound.state after setting different volumes on t

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: I have 4 or 5 SBLive! cards (all identical)...lets see what happens. Never had more than 2 in a single PC before. :-) For me to remove the FIXME, it would be sufficient to post /etc/asound.state after setting different volumes on two identical cards and "alsactl store". -

Re: Temporarily remove Courier from BLFS?

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote these words on 07/29/05 21:55 CST: > > >>I have no preference. I had seen the 6.2 target and unassigned myself >>till after release. I'll update it for 6.1 if it's deemed important >>enough, else comment it out and we'll get it ready for readmission in 6.2

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread DJ Lucas
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> >> need to mention that if more than one sound card is >> installed that you'll need to adjust the dev.d script and directory. > > > No need to adjust the script if you replace "alsactl restore 0" with: > > DEV_BASENAME="${DEVNAME##*/}" > case "

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: No..it is not their problem. It is definately a distro problem. Even if they supply the example dev.d script? udev-064/etc/dev.d/snd/controlC0/alsa.dev: #!/bin/sh -e exec /usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0 IMHO a bug in the upstream examp

Re: Temporarily remove Courier from BLFS?

2005-07-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 07/29/05 21:55 CST: > I have no preference. I had seen the 6.2 target and unassigned myself > till after release. I'll update it for 6.1 if it's deemed important > enough, else comment it out and we'll get it ready for readmission in 6.2. My point is that the curre

Re: Temporarily remove Courier from BLFS?

2005-07-29 Thread DJ Lucas
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > I am recommending to temporarily remove Courier from the BLFS book > until after 6.1 is released. > > BLFS should not release such an old package (7 revs behind and almost > a year has gone by since BLFS has updated Courier). This is > deplorable. > > The reas

Temporarily remove Courier from BLFS?

2005-07-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I am recommending to temporarily remove Courier from the BLFS book until after 6.1 is released. BLFS should not release such an old package (7 revs behind and almost a year has gone by since BLFS has updated Courier). This is deplorable. The reason being is that recent versions have an e

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread DJ Lucas
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > > >>No..it is not their problem. It is definately a distro problem. > > > Even if they supply the example dev.d script? > > udev-064/etc/dev.d/snd/controlC0/alsa.dev: > > #!/bin/sh -e > exec /usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0 > > IMHO a bug in the u

Re: Exim

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > >>Not to mention that the man page says that increasing the fuzz >>factor can result in a faulty patch. My feeling is that using the >>-F flag is encouraging readers to do something which should really >>be discouraged. >> > > I

Re: Exim

2005-07-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Not to mention that the man page says that increasing the fuzz > factor can result in a faulty patch. My feeling is that using the > -F flag is encouraging readers to do something which should really > be discouraged. > Indeed. If you have to increa

Re: Exim

2005-07-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/29/05 16:57 CST: > I'm undecided how to handle this. Using the -F option to patch is > educational and means we don't need to change the patch at all. OTOH, a > regenerated patch would apply cleanly but would mean more work. > > I'm inclined to use the -F opt

Exim

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm looking at the update to exim and the Berkeley patch still seems to be relevant. The problem is that the locations have changed slightly. When I do an ordinary patch, I get: $ patch -Np1 -i ../exim-4.43-db43-1.patch patching file src/exim_dbmbuild.c Hunk #1 FAILED at 60. 1 out of 1 hunk FAILE

Bug 1485

2005-07-29 Thread Ken Moffat
Guys, can I propose upgrading midnight commander to the recently-released 4.6.1 before the 6.1 release ? This fixes a number of vulnerabilities in 4.6.0 (filed with details as bug 1485). Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listin

Re: ImageMagick "make check"

2005-07-29 Thread David Jensen
grrrlgeek wrote: Hi all, In Chapter 10 of BLFS svn-20050728, the installation instructions for ImageMagick say to run make check after make. In the ImageMagick instructions on advanced-unix-source-installation.html, it says that the make check should only be issued after make install. It ba

ImageMagick "make check"

2005-07-29 Thread grrrlgeek
Hi all, In Chapter 10 of BLFS svn-20050728, the installation instructions for ImageMagick say to run make check after make.  In the ImageMagick instructions on advanced-unix-source-installation.html, it says that the make check should only be issued after make install.  It barfs spectacularl

Re: Speling

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
David Jensen wrote: > David Jensen wrote: > >> I'll start on 'h'. > > > > Done with 'h and i'. Should I commit? > Sure. > > > collect and historize performance and activity data. > > 'historize' makes me cringe, but it is in the dictionary. Maybe just > 'record'? LOL. historize \His"

Re: Upcoming package freeze

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
TheOldFellow wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote: > > I'm asking about fcron. I'm ready to commit it now. OK. Go ahead. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Upcoming package freeze

2005-07-29 Thread TheOldFellow
Richard A Downing wrote: > > I'd like to add fcron-2.9.7 (Bug#1482) because I'm updating the text to > fix bug#1472, and it has a fix for a nasty (fcron) mailing bug. > > I have tested it anyway. > > Richard. Bruce, You didn't rule on this, just on Mozilla. I'm asking about fcron. I'm ready

Re: Speling

2005-07-29 Thread David Jensen
David Jensen wrote: I'll start on 'h'. Done with 'h and i'. Should I commit? collect and historize performance and activity data. 'historize' makes me cringe, but it is in the dictionary. Maybe just 'record'? -- David Jensen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev

Re: Speling

2005-07-29 Thread David Jensen
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Just for grins, I did: find -name \*.xml -exec cat {} \; | ispell -H -l|sort|uniq Do you think we might have a specialized vocabulary? :) It's not hard to find the problem words. Just do: grep -r "misspel" * It's taking a while to fix the spelling errors. I've gone thr

Speling

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Just for grins, I did: find -name \*.xml -exec cat {} \; | ispell -H -l|sort|uniq Do you think we might have a specialized vocabulary? :) It's not hard to find the problem words. Just do: grep -r "misspel" * It's taking a while to fix the spelling errors. I've gone through the b's, but if s

Re: Upcoming package freeze

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
David Jensen wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> 1459 Mozilla >> >> > See my comments: > > http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459 > > Mail is buggy here. If it is not a security update, lets ignore it I > downgraded because it is too annoying. I missed that comment. Changi

Re: Upcoming package freeze

2005-07-29 Thread David Jensen
Bruce Dubbs wrote: 1459 Mozilla See my comments: http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459 Mail is buggy here. If it is not a security update, lets ignore it I downgraded because it is too annoying. -- David Jensen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs

Re: New BLFS Editor

2005-07-29 Thread M.Canales.es
El Jueves, 28 de Julio de 2005 19:02, Bruce Dubbs escribió: > Please help me in welcoming Richard Downing (aka TheOldFellow) as a new > BLFS Editor. Richard has been contributing to the lists since 2002 and > will be a valuable asset to the BLFS Team. Welcome on-board, Richard :-) -- Manuel Ca

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: > No..it is not their problem. It is definately a distro problem. Even if they supply the example dev.d script? udev-064/etc/dev.d/snd/controlC0/alsa.dev: #!/bin/sh -e exec /usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0 IMHO a bug in the upstream example (that we would use otherwise without much

Re: Upcoming package freeze

2005-07-29 Thread Richard A Downing
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >>Just a heads up. >> >> I will be going through BZ again tonight and re-examining the >>outstanding bugs for the 6.1 release. When that is done, I anticipate a >>package/bug freeze sometime tomorrow. After that, the only non-targeted >>changes should b