Rendering LFS books

2006-04-08 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, I'm wondering why LFS still uses a symlinked xsl-stylesheets-current target for stylesheets instead of a hard-coded version number. I'm looking at different versions of the LFS rendering Makefile and they point to this current symlink. As we go forward, won't it be difficult to re-render

RE: Build order rationale page

2006-04-08 Thread David Fix
Archaic wrote: > I see now what you are saying and agree. However, this sort of > information seems most useful to developers and the more > highly advanced > readers. Perhaps a note should be placed in chap5's intro linking to > this advanced information with a caveat that it isn't needed for a >

Re: PAM (from D-Bus/HAL discussion)

2006-04-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 4/8/06, Jürg Billeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ah, you're talking about mounting on demand, I don't call that > automounting as it can be misleading. So as recap, what I call > automounting is: plug in your usb stick, do nothing, stick gets mounted > (optionally window appears with content

Re: merging and consolidating

2006-04-08 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 4/8/06, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:33:39PM +0200, M.Canales.es wrote: > > In that case I would suggest 6.6 Creating Essential Symlinks (and files). I > > think that could fit better here. > > Well, if we're changing that page from just Essential Symli

Re: merging and consolidating

2006-04-08 Thread M.Canales.es
El Sábado, 8 de Abril de 2006 18:54, Jeremy Huntwork escribió: > Well, if we're changing that page from just Essential Symlinks to > Essential Symlinks and Files, then we might as well merge that page with > 6.7 because, in my mind, 6.7 as it is really could be renamed to > 'Creating Essential Fil

Re: merging and consolidating

2006-04-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:33:39PM +0200, M.Canales.es wrote: > In that case I would suggest 6.6 Creating Essential Symlinks (and files). I > think that could fit better here. Well, if we're changing that page from just Essential Symlinks to Essential Symlinks and Files, then we might as well mer

Re: merging and consolidating

2006-04-08 Thread M.Canales.es
El Sábado, 8 de Abril de 2006 18:24, Jeremy Huntwork escribió: > My reasoning is that 1) /etc/mtab isn't really anything to do with the > other kernfs mounts, 2) we already create /etc in 6.5 "Creating > Directories" and that fits there - there's no real need to create /etc > any earlier 3) by sec

Re: merging and consolidating

2006-04-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:37:07PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > I think it should go right with the mount commands so there is no > confusion. Also, we don't know whether another package depends upon > an mtab file being present. To me, it's safest to add > > mkdir -pv ${LFS}/etc > touch ${LFS}

Re: PAM (from D-Bus/HAL discussion)

2006-04-08 Thread Andrew Benton
Jürg Billeter wrote: Ah, you're talking about mounting on demand, I don't call that automounting as it can be misleading. So as recap, what I call automounting is: plug in your usb stick, do nothing, stick gets mounted (optionally window appears with content). You call automounting: plug in your

Re: Xorg 7 - various comments

2006-04-08 Thread DJ Lucas
Ag Hatzim wrote: That was it Chris. And as i was looking to configure (line 24735),i found the cause of this. There is an undocumanted switch --enable-install-setuid. And since the BLFS policy is to built as non-root user,then maybe we have to enable by default. Okay..then I'm sorry I misunder

Re: merging and consolidating

2006-04-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 01:37:07PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > I think it should go right with the mount commands so there is no > confusion. Also, we don't know whether another package depends upon > an mtab file being present. To me, it's safest to add > > mkdir -pv ${LFS}/etc > touch ${LFS}

Re: PAM (from D-Bus/HAL discussion)

2006-04-08 Thread Andrew Benton
Joe Ciccone wrote: I havn't been following this thread too closely No kidding... but, from what I can tell about the way dbus/hal are integrated into the system. Without them I don't know how much hardware interaction the software will have. When you plug in your usb drive it won't be detecte

Re: Build order rationale page

2006-04-08 Thread Chris Staub
Dan Nicholson wrote: I think it's useful for anyone. The first time I built the book, it seemed some random collection of utilities (not quite, but you get the point). If this dependency info had been available I think I would have been able to understand the connection of the tools a bit bett