Re: config.site questions

2005-11-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> I think this would be an extremely useful addition. It teaches the >> user about config.site, and the book already sets other variables at > > > Doesn't anyone read the documentation anymore? :) I can understand > needin

Re: Annoucement - CLFS

2005-11-01 Thread silverspurg
On Mon, 31 Oct 2005, Jim Gifford wrote: The CLFS Project. Cross Linux From Scratch is a book dedicated to building on various architectures. Currently we have Alpha, Sparc, PowerPC, x86, and x86_64 architectures in the book. Cross LFS will teach you how to build a cross architecture toolcha

Re: config.site questions

2005-11-01 Thread silverspurg
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Dan Nicholson wrote: I think this would be an extremely useful addition. It teaches the user about config.site, and the book already sets other variables at Doesn't anyone read the documentation anymore? :) I can understand needing to teach them about configure... Ste

Re: initramfs - why not?

2005-11-01 Thread Zachary Kotlarek
On Nov 1, 2005, at 6:06 AM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: But that's not the only way of doing an initramfs. You can also create a control file that refers to the files on your system, in their current directories, and when you "make" the kernel, it'll pull the files from wherever they currently ar

Re: initramfs - why not?

2005-11-01 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Jim Gifford wrote: > Have they ever figured out how when your build a kernel to add the > modules that your building into the initramf? So you can have a > complete modular system? I don't know. If modules_install would get run before the initramfs image creation, then you could use the /lib/mod

Re: initramfs - why not?

2005-11-01 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Zachary Kotlarek wrote: > You're right -- I didn't realize there was a difference. But none of > differences you highlight really change my point. This is true. I realize now it sounds like I was using them as rebuttal points, but that wasn't the intention. I was just trying to point out why an

Re: LFS 6.1.1 Release Date?

2005-11-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Steve Prior wrote: 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? Yes, there were a couple of the errata entries that we just dealt with without putting them into bugzilla first, which is why the glibc problem doesn

Re: config.site questions

2005-11-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/1/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/31/05, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In any case, it might be useful for KDE or possibly Gnome where there > > are related packages, but its usefulness seems to be a bit limited for > > LFS in general. > > I think this would

Re: config.site questions

2005-11-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 10/31/05, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, it might be useful for KDE or possibly Gnome where there > are related packages, but its usefulness seems to be a bit limited for > LFS in general. I think this would be an extremely useful addition. It teaches the user about conf