Re: dLFS PHP Code

2008-05-18 Thread Joe Ciccone
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Joe Ciccone wrote: > >> I'm just curious what the code looks like. It looks a LOT like a parser >> I wrote working on a project with Jeremy almost a year ago. Link below. >> Obviously the concept is the same. If it is the same base code, al

dLFS PHP Code

2008-05-18 Thread Joe Ciccone
I'm just curious what the code looks like. It looks a LOT like a parser I wrote working on a project with Jeremy almost a year ago. Link below. Obviously the concept is the same. If it is the same base code, all I ask is for attribution of the original idea, No more. http://cross-lfs.org/~jciccone

Re: Chap. 5.6 - glibc-2.7 compilation error

2008-01-23 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008 3:16 PM, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:51:23PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> >>> Circul wrote: >>> >>> Try to compile glibc-2.6.1 - no errors, all compiled fine. What's wrong ?

LFS Pastebin

2008-01-21 Thread Joe Ciccone
What happened to pastebin.linuxfromscratch.org? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: proposal for inclusion of e2fsprogs in chapter 5

2007-12-16 Thread Joe Ciccone
Julio Meca Hansen wrote: > I saw in CLFS e2fsprogs is included so basically I kind-of copied the > installation instructions, but I suppose even if we don't need more than > liduuid, it won't do any harm to install the other associated libraries > Nope, not at all, just stating that libuuid or l

Re: proposal for inclusion of e2fsprogs in chapter 5

2007-12-16 Thread Joe Ciccone
Julio Meca Hansen wrote: > As the wiki states, either e2fsprogs or udev needs to be installed in > chapter 5 if we're going to include the util-linux-ng package. > > After analysing the matter a bit, I've been testing with the > installation of e2fsprogs in chapter 5, this set of commands: > > mkdi

Re: proposal for inclusion of e2fsprogs in chapter 5

2007-12-10 Thread Joe Ciccone
Thomas Pegg wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> Julio Meca Hansen wrote: >> > > >> I've lost the background on this. Looking at util-linux, why do we need >> it at all in Chapter 5? Can't we just build it once in Chapter 6 just >> before the first file that needs it? >> >> > From wh

Re: [LFS Trac] #2094: Add a new section for build results

2007-10-21 Thread Joe Ciccone
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Jim Gifford wrote: > >> and now your trying to get it in the mainline. To quote yourself your >> not a "hardcore developer", but your trying to influence the direction >> of LFS to meet your needs. >> > > Oh, lol. You're taking Justin's words and applying them to

Re: sparc64 built from jh branch

2007-10-13 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 10/12/07, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 06:30:11AM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >>> What does that have to do with sparc64? You're the only person I know >>> that has one, so that means development and support is 100% you

Re: Server is back online

2007-09-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 9/30/07, Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There's gotta be something wrong with the ircd init script. It's still down >> > > It just wasn't setup in rc*.d. Should be fixed now. > Thanks. -- http://l

Re: Server is back online

2007-09-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
There's gotta be something wrong with the ircd init script. It's still down -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: should be back online now

2007-09-23 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 9/23/07, Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> IRC is still out. >> > > How about now? > It's back now. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: should be back online now

2007-09-23 Thread Joe Ciccone
IRC is still out. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Gnome-2.18: Ejecting CD/DVD ROMs

2007-07-25 Thread Joe Ciccone
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/25/07 19:21 CST: > > >> Where is the `eject' program located? It is not in BLFS; at least it is >> not in the index. >> > > It is not in BLFS. It is referenced a couple of times in the book as > an optional component. It is truly

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

2007-07-21 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > Luca wrote: > >> Grub-0.9x is old Grub legacy and no-more maintained. >> > > According to their site, it is maintained, just no new features are > being added. (Though I'm not sure what sense of the word "maint

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

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
Ken Moffat wrote: > >> >> > I'll give you java, so I have to accept there are binary 64-bit > applications. But I can't find any 64-bit binaries for firefox or > opera. > > > I could have sworn they existed but I just checked and couldn't find them either. So strike two more off the list

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

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
Ken Moffat wrote: > > "all those nice 64 binary packages" - I suppose that means nvidia > or ati kernel modules ? I don't know of anything else that comes as > 64-bit without source. > > I know a few people use Opera too. I personally use a binary JDK if I need java. If someone wanted to use

