Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-16 Thread M.Canales.es
El Viernes, 14 de Octubre de 2005 22:56, Matthew Burgess escribió: > Yeah, I hit the missing patches.ent file today too. As it's a fairly > safe change to do (`make validate' and the rendering process that copies > the patches will catch any inadvertent errors) feel free to backport > patches.e

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: 4) Do something with the udev configuration vs. /etc/group conflict reported in bug 1639. How about the udev version ? Should we stick with 056 or upgrade it to 070 ? (I seem to remember that something newer than 056 was needed

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >> On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: >> >>> 4) Do something with the udev configuration vs. /etc/group conflict >>> reported in bug 1639. >> >> >> How about the udev version ? Should we stick with 056 or upgrade it >> to 070 ? (I seem to rem

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
M.Canales.es wrote: I was thinking to add jhalfs support for 6.1.1, but noticed that there is no patches.ent file on that branch. If jhalfs support is wanted and such type of change is allowed on this bug-fixes release, I could do the needed edits this weekend. Yeah, I hit the missing patch

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread M.Canales.es
El Viernes, 7 de Octubre de 2005 00:42, Jeremy Huntwork escribió: > I've heard no recent talk of cutting a testing branch from trunk in > preparation of a release, and in the meantime, I think we owe it to our > readers to supply a stable LFS with all these known items fixed. I was thinking to ad

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: 4) Do something with the udev configuration vs. /etc/group conflict reported in bug 1639. How about the udev version ? Should we stick with 056 or upgrade it to 070 ? (I seem to reme

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: 4) Do something with the udev configuration vs. /etc/group conflict reported in bug 1639. How about the udev version ? Should we stick with 056 or upgrade it to 070 ? (I seem to remember that something newer than 056 was needed

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: 4) Do something with the udev configuration vs. /etc/group conflict reported in bug 1639. How about the udev version ? Should we stick with 056 or upgrade it to 070 ? (I seem to remember that something newer than 056 was needed for newer kernels

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: This one applied fine with an offset, built correctly and is running smoothly. Openssh-4.2p1 also built on the same system and running well. In that case, I'd rather go with yours (I think there is a possibility that my rejec

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: This one applied fine with an offset, built correctly and is running smoothly. Openssh-4.2p1 also built on the same system and running well. In that case, I'd rather go with yours (I think there is a possibility that my rejection was caused by

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-14 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Ken Moffat wrote: Dug out the patch from the libc-hacker archives, but I had to apply it by hand, I think the line numbers changed a bit too much for patch to figure it out. Can you confirm this is what you want put in, and can I stick your name in the 'submitted by' ? I was thinking of cal

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: It is not an issue in the ssh itself. Testcase: gcc -o test -ldl test.c rm -rf /tmp/foobar; mkdir /tmp/foobar ./test Dug out the patch from the libc-hacker archives, but I had to apply it by hand, I think the line numbers changed a bit too m

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-11 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I would like to make a formal request for a 6.1.1 release of the LFS Book. Agreed, let's do this. I'd imagine it'll only need a couple of weeks at most. I've created the branch (checkout from svn[+ssh]://linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/branches/6.1.1). I'll be pretty busy

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jim Gifford wrote: The test case does not give any errors. at all. In cross-lfs we use the glibc-snapshot from 20050926, which this problem has been fixed. You are right, the dlopen-in-chroot problem shouldn't exist in that snapshot. Do I understand correctly that you meant "there is also som

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Jim Gifford wrote: 3) Patch glibc to fix the issue triggered by openSSH Still doesn't work all archictectures, some people are thinking it's a issue in ssh itself. It is not an issue in the ssh itself. Testcase: gcc -o test -ldl test.c rm -rf /tmp/foobar;

Re: LFS stable releases in general (was Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1)

2005-10-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Greg Schafer wrote: Yes. This whole problem adds even more weight to the theory that labeling LFS "releases" with version numbers is not a good idea. I supported this theory until the errata page appeared. My basis was: frozen releases without future bugfixes are not "stable releases", but j

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jim Gifford wrote: 3) Patch glibc to fix the issue triggered by openSSH Still doesn't work all archictectures, some people are thinking it's a issue in ssh itself. It is not an issue in the ssh itself. Testcase: gcc -o test -ldl test.c rm -rf /tmp/foobar; mkdir /tmp/foobar ./test where te

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-10 Thread Jim Gifford
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: If we do release a 6.1.1, I think the approach we should adopt is: 1) Apply security patches to texinfo, util-linux, bzip2 and vim. Needed. 2) Upgrade perl and zlib to fix their respective security vulnerabilities Needed 3) Patch glibc t

Re: FC4 host (was Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1)

2005-10-10 Thread Greg Schafer
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > This is from the current development LFS LiveCD, not FC4, but I assume > the problem is the same: > ../../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/gas/config/tc-i386.h:443: error: array type > has incomplete element type > make[3]: *** [app.o] Error 1 Ok, thanks for clarifying.

