Re: [lfs-dev] popt in the book?

2012-06-05 Thread Steve Crosby
The discussion is about the feasibility of removing perl from *LFS* - all of the packages you listed except GCC are outside of LFS Sent from my iThingy On 6/06/2012, at 8:10, g@free.fr wrote: > > > - Mail original - >> De: "Jeremy Huntwork" >> À: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" >>

Re: [lfs-dev] Util-linux arch command

2012-02-26 Thread Steve Crosby
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Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-24 Thread Steve Crosby
f dev to real root mount point) exec switch_root $rootdev /mnt/root /sbin/init (atomic move of real root to / and exec /sbin/init as pid 1) No changes should be needed to bootscripts -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-22 Thread Steve Crosby
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Steve Crosby wrote: >>> 2. Providing an emergency shell in the event of failure to mount root >>> filesystem > > That's reasonable too, however I never recall needing that capability. > > The times I

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-22 Thread Steve Crosby
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Zachary Kotlarek wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Steve Crosby wrote: > >> 3. Populate /dev using busybox cutdown version of udev (mdev) > > > Is there a benefit to mdev over just using tmpdevfs? > > I say that as a current use

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-22 Thread Steve Crosby
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Steve Crosby wrote: > > 1. Education ;) > 2. Providing an emergency shell in the event of failure to mount root > filesystem > 3. (not relevant to LFS) Auto-detecting which device the root is on, when the boot device is portable\non-persistent

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-22 Thread Steve Crosby
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Steve Crosby wrote: > >> I've been experimenting with initramfs recently (I used to use initrd >> for my cdrom bootable lfs firewall). >> >> It's relatively straightforward. I understand dracut may a

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-22 Thread Steve Crosby
On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Steve Crosby wrote: cut&pasto ${INITPRG:="/sbin/init"} should be : ${INITPRG:="/sbin/init"} -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: S

Re: [lfs-dev] Adding LVM/RAID/initfamfs

2012-01-22 Thread Steve Crosby
grub.cfg after linux line initrd/boot/initramfs.cpio.bz2 Should make a recommendation to leave initramfs source in place for future updates\changes, or instructions on how to extract from cpio archive. Note that changes to INITRAMFS need only to replace cpio file in /boot, kernel recompile not needed. @ FIXME: should note there is an option to build cpio into kernel? may complicate issue? extraction is painful using kernel image, and require kernel recompile for any changes @ -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-dev] Udev-177 & Kmod-3 WIP patch

2012-01-16 Thread Steve Crosby
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Zachary Kotlarek wrote: > > On Jan 16, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Steve Crosby wrote: > >> Not *required* but systemd will issue a warning on boot if /etc/mtab >> is not a symlink to /proc/mounts > > > I'm pretty sure this is act

Re: [lfs-dev] Udev-177 & Kmod-3 WIP patch

2012-01-16 Thread Steve Crosby
opers who think they should determine user administration policy in code... Hint: because you think this is the way it should be done does not automatically make you right, nor make anyone who does it differently wrong Now I get to write\maintain a patch to silence your silliness in deciding

[lfs-dev] systemd dependencies data point

2012-01-16 Thread Steve Crosby
and systemd have circular build dependencies, and the recommended build method is (from the README) dbus (without systemd support) systemd dbus (with systemd support) -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Uns

Re: [lfs-dev] Patch naming

2012-01-11 Thread Steve Crosby
libpng-1.5, not libpng_1.5. It's not called libpng_1.5 so why should > the patch be called libpng_1.5? > > Andy thunderbird-9.0.1-fix_for_libpng-1.5-1.patch? -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-16 Thread Steve Jones
eason > to source the files in every single sub-shell. BTW, Dan's > initd-tools has moved. He is currently hosting them in his home > directory on freedesktop.org. Do you have the link to initd-tools. I've searched all morning and can't find anything. I'm thinking of trying the LSB scripts on my next build now that linux=2.6.38 is out. -- Steve Jones s...@slohj.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Website

2010-03-18 Thread Steve Prior
x27;t using a content management system (Drupal, Joomla, ...). Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

possible error ch6 Version SVN-20090812 6.9.1. Installation of Glibc

2009-08-15 Thread Steve
stitution: line 60: syntax error near unexpected token `)' bash: command substitution: line 60: `readelf -l /bin/sh | sed -n 's...@.*interpret.*/tools\(.*\)]...@\1@p')' Thanks, Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.