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

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 7/20/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 01:29:20PM -0600, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> >>> Here's the rendered book: >>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/lfs-x86_64 >>> >>> >> You have correctly dropped grub from the l

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

2007-07-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 09:59:31PM -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: > >> LFS could be made to accommodate x86_64 (multilib) with very few changes >> and a bunch of new pages. Where multilib gets tricky is where lfs stops >> and blfs begins. With

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

2007-07-19 Thread Joe Ciccone
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > > A few people have already expressed the fact that platforms like x86_64 > are becoming more and more standard. We simply have to keep up with the > times. Adopting some/all of CLFS' methods into mainstream LFS will > happen sooner or later. > > Back in the day, LFS' chapt

Re: Util-linux-ng

2007-07-06 Thread Joe Ciccone
Matthew Burgess wrote: > > Yeah, I saw this too. It's not the most popular of changes though (see > http://www.mail-archive.com/util-linux-ng%40vger.kernel.org/msg00350.html and > David Miller's reply). So, we might see a package agnostic filesystem > detection library, possibly even before ut

Re: Util-linux-ng

2007-07-05 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > A while back, the Fedora util-linux maintainer decided to fork > util-linux since upstream was basically dead and not accepting patches > back. So, here is util-linux-ng: > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/ > > It's very active, AFAICT. The first 2.13 release c

Re: Spam in trac tickets

2007-04-07 Thread Joe Ciccone
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Saturday 07 April 2007 18:03, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I deleted spam from lfs-book and blfs-book, both mail and trac tickets, >> this morning. Do we need to make the books ticket system so only >> authorized (vice registered) users can create or modify tickets? >>

Re: 64-bit vs 32-bit

2007-03-27 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Thanks Bryan. That is a very interesting result. It's only one data > point, but it tends to confirm other reports that I have seen that 64 > bit processing isn't significantly faster for most tasks. > > If you are running a server with > 4G Ram and very large data sets (i.

Re: [new XSL] The Index generation

2007-03-26 Thread Joe Ciccone
Randy McMurchy wrote: > > I'm sitting on the fence here. On one hand, I like the idea of > individual indexes for packages/libraries/programs/etc. because > of the reduced sizes and faster loading times. But on the other > hand I don't want to have to open up multiple indexes to find > what I'm loo

Re: IRCD logs

2007-02-24 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > I was wondering if the IRC logs are available online. It doesn't look > like it to me, at least not at the old location: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ircd/ > > But that makes sense since ircd is not in a home directory anymore on > quantum, but in /srv/ircd. I don't k

[Fwd: [Clfs-dev] Dead Link]

2007-02-24 Thread Joe Ciccone
--- Begin Message --- Hello, I found dead Link(s) in the Documentation: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/nano.html The Link to this Page is dead: ftp://ftp.uni-koeln.de/editor/nano-2.0.1.tar.gz Thanks Daniel signature.asc Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachri

Re: Parallelizing bootscripts [was: Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant]

2007-02-21 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > > That's part of what DJ's contrib/ LSB scripts help with. Instead of > printing "starting X...", then later printing either "OK" or "FAILED", > the LSB interface basically forces you to build the whole line in a > string, and then echo it all at once. This helps parallel

Re: Parallelizing bootscripts [was: Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant]

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > I guess I still don't understand the need for this. I just did a test > on my laptop and it took 18 seconds from the time I pushed enter from > grub to a login prompt. This included udev, dbus, hal, sshd, nfsd, but > not X, ntp, or bringing up my wifi card. > > > 14 is

Re: Parallelizing bootscripts [was: Make bootscripts more POSIX compliant]

2007-02-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > On the topic of parallelizing the bootscripts, what do people think > about doing this? DJ has added some easily-parallelizable scripts to > the contrib/ directory in the bootscripts repo (basically, by making > them LSB compliant, you make them easy to run in parallel).

Re: (hostname) login:

2007-02-02 Thread Joe Ciccone
Barius Drubeck wrote: > On Monday 29 January 2007 05:49, Marty _ wrote: > >> dont suppose anyone knows the general needed commands/utils for a >> successful login? >> i.e. i have '(hostname) login:' >> i type root >> waits 20-30 seconds >> and repeats. >> >> sulogin works inside the bootscripts.

