Re: 2 New LFS Editors

2008-09-30 Thread TheOldFellow
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:07:26 -0500 Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Pleased to see you guys have accepted this. I'm not sure that > > offering you a welcome is appropriate, you've both been here longer > > than I have, but for sure you have my support. > > Actua

Re: Helping Out [Was: Re: 2 New LFS Editors]

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
DJ Lucas wrote: > Probably after the next release, but I was driving down the road a few > minutes ago, and I had a very simple idea on that. It involves a little > scripting, added to the book for each supported PM. "supported PM" == > "A developer is interested in maintaining it" It would a

Re: Helping Out [Was: Re: 2 New LFS Editors]

2008-09-30 Thread DJ Lucas
----- PACKAGE="GLibC" VERSION="2.8-20080930" /tools/bin/lfsinst -- ./configure {...} -- make -- make install -- exit 0

Re: Helping Out [Was: Re: 2 New LFS Editors]

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The new page would introduce the issues and provide information for a user to > use to decide if they want a 32-bit system or a 64-bit system. Yes, I think > that page is necessary. Hmmm. Alright. That will require some thought and a bit of research, I think. I suppose I c

Re: Helping Out [Was: Re: 2 New LFS Editors]

2008-09-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> To me, I'd like to see two things. First, an update to the packages. This >> is >> relatively straight forward, but of course has a lot of detail. > > I think DJ and Randy are handling that so far? I wouldn't mind lending > some fingertips and ha

Helping Out [Was: Re: 2 New LFS Editors]

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > To me, I'd like to see two things. First, an update to the packages. This > is > relatively straight forward, but of course has a lot of detail. I think DJ and Randy are handling that so far? I wouldn't mind lending some fingertips and half a brain here but I've not yet c

Re: 2 New LFS Editors

2008-09-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >> As those of you who have been following ticket #2205 have already seen, DJ & >> Randy > > Congrats guys! I wouldn't say I've been monitoring LFS in the past few > months, but now and then I'd look around to see what's going on and it's > nice t

Re: 2 New LFS Editors

2008-09-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: > As those of you who have been following ticket #2205 have already seen, DJ & > Randy Congrats guys! I wouldn't say I've been monitoring LFS in the past few months, but now and then I'd look around to see what's going on and it's nice to see that there's still some bit o

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-09-30 Thread DJ Lucas
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:54:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > >> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: >> >>> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:27:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >>> Modern versions of man-db default to expecting UTF-8 for ma

Re: 2 New LFS Editors

2008-09-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Actually, just for the record, I'm a newbie in LFS compared > to Ken. He's overestimating my time here. I remember my first > post to an LFS list and was drilled my an ex-member (who I > won't name) for "which list", when he thought that my post > didn't belong in LFS-Dev. :

Re: 2 New LFS Editors

2008-09-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Ken Moffat wrote: > Pleased to see you guys have accepted this. I'm not sure that > offering you a welcome is appropriate, you've both been here longer > than I have, but for sure you have my support. Actually, just for the record, I'm a newbie in LFS compared to Ken. He's overestimating my time

Re: 2 New LFS Editors

2008-09-30 Thread DJ Lucas
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:39:16AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As those of you who have been following ticket #2205 have already seen, DJ & >> Randy have been doing stirling work in getting some much needed life >> injected back into the LFS book. Alth

Re: 2 New LFS Editors

2008-09-30 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 09:39:16AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > Hi all, > > As those of you who have been following ticket #2205 have already seen, DJ & > Randy have been doing stirling work in getting some much needed life injected > back into the LFS book. Although they've had commit privs

Re: New personal experimental book [warning: lots of UTF-8 in this]

2008-09-30 Thread Ken Moffat
CC'ing to lfs-dev, if I've remembered to change to a subscribed address. On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 04:54:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:48:50PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 12:27:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > I've been looking into the ad

2 New LFS Editors

2008-09-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Hi all, As those of you who have been following ticket #2205 have already seen, DJ & Randy have been doing stirling work in getting some much needed life injected back into the LFS book. Although they've had commit privs to the LFS repo for a while, out of what I can only assume is down to she