Re: Confused about some E2fsprogs notes

2008-10-08 Thread Steve Crosby
to check if your *host* system has a modified e2fsprogs, which means that when you create your LFS partition using that modified software you may run into problems when in chroot, as we won't have those same modifications with the LFS installation of e2fsprogs. As long as you don't have *mor

Re: GMP and MPFR

2008-10-06 Thread Steve Crosby
rks due to the shared libs being in a standard location (/usr/lib, etc), and the linker able to find them using normal paths. So Chapter 5 can be inline with GCC (which builds static by default) or seperate but static, and Chapter 6 can be shared or static as you prefer. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

GCC 4.3.1 SVN compilation summary

2008-08-27 Thread Steve Crosby
_PATH takes care of the location of gmp\mpfr) whether or not this is "better" is up to the editors, although it might simplify jhalfs building to have the libraries as seperate apps currently up to gawk install in Chapter 5, no new issues to report that are not already noted. -- --

Re: GCC-4.3.1, Linux-2.6.26.2

2008-08-27 Thread Steve Crosby
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 10:12 PM, Steve Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Steve Crosby wrote: >> >>> FYI: building them in the tools directory is going to be problematic. >>&

Re: GCC-4.3.1, Linux-2.6.26.2

2008-08-27 Thread Steve Crosby
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Greg Schafer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Crosby wrote: > >> FYI: building them in the tools directory is going to be problematic. >> During the stage 1 build of gcc, the make system is unable to locate >> the libmpfr.so.1 li

Re: GCC-4.3.1, Linux-2.6.26.2

2008-08-27 Thread Steve Crosby
ethod of adding the needed libraries to the host toolset. At some point this will need to be addressed, if nothing else for sucessful building from the LFS6.3 LiveCD, which doesn't have these libraries. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: GCC-4.3.1, Linux-2.6.26.2

2008-08-26 Thread Steve Crosby
st yesterday completed a LFS Live CD 6.3 build into my new VMWare instance, I'm keen to test the latest SVN build over the next few days. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Happy Birthday LFS

2008-02-23 Thread Steve Prior
server at the end, all built from source. Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Is 6.3 ready for release?

2007-08-01 Thread Steve Crosby
roc/self/fd/0 -> /dev/pts/0 root:~# ls -l /dev/pts/0 crw--w 1 root tty 136, 0 2007-08-02 14:30 /dev/pts/0 so the nobody user won't be able to read these devices. Not sure how you would work around that, unless you use login instead of su to start the nobody user doing the testing (wh

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-09 Thread Steve Prior
atest 6.3 sources from which to build the real LFS box. While it's nice for the two to be in the same ballpark, there's nothing that says the LiveCD needs to be running 6.3, just that it should be sufficient to build 6.3. Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinf

Re: Little note on psmisc

2007-05-10 Thread steve crosby
t" in the kernel, and then userspace can use that to communicate to a kernel module - this can be bi-directional and multi-cast too, so you can hang a userspace process on a netlink socket and receive output from the kernel module - useful for accounting, audting, etc. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- h

Re: LFS powering the Web...well in a manner of speaking

2007-04-28 Thread Steve Prior
ight like to hear about that bit of news. > Very cool news. It's been hard to judge the popularity of LFS, everyone I know that's ever heard of it knows about it from me telling them. Though it does appear on the Linux Distro timeline at: http://kde-files.org/CONTENT/content-files/44

Re: LTP failure

2007-03-21 Thread steve crosby
that, the full source > to is at > > http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ltp/ltp-full-20070228.tgz?download > > -- Bruce > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > >

Re: Proposal for an LFS-6.3

2007-02-08 Thread steve crosby
cat $file >> /etc/udev/rules.d/$dest rm -f $file done # Re-trigger the failed uevents in hope they will succeed now /sbin/udevtrigger --retry-failed - -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Udev fb[0-9]* permissions

2006-10-08 Thread steve crosby
termine why it was 0622 in MAKEDEV tho ;) -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Book text updates

2006-08-26 Thread steve crosby
t environment, in a bash shell, so use of bash specific commands is certainly valid. If you have chosen to not install bash, then your expected to also know what impact such deviation will have. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Udev incorrectly generating entries in /dev/.udev/failed

2006-07-25 Thread steve crosby
der E. Patrakov you can either remove the modprobe rules from the rules directory, or link /sbin/modprobe to /bin/true - I have the same issue with a firewall build using no modules, and just remove the module based ruleset. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listi

Re: [Fwd: Re: LFS 6.2-pre2 Released]

2006-07-24 Thread steve crosby
e to change killproc at all. Without having the bootscripts handy, i think it the syntax is killproc -p pidfile application -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: OFFICIAL PROPOSAL.

