On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 23:41:27 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I would like to discuss the idea of a BLFS-6.4 release sometime relatively
> "soon".
> What do you think?
Due to the fact that I am retired, and therefore cannot make any more
commitments (you will understand when it's your turn) - I can
On Sun, 28 Dec 2008 01:12:19 +
Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 05:21:46PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >
> > Hmm. I don't know what you are doing, but when I start up sqlite I get:
> >
> > $ sqlite3
> > SQLite version 3.3.6
> > Enter ".help" for instructions
> > sqlite>
> >
>
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:33:36 -0600
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Figuring out download urls from sourceforge is a PITA.
>
> Does anyone know how to select a certain mirror or to tell it *not* to use
> superb-east.dl.sourceforge.net. That site is not very suburb. I am getting
> 7K/s -- thats 42 kilobi
Just to say I reappeared.
Building a new system, testing the book again.
I forgot what fun this is!
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On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:20:02 +0100 (CET)
tho...@equinox.homelinux.org wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> good to see you back again!
> Have fun with all the new stuff (and muh old which needs to be updated).
> My test build isn't working well atm, but i'm sure i'll get it fixed... I
> think it has to do
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Quite frankly, I am looking for suggestions. Do we just publish BLFS
6.0 as is, or do we wait until it is 'ready'?
Bruce,
The key question is 'usability'.
IMO, it (svn-20050226) is totally usable without the index. Indeed, I'm
using it now. Question: why do you need an ind
John Gnew wrote:
> Being a little Gnew to this SVN stuff, what tool should I use to view
> the copy of the SVN I have downloaded?
>
> Editing with VI is one thing but it would like to see my changes in a
> browser or other appropriate tool before creating a patch.
>
> John Gnew
There is a good X
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> In the book, we create a lot of users and groups. Almost none of them
> have uids/gids specified. Right now, if a user/group is created without
> specifying, a uid value > 1000 or a gid value > 100 is used. The LSB
> says system uids/gids should be below 100. I am proposin
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Archaic wrote:
>
>>On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:19:28AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm not sure that because there may be some binary version of some
>>>package out there that needs libstdc++.so.5 is a compelling reason.
>
>
>>One thing to keep in mind is if the
>>
Please ignore my stupid comment. read before write sync failure.
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I note (with some ire!) that the profile.d snippet in the latest Java
instructions includes the line:
pathappend ${JAVA_HOME}/man MANPATH
This completely screws setting the MANPATH using /etc/man.conf, as
normally setup by an LFS installation. Setting any MANPATH envar, as
Jeremy Utley pointe
On 04/05/05, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote:
>
> >
> > An excerpt from /etc/man.conf:
> > =
> > # Set up PATH to MANPATH mapping
> > #
> > # If people ask for "man foo" and have "/dir/bin/foo" in their PATH
>
I don't mean this in any way as a criticism - please don't even take it
as a request for action! You guys must go at your own pace.
When do we anticipate having Gnome-2.10 in BLFS?
I ask because I want to install it, but I HATE garnome (and all scripted
builds) with a passion. Real LFSers read,
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 05/10/05 05:56 CST:
>
>>I don't mean this in any way as a criticism - please don't even take it
>>as a request for action! You guys must go at your own pace.
>>
>>When do we anticipate having Gno
Just checking out the svn right now. To find that the built directory
structure is borked. All the subdirs of BLFS are built as, for
instance, BLFSimages, rather than BLFS/images.
This is my first svn checkout for some time, so this may not be a recent
'innovation'.
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TheOldFellow wrote:
> Just checking out the svn right now. To find that the built directory
> structure is borked. All the subdirs of BLFS are built as, for
> instance, BLFSimages, rather than BLFS/images.
>
> This is my first svn checkout for some time, so this may
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Alex,
>
> I'm not sure what it is that bothers you so much about the Samba
> instructions in the BLFS book. Recently, you suggested that we drop
> Samba from the book because the instructions were inadequate.
>
> I was appalled at this suggestion from you, who I respect an
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Richard A Downing FBCS CITP wrote:
>
>>The instructions seem to be untested. Where I expect ${BASEDIR}, the
>>file says $(BASEDIR) and some of the / dividing elements of filenames
>.
>
> The instructions in the README are copied from the Makefile. I'll fix
> the README
What's the policy on new packages in the BLFS book?
For instance I discovered an editor, called Bluefish, and introduced a
number of LFSers to it, with good reports. BLFS doesn't have a tabbed
desktop-independent X-windows editor designed for markup and syntax
highlighting (I know emucks can do e
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> The Oldfellow wrote these words on 06/05/05 06:07 CST:
>
>>TheOldFellow wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What's the policy on new packages in the BLFS book?
