Re: BLFS release (?)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> The real problem with it is, if we keep holding for every version >> increment, we'll never get 6.3 out the door. > > And do we really need to get 6.3 out of the door? Essentially, without an > errata > page, without the team tracking security i

Re: Anduin [was: Re: BLFS release]

2008-05-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: > Hi all, > > since I'm new to the editors group (or for any other reason) I may have > missed > something, so don't hit me too hard for the following question(s). > > It seems so that we need to update some directories (files in it) on anduin > in > case of a version upda

Re: BLFS release (?)

2008-05-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: > The real problem with it is, if we keep holding for every version > increment, we'll never get 6.3 out the door. And do we really need to get 6.3 out of the door? Essentially, without an errata page, without the team tracking security issues and bugs, it will be just a snapsh

Anduin [was: Re: BLFS release]

2008-05-08 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi all, since I'm new to the editors group (or for any other reason) I may have missed something, so don't hit me too hard for the following question(s). It seems so that we need to update some directories (files in it) on anduin in case of a version update, right? That dir is /srv/ftp/BLFS/..

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread DJ Lucas
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 05/07/08 06:37 CST: > >> Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/07/08 01:20 CST: >> >> >>> Is it time to do a freeze/rc1? >>> >> I'm off to work and will look at this, then publish something official >> this evening. >> >

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> The list of missing pakages is not much shorter. > > s/not/now/ Heh, funny how one letter makes a huge difference sometimes, eh? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubs

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The list of missing pakages is not much shorter. s/not/now/ -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > The list of missing pakages is not much shorter. I sent a message to Justin asking if he wants to collaborate using an automated system. Waiting to hear from him... -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/f

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > Sure. I started rsync manually. > > rsync -lprt --delete rsync.osuosl.org::blfs /srv/ftp/BLFS > > It is taking some time. I'll let you know what the results were. The list of missing pakages is not much shorter. -- Bruce Missing tripwire-2.4

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: > > Thanks for offering to help out, Jeremy. :-) > No problem. I'd have to re-familiarize myself with the BLFS source and anduin's configuration... Bruce, do I have privileges on anduin to do this sort of work? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 05/08/08 17:05 CST: > >> Man, I'm losing it. I'm going to check the archives right now to actually >> see what was said. I just thought *for sure* that is what I read. > > Well, turns out I'm sorta right, for whatever that is worth. :-)

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 05/08/08 17:15 CST: > There's got to be a way to do this automagically. Either via a cron job > or a post-commit hook. If you want, I can look into it for you. Probably for 95% of the packages, it could be done. A simple comparison of book versus repo, and us

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 05/08/08 17:05 CST: > Man, I'm losing it. I'm going to check the archives right now to actually > see what was said. I just thought *for sure* that is what I read. Well, turns out I'm sorta right, for whatever that is worth. :-) On April 1, Justin wrote in to

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/08/08 17:00 CST: > >> No. I disabled the rsync some time ago as the last time the master was >> updated >> was sometime in December. If Justin's server gets updated, I can easily >> re-enable the rsync. > > Well, I'll be darned. I t

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 05/08/08 17:05 CST: > >> At this point, why not just make anduin your master ftp server? > > The whole problem was that, as a whole, the BLFS editing team > failed to do what we were supposed to (make updates on Anduin > after updating

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 05/08/08 17:05 CST: > At this point, why not just make anduin your master ftp server? The whole problem was that, as a whole, the BLFS editing team failed to do what we were supposed to (make updates on Anduin after updating packages). I was the ringleader of

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/08/08 17:00 CST: > No. I disabled the rsync some time ago as the last time the master was > updated > was sometime in December. If Justin's server gets updated, I can easily > re-enable the rsync. Well, I'll be darned. I thought I read in the messages back

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > No. I disabled the rsync some time ago as the last time the master was > updated > was sometime in December. If Justin's server gets updated, I can easily > re-enable the rsync. At this point, why not just make anduin your master ftp server? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscr

