Bruce Dubbs wrote:
TheOldFellow wrote:
No, it's a lot of applications that together provide a windowing system.
It certainly isn't ONE application, since you can miss lots of it out
and still have functionality.
I disagree. It is a lot of *programs* and *libraries* that together
compose one
Archaic wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 07:15:15PM +0100, Andrew Benton wrote:
>> Is that wise? As it stands LFS is out of date. Old gcc, old glibc, old
>> kernel headers. As soon as trunk moves to a newer toolchain everyone
>> will start using that. Why waste effort releasing a book that's alre
Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 4/4/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:58 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>>
>>> Assuming the patch works as advertised, how should the change be
>>> implemented? If the patch is deemed too large, we can always use the
>>> development sn
Leila Downing wrote:
> Diet Pill Breakthrough!!!
>
> What if you could actually shed 10, 15 or even 25 pounds
> quickly and safely in less then 30 days?
Actually, cutting your head off works quite as well in practice - you
can do it in under a second with a professionally built French
ex-governme
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>> In a fit of 'I can't stand another moment of thunderbird !' a few days
>> ago I built both slrn-cvs (slang-2) and tin. I have to say how good
>> thunderbird and pan are. If I had to run a system
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> There is a proposal to replace slrn with tin in the book.
In a fit of 'I can't stand another moment of thunderbird !' a few days
ago I built both slrn-cvs (slang-2) and tin. I have to say how good
thunderbird and pan are. If I had to run a system without X, then I
might jus
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 03/15/06 11:09 CST:
>
>> There appear to be at least three kinds of so called KDE applications:
>>
>> 1) Those that use QT, but don't depend on KDE at all.
>> 2) Those that use KDE libs, but
Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Dan Nicholson wrote:
>
>> On 3/3/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 03/03/06 11:49 CST:
>>>>
>>>> What is suggested?
>>>
>>> I woul
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was thinking about perhaps replacing the backticks (`) in the
> configure commands of the GNOME packages to $(command) syntax, but
> it occurred to me that $(command) might be a bashism and other shells
> (zsh, csh, etc.) might not understand them.
>
> Does a
The first complete version of these instructions can be found on the
wiki at http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/InstallQcad.
As suggested by Alexander Patrakov, I have linked it via:
http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/BlfsNotes
I decided that it could (just) be construed as an Ind
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I would like to announce that Dan Nicholson has been appointed as the
> newest BLFS Editor. Please help me in welcoming him to the project.
>
> -- Bruce
Oh dear, another lamb to the slaughter...
Dan - Be afraid, be very afraid. (but Good Luck).
R.
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Yes. I've been wanting to do the whole book, but I haven't made time
> for it. I want links in the book to the wiki and internal links within
> the wiki.
>
I was very pleased how well the wiki formatting lines up with Manuel's
style for the current book too. Sufficiently d
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>> http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/InstallQcad
>
> Thanks. A few notes:
>
> 1) A package installed in /opt is not allowed to have files outside /opt
> and /etc/opt
>
> 2) It would be nice t
Richard A Downing wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Richard A Downing wrote:
>>> I've been using this package for some time to draw my cabinet making
>>> projects. It's a good 2D package that can read/write Autocad dxf format
>>> drawings.
>>>
&
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>> I've been using this package for some time to draw my cabinet making
>> projects. It's a good 2D package that can read/write Autocad dxf format
>> drawings.
>>
>> http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html
>
Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 2/25/06, Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've been using this package for some time to draw my cabinet making
>> projects. It's a good 2D package that can read/write Autocad dxf format
>> drawings.
>>
>>
I've been using this package for some time to draw my cabinet making
projects. It's a good 2D package that can read/write Autocad dxf format
drawings.
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/qcad.html
If there is interest I'll write up (as a hint or patch) the somewhat
complicated process by which it can be b
Matthew Burgess wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> No doubt you'll all be aware of the flamewar that recently hit the lists
> regarding trac and bugzilla. Whilst disagreements are expected on this
> list, personal attacks are not appreciated by anyone involved.
>
> As Bruce and I cannot condone such action,
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I was going to report two issues in the current BLFS, but when expanding
> OTOH, I have used nail on occasion, but certainly not regularly. It is
> most useful in sending messages from scripts, so that package should stay.
>
> Oth
It's not so much a valid domain name that needs to be inserted as a
domain name such that host.domainname will result in a valid DNS lookup.
