Re: Patch stalled

2007-01-14 Thread Jim Gifford
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> [ 7:24 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] svn ls >> svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/trunk/reiserfs >> reiserfs-3.6.19-header_fix-1.patch >> > > Thanks, I'll use the patch tomorrow. > > Alex use 3.6.20 it's out. http://cblfs.cross-lfs.org

Re: CBLFS

2007-01-11 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Jim Gifford wrote these words on 01/11/07 16:48 CST: > > >> Randy, we already do. >> > > Jim, it is not worth haggling over. I simply mentioned this earlier > as a matter of principle. Your attribution does not adhere to the > BLFS

Re: CBLFS

2007-01-11 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jim, > Randy's the lead now, but I can see some of your point, but not all. > BLFS is a community effort too. I personally don't mind you taking > whatever you think is appropriate and putting it into CBLFS. In fact, > that is allowed by the license. > > No it's not. BLF

Re: CBLFS

2007-01-11 Thread Jim Gifford
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Noted on the CBLFS page is a note that says not to copy from the BLFS >> book as it may violate the copyright. But I can't help but notice that >> many of the descriptions, etc are copied directly from BLFS. >> > > A little o

Re: CBLFS

2007-01-11 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Jim Gifford wrote these words on 01/11/07 16:04 CST: > >> Bruce, >> We are all part of LFS, the only reason I put in that notice was to >> let people know not to copy your material. Essentially we were told by >> BLFS that you would

Re: CBLFS

2007-01-11 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce, We are all part of LFS, the only reason I put in that notice was to let people know not to copy your material. Essentially we were told by BLFS that you would not support multilib and other architectures, we took care of it with an open project. We have been going through and been re

Re: Updating site content

2006-11-26 Thread Jim Gifford
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hey All, There's several parts of the website that need updating, and I was hoping to get feedback from those of you in the know. Here's some of the main things I need help with: * The various Who's who sections for all projects * Nearly all of the ALFS sub-project - I tr

vsftpd was Re: Upgrade to Linux-2.6.18

2006-09-28 Thread Jim Gifford
Found the second on besides Dan's util-linux one. Vsftpd, caused by the syscalls being removed from unistd.h, anyone got any ideas. gcc -m64 -c sysdeputil.c -O2 -Wall -W -Wshadow -idirafter dummyinc sysdeputil.c:162: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'capset' sysdeputil.c:

Announcing CLFS 1.0.0 - The "Bender" release

2006-09-25 Thread Jim Gifford
The CLFS Development team is pleased to announce the final release of CLFS-1.0.0, code-name "Bender". This release features Glibc 2.4, GCC 4.1.1, Binutils 2.17, and supports the x86, x86-64, sparc, powerpc, ppc64, mips, mips64, and alpha, including multilib on those arch's that support it. Cross

Re: xLFS Book Licenses

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Gifford
Ryan and I fully support this change, but we need to make ensure that these changes do not affect our community at all, so if you have any concerns, this is the time to get them out. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsub

Re: xLFS Book Licenses

2006-08-23 Thread Jim Gifford
Matthew Burgess wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: IMO, the requirements are: 1. Only publish commercially with permission. This goes against the spirit of Free Software, IMO. I *do* understand the reasons for wanting to do so, but GPL and BSD packages have survived without such restrictions so far

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-18 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy, CLFS is on a stabilization cycle right now. The entire CLFS team is going through the book with a fine tooth comb to get a release out very soon. Except to see RC4 in the next few days, then in a week or so of no changes the final release of 1.0.0. I can't speak for the other pro

Re: nitpick in NSS instructions

2006-05-18 Thread Jim Gifford
Archaic wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:04:28PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Perhaps, but it doesn't script as easily. ;) The purpose of the book is educational on how to build, not about scripting the build. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.lin

Re: Automated package building

2006-01-29 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy, What educational value does this new section add to the book, to me it looks like it could be a support nightmare for BLFS. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http

Re: RFC: BLFS Wiki

2006-01-22 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been working with the prototype BLFS Wiki that Jeremy set up. I put an outline of the book on the wiki and have created a test version of the book at on anduin at http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/BlfsNotes I like i

Re: Subversion Upgrade

2006-01-18 Thread Jim Gifford
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: As I also mentioned in a previous thread, I should be available to do this tonight, but I completely understand that this is giving little warning. If you need more time, perhaps you need to coordinate with your devs, please let me know an alternative date and we'll fina

Re: Xorg 7.0

2006-01-09 Thread Jim Gifford
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I don't think the scripted LiveCD approach is being considered for the BLFS book, Jim. I think Alex was just responding to Alan's specific request for a scripted build. I just saw the page in DJ's directory, that's what through me off. Here is the link http://www.linu

Re: Xorg 7.0

2006-01-09 Thread Jim Gifford
Looks like X has lost all the learning value there was from the old version. This just looks like a way to automate the build, but doesn't really go into detail like Gnome or KDE which are also modular systems.I like the who, what, when, why, and where approach. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EM

Re: Patches md5sums

2005-11-03 Thread Jim Gifford
This should be a non issue if there are in the official patches archive. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: FAM/Gamin

2005-10-06 Thread Jim Gifford
Why not have both? People who are familiar with FAM can use, and the peole who want to use Gamin can use it. Let the users choose which route they want to go, instead for forcing one or the other on them. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 2

NTPD Setup

2005-09-11 Thread Jim Gifford
Guys, Just something I found out, you can use pool.ntp.org, and it will find the closes time server to you. Just a thought so you might add it to the book. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/l

Re: The trunk Changelog.

