Re: Package Management

2005-12-29 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 12/29/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, that is probably best. As has been said by everyone, package > management is something that needs to be implemented at the beginning > of Chapter 6 in LFS. I think everyone is in agreement there. Can someone bugzilla this so that it i

Re: Firefox-1.5 profile locking issue

2005-12-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/29/05, Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12/29/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would say no. > > > > > They did something to fix that crap. And I'm glad. > > Yeah, it looks like they cleaned up that script some. It's still a > bit hacky, but appears to work b

Re: Firefox-1.5 profile locking issue

2005-12-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/29/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would say no. > They did something to fix that crap. And I'm glad. Yeah, it looks like they cleaned up that script some. It's still a bit hacky, but appears to work better. I'll confirm when I can, but I think you're right. -- Dan --

Re: Firefox-1.5 profile locking issue

2005-12-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 12/29/05 13:56 CST: > I don't have access to my system right now to test this, but do we > still need the sed to solve the profile locking issue for the > /usr/bin/firefox script? I would say no. I tested this. I opened the browser multiple times using differen

Firefox-1.5 profile locking issue

2005-12-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
Hey Randy, I don't have access to my system right now to test this, but do we still need the sed to solve the profile locking issue for the /usr/bin/firefox script? Looking at the file browser/app/mozilla.in in the source tree shows that it's not in there by default. Looking through the script s

Re: GCC-3.4.3 PCH backported patch

2005-12-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 12/18/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > >>In light of a some recent requests to lfs-support on this subject, > >>I've decided to ping the list with this patch again. > > > > Perhaps we can note this in the errata for 6.1.1 and

Re: Package Management

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Staub
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:29:31PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: [snip] I'm not sure the BLFS information should change, as it is my (and I believe other editor's) opinion that it really isn't our place to recommend one piece of software, or methodology, over another. I b

Re: Package Management

2005-12-29 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 12/29/05, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 12/29/05 11:25 CST: > > > > I think we need to bring something up in LFS. If a user decides he > > wants to use a package manager, he's not going to want to find out about > > his options *after* he's alre

Re: Package Management

2005-12-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 12/29/05 11:57 CST: > How about moving the entire package management section from BLFS to > LFS? I don't remember why I added the page to BLFS and not to LFS. Yes, that is probably best. As has been said by everyone, package management is something that needs

compiler skewed?

2005-12-29 Thread Declan Moriarty
I am getting an irritating number of compiles dying in hlfs, and am beginning to presume the problem is me. I just ran off to another system and the kernel compiled _no_hassle_ :-(. I did remember to switch off the grsecurity options as instructed. Feedback on xorg-7.0.0 is poor - compiling is awk

Bash and readline patches

2005-12-29 Thread Chris Staub
There are patches for bash 3.1 and readline 5.1 in the cross-lfs book, but they are not in the LFS book... http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/bash/bash-3.1-fixes-1.patch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/readline/readline-5.1-fixes-1.patch -- http://linuxfromscratc

Re: Package Management

2005-12-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 12/29/05 11:25 CST: > On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:29:31PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: >>I'm not sure the BLFS information should change, as it is my (and >>I believe other editor's) opinion that it really isn't our place to >>recommend one piece of software, or

Re: Package Management

2005-12-29 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > I think we need to bring something up in LFS. If a user decides he > wants to use a package manager, he's not going to want to find out > about his options *after* he's already built his core system and > moved on to BLFS. The minute a user starts building packages that

Re: Package Management

2005-12-29 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 06:29:31PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: [snip] > I'm not sure the BLFS information should change, as it is my (and > I believe other editor's) opinion that it really isn't our place to > recommend one piece of software, or methodology, over another. I > believe that if we