Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Dan Nicholson wrote: > Looks like the files on planetmirror are gone. The best I could do > was find a tarball with tex sources, a generated ps file, and a > Makefile for generating pdf/ps. > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mochel/doc/lca/ > > Potentially, this could work, too. It

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-18 Thread Jim Gifford
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 7/18/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthias B. wrote: > > This bug breaks the list_package script from the more_control_helpers > package, thereby causing users of the more_control hint unnecessary grief. > Why patch chapter 5, since it's only used to build

Re: default config for hal/gvm without pam_console/pam_foreground (Was: haldaemon bootscript)

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/25/06, DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now..any pointers on how to tweak the mountpoints? Maybe use volname, volname-#, and then device name as a final fallback. Maybe just device name always. I'll have to play with it a bit to see what I like, but I have no idea where to start on th

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/18/06, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthias B. wrote: > > This bug breaks the list_package script from the more_control_helpers > package, thereby causing users of the more_control hint unnecessary grief. > Why patch chapter 5, since it's only used to build the final-system. Bec

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/18/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: read the page, it looks good, except for that last link in the "Useful Reading" section. Looks like the files on planetmirror are gone. The best I could do was find a tarball with tex sources, a generated ps file, and a Makefile for generating

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-18 Thread Joe Ciccone
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> p.s.: I haven't actually verified that the LFS patch fixes the issue, >> since I'm not through with my current build yet. All I know is that the >> Gentoo patches fix this issue (and have done so for some time now). >> > > Please verify that the existing patch does indeed

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-18 Thread Jim Gifford
Matthias B. wrote: I'd like to suggest that the bash patch be applied in chapter 5, too. Without the patch bash is pretty broken, e.g. echo "$(echo $';foo')" bash: foo: command not found whereas the correct output would be ;foo This bug breaks the list_package script from the more_control_hel

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthias B. wrote: > I'd like to suggest that the bash patch be applied in chapter 5, too. > Without the patch bash is pretty broken, e.g. > > echo "$(echo $';foo')" > bash: foo: command not found > > whereas the correct output would be > > ;foo > > This bug breaks the list_package script from

bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-18 Thread Matthias B.
I'd like to suggest that the bash patch be applied in chapter 5, too. Without the patch bash is pretty broken, e.g. echo "$(echo $';foo')" bash: foo: command not found whereas the correct output would be ;foo This bug breaks the list_package script from the more_control_helpers package, thereby

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Staub
Dan Nicholson wrote: Hotplug is a concept as much as it was the binary /sbin/hotplug. Udev still handles the action of dynamically created devices. The only times hotplug is mentioned on the LFS page are that the udev bootscript replaces /sbin/hotplug as the uevent handler. I haven't checked that

Re: Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: Currently, the book still mentions the hotplug package in its explanations of how udev works, particularly in the "Device/Module Handling" page and the kernel build page. Unfortunately, I don't know much about how Udev works...should modification be as simple as replacing in

Re: [Clfs-dev] Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/18/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Currently, the book still mentions the hotplug package in its explanations of how udev works, particularly in the "Device/Module Handling" page and the kernel build page. Unfortunately, I don't know much about how Udev works...should modification

Explanatory text about udev/hotplug needs updating

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Staub
Currently, the book still mentions the hotplug package in its explanations of how udev works, particularly in the "Device/Module Handling" page and the kernel build page. Unfortunately, I don't know much about how Udev works...should modification be as simple as replacing instances of "Udev and

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Chris Staub wrote: > Patch with a number of text fixes for the book. In particular, that note > in the kernel page about GCC 2.95.3 is unneeded since the kernel > documentation has now been updated. Thanks for the updates. > -install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp > +install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp

Kdebase uses pci utilities

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Staub
The instructions for kdebase should mention that PCI Utilities is a needed runtime dependency. Specifically, the KDE Info Center uses lspci for it's "pci" info section. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See th

One more minor issue, in Man-DB instructions...

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Staub
"Additional information regarding the compression of man and info pages can be found in the BLFS book at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/postlfs/compressdoc.html."; s/cvs/svn/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubsc

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 07/18/06 09:35 CST: > There are multiple man pages, for different languages. I forgot about that. Thanks. > It does work and it creates both /tmp and /var/tmp. Indeed. Again, thanks. -- Randy rmlscsi: [bogomips 1003.23] [GNU ld version 2.16.1] [gcc (GCC) 4.0

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Staub
Randy McMurchy wrote: Chris Staub wrote these words on 07/18/06 09:08 CST: Patch with a number of text fixes for the book. In particular, that note in the kernel page about GCC 2.95.3 is unneeded since the kernel documentation has now been updated. Disable the installation of the group

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/18/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp > +install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp This syntax looks wrong to me. Seems it would create a /var/tmp dir but not /tmp. It's correct. {/var,} expands to /var and "". -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Randy McMurchy
Chris Staub wrote these words on 07/18/06 09:08 CST: > Patch with a number of text fixes for the book. In particular, that note > in the kernel page about GCC 2.95.3 is unneeded since the kernel > documentation has now been updated. > Disable the installation of the groups program > -a

Book text updates

2006-07-18 Thread Chris Staub
Patch with a number of text fixes for the book. In particular, that note in the kernel page about GCC 2.95.3 is unneeded since the kernel documentation has now been updated. Index: trunk/BOOK/chapter01/how.xml === --- trunk/BOOK/chap