Re: IRC

2007-01-14 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > TheOldFellow wrote: > >> Declan Naughton wrote: >> irc has not been installed on the new server yet. Its another opportunity for me to learn something new. :( >>> Why don't we just use Freenode? There is an established #lfs channel >>> there. D

Mailing List Search

2007-01-13 Thread Joe Ciccone
Trying to search the mailing lists resulted in a very large and bold, "Access Denied!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: patch for /etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm from blfs-bootscripts-20060624

2006-10-10 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 8/13/06, Christoph Feikes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello! >> >> First I like to thank everyone involved for the excellent work on LFS >> and BLFS! >> >> I'd like to suggest a little modification of "/etc/rc.d/init.d/gpm" from >> "blfs-bootscripts-20060624.tar.bz2": >

Re: [LFS Trac] #1882: 3.2 All Packages, "Do not use version 2.6.17 or later kernels ..."

2006-09-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Joe Ciccone wrote: > >> What kind of incompatibilities are we talking about? udev? >> > > IIRC, yes -- I think we started doing that when some kernel changed the > layout of /sys. More recently, there's a kernel version floating a

Re: [LFS Trac] #1882: 3.2 All Packages, "Do not use version 2.6.17 or later kernels ..."

2006-09-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
LFS Trac wrote: > #1882: 3.2 All Packages, "Do not use version 2.6.17 or later kernels ..." > > Thanks. That's a holdover from LFS-6.2. I'll change that. > I can't say I've ever seen serious incompatibilities in between kernel versions with bootscripts. "Potentional incompatibilities with the b

Re: Glibc-2.4 / kernel-headers

2006-09-18 Thread Joe Ciccone
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 07:13:27PM -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: > >> I tested the in kernel headers on mips/alpha/sparc. There were a lot of >> problems. silo and aboot didn't want to build right. The build had so >> many errors in it, on all 3 of

Re: Glibc-2.4 / kernel-headers

2006-09-18 Thread Joe Ciccone
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:05:08PM +0200, Thomas Trepl wrote: > >>> ... Next major change will be the kernel headers. >>> That's another discussion, though. >>> >> I think we should start it! IMHO the -rc7 is what we can expect in 2.6.18. >> With the -rc7, I actually

Re: xLFS Book Licenses

2006-08-22 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > He and Ryan are proposing the Open Publication License, > http://www.opencontent.org/openpub, for all the books. I've looked at > it and it seems to meet the standards of having a recognized license and > protecting the books. If it is the community's decision, I have no > pr

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dennis J Perkins wrote: > > Maybe replacing sysvinit with runit (?) or something similar for faster > booting? Might be better as a hint or BLFS, altho I would prefer having > a choice of packages when sysvinit is installed. That would probably > cause problems with the bootscripts tho. > > Ta

Re: linux-2.6.17 and openat

2006-08-19 Thread Joe Ciccone
Moshe wrote: > Hi Joe, > > If you are testing the openat patch, > please do not forget to change > the __OPENAT () definition from K&R style: > > __OPENAT (fd, file, oflag) > int fd; > const char *file; > int oflag; > > to the variadic function: > > __OPENAT (int fd, const ch

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-19 Thread Joe Ciccone
Matthew Burgess wrote: > > Glibc I've not upgraded because I was put off by upstream's > recommendation not to run it in production environments coupled with a > couple of bugs I've read about on the lfs lists. They've probably > been fixed by patches, but I've lost track of those! If anyone can

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-18 Thread Joe Ciccone
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Hi all, > > Noted that there is some minor trivial updates to CLFS recently, the > occasional package updates to LFS, and updates to jalfs (which is only > as good as the [x]LFS books), there really is no development going > on at all any more within the LFS project. > CL

Re: linux-2.6.17 and openat

2006-08-17 Thread Joe Ciccone
e OPENAT openat needs to be put in it's own ifndef below the #if !defined OPENAT && !defined __ASSUME_ATFCTS. See the patch. The things people do on their time off! Submitted By: Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 2006-08-17 Initial Package Version: 2.4 Upstream Status:

Re: Possible Udev Rule Bug?

2006-08-14 Thread Joe Ciccone
Alex Merry wrote: > However, some programs use read access. links appears to use read access > to scroll the screen. > > > And that is the program that was reported to not work with a regular user in graphic mode. I told the person to change it to 660 and it worked after that. -- http://linuxf

Possible Udev Rule Bug?