>
>
> Hi Richard,
>
> It looks good. I considered adding Bluefish to the bo
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> So, that said, when I considered the book already provides Vim,
> Joe, Nano, Emacs, Kedit and Gedit, I thought it may be overkill to
> add another text editor.
You may be right. There's also sed and ed, of course :-)
As you say, Bruce has the final say.
And I won't be off
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> The Oldfellow wrote:
>
>>TheOldFellow wrote:
>>
>>
>>>What's the policy on new packages in the BLFS book?
>>>
>>>For instance I discovered an editor, called Bluefish, and introduced a
>>>number of LFSers
TheOldFellow wrote:
since your kind enough to include it.
s/your/you're/
Damn! I hate it when I do that.
Eigo ga hanasemasen!
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Installing Bluefish I noticed the following packages should be listed
> as dependencies:
>
> 1. libgnomeui
> 2. desktop-file-utils
> 3. shared-mime-info
> 4. gnome-mime-data
>
> Richard, could you confirm this?
>
> This information is directly gathered from c
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 06/06/05 16:11 CST:
>
>
>>Are these not just 2nd level deps of gnome-vfs? Policy says these
>>aren't listed.
>
>
> Not that I can tell. It looks to me as though there is no dependency
> upon gnome
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 06/06/05 16:31 CST:
>
>
>>All I can say is that the package builds fine without any of these
>>packages.
>
>
> Of course it does. However, it will install additional components
> if you have the packages
David Jensen wrote:
> Updating to use user/root instructions:
> Balsa-2.2.6 wont compile. I'm using gcc-3.4.4.
> Balsa 2.3.3 is good, 2.3 branch is said to be *semi-development*
> should we use it. Do you want me to test it. :-)
Just for info: Ive been using 2.3.3 for a couple o'weeks. I only
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a topic which really doesn't need discussion on this list, however,
> one item is worth mention (question to Bruce).
>
> I just updated Anduin with the new CrackLib files. I find it interesting
> how much better (and, of course, faster) Gzip compresses tex
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The BLFS book is sorely in need of a package used to rotate, compress,
> store, archive, whatever - various log files.
>
> Traditionally, this has been the logrotate package. I'm going to try
> to get a package into the book before 6.1 is released. I probably s
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to propose the following suggestions to the nano text
> editing package instructions:
>
> 1. Move the sysconfdir to /etc/nano/ and install the sample nanorc
> file in this directory. This directory of course would also be where
> the real nanorc fi
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This is primarily a note to the Editors, FYI for everyone else.
>
> There have been many package updates in the last couple of days,
> however very few updates to the package sources, patches and md5sums
> on Anduin.
>
> Let's don't forget to keep Anduin up wi
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 07/28/05 09:39 CST:
>
>
>>Anduin update is not in the Editor's Guide. Perhaps it should be added?
>
>
> Of course it should be added. In fact, I mentioned this a long time
> ago and Bruce said he woul
Richard A Downing wrote:
>
> I'd like to add fcron-2.9.7 (Bug#1482) because I'm updating the text to
> fix bug#1472, and it has a fix for a nasty (fcron) mailing bug.
>
> I have tested it anyway.
>
> Richard.
Bruce,
You didn't rule on this, just on Mozilla. I'm asking about fcron. I'm
ready
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
>
>>DJ Lucas wrote these words on 07/29/05 21:55 CST:
>>
> OK. I'm going to take it out until there is an interest in it. There
> have been only seven messages in blfs-support this year. The interest
> is weak and no one wants to bother with it.
F
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 07/30/05 00:49 CST:
>
>
>>For after 6.1 - Has anyone thought about ways to measure usage of BLFS
>>packages - I'm not talking about popt, but courier vs postfix vs
>>sendmail or Gnome vs Kde vs a-small-an
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 07/30/05 02:08 CST:
>
>
>>Does Bruce use Exim? I wonder how he knows the build works otherwise.
> I will admit I never used it, however, there were a couple of guys
> that responded to my query after the update
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 07/31/05 08:32 CST:
>
>
>>My mileage varied from yours. I don't have Heimeros and it refuses to
>>configure with the option set. I decided to document it the way I did
>>for that reason.
