Re: fop install (was Re: coreutils (tail, head))

2005-12-16 Thread Richard A Downing
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

Re: fop install (was Re: coreutils (tail, head))

2005-12-15 Thread Archaic
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 intentionally doing so doesn't allow me to claim ignorance of what I have done and therefore th

Re: fop install (was Re: coreutils (tail, head))

2005-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/05 16:58 CST: > > >>How about (4) >> >>Link /bin/cat to a more command we create which then scrolls the license >>agreement and should log it too. > > > Sorry about being a PITA about this, but I'm not in favor of something > like t

Re: fop install (was Re: coreutils (tail, head))

2005-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/05 10:12 CST: > > >>Perhaps we should also do what DJ did for the Java binary install: >>[snip] >>which would automate the install. > > > I added the sed command to the FOP instructions to fix the bad > tail command in the JAI binar

Re: fop install (was Re: coreutils (tail, head))

2005-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I think I need to reinstall. Done, but perhaps we need to update the instructions slightly. Right now we have: sed -i 's/tail +122/tail -n +122/' \ ../jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin chmod 755 ../jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin && FOP_BUILD_DIR=$(pwd) && cd $JAVA_H

Re: fop install (was Re: coreutils (tail, head))

2005-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > H, we really need consistent results. Here is my method, could > you please duplicate my procedure and see what happens? OK. I downloaded a fresh copy of jai-1_1_2_01-lib-linux-i586-jdk.bin and duplicated your results. The checksum passes. Upon investigation, I was

fop install (was Re: coreutils (tail, head))

2005-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > To summarize a thread (some of which is contained here) from LFS-Dev, > Bruce ran into a situation where the JAI tarball, referenced and > installed in the BLFS FOP instructions, contains an obsolete usage > of the coreutils 'tail' command. > > So, to fix this, I'll add th