2006-08-14 Thread Joe Ciccone
In 25-lfs.rules there is, KERNEL=="fb[0-9]*", MODE="0620",GROUP="video" Shouldn't the mode be 0660? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Build Logs for 6.2

2006-08-10 Thread Joe Ciccone
Someone just signed onto IRC and asked when the build logs are going to be available. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/build-logs/6.2/ - Appears to be empty. I don't normally run test-suites or I'd send you my logs. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Re: Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems

2006-08-10 Thread Joe Ciccone
Peter wrote: > I would use this in place of what is > in 6.2.3. Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems. > I want to take care of the mount error that is > possible by resetting the build from > scratch without a reboot because the > book does not explicitly create pts and shm > and leaves it up to mo

Re: udev on Fedore 5 - Gentoo script not very helpfull in LFS environment with newer kernels; Thumbs Down.

2006-08-04 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > I believe it would work with kernels back to 2.6.15, 2.6.16 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-18 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> p.s.: I haven't actually verified that the LFS patch fixes the issue, >> since I'm not through with my current build yet. All I know is that the >> Gentoo patches fix this issue (and have done so for some time now). >> > > Please verify that the existing patch does indeed

Re: fomit-frame-pointer sed in gcc pass2/3

2006-07-15 Thread Joe Ciccone
Alex Merry wrote: > > But surely the only way anyone would have anything on that line is if > they'd already been doing something different to the book, in which case > (especially with the toolchain) they should be acutely aware of what the > instructions do and the possible implications of any ch

Re: fomit-frame-pointer sed in gcc pass2/3

2006-07-15 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Robert Connolly wrote: > >> This isn't a bug, but the line: >> >> sed 's/^XCFLAGS =$/& -fomit-frame-pointer/' >> >> can be problematic if a user uses this command to modify other variables, >> because the -fomit-frame-pointer is appended to the end of the line. Some of >>

Re: Automatic tarball generation

2006-07-12 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Joe Ciccone wrote: > > >> You can get the date with this command or something similar: >> svn cat svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK/general.ent | awk >> '/> > > Sure. I'm already doing that. The problem i

Re: Automatic tarball generation

2006-07-12 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The daily script for generating the book now automatically generates the > udev and bootscript tarballs. When making a change to either, the > packages.ent has to be updated manually with the version date and md5sum. > > I'd like to automate this further, but I don't know of

Re: Automatic tarball generation

2006-07-12 Thread Joe Ciccone
While I was waiting for my internet to come back I sat down and wrote this, Havn't tested it, But the idea is there if you want it. #!/bin/bash tmpdir=$(mktemp -d) pushd $tmpdir # Change the checkouts to file:/// svn co svn://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK DATE=$(grep '/" \ -e "

Re: Future plans for xLFS

2006-06-05 Thread Joe Ciccone
Dan Nicholson wrote: > Cool. Any major differences? Did you guys ever have to deal with the > legendary "libtool can't handle sysroot" problem? Does the toolchain > adjustment change drastically? > > Don't rush to answer. I'm just a curious cat. > > -- > Dan I've probably done about a dozen bu

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Having everything in one repo but releasing the base scripts and the blfs scripts in 2 separate tarballs sounds good to me. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Chris Staub wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: >> Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/30/06 11:56 CST: >> >> I know I said no more replies. But this is important. Jim, you just >> made my point for me. If these "consolidated" bootscripts need to be >> updated, what is the point in consolidating them? >

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
I agree with the ideas in this proposal. The one idea that I'm going back and forth on is whether the blfs-bootscripts should become part of the base scripts. >From one side, you'd only need one tarball. How often do the bootscripts get changed? It would possibly be easier to maintain. >From the

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Ciccone
Archaic wrote: > On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:03:05PM -0400, Joe Ciccone wrote: > >> I think a svn repo should be added for a common set of udev rules. I >> will be willing to go through both the lfs rules and the clfs rules, >> find all of the common rules, and mosh them

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-23 Thread Joe Ciccone
As I've been reading this thread I noticed one common theme. control. The main problem that I think is holding us back is that some people don't want to give up their control over *their* udev rules. Yes, The packages are almost identical. Yes, It would be easy to use cat to create extra rules spe

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-22 Thread Joe Ciccone
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Rather than creating a whole new package, why don't you just list what > you don't like about the current LFS rules? Or has this been done > before and I missed it? As far as I know both sets of rules work exactly as they're intended to. There is nothing wrong with either

