Re: {B,C}LFS State of Things (was Re: SVN-20070706: ...)

2007-07-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 10:06:03PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: The other, iproute2-2.6.22-070710, is something we need to discuss. The problem is with the packaging. The package expands to the current directory. The issue is what to do. Here is what I see as the

Re: {B,C}LFS State of Things (was Re: SVN-20070706: ...)

2007-07-24 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ken Moffat wrote: ip/routef lifesaver This sounds fairly important, but I have no idea if it actually is... incorrect initialization Depending on whether this would get hit by any of our users, it may be important. Probably not critical

Re: {B,C}LFS State of Things (was Re: SVN-20070706: ...)

2007-07-24 Thread Greg Schafer
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Here's the results from what is currently in the branch: http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/test.log http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/search_dirs.log One last thing dude. Could you please advise exactly what host system you're using and also show the output

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/23/07, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Craig Jackson wrote: I can hack the init scripts a bit to get it to work, but its command line parameters are not very intuitive. This was my least favorite upgrade from 5.x. I do understand the need for the update. (IPv6

Re: most recent iproute2

2007-07-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/23/07, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/23/07 22:06 CST: The other, iproute2-2.6.22-070710, is something we need to discuss. The problem is with the packaging. The package expands to the current directory. The issue

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dan Nicholson wrote: I thought the reason for using iproute2 was because net-tools is unmaintained. Yes, when the discussion for the change took place, this was the main reason. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/

Inconsistent use of in BOOK

2007-07-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
a/BOOK/general.ent b/BOOK/general.ent index c5c3f47..aced25c 100644 --- a/BOOK/general.ent +++ b/BOOK/general.ent @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? -!ENTITY version SVN-20070723 -!ENTITY releasedate July 23, 2007 +!ENTITY version SVN-20070724 +!ENTITY releasedate July 24, 2007

Re: most recent iproute2

2007-07-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/24/07, Matthew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd personally rather use the new version since it syncs to the 2.6.22 interfaces and that's the kernel we'll be running. I'll try poking the maintainer again. Thanks Dan. Maybe keeping the package freeze open for IPRoute2 Glibc-2.5.1

Re: Inconsistent use of in BOOK

2007-07-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: I was going to edit something on the ncurses page the other day and noticed some in chained commands. It seems that usual way in LFS is not to do this. Compare the linker script section of ncurses to the localedef commands in glibc.

x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
This is a continuation from here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2007-July/059737.html Starting a new thread because the last one was getting unwieldy and had several different topics running through it. Greg, the host I was working from was a current CLFS development snapshot.

Re: Inconsistent use of in BOOK

2007-07-24 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:08:04 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ACK the DB, NCurses and Man-DB bits. The rest of the bits look fine to me as well. Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the

linux-2.6.22.1 headers break iptables-1.3.7

2007-07-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Hello, the following failure appears during iptables-1.3.7 compilation against linux-2.6.22.1 headers (spotted during a full rebuild of the LiveCD): make[2]: Entering directory `/lfs-livecd/packages/iptables/iptables-1.3.7' make PREFIX=/usr LIBDIR=/lib BINDIR=/bin MANDIR=/usr/share/man

Obsolete text on the X Window System Components page

2007-07-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
The following text is obsolete, because there is no /etc/fonts/*.conf file, and DejaVu is known to Fontconfig-2.4.2 by default: Earlier it was mentioned that |/etc/fonts/fonts.conf| could be modified to use DejaVu using the default family names. Since DejaVu is a replacement for Bitstream

Re: linux-2.6.22.1 headers break iptables-1.3.7

2007-07-24 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:50:58 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the following failure appears during iptables-1.3.7 compilation against linux-2.6.22.1 headers (spotted during a full rebuild of the LiveCD): Any chance you could give iptables-1.3.8 a try please? I've not

Re: linux-2.6.22.1 headers break iptables-1.3.7

2007-07-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 20:50:58 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the following failure appears during iptables-1.3.7 compilation against linux-2.6.22.1 headers (spotted during a full rebuild of the LiveCD): Any chance you could give

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: As an aside, the effects of their not having a /lib64 dir or symlink seems to be that if I want to use a CLFS system as a host, I *must* use their pure64 patch. I tried a build last night without using that patch and just using --disable-multilib and appropriate

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello Everyone, I'm trying to decide how best to alter the x86_64 branch. If we adopt the basic principles from DIY-Linux, it would mean that as far as build instructions go, we only have to add 3 things: * Add --disable-multilib to each build of GCC (this has no effect on a x86 build) * In

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Alan Lord
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hello Everyone, I'm trying to decide how best to alter the x86_64 branch. If we adopt the basic principles from DIY-Linux, it would mean that as far as build instructions go, we only have to add 3 things: snip / Even with all the above, it seems much simpler than