2006-05-29 Thread steve crosby
sn't watching? Time Limits on a volunteer project run by mailing list and IRC conversations? Voting? Democracy? Surely the benign dictatorship model we had prior to this radical political change was working okay? -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: Kernel Headers Script [was: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too]

2006-05-04 Thread steve crosby
ram to iptables - version 1.24 of ulog is used in my setup, however a v2.0beta is being developed by the netfilter team. steve:/usr/src# cat asm-headers asm/types.h steve:/usr/src# cat linux-headers linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_ULOG.h linux/netlink.h -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscrat

Re: Kernel Headers Script [was: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too]

2006-05-04 Thread steve crosby
rs and linux-headers attached. Note that the "find" command in the header_list script needed altering to escape the filenames, or it reports an error about paths preceeding options. i.e "find * -name \*.c" and "find * -name \*.h" -- -- - Steve Crosby asm-headers Desc

Re: Kernel Headers Script [was: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too]

2006-05-03 Thread steve crosby
On 5/4/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve, I just added a headers_list script that will look at the sources and pull all the headers and put them into a report. Let's run that and compare what I have in the script now to see what's missing. http://ftp.j

Re: Kernel Headers Script [was: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too]

2006-05-03 Thread steve crosby
On 5/4/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ok, got those changes in. Thanx for the reports Steve, this is what I need. no worries - with those changes (dccp.h, netfilter.h) iptables (and ulog) compile fine. Diff attached for headers script for reference diff -Naur headers.s

Re: Kernel Headers Script [was: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too]

2006-05-03 Thread steve crosby
On 5/4/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve, I think I got it covered in the 00.52, I'll be posting it shortly. still no joy linux/dccp.h missing - I added that, and then this occurs extensions/libipt_connmark.c: In function 'init': extensions/libipt

Kernel Headers Script [was: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too]

2006-05-03 Thread steve crosby
On 5/4/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: steve crosby wrote: > My intent was to identify that one of the options provided in the > thread (Jim's work with the linux headers) has problems, as it's > currently not working with certain applications outside of LFS.

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

2006-05-03 Thread steve crosby
On 5/4/06, Matt Darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: steve crosby wrote: > On 5/1/06, Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> a setup. The sticking point would be programs that include linux/.h >> or asm/.h, if there are any. And it sounds like there

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread steve crosby
On 5/3/06, Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 05:10:17PM +1200, steve crosby wrote: > > from tty.h > > #define MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES 63 /* must be root to allocate above this */ Would that be #define MAX_NR_CONSOLES 63 /* serial lines start at 64 */

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread steve crosby
nearly that many. I found it once, but forget where. It was a c file in the kernel. A #DEFINE, IIRC. from tty.h #define MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES 63 /* must be root to allocate above this */ -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.

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

2006-04-30 Thread steve crosby
it's Linux-specific.) iptables is one such application - currently non functional with jim's script created headers, but have yet to identify why. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

Re: udev branch: /sbin/udevstart not installed with 0.87

2006-03-18 Thread steve crosby
On 3/19/06, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > steve crosby wrote: > > The program is built, but not installed (or needed later) - just run > > it from the current directory (e.g. instead of /sbin/udevstart use > > ./udevstart) > > No, there's no nee

Re: udev branch: /sbin/udevstart not installed with 0.87

2006-03-17 Thread steve crosby
t; > But, in udev-087, udevstart isn't installed anymore. > > So, now what? > The program is built, but not installed (or needed later) - just run it from the current directory (e.g. instead of /sbin/udevstart use ./udevstart) -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxf

Re: Perl security vulnerability

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Prior
for the easiest approach, but I can certainly do it manually. Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Hand holding (Was: Re: Post LFS-6.1.1 plans)

2005-11-28 Thread Steve Prior
with what they learned I did my job. I got positive evaluations at the end. People just totally ignore prereqs... Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [Fwd: recent changes to udev]

2005-11-08 Thread steve crosby
gured out, too. Ah well, it happens, I > guess. > Don't abandon it ;) Others are interested in initramfs setup for things like booting from CD, embedded systems, etc - it's actually easier to maintain an initramfs than an initrd, since the kernel will build it for you without mes

Re: LFS 6.1.1 Release Date?

