Re: /dev/bugreport (was: BLFS progress: udev/hotplug dbus/hal)

2006-05-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/30/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It appears that all leaks reported up to now are unfixable from udev side (they are due to drivers probing their hardware in a separate thread), so let's just ignore bugreports and remove the "bug" rule, the /lib/udev/bug program and t

Re: /dev/bugreport (was: BLFS progress: udev/hotplug dbus/hal)

2006-05-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Warren Wilder wrote: I've got a /dev/bugreport for you. UDEV_LOG=3 ACTION=add DEVPATH=/devices/pci:00/:00:0d.0/fw-host0/00406354efd3 SUBSYSTEM=ieee1394 SEQNUM=469 PHYSDEVBUS=ieee1394 UDEVD_EVENT=1 _SEPARATOR=--- UDEV_LOG=3 ACTION=add DEVPATH=/class/ieee13

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Nathan Coulson
On 5/30/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/30/06 11:20 CST:> Nathan is becoming more active again.And I'm supposed to believe this because you say so, when I haven'tseen Nathan around in ages?  :-) Started getting active again since last week.  I have

Sorry

2006-05-30 Thread Giulio Daprelà
Sorry to all for the previous email, it was sent to the wrong list. -- Giulio - Linux user #356310 LFS user #11031 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Pagina LFS hint rinnovata

2006-05-30 Thread Giulio Daprelà
Ho il piacere di informare tutti gli appassionati e non di LFS che ho ristrutturato la pagina degli hint tradotti in italiano nella sezione LFS. Ora gli hint potranno essere sia scaricati in un unico file tar.gz, come sempre, che scaricati o consultati singolarmente. Per chi li guardasse per la pr

More updates to list of installed programs

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Staub
1. The hard links to automake and aclocal are not [program]-1.9.6, but [program]-1.9. Maybe there should be a "version2" entity for automake to handle this? 2. Perl does not install any en2cxs program. 3. Glibc 2.4 does not have nscd_nischeck. I know that LFS does not use Glibc 2.4 yet, but I

Re: Question about a sentence in shadow instructions

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Gerard Beekmans wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: I think it can just be pulled, unless someone with a proper understanding of what it's trying to get at can shed some light? This sentence doesn't apply anymore. Go ahead and remove it. Thanks Gerard. Done in r7638. Oh, and thanks for the ori

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/30/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are 2 other projects out there for headers. The Headers project, which has roots to xLFS and what T2 Project has done. Fedora is now using David Woodhouse's cleaned up kernel tree with the results of `make headers_install'. The rawhide

Fwd: nfo: prepare for release 4.0.16

2006-05-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
Sorry for the cross-post, but shadow is installed in all the projects (I'm not subscribed to hlfs). New version coming. One important point is that the templates (/etc/default/useradd, login.def, limits and login.access without PAM, /etc/pam.d/* with PAM) will be installed. So all book instruct

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Andrew Benton wrote: So what you're saying is that the current LFS editors are incompetent so lets get new people in? Andy, you're missing the point of the proposal. It's not about any technical issue, or whether the rules are correct for any project, but it's organizational only and its purp

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/30/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dan, I consider that a part of the headers project, Jürg and I worked a lot of the logic out together, the only difference is that Jürg only concentrated on the x86 platforms. Gotcha. Well, to be honest, the scripts are very different. Bu

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Andrew Benton
Gerard Beekmans wrote: Hi guys, The idea of setting up a new group that will take on the task of handling matters like the udev discussion that is currently going on strong. This idea had some support on this list, and some resistance, and the discussion dropped off without much happening on

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Dan, I consider that a part of the headers project, Jürg and I worked a lot of the logic out together, the only difference is that Jürg only concentrated on the x86 platforms. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See t

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Thanx Matt. Talked to a lot of people today about this from my headers project. As long as there is no way to use the kernel headers, this project is going to exist. Plus, we had a call to sanitize the 2.4 headers to get rid of the __KERNEL__ stuff from them. If the make install_headers patch

Re: Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 5/30/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are 2 other projects out there for headers. The Headers project, which has roots to xLFS and what T2 Project has done. Jürg Billeter's linux-glibc-headers script for paldo. http://www.paldo.org/index.php?section=packages&page=main&relea

Re: Question about a sentence in shadow instructions

2006-05-30 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Matthew Burgess wrote: back to r3228 (2004)). I think it can just be pulled, unless someone with a proper understanding of what it's trying to get at can shed some light? That's an ancient left over. There was a time many years ago (well before 2004) where pwconv didn't always do a good job

Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jim Gifford wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: > >> I believe the Red Hat kernel maintainer submitted a patch adding another >> make target for the kernel which would produce such headers. AFAIR it's >> scheduled for inclusion in 2.6.18. >> > With the last email I saw, Linus said he was going to reje

Re: Question about a sentence in shadow instructions

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Chris Staub wrote: There shouldn't be any need to "reset" passwords since pwconv and pwunconv take whatever password is stored in /etc/{passwd,shadow} and convert it. Or am I not understanding what that means? I must confess, I don't actually understand what it means either. However, trac sho

My Future Vision of xLFS was Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy, I'm looking at this a totally different angle. Right now there is no cooperation from projects, I think you can agree with this. To me this one of many steps to help tie the projects together and be united. My vision is that there will be no more developer walls, people only work

Headers was RE: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Mark Rosenstand wrote: I believe the Red Hat kernel maintainer submitted a patch adding another make target for the kernel which would produce such headers. AFAIR it's scheduled for inclusion in 2.6.18. With the last email I saw, Linus said he was going to reject this proposal, has something

Question about a sentence in shadow instructions

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Staub
In the configuration section - "However, if returning to this section later to enable shadowing, reset any current user passwords with the passwd command or any group passwords with the gpasswd command." There shouldn't be any need to "reset" passwords since pwconv and pwunconv take whatever pa

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 09:42 -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Soon we'll have to figure out how we want to move forward with > linux-libc-headers. Do we start our own, or do we wait for other > projects to take this on. I believe the Red Hat kernel maintainer submitted a patch adding another make

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Staub
Tushar Teredesai wrote: On 5/30/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How does LFS update their finished, released, perhaps in print, book to reflect that a new tarball is needed? One solution is to have all projects go into a release freeze at the same time (perhaps after branching) a

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Having everything in one repo but releasing the base scripts and the blfs scripts in 2 separate tarballs sounds good to me. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Tushar Teredesai wrote: On 5/30/06, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe the idea is actually a good one. If you look at the bigger picture, such a unbiased group can take on other tasks too down the road. In short, the current hierachy with you and Matt at the top to arbirt

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 5/30/06, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe the idea is actually a good one. If you look at the bigger picture, such a unbiased group can take on other tasks too down the road. In short, the current hierachy with you and Matt at the top to arbirtrate is insufficient becaus

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 5/30/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How does LFS update their finished, released, perhaps in print, book to reflect that a new tarball is needed? One solution is to have all projects go into a release freeze at the same time (perhaps after branching) and then all projects make

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Randy McMurchy wrote: What text will be in the LFS book. "Here is the current LFS tarball to install after you complete LFS. It also has BLFS bootscripts in it, but they probably aren't current, so you'll need to get a different tarball for BLFS." :-( Maybe I wasn't clear on the combining of t

Re: More programs that are not installed

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Chris Staub wrote: The description for the kbd package includes information about several programs that kbd does not install by default. Thanks Chris, committed in r7637. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the abov

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
Chris Staub wrote: > Randy McMurchy wrote: >> Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/30/06 11:56 CST: >> >> I know I said no more replies. But this is important. Jim, you just >> made my point for me. If these "consolidated" bootscripts need to be >> updated, what is the point in consolidating them? >

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: What text will be in the LFS book. "Here is the current LFS tarball to install after you complete LFS. It also has BLFS bootscripts in it, but they probably aren't current, so you'll need to get a different tarball for BLFS." :-( But in reality, how often are issues with

Re: Obsolete program description in util-linux instructions

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Chris Staub wrote: The swapdev program hasn't been in util-linux for years. Thanks Chris, committed in r7636. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Staub
Randy McMurchy wrote: Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/30/06 11:56 CST: I know I said no more replies. But this is important. Jim, you just made my point for me. If these "consolidated" bootscripts need to be updated, what is the point in consolidating them? What text will be in the LFS book

Re: Text updates for Chapter 6 introduction

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Chris Staub wrote: Takes into account the dependency info being moved. Also, I don't see why it currently says "If using the compiler optimizations provided in this chapter"...there are no optimizations provided there. Thanks Chris, applied in r7635. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/lis

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/30/06 11:56 CST: > This could be Release 1.2.3.1, nothing says that CLFS, LFS, and BLFS > will be using the same releases, but all the same series would be able > to operate with each other. I know I said no more replies. But this is important. Jim, you just

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Randy McMurchy wrote: LFS releases a book, perhaps in print, that says this is the bootscript tarball for this release. Let's call it bootscripts-1.2.3. This has LFS and BLFS scripts in it. Before BLFS releases their book to match the new LFS version, it is discovered that some of the bootscrip