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:40:24 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, do we want x86_64 to be a separate book, or simply roll these small changes into a conglomerate book with x86? I'd certainly prefer them to be in the same book, or at least in the same sources/svn

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:40:24 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, do we want x86_64 to be a separate book, or simply roll these small changes into a conglomerate book with x86? I'd certainly prefer them to be in the same book, My biggest

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alan Lord wrote: * Bootloader, or rather lack-of Yes, I keep forgetting about the boot loader. There's one more difference - we'd probably want to add lilo/bin86 to the build. Of course, you can always install grub to the mbr or partition without installing grub's shell into the OS. Use the

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:59:39 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:40:24 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, do we want x86_64 to be a separate book, or simply roll these small changes into a conglomerate

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: Hmm, that nightmare seems a bit extreme. Certainly, for native x86-64, which is the only additional target we're contemplating at the moment, having 2 paragraphs (or small sections at the most) in the book surrounded in the relevant profiling syntax, doesn't seem too

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:59:39 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 11:40:24 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question is, do we want x86_64 to be a separate book, or simply roll these small

Re: Plans for LFS-6.3

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I guess I can do it again. Most of the stuff is mechanical. We'd need to decide on a package freeze. Right now there are a total of 16 open Can we cut trunk to a release/testing/6.3 branch so that we can begin doing 7.0 type work on trunk? -- JH --

Re: Plans for LFS-6.3

2007-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I guess I can do it again. Most of the stuff is mechanical. We'd need to decide on a package freeze. Right now there are a total of 16 open Can we cut trunk to a release/testing/6.3 branch so that we can begin doing 7.0 type work on trunk? I

Re: Plans for LFS-6.3

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I tagged 6.3-rc1. I also added 7.0 to the wiki milestones and 6.3-rc1 and 7.0 to the versions for tickets. Thanks. :) -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread M.Canales.es
El Martes, 24 de Julio de 2007 17:59, Jeremy Huntwork escribió: My biggest problem with this approach is that it gets to be a nightmare to edit. But, it is do-able. See how HLFS manages the Glibc/uClibc - Linux-2.4/2.6 books flavours and ask Robert if it hard to maintain. Four sepparte books

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/24/07, M.Canales.es [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El Martes, 24 de Julio de 2007 17:59, Jeremy Huntwork escribió: My biggest problem with this approach is that it gets to be a nightmare to edit. But, it is do-able. See how HLFS manages the Glibc/uClibc - Linux-2.4/2.6 books flavours and

Re: [PATCH] Add screen install attributes for final system packages

2007-07-24 Thread M.Canales.es
El Sábado, 21 de Julio de 2007 01:42, Dan Nicholson escribió: Another jhalfs helper. As has been discussed before, it would be nice to mark the screen sections with an attribute to announce that it will be installing to the system rather than just working in the source/build tree. Manuel

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread M.Canales.es
El Martes, 24 de Julio de 2007 19:51, Dan Nicholson escribió: Out of curiosity, will the Relax NG XML ease in generating multiple books from a common source? Not, what Relax-NG make more easy is to customize the schema declaration. I.e, to add new tags or attributes (placed on a diferent

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread M.Canales.es
El Martes, 24 de Julio de 2007 20:12, Jeremy Huntwork escribió: M.Canales.es wrote: I prefer to use the HLFS-way for x86_64 integration. Well, you obviously know that setup better than I do. If you could help me set that up, I'd appreciate it. I have many fronts open right now, with

Re: x86_64 build method

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
M.Canales.es wrote: Could you continue using the x86_64 branch for now until jhalfs-2.3 will be released? No problem. I think that at the weekend I will can start mergin the x86_64 changes into trunk. For a full set-up a new top-level index.html file must be created and the Makefile need

LFS 6.2-rc1 Released

2007-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the first release candidate of LFS 6.3. Please see http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.3-rc1/chapter01/whatsnew.html for a complete list of new packages since the last release. This being a test release, we would appreciate you taking

6.3-rc1 Release announcement

2007-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I updated the website and have created the -rc1 files. In the announcement to lfs-announce, the subject erroneously says 6.2-rc1 instead of 6.3-rc1, but the contents are correct. I won't send a correction to lfs-announce becuase we can fix it with -rc2 or the stable 6.3 announcement as

DocBook XSL 1.73.0 Released

2007-07-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
Manuel, I don't know if it matters at this point, but the new version of the XSL stylesheets were released. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: DocBook XSL 1.73.0 Released

2007-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 07/24/07 17:10 CST: Manuel, I don't know if it matters at this point, but the new version of the XSL stylesheets were released. Keep in mind that the .0 versions of the stylesheets are not the stable series. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld