Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread DJ Lucas
On 07/30/2011 06:22 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > On 07/29/2011 07:29 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> I am open to suggestions, let the community speak out! C'mon, we need >> to keep BLFS alive! > > So I grabbed the SVN, which produced nothing interesting in the top > level directory, guessed I wanted "boo

Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Landley wrote: > So I grabbed the SVN, which produced nothing interesting in the top > level directory, guessed I wanted "book", there was a readme in there, > told me I could run make, and I did. It sat there for three minutes > "validating the book" before I gave up and killed it. It's a

Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Landley wrote: > Sorry for the delay, got buried in work. This has been sitting in my drafts > folder all week. > > On 07/21/2011 05:21 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> On 7/21/2011 2:13 PM, Rob Landley wrote: >> Yes, there are very good reasons. Additionally, using the most recent >> release of

Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/29/2011 07:29 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: > I am open to suggestions, let the community speak out! C'mon, we need > to keep BLFS alive! So I grabbed the SVN, which produced nothing interesting in the top level directory, guessed I wanted "book", there was a readme in there, told me I could ru

Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 08:21:35AM -0700, Qrux wrote: > > In that example, I could see the Desktop "path" including X, Gnome, KDE, > Sound, Video, etc. The production server path wouldn't include compilation > tools, but would include different production-related server packages > (tcpwrappers

Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread Rob Landley
Sorry for the delay, got buried in work. This has been sitting in my drafts folder all week. On 07/21/2011 05:21 PM, Randy McMurchy wrote: > On 7/21/2011 2:13 PM, Rob Landley wrote: > >> So the message to people new the project is they have two choices: >> >> 1) Try the latest known-good release

Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread Qrux
Howdy, all. "Long time user, first-time poster." I've used [a-z]LFS in a HPC research environment. Now I'm considering using it to deploy a Xen cluster (which is a great marriage of the "slimness" of LFS, the idea of virtualization, and the new Xen support in the mainline kernel). (I

Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread Wayne Blaszczyk
On 30/07/11 21:20, Thomas Trepl wrote: > On Saturday 30 July 2011 02:29:55 Randy McMurchy wrote: >> ... >> I was hoping that my response to your post would encourage additional >> responses. Actually, I am surprised that it has not. All that has >> happened is additional packages have been added t

Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread Thomas Trepl
On Saturday 30 July 2011 02:29:55 Randy McMurchy wrote: > ... > I was hoping that my response to your post would encourage additional > responses. Actually, I am surprised that it has not. All that has > happened is additional packages have been added to the book which is > the opposite of where y

Re: The State of BLFS

2011-07-30 Thread Fenna Pel
Op 30-07-11 02:29, Randy McMurchy schreef: > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 07/21/11 17:21 CST: >> Thanks Rob, for your insightful and thoughtful comments. I have >> read them all. Let's continue to discuss. I know I can commit some >> time, DJ checks in now and then, Wayne updates occasionall