I, for instance, have a local DNS server that recognises 109bean.org.uk
(which is valid, registered, responds to whois etc..) and my host, rad1,
looks up fin
It was pointed out on Greg's DIY-Linux list that make can be used to
print a dependency list - not nearly so beautifully as Nico's
dependency graph, but as a useful list.
I think it should be possible to generate the makefile directly from
the BLFS Book XML, but I'm not competent to do this myself
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:02:06 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There has been some discussion of where to place a link to User Notes
> on BLFS pages. After reviewing the messages, I want to get the
> opinion one more time from the members of this list so we can
> standardize.
>
> Th
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:38:47 +0500
"Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The make_fonts_map.sh script uses "sort -0 +1" construction that
> doesn't work with Coreutils-5.93. Please adjust this script before
> installation:
>
> sed -i 's/+0 -1/-k 1,2/' make_fonts_map.sh
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:16:25 -0800
Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For example, I'm betting Alexander knows where some solid
> documentation for UTF-8 and udev are.
But it's probably UTF-8 encoded - and in Russian! :-)
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On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:49:21 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Please, all, tear
> it apart and let me know where it needs fixing.
I like it. Apart from the personal touches, of course. Does 'Cool,
huh?' translate into Russian, Chinese, English? Perhaps
'Impressive, don't you th
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 18:19:41 +
Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just for info, although I'm subscribed to the (b)lfs mailing lists, I
> have delivery set 'off' and read and write the lists entirely via
> gmane.
Added info, for what it's w
On Sat, 28 Jan 2006 11:42:51 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
> > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:46:32 -0600
> > Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I just updated the book to add a chapter on
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 18:46:32 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just updated the book to add a chapter on the BLFS Wiki in Chapter
> 1. I also added a link to the appropriate page on the wiki to openssl
> as the end of the install section.
>
> I would appreciate readers of this list
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 18:34:41 +
Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:24:57 -0600
> Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > When I tried to look at Nico's svg file of dependencies, I found I
> > didn't have an s
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 10:35:13 -0800
Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/25/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Nico R. wrote:
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > I wrote a small program that allows you to get a graphical
> > > representation of the BLFS dependencies. (In fact, that's wh
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 14:27:11 +0100
"Nico R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I wrote a small program that allows you to get a graphical
> representation of the BLFS dependencies.
Awesome! Thanks Nico.
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On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 11:24:57 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When I tried to look at Nico's svg file of dependencies, I found I
> didn't have an svg viewer. There is one built into firefox, but we
> don't enable it by default. Is there a reason why?
>
> I would *recommend* :) th
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 20:38:14 -0500
Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
> > Why?
> >
> > This person has deviated from the prescribed method of doing things.
>
> Well, in many ways, that's the motto of LFS, right? Also, why is it
> prescribed? Not because it's neces
On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 21:07:08 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am disappointed in my effort in describing the make -f client.mk
> text. I mailed into the list asking for help. *Today* It went
> unanswered.
Time zones, old chap! I only just got up *today*.
R.
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On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 10:48:28 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:17:24 -0600
> > Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not opposed to adding a section on scripting packages. Chapter 2
>
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:17:24 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Probably not much, but it is a lot different from the rest of the
> book. There is also not much difference in just executing the
> commands in the proposed script.
>
> I don't know about you, but I script most of my pac
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 08:09:50 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 01/17/06 07:53 CST:
>
> > Perhaps a note on the page then?
>
> That says what? Something like it does on the HTML Tidy page seems
> about right.
&g
On Tue, 17 Jan 2006 07:48:39 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Stef Bon wrote these words on 01/17/06 07:45 CST:
>
> > Anybody knows something about this? Propably fast changing
> > versionnumbers?
>
> Yes, ImageMagick is notorious for this. I'm in the middle of updating
> it rig
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:30:19 + (GMT)
Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Agreed. AFAIK, nobody using the lfs family of books builds on m68k
> [ shout now if I'm wrong! ],
I did have a certificate saying that I can program this beasty in
assembler, but have never done so in anger. The
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:11:07 +
Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:55:57 -0500
> Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I would really like to get everyone's opinion.
> All things being equal I think thi
On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 18:22:22 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote these words on 01/09/06 18:09 CST:
>
> > I'll put up a more recent set if anyone would like to
> > look at them that accounts for the issues that have been found
> > recently.
>
> At this point, I can
On Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:08:48 -0600
Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/9/06, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Tushar Teredesai wrote:
> > >
> > > Agreed, it should either be /usr (my preference) or /usr/X11R7
> > > (the appropriate version).
> >
> > My preference is /usr/X1
On Sun, 08 Jan 2006 18:55:57 -0500
Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would really like to get everyone's opinion.