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-14 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Joe, > I was asking about the situation where I have my hard disk on sda and > a cdrom on hda AND hdb. It's probably not a smart way to go, but its > possible. > > -- Bruce > I set my vm back to normal and it's doing some work now so I'm not going to test. But what wo

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-14 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > That's cool. What happens if there is a cdrom on hda too? > I put my harddrive on hdb and created a cdrom on hda. This has the same pattern as the last one. lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 15:04 /dev/cdrom -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-05-14 15:04 /dev/cdrom0

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-14 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > How robust is this? It would seem to work if there are two cdroms, but > does it generalize to the admittedly unusual case where there are more > than two? I'm not sure how the drives are recognized. I only have one > and it is at "/sys/bus/ide/drivers/ide-cdrom/0.0" What do

Re: Need advices about make textinfo

2006-04-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Andrejs Spunitis wrote: > /mnt/src/texinfo-4.8/info/terminal.c:236: undefined reference to `tgoto' > /mnt/src/texinfo-4.8/info/terminal.c:236: undefined reference to `tputs' > Support questions should be directed to the lfs-support list. The symbols tgoto and tputs are from ncurses. You might want

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > >> install the raw kernel headers from the 2.6.16 kernel in >> /tools/glibc-kernheaders and compile glibc against them. For >> userspace, keep using the 2.6.12 sanitised llc headers. Works for me. >> It worked well for LFS-6.0. It's a tried and test

Re: LFS needs a new server.

2006-04-23 Thread Joe Ciccone
Robert Connolly wrote: > What is the status of the new belgarath hardware? > > P.S. > Has a macintosh (or other odder hardware) been considered? > Would 5 Macintosh Plus systems be enough? I think they have at least 1Mb of ram each and a low density floppy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailma

Users and Groups

2006-04-21 Thread Joe Ciccone
I put this page together with the users and groups from LFS and BLFS. The only addition I made to this page is a users groups with a gid of 100. Anyone that wants to set something in stone, this would be a good place to start. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jciccone/users.html -- http://linuxfro

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

2006-04-07 Thread Joe Ciccone
Randy McMurchy wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 16:05 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > But the "you don't need HAL thing" with others saying the userspace > app is dependent on HAL, just has me totally confused at this point. > > A lot of the packages don't *require* build and function, Building

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

2006-04-07 Thread Joe Ciccone
Randy McMurchy wrote: > But you never answered my question, what did you do to get inotify to > work on a stock LFS system. It is becoming clear to me now, but how > you're getting inotify to work is still a mystery to me. > I figured out why I have it, I have /usr/include/sys/inotify.h provided

Re: Wireless Tools

2006-04-06 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > You can edit the wiki. Just register and log in. > > > Joe, Do you want me to put what I have so far into the wiki? I have my wireless service script at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jciccone/wireless . My intentions are to put a link to that script and information on

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-09 Thread Joe Ciccone
Jim Gifford wrote: > I also noticed that LLH moves things from asm-generic and incorporates > them into asm-{arch}, so that kinda of throws things off a little. Just an idea, leave it seperate until the parsing is done then copy|move the headers from asm-generic to asm-{arch}. This might be a lit

Re: [LFS Trac] #684: Must re-evaluate package order then document the rationale.

2006-03-03 Thread Joe Ciccone
Gerard Beekmans wrote: > If a symlink allows us to leave grep in its proper location in the > alphabet, I don't see a problem with that. We just want to make sure > that grep's "make install" replaces the symlink rather than overwrite > the target in /tools. > As much as an alphabetical branch mak

Re: Udev_update branch: /dev/pts and /dev/shm directories not created

2006-02-20 Thread Joe Ciccone
Archaic wrote: >If one is to follow the LFS book, one must have devices present prior to >installing the MBR. That alone is reason to sort out this problem. We >used mount --bind before. Perhaps it is time to bring it back. > > I agree with that. > But any and all post-LFS package building is i

Re: Udev_update branch: /dev/pts and /dev/shm directories not created

2006-02-18 Thread Joe Ciccone
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Alternatively, what purpose does populating /dev do at this stage? Instead of populating /dev why not just bind /dev to $LFS/dev. mount -o bind /dev $LFS/dev > Does something we build later on actually require devices in there > that we haven't yet got available to us?