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/08/08 16:39 CST: >> Randy McMurchy wrote: >> >>> Now I'm going to work on Justin to see if he is around so he'll >>> fix the main BLFS repo to have a 6.3 repo populated with all the >>> current SVN packages (as per the current SVN book), t

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 02:31:18PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > Ah, now I see why you didn't like it. I guess it's like the patches > repo. Most of the time I don't want the whole freaking repo on my > disk, but every once in a while it's nice to actually have them there. > After doing checkout

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/08/08 16:39 CST: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >> Now I'm going to work on Justin to see if he is around so he'll >> fix the main BLFS repo to have a 6.3 repo populated with all the >> current SVN packages (as per the current SVN book), then create >> symlinks point

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Now I'm going to work on Justin to see if he is around so he'll > fix the main BLFS repo to have a 6.3 repo populated with all the > current SVN packages (as per the current SVN book), then create > symlinks pointing to that named 6.3rc1, 6.3rc2, and 6.3rc3. I did create a

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Never looked at it like that. Again, very valid. Looks like I > need to svn co those auxfiles. My sandbox is just 'BOOK' and I've > never needed to update the auxfiles so never co them. Ah, now I see why you didn't like

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 05/08/08 16:21 CST: > Never looked at it like that. Again, very valid. Looks like I > need to svn co those auxfiles. My sandbox is just 'BOOK' and Actually, I've got the Bootscripts and the edguide as well. Fetching auxfiles now. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [bog

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/08/08 13:52 CST: > For mozconfig files, it's not that big of an issue. However, suppose > we release BLFS-6.3 with firefox-2.0.0.14. After branching off 6.3, we > change the svn firefox to use a different --enable-* option, say for > cairo. If the files on and

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 11:11:58AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > I explained in great detail why this change was made and why there are > two copies of everything (maintaining URLs): > > http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2008-April/018562.html > > How it's updated is very simple.

make pdf fails

2008-05-08 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi all, when i do a "make pdf" i get bash-3.2$ make pdf Validating the book... Generating FO file... warning: failed to load external entity "tmp/blfs-pdf.xml" unable to parse tmp/blfs-pdf.xml make: *** [tmp/blfs-pdf.fo] Fehler 6 bash-3.2$ I found that in section $(RENDERTMP)/blfs-pdf.fo the xs

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/08/08 13:11 CST: > >> I'm sorry this has inconvenienced you so much, but it addresses a real >> problem. > > It doesn't inconvenience me as I know how to create a .mozconfig > file on

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 05/08/08 13:11 CST: > I'm sorry this has inconvenienced you so much, but it addresses a real > problem. It doesn't inconvenience me as I know how to create a .mozconfig file on my own to build Firefox. :-) Though I still don't know what the real problem was (a

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote these words on 05/08/08 11:53 CST: >> On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:50:44PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >>> Actually, I just ran across another one...and it's fixed now...I think. >>> auxfiles/firefox-2.0.0.14-moz

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 05/07/08 06:37 CST: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/07/08 01:20 CST: > >> Is it time to do a freeze/rc1? > > I'm off to work and will look at this, then publish something official > this evening. Didn't get around to it yesterday. I'll update Rsync today

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 05/08/08 11:53 CST: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:50:44PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >> Actually, I just ran across another one...and it's fixed now...I think. >> auxfiles/firefox-2.0.0.14-mozconfig. Anything special I need to do with >> that or the wget and md5 files

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:50:44PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >> >> Actually, I just ran across another one...and it's fixed now...I think. >> auxfiles/firefox-2.0.0.14-mozconfig. Anything special I need to do with >> that or the

Re: BLFS release

2008-05-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:50:44PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > > Actually, I just ran across another one...and it's fixed now...I think. > auxfiles/firefox-2.0.0.14-mozconfig. Anything special I need to do with > that or the wget and md5 files? > Sorry, didn't get around to replying to this ear