2008/3/7, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Robert Daniels has accepted a position as
> a BLFS editor. Robert has been quite involved recently and has submitted
> many patches to update the book. Robert has shown a keen technical ability
> with the b
2008/3/7, Ag. D. Hatzimanikas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> The gentoo guys applies a patch that fixes the UTF-8 issues in text mode.
>
> Alexander can you have a look on this?
I am currently at work, and cannot test this. I will certainly look at
this when I return home.
--
Alexander E. Patrakov
--
On Thu, Mar 06, at 04:23 Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Thomas Trepl has accepted a position as
> a BLFS editor. Thomas has been quite involved recently and has submitted
> many patches to update the book. Thomas also shows a keen technical ability
> with the book
On Thu, Mar 06, at 01:23 Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Robert Daniels has accepted a position as
> a BLFS editor. Robert has been quite involved recently and has submitted
> many patches to update the book. Robert has shown a keen technical ability
> with the boo
On Thu, Mar 06, at 09:40 Randy McMurchy wrote:
>
> > and Links (wish by Randy if
> > an agreement with Ag cannot be reached, see #2276 and the recent
> > discussion on blfs-dev).
>
> There's an open ticket on this one, so it will be addressed one
> way or another.
>
The gentoo guys applies a pat
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> I did use it for network shares. When a user logs on, the home
>> directory is mounted. I left that organization and don't in fact use it
>> myself any more. I do have access to another system that does use it.
>
> Very interesting. So, we
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I did use it for network shares. When a user logs on, the home
> directory is mounted. I left that organization and don't in fact use it
> myself any more. I do have access to another system that does use it.
Very interesting. So, we have two very different use cases:
*
Randy McMurchy wrote:
>
>> I also _suggested_ that we branch tomorrow!
>
> I'm hesitant to branch right now as I'd like focus to be on a
> 6.3 release. After the timeline is approved, then we can branch.
>
That particular comment was a poke of fun, as in "I can't believe I
suggested that!" T
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Thomas Trepl has accepted a position as
> a BLFS editor. Thomas has been quite involved recently and has submitted
> many patches to update the book. Thomas also shows a keen technical ability
> with the book's packages and the XML a
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that Thomas Trepl has accepted a position as
a BLFS editor. Thomas has been quite involved recently and has submitted
many patches to update the book. Thomas also shows a keen technical ability
with the book's packages and the XML along with a high level of
enthusia
On Thursday 06 March 2008 15:04:10 Randy McMurchy wrote:
>
> Run make check before make install (as the book suggests :-) )
> and there are no issues.
>
I see. I had a complete system built so I could easily script all of
KDE and install into destdirs to get build time and size information.
Never
Am Donnerstag, 6. März 2008 20:23:01 schrieb Randy McMurchy:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Robert Daniels has accepted a position as
> a BLFS editor.
>...
> Please welcome Ken Moffat and Chris Staub as new BLFS editors.
>
Hey, congratulations to you three!
--
Thomas
--
http://lin
Hi,
here's an updated patch on the portmap page. I did some wording fixes
(suggested by Randy) and removed obsolete additional downloads.
--
Thomas
Index: basicnet/netprogs/portmap.xml
===
--- basicnet/netprogs/portmap.xml (Revisio
Robert Daniels wrote these words on 03/05/08 05:13 CST:
> Right now I'm running into a test failure that I haven't been able to
> work around (someone has reported this upstream, but no response yet.
> See https://bugs.g10code.com/gnupg/issue878 ). The failure is in test
> sm-sign+verify, and
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:49 AM, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Nathan Coulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Was just trying this package out, and I noticed it appeared to have
> > more runtime optional dependencies then were listed on the page.
> >
>
On Thursday 06 March 2008 13:23:01 Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm pleased to announce that Robert Daniels has accepted a position
> as a BLFS editor. Robert has been quite involved recently and has
> submitted many patches to update the book. Robert has shown a keen
> technical ability wit
Robert Daniels wrote these words on 03/06/08 14:24 CST:
> On Thursday 06 March 2008 12:40:08 Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>
>> --
>> Dan
Please consider trimming the bottom (or any unnecessary text for that
matter) from quoted material. Thanks!
--
Randy
rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.22] [GNU ld version 2.16
On Thursday 06 March 2008 12:40:08 Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Robert Daniels
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > True. I knew that qt used rpath, but had no idea what it was
> > until I looked up for my previous reply. Interestingly, I was
> > already working around by
Hi all,
I'm pleased to announce that Robert Daniels has accepted a position as
a BLFS editor. Robert has been quite involved recently and has submitted
many patches to update the book. Robert has shown a keen technical ability
with the book's packages and the XML along with a high level of
enthusi
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Robert Daniels
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> True. I knew that qt used rpath, but had no idea what it was until I
> looked up for my previous reply. Interestingly, I was already working
> around by creating the installation directory and symlink before
> config
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 8:23 AM, Robert Daniels
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> True. I knew that qt used rpath, but had no idea what it was until I
> looked up for my previous reply. Interestingly, I was already working
> around by creating the installation directory and symlink before
> confi
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 9:34 AM, Randy McMurchy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/06/08 11:26 CST:
>
>
> > I don't recall all the details, but gettext-0.17 has added support for
> > parsing some sort of CSS file. To do this, it links with libcroco. In
> > LFS, the
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 03/06/08 10:39 CST:
> Yes, this place also is suitable for placing options that the editor uses.
> What's not done is:
>
> * marking the set of options in "Command Explanations" as "tested and known
> good",
It should be assumed that anything listed
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:35:58AM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Thomas Trepl wrote these words on 03/04/08 16:27 CST:
>
[...]
>
> A couple of things. Try to avoid using "we" in the book, there's
> really few times it is necessary. For example, instead of the above
> you could say "This uid is o
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 03/06/08 11:26 CST:
> I don't recall all the details, but gettext-0.17 has added support for
> parsing some sort of CSS file. To do this, it links with libcroco. In
> LFS, the bundled versions are used, but it'd be nice to have the
> system versions (of libcroco,
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:45 AM, Randy McMurchy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> David Jensen wrote these words on 03/03/08 09:53 CST:
>
>
> > Same versions here.
> > The difference likely being, I don't really have Gettext-0.17 installed,
> > thus the macros fail?
> >
> > At any rate, I think it s
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> I added the autofs package as an example of how to handle multiple users.
>> I'll go ahead and fix the page and take the tickets.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Just out of curiosity, what do you use the package for (floppy, cdrom, flash
> drives, network
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 02/27/08 09:15 CST:
>
>> (Yes, that's a request to change the policy about configuration options that
>> require optional packages, that's why I am cross-posting to blfs-dev. My
>> proposal is to list the options that the editor
On Thursday 06 March 2008 09:51:09 Sukucorp Sukucorp wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Robert Daniels
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 March 2008 16:34:10 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > > It is interesting to note that ldd finds the correct qt4
> > > libraries for binaries like a
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I added the autofs package as an example of how to handle multiple users.
> I'll go ahead and fix the page and take the tickets.
Thanks!
Just out of curiosity, what do you use the package for (floppy, cdrom, flash
drives, network shares, something other)?
--
Alexander E.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
>> As a first step, I propose to remove autofs, because it has four
>> tickets about its bad state, which confirm that the editors don't use
>> this package and can't maintain it:
>>
>> #2458 (about a woefully incorrect example and a missing
>> overview/comparison with HAL-ba
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 03/06/08 09:55 CST:
> As I have already said, please make sure that the book stays self-consistent.
> I.e., removing links due to UTF-8 issues and at the same time letting
> unpatched
> dillo stay, even though its issues are worse, is not consistent.
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 02/27/08 09:15 CST:
> (Yes, that's a request to change the policy about configuration options that
> require optional packages, that's why I am cross-posting to blfs-dev. My
> proposal is to list the options that the editor has used, and, below that, a
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 03/04/08 02:18 CST:
>> Then, remove Dillo (#2226 - dead upstream)
>
> How about a compromise on this one? We add a note saying that
> Dillo does not handle UTF properly, but leave it in the book
> for the 6.3 release.
>
>
>> and
On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:46 AM, Robert Daniels
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 05 March 2008 16:34:10 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >
> > It is interesting to note that ldd finds the correct qt4 libraries
> > for binaries like assistant, designer, qtdemo, etc even though
> > LD_LIBRARY_PATH is
David Jensen wrote these words on 03/03/08 09:53 CST:
> Same versions here.
> The difference likely being, I don't really have Gettext-0.17 installed,
> thus the macros fail?
>
> At any rate, I think it should be optionally be rebuilt in BLFS. That
> assumes we catch up to even 6.3.
I'm not f
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 03/04/08 01:20 CST:
> Is it time to branch and freeze yet or do we want to give it a couple
> more weeks to get the minor updates done? Maybe somebody will slip in
> some big updates too...who knows. I'm concerned that a couple more
> weeks, will become a couple mo
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote these words on 03/04/08 02:18 CST:
> IMHO, BLFS-6.3 has already missed the train and thus should not be
> released at all (of course, with an official announcement that there
> will be no release). Look: the LFS book says at
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/st
Thomas Trepl wrote these words on 03/04/08 16:27 CST:
> as promised, here two patches to upgrade portmap and nfsutils. The nfsutils
> patch is just a version upgrade, install command etc are all the same. Works
> fine for weeks here (both packages in the actual versions).
> The portmap thing is
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 9:27 PM, Nathan Coulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Was just trying this package out, and I noticed it appeared to have
> more runtime optional dependencies then were listed on the page.
>
> hal-device-manager wants pygtk (which wanted pygobject).
See the Run-Time Depende
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 16:34:10 Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> It is interesting to note that ldd finds the correct qt4 libraries
> for binaries like assistant, designer, qtdemo, etc even though
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not set and /etc/ld.so.conf has not been modified.
>
> -- Bruce
I believe this is be
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