>
>
&g
Resend, so out of sequence. (mucked up the address copying from nntp to
mail)
>From blfs.book:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 07/31/05 08:32 CST:
>
>
>>My mileage varied from yours. I don't have Heimeros and it refuses to
>>conf
On 31/07/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Kind of a rock and a hard place here. We can't have instructions hat
>extend past about 71 characters, and it would be nice to have the
>parameters lined up in the book's instructions. Unfortunately, it
>appears that we cannot have it both wa
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
BTW, you seem to always pick the hard things: Java, OO, Xorg7. I
appreciate what you do.
and he ain't the only one.
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Tushar Teredesai wrote:
The Xorg7 subsections (protocol, libraries, etc.) should list all the
packages that are part of the entire subsection. For example, the Xorg
Protocol Headers subsection
(http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/x7proto.html) should
indicate all t
Tony Kuneck wrote:
Hi all,
_First_ issue: In the current dev book svn-20060519, there is this section:
cat > /etc/udev/rules.d/15-alsa.rules << "EOF"
# Give the audio group ownership of sound devices
SUBSYSTEM=="sound", GROUP="audio"
SUBSYSTEM=="snd", GROUP="audio"
# ALSA Devices
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> January 24: cut a 6.2.0-alpha tarball
> January 31: cut a 6.2.0-beta1 tarball
> February 7: cut a 6.2.0-beta2 tarball (if necessary)
> February 14: release BLFS-6.2.0
>
> How sweet, a Valentine's Day release!
>
> Does this schedule seem reasonable? Any objections?
>
and
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There are several Perl Modules identified in the BLFS book, but no
> longer on the CPAN server due to updated versions are now available.
>
> I've looked at, and tested all the modules that need updating in the
> book and feel confident that we can update the b
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Randy,
> We need to decide how to do the run time dependencies. I thought we
> agreed to put it into a section after the installation and configuration
> sections, but I may be mistaken.
>
> I took my example from HAL, which looks like you added in changeset
> 5513, 01/0
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 02/02/07 02:50 CST:
>
>> [snip good stuff]
>> But all this information is interesting, and leads to cleaner systems
>> once you understand it all. But maybe it's all to difficult (IATD)
>> especiall
Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 2/2/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I know this is none of my business, but to my mind there is a great deal
>> of difference between a build-time dependency and a run-time one.
>
> A lot of good points there. Unfortunately,
Matthew Burgess wrote:
> On Friday 02 February 2007 14:33, TheOldFellow wrote:
>
>> The third problem is that LFS is almost dead (although BLFS is still
>> alive and kicking - It's great to see how much effort you guys are
>> putting in, and it's appreciated,
Luca wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Only a reflection.
> LFS officially supports Ext3 as default file-system and in BLFS book we
> find under File Systems ReiserFS and XFS progs. These filesystems are
> judged stable (Reiser4 is not judgeable as it is too young but it's
> faster than those; I found only a bu
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Andrew Beverley wrote these words on 02/07/07 14:35 CST:
>
>> How do I go about submitting a new package for inclusion in future
>> versions? The one I have in mind is Squid, but I'm sure there's others.
>
> Typically, one would create a 'hint' and submit it to the Hints p
Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 2/7/07, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I don't know if this is on your radar or not, but I added wiki pages for
>> some packages that I found useful. That way they have similar look/feel
>> to the book, but of course not t
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ fortune
> Q: What is the difference between Texas and yogurt?
> A: Yogurt has culture.
>
In Yoghurt culture the is microscopic.
Texas has culture, but it's too big to recognise.
Sorry about the noise, but I couldn't resist.
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Ag. Hatzimanikas wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, at 09:50 Ag. Hatzimanikas wrote:
>> And because we set standards - and - everything we do, has to follow
>> standards.
>> If there is no standard, we make this standard.
>> If there is something wrong with the standard we fix it.
>> If it is outdated we
Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to update the book with the current GLib, cairo, GTK+,
> pango and ATK stack, but I'm sort of stuck with what to do about
> cairo. The test suite does not behave properly. This is new to this
> version. Up till now I've always had cairo pass all the tes
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:08:41 -0700
"Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I should have commented on this. You either need expat or libxml2, but
> the libxml2 check uses pkg-config. So
>
> expat || ( libxml2 && pkg-config )
>
> I couldn't think of the right way to say this.
Either Expat o
On Mon, 28 May 2007 23:19:44 +0300
"Ag. D. Hatzimanikas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, at 12:15 Dan Nicholson wrote:
> [...]
<...>
> - How much I appreciate what you are doing, how much appreciate
>the elegant way you are doing it and how much I admire your
>-almost- natu
On Tue, 29 May 2007 07:45:11 -0700
"Dan Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/28/07, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > Based only on your comments above (I haven't looked at the proposed
> > changes), good idea. I had automated each section when xorg7 was
> > first introduced,
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 19:34:56 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 07/19/07 19:21 CST:
>
> > I believe it's not necessary, but helpful. hicolor-icon-theme
> > installs a theme index file at /usr/share/icons/hicolor/index.theme.