I like the look of this too. You've done a good job getting the
look-feel like the website.
I really like the SVN browser and the Changelog.
My only criticism is that t
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 20:09:04 +
Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> > I think I still prefer the wiki. And re-establishing a properly
> > moderated and full-featured wiki could benefit the entire LFS
> > community once again, not just BLFS. The only reason our o
On Thu, 05 Jan 2006 00:59:12 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The way I look at it, we have four possibilities:
>
> 1. Ignore the issues.
> 2. Add i18n / CLFS issues to each package as they come up.
> 3. Have a section or appendix in the book to address the issues and
> link
I shall be shutting down my systems tonight for the Christmas
Holiday, back on Wednesday. SWMBO and I have to deliver Seasonal
Cheer to various parts of the UK over the next few days.
It has been an interesting year, moved house, became a BLFS Editor,
started renovating said house, gave up editing
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 23:39:40 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah. Functionally. But WTF is a Deer Park?
A place you hunt old dears. Most Stately Homes in England have one,
killing animals for sport is an old aristo tradition. At least they've
given up hunding ph^heasants
R.
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 17:49:45 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did want to raise a related issue. Should we discuss adding plugins
> to support many of the pages on the web? Things like flash, audio and
> video, etc. Perhaps these should be on a separate page for plugger.
I hav
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 15:49:48 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> long and ugly
>
> Here we go:
>
> 1) +1
> 2) +1
>
> 3) The way I see it, the following dependencies can be adjusted as
> they either are a)not practical or b)cannot be used:
>
> A) +1
>
> B) +1 - need Firefox
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:51:45 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote these words on 12/21/05 00:37 CST:
>
> > Thanks for the suggestions.
>
> Thank you for being so understanding to one who was a complete
> "right didactic pompous arse".
>
> But what I want to know is h
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 21:24:22 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/16/05 21:15 CST:
>
> > OK, we keep it for now, but I don't see the "many reasons to
> > keep it."
>
> Only because you have blinders on, and you have been the strongest,
> and only,
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 21:49:16 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Staub wrote:
> > In the build instructions for Xorg and XFree86, it is recommended to
> > compile the "lndir" program and use it to create a "shadow
> > directory of symbolic links" where you will actually built the
On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 17:17:06 -0700
Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:29:38PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to get other opinions.
>
> I am in adamant agreement with Randy on this. I have devised a method
> by which I script the install, but intentionall
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:53:32 -0500
Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There might be a way to get this into the actual build or install
> with a sed. Of course, it may be better suited as a configuration
> option aftwards, especially as someone might prefer something like
> *shudder* Kon
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 14:29:17 -0500
Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "In the future, the build instructions for this CD-ROM will be
> presented, but they are not available at the time of this writing."
>
> I was a little surprised at reading that - I believe that's the first
> I'd hear
On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 23:50:12 -0600
DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > I am not very familiar with the libungif and giflib packages. the
> > imlib instructions says one "or" the other.
> >
> > Are there any conflicts if both packages are installed?
> > Is one preferable
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:14:25 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I've told the libxml2 author what I've found, but the issue now is
> whether we need to do anything about it in BLFS. I could put in a
> note that says to disable the show-all-if-ambiguous parameter
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 18:46:00 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
> > Bruce (et al),
> > I no longer wish to be an editor of the BLFS book.
> If you change your mind, let me know.
Sure thing. I'm not planning on deserting LFS at
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>> I'm sorry I started this again now. I have to say I am more confused
>> than ever. Do the guys (I use the term loosly, as 'imbeciles' seems
>> more appropriate right now) upstream have any idea o
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 10/25/05 12:16 CST:
>
>
>>Should we ask the LFS guys to take that out of their rules, so that we
>>can deal with it in BLFS?
>
>
> I am against that idea because the device nodes are going to be
>
Richard A Downing wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>
>>Richard A Downing wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Guys,
>>>
>>>The method documented in the svn book doesn't work for me. The script
>>>that the 15-alsa.rules file associates with udev
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>> Now I have it working, and all I did was to to mv the rules file
>> elsewhere and back again. This has me completely baffled :-)
>
>
> Gremlins.
>
> --
> JH
Heck, do you think so? I saw that movie.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 10/25/05 10:51 CST:
>
>
>>and that doesn't change anything. It still never calls the script.
>>
>>Now I'm out of ideas.