2005-10-31 Thread Steve Prior
m+Scratch&target_milestone=6.1.1 shows two remaining bugs. The Glibc 2.3.4 patch (which solves the ssh issue) doesn't seem to be listed among the bugs - has it been included anyway? Thanks Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Un

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Prior
urity vulneribilities in the 6.1 book as shown in the errata, http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/errata/stable/, I think a 6.1.1 book with all these items fixed would be a great help. The stable book doesn't appear so 'stable' when you look at all of these bugs. Comments? -- JH

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Prior
ouldn't require NEARLY as much testing/review as what is required to make a new stable release out of what is in 6.1 DEV. Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Prior
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Steve Prior wrote: Yes, my point exactly. If the bug is in LFS then *that* should be fixed and released, and in turn, the LiveCD can follow suit. Thanks for the detailed reply, Steve. -- JH My concern at the moment is a practical one. I have a machine I really

Re: glibc bug in LFS-6.1 and its nALFS profile

2005-10-06 Thread Steve Prior
ltiple programs, but either there's a bug in ssh or at least the BLFS instructions for ssh might need to change. Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: My status

2005-10-03 Thread Steve
d from Gerard to sort out last time. PEOPLE! For the sake of the Project, the community, and the human race: GET YOUR FREAKING ACT TOGETHER!!! Steve -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [RFC] Udev configuration changes

2005-09-13 Thread steve crosby
On 9/14/05, steve crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note also that editing the default ruleset supplied by LFS is not > necessary - multiple rules files are perfectly acceptable, as long as > the rules of precedence are considered. Replying to myself ;) Does it make sense to

Re: [RFC] Udev configuration changes

2005-09-13 Thread steve crosby
nerate a udev rules file, rather than the nodes themselves? Possibly allow a "prompt" option to makedev which asks what nodes you want, and a makedev LFS\BLFS so the actual node rules can be maintained by the appropriate development teams - just a thought. Note also that editing the defaul

Re: Bug in LFS?

2005-09-13 Thread steve crosby
the CD. This has happened on both my Some older CDROM drives don't fully support the standards - as such, they ignore the "lock" command (amongst other more important ones!) Use http://cdctl.sourceforge.net/ and see if that can lock the drive door - if not, it's a firmware thing (

Re: Shared library permissions

2005-08-22 Thread steve crosby
is useful to leave libc.6.so as executable so you can run the library to get the version details. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Coreutils binary locations

2005-08-15 Thread steve crosby
On 8/16/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > steve crosby wrote: > > > The patch needs a proper LFS header applied and sending upstream > > (hint, hint, nudge, nudge). Tested here on udev-067 without issue. > > Hmm, this is the second patch you

Re: Bogus usage of gcc --print-file

2005-08-15 Thread steve crosby
earer Why do we need to know? we can simply do as I posted earlier, and sed the dumpspecs stream, then input the results directly to the specs with with -specs= - let gcc handle updating the actual file -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.

Re: Bogus usage of gcc --print-file

2005-08-15 Thread steve crosby
pecs=tempfile rm tempfile Chapter 6 gcc -dumpspecs | sed -e 's@ /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2@ /lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' -e '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/lib/@g' > tempfile gcc -specs=tempfile rm tempfile -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/lis

Re: Coreutils binary locations

2005-08-14 Thread steve crosby
ed external binary can't be found, the test program will now abort with an error, except in the case of "tree", where an ls -laR will be performed instead. The patch needs a proper LFS header applied and sending upstream (hint, hint, nudge, nudge). Tested here on udev-067 without iss

Re: [RFC] Add CrackLib to Chapter 6 LFS

2005-08-04 Thread steve crosby
ord security mechanism. Alternatives to Cracklib: Cracklib is only one possible password security checking mechanism. Others include the passwdqc and npasswd packages, and the Linux_PAM library. Please refer to the linked pages for instructions on using these packages. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxf

Re: [RFC] Add CrackLib to Chapter 6 LFS

2005-08-04 Thread steve crosby
On 8/5/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/4/05, steve crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/5/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/04/05 19:12 CST: > > > > > > >

