Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-21 Thread DJ Lucas
Jim Gifford wrote: I've actually taken the scripts a bit further. Building GLIBC and GCC from the raw kernel headers and only using the sanitized stuff for everything else. On a few of the lists I have seen this done with success and found out that this is the recommended build method for G

Re: Chapter 6 - Creating Dirs

2006-03-21 Thread Chris Staub
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, There are *many* redundancies in the section where the directory tree is created. I started going through it, and came up with an entirely different set of commands that accomplish the same thing in 14 lines (one is a tad bit longer) than what is currently in the bo

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/21/06 19:49 CST: > It would also be nice for software to have configuration files where you > could specify the devices as needed e.g. xorg.conf. You guys are just being too cool for the chances to be putting in the shameless plugs. From the configuration file

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote these words on 03/21/06 19:23 CST: > >> IMO, it needs to be in _one_ of the books. BLFS software, at least at >> one time, required various symlinks. Other software beyond BLFS I know >> still requires /dev/dvd. > > Some may require the links (but in my

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 03/21/06 19:23 CST: > IMO, it needs to be in _one_ of the books. BLFS software, at least at > one time, required various symlinks. Other software beyond BLFS I know > still requires /dev/dvd. Some may require the links (but in my opinion that makes it poorly writ

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread DJ Lucas
Matthew Burgess wrote: Archaic wrote: My thoughts are that the actual devices are created properly, and nothing in the base system needs the symlinks so I vote for moving this ticket to BLFS. The actual devices (/dev/hdc on my box) are created correctly, but the symlinks are incorrect if on

Chapter 6 - Creating Dirs

2006-03-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, There are *many* redundancies in the section where the directory tree is created. I started going through it, and came up with an entirely different set of commands that accomplish the same thing in 14 lines (one is a tad bit longer) than what is currently in the book that takes 19 lines.

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
M.Canales.es wrote: And why not to add the CLFS udev-rules package to the udev_update branch and see if it do their intended work? I don't know what they are intended to do. No bugs have been reported against the rules in the udev_update branch regarding devices not showing up correctly (as

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread M.Canales.es
El Martes, 21 de Marzo de 2006 23:31, Matthew Burgess escribió: > The actual devices (/dev/hdc on my box) are created correctly, but the > symlinks are incorrect if one has multiple CD/DVD drives. Therefore, > the bug is rightly an LFS one. Now, with the observation that the > underlying devices

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Matthew Burgess
Archaic wrote: My thoughts are that the actual devices are created properly, and nothing in the base system needs the symlinks so I vote for moving this ticket to BLFS. The actual devices (/dev/hdc on my box) are created correctly, but the symlinks are incorrect if one has multiple CD/DVD dri

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread DJ Lucas
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Archaic wrote: CC'ing blfs-dev, but please reply to lfs-dev as that is where the bug is currently ticketed. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1640 My thoughts are that the actual devices are created properly, and nothing in the base system needs the symlinks so I

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/21/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In CLFS we are taken care of it with our rules package. The reason for > this is Ryan and I believe CLFS should provide a complete system and the > ability to work with any devices, that should not be a responsibility on > BLFS since they do have

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Jim Gifford
In CLFS we are taken care of it with our rules package. The reason for this is Ryan and I believe CLFS should provide a complete system and the ability to work with any devices, that should not be a responsibility on BLFS since they do have more things to oversee. It's a really simple to implem

Re: Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: > CC'ing blfs-dev, but please reply to lfs-dev as that is where the bug is > currently ticketed. > > http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1640 > > My thoughts are that the actual devices are created properly, and > nothing in the base system needs the symlinks so I vote for

Which book should handle the /dev/cd and /dev/dvd symlinks?

2006-03-21 Thread Archaic
CC'ing blfs-dev, but please reply to lfs-dev as that is where the bug is currently ticketed. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1640 My thoughts are that the actual devices are created properly, and nothing in the base system needs the symlinks so I vote for moving this ticket to BLFS.