>
>
> You could always go back to the way it was by having it
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> The method documented in the svn book doesn't work for me. The script
>> that the 15-alsa.rules file associates with udev's discovery of a
>> control interface is never apparen
Richard A Downing wrote:
> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>
>>Richard A Downing wrote:
I'll try 070 (a la SVN LFS) and report back.
and that doesn't change anything. It still never calls the script.
Now I'm out of ideas.
R.
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>
>>I also don't seem to be able to get the snd_pcm_oss module loaded, which
>>is required for realplayer.
>
>
> Can it be loaded with modprobe?
> -- Bruce
Yes, and of course, I can load it at boot time.
Guys,
The method documented in the svn book doesn't work for me. The script
that the 15-alsa.rules file associates with udev's discovery of a
control interface is never apparently called (Udev-063).
I also don't seem to be able to get the snd_pcm_oss module loaded, which
is required for realplay
Filip Bartmann wrote:
> Why isn,t one package with other packages in tar archive(as package
> lfs-packages.tar) for BLFS?
> Filip Bartmann
>
Of course, you could volunteer to build and maintain (after every commit
to SVN), and host (with good bandwidth) such a thing, Filip. If you
work out the c
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
>>> Could you please download the latest UTF-8 livecd:
>>>
>>> http://ums.usu.ru/~patrakov/lfslivecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.x-utf8-r1-nosrc.iso
Is there a way of booting an
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>> there
>> may well be some packages we should add that ONLY work in Chinese or
>> Japanese in the longer term (we may be asked to do this by new friends,
>> and we should be open to that idea). I emphasis
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> In some non-list traffic, there has been some discussion of UTF-8 for
> {,B}LFS. I'm posting this discussion to the wider community for comments.
>
> The question is: should {,B}LFS support UTF-8? If so, who will be
> responsible for the UTF-8 specific portions of the books
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>
>>Why not use 'rpc.nfsd -- 0'? This tells the kernel [nfsd] threads to
>>cease and desist - well it actually says to kernel that you want zero of
>>them.
>
>
> Interesting. I also checked RH&#x
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote:
>
>
>>Okay...my previous suggestion absolutely sucked using killdelay. Thanks
>>for the 70 second warning Bruce. BTW, HUP seems odd to me, but I'll
>>know about that in a short time. I just can't help but think that
>>Nathan I talked about that script at on
SVN says that this has GNOME VFS as a Required Dependency. It doesn't;
it's optional, and is only required if you want libgtkhtml as part of
your GNOME setup.
I build libgtkhtml to support gimp's help browsing, and configure it:
./configure --prefix=/usr --disable-accessibility
and it compiles
Randy McMurchy wrote:
it seems so pointless to install Epiphany when it itself
> requires a Gecko rendering engine (Mozilla or Firefox or Thunderbird)
> as a required dependency.
Despite not being a GROAN user myself, I can't see the point in putting
all the rest of it in the book and then miss
Matthew Burgess wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>> Of course, you have to have some cash
>
>
> And not be married - a finanical management application is of no use to
> me whatsoever - I already know my wife spends money faster than I can
> earn it, I don&#
Randy McMurchy wrote:
I hate it when people do that to a perfectly innocent thread. Start
your own! By Hijacker.
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nd enjoy learning
> from all of you. We're a community project and you're an important part
> of this community. I hope you won't go away. Each of us is important in
> our own way.
>
> Kind regards,
> sash
>
> Richard A Downing wrote:
>
>> To put it s
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 10/05/05 13:16 CST:
>
>>As for gnome-1, I'm not sure
>>why anyone would be using that.
>
>
> It is a must for GnuCash. Which is a really, really good
> financial/cash manager application.
>
Of course, you have to have some cash
R.
Guys,
You might have noticed that I have not committed anything recently. I'm
considering leaving the team (note: not going away in a huff or to spend
more time with my wife :-) - but thought I would air this first and get
your reaction.
On my normal system I don't build LFS in a standard way.
Archaic wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 01:15:46AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
>
>>Thoughts from the group would be appreciated...
>
>
> A generic users groups seems like it could be a security nightmare for a
> sysadmin. People who do need to share files generally belong to a
> descriptive gr
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 09/20/05 02:10 CST:
>
>
>>For the record, I am still running a 200 Mhz Pentium MMX as my firewall,
>>and don't plan to retire it any time soon. I also run a 133Mhz laptop,
>>which is perfectly usable.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 09/20/05 00:00 CST:
>
>
>>Not so little for my slow-poke Pentium III :)
>
>
> Umm. Upgrade perhaps?