Re: [RFC] Add CrackLib to Chapter 6 LFS

2005-08-04 Thread steve crosby
On 8/5/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > steve crosby wrote these words on 08/04/05 19:56 CST: > > > Regardless, if the end user doesn't like/want the policy, all that's > > required is to skip this package installation, much the same as people

Re: [RFC] Add CrackLib to Chapter 6 LFS

2005-08-04 Thread steve crosby
d user doesn't like/want the policy, all that's required is to skip this package installation, much the same as people can currently skip things like gettext, module-init tools, etc. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscr

Re: [RFC] Add CrackLib to Chapter 6 LFS

2005-08-04 Thread steve crosby
or inclusion of cracklib in LFS (but NOT Linux_PAM!) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [RFC] Add CrackLib to Chapter 6 LFS

2005-08-04 Thread steve crosby
shadow password package provides all the listed npasswd functionality and more on linux systems that I can see during a quick read of the documentation (password aging, dictionary checks, etc). -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linux

Re: Bzip2 documentation

2005-08-03 Thread steve crosby
to get a version number. > Updated version attached, using DISTNAME makefile variable for version control (and other minor enhancements) -- - Steve Crosby bzip2-1.0.3-install_docs-2.patch Description: Binary data -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Upcoming util-linux

2005-08-03 Thread steve crosby
e stage (I know at least perl used arch at some stage) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Chapter 5 GCC nit

2005-08-02 Thread steve crosby
0.480.00 (0) linux-2.6.12.3 271.62 0.89 (232) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: charset/language/fluxbox

2005-07-16 Thread steve crosby
d issues with these broken applications and libraries. I'm assuming the Xlib maintainers have been notified of the problem as well? -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Please mention prerequisites: bison & flex

2005-07-06 Thread steve crosby
Depends On:" section of each of the Chapter 5 package in order to successfully build LFS. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Please mention prerequisites: bison & flex

2005-07-06 Thread steve crosby
x, GCC, Gettext, Glibc, Grep, M4, Make, Perl, Sed, and Texinfo -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread steve crosby
On 7/6/05, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > steve crosby wrote: > > Oh, and you can make the menu selections look more like "tabs" using > > CSS with relative ease. > > Sure. :) But again, the look is intentional. Out of curiosity, what did &g

Re: [RFC] New LFS Website

2005-07-05 Thread steve crosby
it's also a fair distance to move the mouse ;) Oh, and you can make the menu selections look more like "tabs" using CSS with relative ease. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: First console command completes but ...

2005-06-23 Thread steve crosby
7;t do much else. This sounds suspiciously like the known bash bug - not returning control to the shell. There is a patch for this on the LFS patches repository, called something like bash-3.0-WCONTINUED-1.patch Recompile bash with that patch and you should be all go. - -- Steve Crosby -- http

Re: Kernel 2.6.12

2005-06-20 Thread Steve Crosby
ot;MA:CA:DD:RE:SS:01", name="external" I can then reliably assume that all processing on the interface named external refers to the internet facing NIC ;) - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: SBU calculations

2005-06-17 Thread Steve Crosby
<10% variances in build times for the initial SBU, when you can get greater variance than that due to other variables in the system. (The point being, should we really care that much about how accurate the SBU is, given it's a finger in the air, rough-guide anyway) - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: grep: --with-included-regex: must be dropped for 6.1

2005-06-13 Thread Steve Crosby
>> above configure option. > > +1 here. Included regex is just incorrect for ru_RU.KOI8-R (i.e. this > affects the 6.1 book). Testcase: > FYI: added to BZ as bug 1507 so it doesn't get misplaced. - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: h

Re: Handling the change from the temp phase to the final target phase

2005-05-28 Thread Steve Crosby
hold our breath and look over our shoulders in fear of any "competition" - the "build a system from scratch and learn on the way" market place has plenty of room for others, and we're comfortable in where we are, and the progress we are making. As always, yours (and anyone elses) input is welcome, thanks for taking the time to comment. - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Bashism in LFS-bootscripts

2005-05-19 Thread Steve Crosby
cutable): > > if ( exec [ -r file1 ] ) ; then do_whatever ; fi > > I can't decide if that's more or less ugly than: > > if /bin/[ -r file1 ] ; then do_whatever ; fi > > though. It is a few characters longer, for whatever that's worth. > Just drop t

RE: lfs-bootscripts (networking)

2005-05-07 Thread Steve Crosby
d route to send it down (and static routing of this nature is very common) Hope thats clearer - the "default" route is where I send a packet that I don't otherwise know how to handle. Note that I'm not saying multiple routes can't be configured, just that I would prefer

Re: lfs-bootscripts (networking)

2005-05-07 Thread Steve Crosby
Perhaps you meant multiple routes between networks, which can already be added with ip. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

New Cross-LFS book - what about the printed version?

