Re: Comments on Trac ticket mails

2006-02-23 Thread Nico R.
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: [...] If the text is not US-ASCII and the content-transfer-encoding is quoted-printable, all non-ASCII bytes are converted to the =XY notation, where X and Y are hex digits. ASCII pats of the message are readable with vim this way, [...] So quoted-printable

Re: Comments on Trac ticket mails

2006-02-23 Thread Nico R.
Gerard Beekmans wrote: It can be made more clear. And is the project name truly necessary in the Subject header. We already know which project a ticket belongs to based on the mailinglist it was sent to (this of course is me assuming most everybody uses separate email folders to filter email

Comments on Trac ticket mails

2006-02-22 Thread Nico R.
I noticed two things in the many mails I'm receiving from the Trac ticket system: 1. The subject lines always start with the full project name in square brackets and the ticket number. Example subject: [Linux From Scratch] #1715: bash-3.1.010. This is unfortunate, because when the subject can't

Re: expect-5.43.0

2006-01-23 Thread Nico R.
Greg Schafer wrote: This may be unrelated, but please note there has been a screwup at the upstream tarball site. My upstream tarball detector script found this: Upstream tarball detector - cool! :-) - [BIN] expect-5.43.0.tar.gz 08-Feb-2005 16:45 513K + [BIN] expect-5.43.0.tar.gz

Re: Man and Groff - Author Feedbacks - UTF-8 Comments

2006-01-19 Thread Nico R.
Jim Gifford wrote: [Man and groff UTF-8-ready by March, according to their respective maintainers.] Both also expressed and interest for us to assist in testing. Great! I'll try to help with some testing on LFS and LFS-like systems. I don't claim to know as much as e.g. Alexander about these

Re: [locale] nano version

2006-01-04 Thread Nico R.
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: The question is how the book should handle this. Valid options: 1) Upgrade nano to 1.3.9 and briefly explain the reason on its page. Don't add anything to the locale related issues page because the issue is completely resolved. 2) Keep both nano-1.2.5 and

Re: LFS-alphabetical: groff before perl

2005-12-22 Thread Nico R.
Dan Nicholson wrote: Who hates the perl build system? I do, I do. Me too. %-| I can't tell you how long it took to figure this out since it appears the perl build system was written by a high school student. ??? ;-) Now, we could just add some mandir= type statements to configure.gnu,

Re: Hint on installing autotools versions in parallel

2005-12-10 Thread Nico R.
Hallo, Tushar Teredesai wrote: Finally, I have written a draft hint on installing multiple autotools version. I would appreciate your comments before I submit the hint. The hint and attachments are available at http://linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/tmp/. Thanks for this hint, Tushar!

LFS 6.1 and 6.1.1, chapter 3: man-pages-2.01 download location

2005-12-01 Thread Nico R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello! Chapter 3.2 of LFS 6.1.1 URL:http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1.1/chapter03/packages.html lists URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/ as download location for man-pages-2.01. This package is not/no longer available from