>
> How would you sug
On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:36:42 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It is my pleasure to announce that Ag Hatzimanikas has accepted a
> position as a BLFS Editor. Ag brings a long time affiliation with
> the (x)LFS projects (and a great passion towards the projects), a
> gr
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:54:40 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Original Message
> Subject: List messages rejected
> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:50:31 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi. Sorry to trouble you. My
On Fri, 3 Aug 2007 01:07:55 +0300
"Ag. D. Hatzimanikas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:)
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On Thu, 9 Aug 2007 4:28:17 -0600
Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 09 Aug 2007 04:42:09 -0500, Randy McMurchy
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 08/08/07 23:50 CST:
> >
> >> I've noticed that the Python test suite removes the /tmp directory
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 20:21:14 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [cc'd to LFS-Dev as this is supposed to be a nice attaboy to the
> LFS devs]
>
> Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/11/07 19:45 CST:
>
> > It's the least I could do after you powered through so many
> > commits ove
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:31:22 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/16/07 18:22 CST:
>
> > In my experience, it seems that both 1.4 and 2.x are needed as some
> > utilities (like Enigmail) want to use the old interface. But gpgme
> > wants 2.x.
>
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:26:57 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote:
>
> > Thoughts from others? Am I wasting my time?
>
> No, you are not wasting your time. Your actions are well thought out
> and I, for one, appreciate your efforts a lot.
>
> -- Bruce
>
>
Yea
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007 18:14:49 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> In case anyone hasn't noticed, I've added several packages all having
> to do with the GnuPG and GnuTLS projects. I'll be adding several more
> as well. There are several reasons for this:
> Thoughts from
On Sun, 14 Oct 2007 11:20:35 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All my spare time is being spent here: http://www.mcmurchy.com/helo/
Is the big grey-blue fan for the tail rotor? ;-) I'm also rather taken
by the thing on wheels to go to sleep on the job with.
I had a boss who bu
On Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:19:50 +0200
"Ag. D. Hatzimanikas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am almost sure and determined to bet, that this little program
> is not used by no one, except (maybe) by some mutt purists (like
> myself).
>
> I am going to update it for this book release, but I am
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:08:33 -0600
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 11/23/07 01:18 CST:
>
> > I agree there's a lot in BLFS that might usefully be removed, GROAN,
> > for instance :) Only used by people with CPU power
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:49:06 -0500
Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> > * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a
> > couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is
> > degrading the quality of LFS)
> >
> >
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:28:22 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 03/10/08 22:12 CST:
>
> > I will continue to use it and promote its use. Sorry.
>
> I know that sounds crappy. Sorry for that. It simply came out
> bad and I really didn't proofread
get more experienced with time. :)
>
> And I know you will. Thanks, again.
>
> Now I'm off to go bug TheOldFellow and see if he'll update the
> Bluefish editor package ( http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/download.html ).
> We're a couple of releases behind and I know he u
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:25:49 +
TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do I still have a login and commit privs?
I certainly don't seem to have enough privs on Trac to assign or alter
a ticket. I raised a ticket for bluefish-1.0.7, but made a mistake and
called it an enhan
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:25:49 +
TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do I still have a login and commit privs?
I still have a login on anduin (and I remember the p-word), but not on
quantum - which was called belgarath last time I looked!
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:23:40 +0100
"Christian Wurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 8:25 AM, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I certainly don't seem to have enough privs on Trac to assign or alter
> > a ticket. I rais
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:48:46 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 03/26/08 01:25 CST:
>
> > Do I still have a login and commit privs?
>
> I'm sure you do on quantum.linuxfromscratch.org. I see your account
> (richa
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:11:39 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This thread taken off list.
>
>-- Bruce
Damn, I was hoping the answers would help me remember.
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Unsubs
I can't, and to commit, I have to be able to to upload an
authorized_keys file. The one there (called authorized_keys2 ?) now is
obsolete. Despite the perms being:
drwxr-xr-x 2 1074 richard 4096 Jul 27 2005 .ssh
and
-rw-r--r-- 1 1074 richard 599 Jul 27 2005 authorized_keys2
I can't delet
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 11:20:14 +
TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't, and to commit, I have to be able to to upload an
> authorized_keys file. The one there (called authorized_keys2 ?) now is
> obsolete.
Thanks guys.
