Re: One suggestion for LFS and BLFS books, and a typo

2006-11-30 Thread Chris Staub
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: Le Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:55:28 + Reece Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:25:18AM -0500, Chris Staub wrote: No, it's not - it is completely unnecessary. $LFS/sources is only mentioned once in

Re: One suggestion for LFS and BLFS books, and a typo

2006-11-30 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Le Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:55:28 + Reece Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:25:18AM -0500, Chris Staub wrote: > > >> No, it's not - it is completely unnecessary. $LFS/sources is only > > >> mentioned once in

Re: One suggestion for LFS and BLFS books, and a typo

2006-11-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Reece Dunn wrote: I use a perl script that does the same thing as: cd /build tar -xf /packages/$PACKAGE/$PACKAGE-$VERSION.tar.* cd `ls` /packages/$PACKAGE/$PACKAGE # run the build script cd /build rm -r * This is very dangerous and should be avoided at all costs. One shoul

RE: One suggestion for LFS and BLFS books, and a typo

2006-11-29 Thread Reece Dunn
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Tapio Kelloniemi wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 09:25:18AM -0500, Chris Staub wrote: > >> No, it's not - it is completely unnecessary. $LFS/sources is only > >> mentioned once in LFS (well, ok, twice...), and even then it's really > >> just a suggestion - the sour

Re: One suggestion for LFS and BLFS books, and a typo

2006-11-26 Thread Nicolas FRANCOIS
Le Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:02:15 +0200 Tapio Kelloniemi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > What about this (just one example among others). This command can be found > from the SVN LFS book in one of the GCC sections: > patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-4.1.1-specs-1.patch > > This command is to be executed in the g

Re: One suggestion for LFS and BLFS books, and a typo

2006-11-26 Thread Chris Staub
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: Hi. I've been an LFS user for quite a long time now, and there's one thing (only ONE thing !) I don't like in the books : I'm used to put all the packages I download in a directory just above /sources (namely /sources/LFS or /sources/BLFS), and when I install a package, t