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-10 Thread Joe Ciccone
Matthew Burgess wrote: > 1) Apply security patches to texinfo, util-linux, bzip2 and vim. > 2) Upgrade perl and zlib to fix their respective security vulnerabilities > 3) Patch glibc to fix the issue triggered by openSSH > 4) Do something with the udev configuration vs. /etc/group conflict > repor

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-10 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: If we do release a 6.1.1, I think the approach we should adopt is: 1) Apply security patches to texinfo, util-linux, bzip2 and vim. 2) Upgrade perl and zlib to fix their respective security vulnerabilities 3) Patch glibc to fix the issue triggered by openSSH 4) Do somethi

Re: FC4 host (was Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1)

2005-10-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Greg Schafer wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: 5) Blacklist Fedora Core 4 since it can't build binutils. Huh? Stable or development LFS? Stable, i.e. 6.1 > Could you please supply details of the problem? This is from the current development LFS LiveCD, not FC4, but I assume the probl

FC4 host (was Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1)

2005-10-10 Thread Greg Schafer
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > 5) Blacklist Fedora Core 4 since it can't build binutils. Huh? Stable or development LFS? Could you please supply details of the problem? Does passing --disable-werror help? Or maybe we just need to add the required GCC4 patches to the Binutils version used in stabl

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-09 Thread Chris Staub
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: If we do release a 6.1.1, I think the approach we should adopt is: 1) Apply security patches to texinfo, util-linux, bzip2 and vim. 2) Upgrade perl and zlib to fix their respective security vulnerabilities 3) Patch glibc to fix the issue trig

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: If we do release a 6.1.1, I think the approach we should adopt is: 1) Apply security patches to texinfo, util-linux, bzip2 and vim. 2) Upgrade perl and zlib to fix their respective security vulnerabilities 3) Patch glibc to fix the issue triggered by openSSH 4) Do somethin

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-09 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I would like to make a formal request for a 6.1.1 release of the LFS Book. The glibc/openSSH issue is the only real candidate that would warrant a 6.1.1 release, IMO. The fact that some of our packages contain security vulnerabilities is nothing new, can't be helped,

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I haven't been paying a lot of attention to this thread, but I thought somebody mentioned a glibc upgrade to 2.3.5 ? Now, that version worked fine for me (but then, so did 2.3.4, and even openssh on x86), but I don't think it's been tested in the con

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Ken Moffat wrote: I haven't been paying a lot of attention to this thread, but I thought somebody mentioned a glibc upgrade to 2.3.5 ? Now, that version worked fine for me (but then, so did 2.3.4, and even openssh on x86), but I don't think it's been tested in the context of BLFS-stable ? S

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-08 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 8 Oct 2005, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I hadn't meant cut a branch from trunk and call it 'stable' - that would require a lot more testing. I meant take the current 'stable' book and do whatever minimally needs to be done to fix each bug and re-release. It really would be a 6.1.1 in that

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Joe Ciccone wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I've heard no recent talk of cutting a testing branch from trunk in preparation of a release, and in the meantime, I think we owe it to our readers to supply a stable LFS with all these known items fixed. I have personaly stopped building stable be

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-08 Thread Joe Ciccone
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I've heard no recent talk of cutting a testing branch from trunk in preparation of a release, and in the meantime, I think we owe it to our readers to supply a stable LFS with all these known items fixed. I have personaly stopped building stable because stable isn't st

RE: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-07 Thread David Fix
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to make a formal request for a 6.1.1 release of the LFS > Book. > > Comments? > > -- > JH Yeah, for sure I'm with that. :) Dave -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsub

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-07 Thread Steve Prior
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hi All, I would like to make a formal request for a 6.1.1 release of the LFS Book. After today's discussion concerning the bug pointed to by Alexander, http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534, and after looking at the several known security vulnerib

Re: [RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-07 Thread lfs-user
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hi All, I would like to make a formal request for a 6.1.1 release of the LFS Book. After today's discussion concerning the bug pointed to by Alexander, http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534, and after looking at the several known security vulnerib

[RFC] LFS-6.1.1

2005-10-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hi All, I would like to make a formal request for a 6.1.1 release of the LFS Book. After today's discussion concerning the bug pointed to by Alexander, http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534, and after looking at the several known security vulneribilities in the 6.1 book