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bryan Kadzban wrote these words on 05/30/06 11:53 CST: > if all the bootscript "leads" are unavailable for some > reason. You mean "the" bootscript lead, right? :-) Anyway, I'm not going to clutter the list with any more replies on my end. I've spoken my concerns. I'll wait until Bruce gets bac

Re: Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Changing the thread so that the one topic, BLFS bootscripts, can be addressed independently from the other, good, ideas (in fact combining Udev rules may be bad as well). Scenario: LFS releases a book, perhaps in print, that says this is the bootscript tarball for

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jim Gifford wrote: It's called coordination, when your getting ready to add a new daemon to the book contact the team. I personally think there should be at least one member of each of the book's editorial staff (whoops...volunteers!) who has commit privileges to the new repository. That wa

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/30/06 11:49 CST: > Isn't DJ a part of BLFS, you can't coordinate with your own team mate? Don't be ridiculous, Jim. My concern is when DJ is in the hospital, or on vacation, or moves and is without Internet connectivity, or ... I think you see my point. -

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 12:47:33PM -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:42:50AM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > > Comments are welcome. > > I'm in favor. Actually, assuming it gets another mailing list, I'll > subscribe -- although now is probably too early to be deciding whet

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Hey Randy, Isn't DJ a part of BLFS, you can't coordinate with your own team mate? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Bootscripts - Why combining is a bad thing

2006-05-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Changing the thread so that the one topic, BLFS bootscripts, can be addressed independently from the other, good, ideas (in fact combining Udev rules may be bad as well). Scenario: LFS releases a book, perhaps in print, that says this is the bootscript tarball for this release. Let's cal

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Bryan Kadzban
On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:42:50AM -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Comments are welcome. I'm in favor. Actually, assuming it gets another mailing list, I'll subscribe -- although now is probably too early to be deciding whether it needs a separate list or not. pgpZiNN3E7XlS.pgp Description: PG

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Joe Ciccone
I agree with the ideas in this proposal. The one idea that I'm going back and forth on is whether the blfs-bootscripts should become part of the base scripts. >From one side, you'd only need one tarball. How often do the bootscripts get changed? It would possibly be easier to maintain. >From the

More programs that are not installed

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Staub
The description for the kbd package includes information about several programs that kbd does not install by default. Index: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/kbd.xml === --- trunk/BOOK/chapter06/kbd.xml (revision 7634) +++ trunk/BOOK/chapter06/kb

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/30/06 11:20 CST: > Nathan is becoming more active again. And I'm supposed to believe this because you say so, when I haven't seen Nathan around in ages? :-) > It's called coordination, when your getting ready to add a new daemon to > the book contact the te

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jim Gifford wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: For instance, today I'll be adding a new package that has a bootscript. If DJ is on vacation or whatever, the package will not work. What good does this serve the community. BLFS bootscripts are different than the other groups (as explained). It's ca

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: Nathan doesn't come around anymore. That leaves DJ to do the updates, if he's not around, the package become disfunctional. I cannot see one good reason to not have BLFS be able to update their own bootscripts. Nathan is becoming more active again. For instance, today I

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Randy McMurchy
Gerard Beekmans wrote these words on 05/30/06 10:42 CST: > The bootscripts were brought up as well as something this new group > could take on. The udev problem we're trying to fix is different than > the bootscript problem so people might have some issues with putting > both tasks in the same

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jim Gifford
I fully agree with this proposal. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Gerard Beekmans wrote: I truly don't think anything I have said in this email is news. It's been suggested before by a few people. The ideas got lost or misunderstood. After talking to Jim and Matt we're all on the same page now and the idea of letting a group of people who are more specialized

PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Hi guys, The idea of setting up a new group that will take on the task of handling matters like the udev discussion that is currently going on strong. This idea had some support on this list, and some resistance, and the discussion dropped off without much happening on this front. I believe

Obsolete program description in util-linux instructions

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Staub
The swapdev program hasn't been in util-linux for years. From the HISTORY file in the util-linux source tree... util-linux 2.11c * Czech messages (Ji Pavlovsk) * German messages (Elrond) * Makefile/MCONFIG improvements (Peter Breitenlohner) ... * swapdev: deleted, it was last used with Linux 0.

Text updates for Chapter 6 introduction

2006-05-30 Thread Chris Staub
Takes into account the dependency info being moved. Also, I don't see why it currently says "If using the compiler optimizations provided in this chapter"...there are no optimizations provided there. Index: trunk/BOOK/chapter06/introduction.xml