2005-04-29 Thread steve crosby
y access to the [b,h]lfs lists is via news, not mail, and my reader of choice does not support replying via email, so I can't intelligently respond to threads easily... ;( -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: glibc-20050321

2005-03-21 Thread Steve Crosby
ted in the message below, and looks like it's been approved. http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2005-01/msg00288.html -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Bug 1061 - buggy binutils host problems

2005-03-12 Thread Steve Crosby
ip static libraries, as the strip command has a bug in it. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Bug 1061 - buggy binutils host problems

2005-03-12 Thread Steve Crosby
ements and seeing what if any issues arise in general usage. On a related note: do we have a documented means of "testing" the toolchain components to ensure we don't introduce host elements, other then the "boot and see what breaks" approach? I have some spare CPU cycle

Re: LFS server future replacement info

2005-03-10 Thread Steve Crosby
e full bandwidth, using timeslicing as you are above. Had not heard of anyone doing that over Ethernet before tho ;) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Binutils failure in Chapter 5

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Crosby
Steve Crosby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > "Robert R. Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in > news:d0lq7l$ht0$1 @belgarath.linuxfromscratch.org: > >> >> Why is stripping the host binaries the issue? >> My Febua

Re: Binutils failure in Chapter 5

2005-03-08 Thread Steve Crosby
the details you have given above, your host is compiled with a fixed version of the strip command (and ld command as well), and so should not see this issue. (BIG NOTE: I'm lazy and busy at the moment, so I'm using the ugly binutils version numbers from memory, and might

Re: Binutils failure in Chapter 5

2005-03-07 Thread Steve Crosby
Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Steve Crosby wrote these words on 03/07/05 20:12 CST: > >> 1. build the initial binutils and gcc in chapter 5 using dynamic >> libs, rather than static (this avoids the stripped libc.a issue). >>

Re: Binutils failure in Chapter 5

2005-03-07 Thread Steve Crosby
2.15.91.0.2 in the initial chapter 5 (this results in binutils ignoring the fact the symbols in libc.a on the host are borked, but by chance that's the right option). 3. Just rebuild and replace libc.a on the host - none of the other glibc libraries\files are relevant to this issue. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS on Sun Ultra5

2005-03-07 Thread Steve Crosby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:OFE9389F4D.EB5D7A58- [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Steve Crosby wrote: > >>For the LFS build - is there a recommendation about building LFS from >>Linux >>or Solaris? > > MUCH easier from linux ;-) > > There is this little matter of

LFS on Sun Ultra5

2005-03-05 Thread Steve Crosby
ill end up being a playtoy for the missus and kids, so not to worried about having to rebuild every now and then. Just looking for some pointers to doco/info, as I'll start the building in the next few days. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lf

Re: SBU and Disk Usage script-foo

2005-02-23 Thread Steve Crosby
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Steve Crosby wrote: >> Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in >> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> >>>Steve Crosby wrote: >>> >>>>I've added some script-f

Re: SBU and Disk Usage script-foo

2005-02-22 Thread Steve Crosby
Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Steve Crosby wrote: >> I've added some script-foo to my build scripts to automatically >> generate SBU's, Disk Usage and Installed Files details, and am >> sharing below. > > befor

SBU and Disk Usage script-foo

2005-02-22 Thread Steve Crosby
SBU: 2.56 (elapsed: 833) linux-libc-headers - 2.6.10.0 Disk: 26.32 SBU: 0.00 (elapsed: 0) glibc - 2.3.4 Disk: 223.36 SBU: 3.85 (elapsed: 1255) gcc - 3.4.3 Disk: 148.10 SBU: 2.25 (elapsed: 733) binutils - 2.15.94.0.2.2 Disk: 91.14 SBU: 1.05 (elapsed: 342) gawk - 3.1.4 Disk: 14.71 SBU:

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