2005-08-17 Thread Jim Gifford
Tushar Teredesai wrote: Now can someone please start a thread on LFS-dev to remove the "Upgraded", "Added" and "Removed" sections from the LFS changelog so that I can vote +1 on it. The reason that is in LFS is because of the upgrades from the previous version, we get a lot of questions on

Re: Wording on SAMBA page

2005-06-05 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: 5. Added an Stunnel-less SWAT setup section (Jim's comments) 6. Added creating the nobody user and nogroup group to the bootscript installation section. Randy, Thank you. I was just pointing it out. The only reason I looked at it was because of the thread. I knew you w

Re: Samba - stunnel should be dependent

2005-06-04 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: Jim Gifford wrote these words on 06/04/05 01:20 CST: BLFS has stunnel listed as optional, but the way you have things configured, you made it dependent. If it was truly optional, you would have a non-stunnel swat configuration also. My previous reply was not

Samba - stunnel should be dependent

2005-06-03 Thread Jim Gifford
BLFS has stunnel listed as optional, but the way you have things configured, you made it dependent. If it was truly optional, you would have a non-stunnel swat configuration also. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubsc

Re: Multi-architecture BLFS

2005-03-29 Thread Jim Gifford
Stig Hornuff wrote: If it is of any help, then I'm going to try build LFS on 2 SUN boxes: A SUN 420R & a SUN V250. Both of these are SPARC v9. I'll let you know how things progresses if want it. One thing which I can already say is: Default bootloader cannot be used. I need to use Silo instead -

Re: GMP on AMD64

2005-03-28 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Farid Bouzaghti wrote: Hi, On 32-bit systems with an Athlon64 cpu, GMP detects it as x86_64-pc-linux-gnu. If CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS are set, GMP will try to build 64 bit libraries. The book should recommend to unset these variables before building GMP on AMD64, or to pass ABI=32 to

Re: xinetd patch and related others

2005-03-26 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: John Gnew wrote these words on 03/26/05 19:51 CST: [snip] Your last couple of messages have come across as double-posts. At least they're showing up twice in my inbox, anyway. I have more configs in my original email on this Randy, you may want to add them in. http

Re: IPTables Question

2005-03-09 Thread Jim Gifford
I just think we should add the KERNEL_DIR in to prevent errors, that's my point. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: Se

Re: IPTables Question

2005-03-08 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: Jim Gifford wrote these words on 03/08/05 20:52 CST: Because the patch was uneccessary, since all you have to do was specify KERNEL_DIR=/usr, which fixed the issue Then how come you waited six months to tell me this? Additionally, this is not the same answer you told

Re: IPTables Question

2005-03-08 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: Jim Gifford wrote these words on 03/08/05 19:56 CST: The problem is with the older version, it specifically looks for the /usr/src/linux-whatever, but the newer version have this line built into the Makefile. ifndef KERNEL_DIR KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux endif In Andrew

Re: IPTables Question

2005-03-08 Thread Jim Gifford
The problem is with the older version, it specifically looks for the /usr/src/linux-whatever, but the newer version have this line built into the Makefile. ifndef KERNEL_DIR KERNEL_DIR=/usr/src/linux endif In Andrew Benton's case since he didn't have a /usr/src/linux, it was not a big deal, it

Re: IPTables Question

2005-03-08 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/08/05 17:43 CST: I ran into a situation with the current IPTables release, I was planning to look at iptables in a couple of days (before BLFS 6.0 is released), so your post is very timely. Thanks. Bruce, I would hazard a

Re: IPTables Question

2005-03-08 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jim Gifford wrote: Bruce, Randy, and others, I ran into a situation with the current IPTables release, Jim, I was planning to look at iptables in a couple of days (before BLFS 6.0 is released), so your post is very timely. Thanks. -- Bruce Bruce, I've been fig

IPTables Question

2005-03-08 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce, Randy, and others, I ran into a situation with the current IPTables release, that I think is worth mentioning on the list. It has to do with the fact that the current IPTables depends on the kernel source includes and not the santized ones we use for everything else. My problem is more

Re: Post 6.0: teTeX-3.0

2005-02-24 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: Steffen R. Knollmann wrote these words on 02/24/05 19:48 CST: Okay, I know you won't include it in BLFS 6.0, but since I have a working teTeX-3.0 now, I thought I'd share my experiences. I attached a file with my build commands, a list of files and md5sums and a list of ge

Re: Updated UDEV Config Rules

2005-02-24 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: Jim Gifford wrote: Based on the changes to the passwd and groups, I have updated the udev-config file we use during our build. [snip] If BLFS would like me to, I could create the necessary text for their book to add this in. Jim, This will definately be something

Updated UDEV Config Rules

2005-02-24 Thread Jim Gifford
Based on the changes to the passwd and groups, I have updated the udev-config file we use during our build. This file can be downloaded from http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/udev-config-2.rules. This also raises a question about the BLFS stuff, and as a proactive person, I created an addi

Re: Linux-PAM nitpicks

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jim Gifford wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jim Gifford wrote: .so files belong in /usr/lib .so.version belong in /lib. I'm not sure what you are saying here Jim. If the library file is either referenced as a symlink or a regular file by an excutable file in /bin or /sbi

Re: Linux-PAM nitpicks

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Jim Gifford wrote: .so files belong in /usr/lib .so.version belong in /lib. I'm not sure what you are saying here Jim. If the library file is either referenced as a symlink or a regular file by an excutable file in /bin or /sbin, it needs to be in /lib. There should

Re: Linux-PAM nitpicks

2005-02-21 Thread Jim Gifford
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Linux-PAM installs the following libraries into the /lib directory: libpam, libpamc and libpam_misc. Both static and dynamic libs are installed. The instructions move the .a libs to /usr/lib and create .so symlinks to the /lib/libname.so.0.78 files i