OT: Shared /etc (Was: Re: Sudo example configuration)

2009-09-30 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/30/2009 12:45 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: /etc which is never shared AFAIK, but I've never seen or heard of /etc itself being an NFS volume...I suppose it would be possible with some gnarly init, but surely not practical. I have, however, heard of subdirs of /etc being shared

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/9/30 DJ Lucas d...@linuxfromscratch.org: Trent, Ken, Thomas, (others?):   I would be quite interested in any notes, patches, or scripts that you have laying around for KDE4. I've given up on kde4, my last builds were for 4.2 and I assume a lot has changed since then. FWIW, the straw

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: FWIW, the straw that broke the camel's back for me was the QT-4.5.2 upgrade - appeared to need *two* different responses to accept the gpl / licensing questions, my script just hung for ever. Actually qt4 is quite good. I have been doing a lot of programming with it in

Re: XZ-Utils 4.999.9beta

2009-09-30 Thread Tobias Gasser
Bruce Dubbs schrieb: The purpose of LFS and BLFS is primarily educational. Adding a CMMI package is not particularly educational when there are many such packages already in the books. one of the last times william asked to add xz i gave him my vote. - CMMI: even a blfs-beginner should

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread Trent Shea
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 23:26:59 DJ Lucas wrote: Trent, Ken, Thomas, (others?): I would be quite interested in any notes, patches, or scripts that you have laying around for KDE4. I won't be able to get to it for a couple of weeks yet. I've been building vanilla kde from:

Re: XZ-Utils 4.999.9beta

2009-09-30 Thread William Immendorf
I honstly disgress. This should be in BLFS soon. Just read my comments, and you will start supporting my desition to include XZ into the book: On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Tobias Gasser l...@ebp-gasser.ch wrote: - CMMI: even a blfs-beginner should be able to install is I have to admit,

Re: XZ-Utils 4.999.9beta

2009-09-30 Thread dean talbot
Guy Dalziel krendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote: ...The only package we know to use it is tar, and I can probably bet that it picks it up during configure without any extra commands... Tar has no build-time dependency on it at all - you can build xz-utils afterwards if you wish, and a new

Re: XZ-Utils 4.999.9beta

2009-09-30 Thread William Immendorf
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:40 PM, dean talbot li...@dtxs.co.uk wrote: What could be a show-stopper, though, is the fact that the XZ-definitions were only added to shared-mime-info's CVS-repo in April and haven't been in an official release yet - so unless you want to patch that package or build

Re: KDE4 (was: Re: Xorg-server-1.6)

2009-09-30 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/30/2009 11:36 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: It does prompt for an 'o' for the open source version and then for 'yes' to accept the GPL. That makes it difficult to script, but other than that, it's straight forward. I haven't tried this, :-) but couldn't you do something like 'yes yes |

Re: XZ-Utils 4.999.9beta

2009-09-30 Thread David Jensen
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:52:33 -0500 William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com wrote: I guess no one listens to me when I have a new package. They should be. Hm... I use it. I ran across a download directory that offered a tar.xz, I don't remember what the package was, but I did choose the

Re: XZ-Utils 4.999.9beta

2009-09-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Jensen wrote: I'm wondering 'why all the fuss', there are tons of things that could be added or should be updated. Precisely. I just hope to be able to start contributing soon. -- Randy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: XZ-Utils 4.999.9beta

2009-09-30 Thread ALIP BUDIANTO
Or just put the XZ-utils in because CLFS has it. On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Randy McMurchy ra...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: David Jensen wrote: I'm wondering 'why all the fuss', there are tons of things that could be added or should be updated. Precisely. I just hope to be able to