>
> In the city you live in you can buy a 2600+ Sempron with 256 MB of
> RAM and a 60 GM hard drive, (with included printer) for 100
Kevin Jordan wrote:
> On 9/13/05, Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I just got though building it on the GCC-4 system. It appears to work
>>well. (gtk+-2.8.3/glib-2.8.1/pango-1.10.0/atk-1.10.1/cairo-1.0.0)
>>
>>I was kind of surprised that noth
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 09/05/05 05:20 CST:
>
>
>>1) How do I get it to be at a regular BLFS patch location, e.g.:
>>http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/svn/gnupg-1.4.2-curl_LDAP-1.patch
>>which I assume is what is nee
Simple question :-) I'm editing the book to add an required patch for
an optional configuration switch (--with-libcurl) to GnuPG.
I've introduced the patch to the patches project svn - I'm assuming this
gets to be visible on the website downloads section by some render
process to the website. (co
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> FYI, I found this link today.
>
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/pipermail/xorg/2005-June/008325.html
>
> This will be a major update to xorg and I would guess we will need to
> integrate it into BLFS sometime in October.
>
> -- Bruce
We may also have some decisions to mak
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
> Seems reasonable to me. Want to take a stab at it?
>
> It should go in the "Important Information" chapter, but I don't know if
> it should be a new section or a subsection of "Notes on Building Software".
>
> -- Bruce
Done. Perhaps someone will check that I used the
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I'm inclined to add these to the book with the exception of krb4
> (because we already have krb5).
>
> Opinions?
There seem to be a lot of new packages going in recently. I thought
(but this might hark back to Larry-days) that there was pressure to
exclude things that are b
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Tushar Teredesai wrote:
>
>
>>We were on break for the last couple of weeks :) So now it is B2W.
>
>
> Not *all* of us. :)
> -- Bruce
>
>
>
Ah! The priviledges of rank.
R.
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> The dicussion on blfs-dev and lfs-dev about the changelog has brought up
> an issue that I'd like to discuss.
>
> Is the order of topics we have in Chapter 1 optimal? Do we need to add
> or delete any topics? Right now we have:
>
> Comments?
I'm happy with the consensus on
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 08/17/05 12:33 CST:
>
>
>>Just noticed that in the 3.4.4 patch Jim Gifford says 'Upstream Status:
>>Delayed till 3.4.4' ( it IS 3.4.4 !). So I guess it wasn't, and hence
>>needs to be the L
M.Canales.es wrote:
> El Miércoles, 17 de Agosto de 2005 20:44, Richard A Downing escribió:
>
>>M.Canales.es wrote:
>
>
>>I'm not in favour of this. I like the strict chrono order of the
>>current changelog. IMO, the new one is more cluttered (more sections)
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> M.Canales.es wrote these words on 08/17/05 13:43 CST:
>
>
>>I'm speaking about the real changelog entries, the ones grouped by date and
>>divided by editor/change.
>
>
> Oh, well why didn't you say so? :-)
>
> Seems to me the only difference is that the date is only li
M.Canales.es wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Now that the trunk Changelog is yet small, maybe we can move on their format
> to the new layout used in the cross-lfs book. See, for example, the
> "Changelog entries" section in
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/cross-lfs/x86/introduction/changelog.htm
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> And your theory that it was applied to the 3.4.x and above branches
> make sense.
>
Just noticed that in the 3.4.4 patch Jim Gifford says 'Upstream Status:
Delayed till 3.4.4' ( it IS 3.4.4 !). So I guess it wasn't, and hence
needs to be the LFS Ch6. My best guess is t
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Richard A Downing wrote these words on 08/17/05 11:53 CST:
>
>
>>Works fine.
>
>
> Yes, it seems to. However, my concern is because in the patch header
> it says:
>
> Upstream Status: Applied
>
Clearly it has NOT been applied u
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
I patched it too (gcc-3.3.6 on my gcc-4 system).
Script say:
patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-3.3.4-no_fixincludes-1.patch &&
patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-3.3.4-linkonce-1.patch &&
Log say:
patching file gcc/Makefile.in
Hunk #1 succeeded at 2341 (offset
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I've just committed several changes to the Editors' guide. Please take
> a look and see if thee is more needed. I specifically addressed the
> issues in bugs 1480 and 1486.
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/edguide/index.html
>
> -- Bruce
I'm still reading and dig
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Do you mean something like this? :)
>
Horrible! :-)
Seriously, I'm sure it works for you, but everyone should roll their own
(Here Richard seeks to dominate the world with his own opinion - as
usual :). I see LFS as teaching people about UNIX and Linux, and BLFS
as teac
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