I don't know why I didn'
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:07:29 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here's a rundown of the tickets slated for the 6.3 release:
> Richard's (1):
> http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&milestone=6.3&owner=%7Eoldfellow&or
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:11:55 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It looks like we have lost our updates of files on Anduin. The most
> We probably need a script to extract all the files from the xml and
> check them against the repository nightly with a message to blfs-book of
> a
Well no one screamed that it was their favourite web browser, so I'll
comment it out of the book later today.
As an aside, I built Dillo2, still very alpha, with FLTK2, in Beta.
The result is quite good. Lightning fast, and some nice features as a
browser to build first and read BLFS with while y
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:14:42 +0100
TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well no one screamed that it was their favourite web browser, so I'll
> comment it out of the book later today.
>
> As an aside, I built Dillo2, still very alpha, with FLTK2, in Beta.
>
If I update to a2ps-4.14, we need gperf-3.0.3. Is it policy to add it,
or just ref it directly to it's home page?
R.
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:31:57 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote these words on 04/01/08 13:52 CST:
> > If I update to a2ps-4.14, we need gperf-3.0.3. Is it policy to add it,
> > or just ref it directly to it's home page?
>
>
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:12:53 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't have a problem with leaving upstream patches upstream, but we
> should probably have a copy in patches or at least on anduin and mention
> an md5 sum. This combination will allow us to offer the patch if the
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 08:50:14 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Since my installation script actually looks for a /usr/share/info/dir
> file if there are any .info files being installed for a package, I've
> discovered that many packages do not update the 'dir' file aft
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:50:12 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The reason I say what I do (opinion, that is), is because I bought a
> couple of new SATA drives (7200 rpm, 500 gigabytes) recently for less
> than $80.00 each.
>
> Prices are incredible (here in the USA, anyway). I b
On Wed, 28 May 2008 09:14:44 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can't remember (and I didn't take good notes) anything else that was
> mentioned other than the Xorg deprecated stuff and the Shadow typo (and
> DJ fixed both) that would prevent us from releasing 6.3.
Sorry that I've had
On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:39:04 -0500
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone have a current wget list for the Xorg-7.4 packages?
>
> BLFS is so far behind and I'm using such a new cut of LFS that
> I don't even want to try building until I get a decent list of
> 7.4 pac
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:40:24 -0400
Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I know that we've talked about this before but given the events of the
> past year or so, I'd like to revisit this briefly.
>
> Alexander and I have been talking and we're trying to take a very
> realist
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 09:50:17 -0500
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> DJ Lucas wrote:
> > DJ Lucas wrote:
> >> Of what I have in my current wget files, these are not in the list of
> >> the official release:
> >>
> >> UTILS:
> >> gccmakedep-1.0.2 is not in the list
> >> imake-1.0.2 is not i
On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 08:03:19 +0100
Thomas Trepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My question to you - do you have the same experiences that the version
> upgrades are working ok? If so, I'll go for preparing patches on the book to
> reflect those updates. If not, a short note would be great!
>
I'
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:51:51 -0600
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS
> Version 6.4.
Big thank you to Bruce for coordinating the effort. And to the other
editors for waking LFS up again.
I'm in the middle of buildi
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 23:33:14 +
Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> please let us know if you've got "issues"
> with xorg-7.4.
No problems, except that every release they change so many packages
that my scripts break! Now xcb-proto needs python, for instance.
Creeping bloody elegance! We
I can't get to anduin!
All accesses timeout. And see this traceroute:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ traceroute anduin.linuxfromscratch.org
traceroute to anduin.linuxfromscratch.org (66.139.76.201), 30 hops max, 40 byte
packets
1 gateway (172.16.1.6) 2.338 ms 2.410 ms 2.502 ms
2 172.16.2.1 (172.16.
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 6:01:20 -0700
Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:09:29 +, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I can't get to anduin!
> > All accesses timeout. And see this traceroute:
> >
> >
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:05:29 -0600
DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone been through the PulseAudio setup yet?
>
> How about '/usr/bin/esd -> esdcompat' for gnome?
>
> -- DJ Lucas
>
>
>
It's a resource hog.
R.
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Armin K. wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Right after LFS/BLFS 7.5 releases I started doing some work to make a
> standalone BLFS systemd incorporating my notes into BLFS 7.5 book. I
> stopped doing it after I found out that LFS itself is getting systemd.
>
> Here is some of my work in form of patches in hope
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> TheOldFellow wrote:
>
>> I trust BLFS will still be usable for non-systemd (i.e. sane)
>> systems,
>
> Yes, that's the intent.
>
>-- Bruce
>
Whoopeedo!
and Hi Bruce!
Richard.
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