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

2007-07-18 Thread Steven
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:36:40 -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Or it will end up in an LFS Hint. Or we'll defer completely to CLFS. Long live pureLFS! When I was first introduced to CLFS it was indicated that some people indeed anticipated that, eventually, the cross method would become The Book

Re: Incremental upgrades

2007-07-18 Thread Steven
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 01:14:52 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > More to the point, I've long thought that we don't really cover > "the long-term care of your LFS system" (e.g. I don't think we point out Care and maintenance of any complicated entity, a house, a garage, a method of building an OS, maint

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-18 Thread Steven
t sentence of this paragraph. > 5) What would you change/add/improve? I still don't know how to us iproute2 competently though I can sometimes bumble my way into creating a useable network. Is there a concise tutorial? Maybe I'll end up writing one... > JH The LFS tea

Re: Incremental upgrades

2007-07-17 Thread Steven
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:57:46 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Has anyone tried rebuilding and installing these packages in place on > the current system? If so, what experiences have you had? >From memory it's a major PITA to upgrade gcc or glibc on a running system--I don't think I was ever success

Re: UTF-8

2006-01-20 Thread Steven B
now the community's > thoughts on this point. I can understand that some wouldn't want extra > packages when they won't use UTF-8, but they've also made it sound like > UTF-8 was never discussed at all. > > -- > JH I followed the book and built with UTF-8. How can