Re: ImplementingTrac - Logo

2006-01-24 Thread Joe Ciccone
I can tell you that the problem is in main.css in the #logo section, but, I have no clue how to fix it, I know that when I changed position: relative; to position: static; it showed up properly, but then the positioning was off. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://w

Re: Santized Kernel Headers

2006-01-22 Thread Joe Ciccone
Jörg W Mittag wrote: > > - many major distributions include their own copies of sanitized > headers. > > > Many distros use patched 2.4 headers, Fedora is one example, but probably a bad one because they break all the rules anyway. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FA

Re: UTF-8

2006-01-21 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >Well ASCII is technically 7 bits, but most systems recognize Latin1 >which is 8 bits. > > I don't know why I said 4 bits, You are right. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information p

Re: UTF-8

2006-01-21 Thread Joe Ciccone
After doing some research on my own. I personaly would like to build without UTF-8 support because of the following problems that have been mentioned. 1. Man isn't UTF-8 ready yet, but support is planned. Man-DB seems like overkill for this application. 2. Groff isn't UTF-8 ready yet, but su

Re: RFC: Implementing Trac [long]

2006-01-17 Thread Joe Ciccone
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >Offer suggestions, please, on what you think would be a fair trial. I'm >sorry that my excitement about it carries me along sometimes. :) > > > Give it a run for its money, let the people that are going to use it, use it, and see how it works under a load with people usi

Re: RFC: Implementing Trac [long]

2006-01-08 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >1. Replace Bugzilla >2. Replace ViewCVS >3. Be a target for multilib/i18n issues. > >I do not think is should replace the general website. I'd prefer to >keep those pages static and archived in svn. > > I would opt to keep everything entact until everyone has agreed that

Re: RFC: Implementing Trac [long]

2006-01-08 Thread Joe Ciccone
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >2) Keep our existing website, but use Trac for a development wiki and to >replace Bugzilla and ViewCVS. The wiki pages would only include >development works in progress, not the main website pages, similar to >how our previous wiki was set up. > >3) Keep everything as is, i

Re: Merry Christmas

2005-12-24 Thread Joe Ciccone
Randy McMurchy wrote: > (I'll leave it as an exercise for the readers to figure why we > >weren't supposed to drink.) > The Y2K hoax! and Merry Christmas to everyone. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above infor

Re: coreutils (tail, head)

2005-12-15 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >I thought this POSIX behavior was reverted in the current coreutils, but >apparently not. Do we need to add a patch? > > from the info coreutils tail page: Some older `tail' implementations also support an obsolete option `+COUNT' with the same meaning as `-+COUNT'. POSIX

Re: texindex causes segmentation faults

2005-12-11 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >Randy McMurchy wrote: > > >>Hi all, >> >>I'm seeing a reproduceable issue with the current texinfo/teTeX >>combination of LFS/BLFS packages. I don't know where to begin to >>look so I'll describe symptoms and see if this rings a bell to >>anyone. >> >>I see segmentation fault

Re: Alphabetical branch status report (LONG)

2005-12-11 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >In BLFS, we do spend a lot of time determining dependencies, but we also >make the assumption that the LFS packages are installed. The LFS >dependencies are not listed for each package. > > > If the packages were to be listed, and have all the deps mapped out in a tree, you

Re: Alphabetical branch status report (LONG)

2005-12-11 Thread Joe Ciccone
Randy McMurchy wrote: >Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 12/11/05 19:43 CST: > > > >>The real thrust behind this research is to have a rationale for each >>package -- *why* it's built *when* it's built. IMO, that's 10 times >>better than just saying 'eh, the build order is a huge mess, we don

Re: Alphabetical branch status report

2005-12-11 Thread Joe Ciccone
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >Hi Guys, > >I just wanted to report on the status of the alphabetical branch as it >currently stands. For all intents and purposes, I believe it produces a >stable environment. I have built many, many packages on top of it and >it's working wonderfully. I have built my usua

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-10 Thread Joe Ciccone
oup conflict > reported in bug 1639. 5) Upgrade binutils to 2.16.1 if possible to incorperate gcc4 hosts. An alternative would be to put a note in the book saying that if your host uses gcc4 please install gcc pass1 then binutils pass1 then gcc pass1. Joe Ciccone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linux

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-08 Thread Joe Ciccone
isn't stable. I do not know if the world is ready for a stable release with gcc-4.0.2 but, a few upgrades are required. Joe Ciccone [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page