linux-2.6.17 and openat

2006-08-19 Thread Moshe
Hi Joe, Thank you for testing the openat solution. How do you reply to the mails and the posts are going to the correct thread ? -- Regards, Moshe Gorohovsky A6 CC A7 E1 C2 BD 8C 1B 30 8E A4 C3 4C 09 88 47 Tk Open Systems Ltd.

Re: linux-2.6.17 and openat

2006-08-19 Thread Joe Ciccone
Moshe wrote: > Hi Joe, > > If you are testing the openat patch, > please do not forget to change > the __OPENAT () definition from K&R style: > > __OPENAT (fd, file, oflag) > int fd; > const char *file; > int oflag; > > to the variadic function: > > __OPENAT (int fd, const ch

linux-2.6.17 and openat

2006-08-19 Thread Moshe
Hi Joe, If you are testing the openat patch, please do not forget to change the __OPENAT () definition from K&R style: __OPENAT (fd, file, oflag) int fd; const char *file; int oflag; to the variadic function: __OPENAT (int fd, const char *file, int oflag, ...) or you wi

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-19 Thread Peter Ennis
Randy McMurchy linuxfromscratch.org> writes: > > I am really concerned about the health of the entire overall project. Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >There really hasn't been much technical discussion on the lists >recently, There hasn't been any major changes in a while. I think i

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/19/06, Joe Ciccone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: > > Glibc I've not upgraded because I was put off by upstream's > recommendation not to run it in production environments coupled with a > couple of bugs I've read about on the lfs lists. This patch definitely needs to be

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-19 Thread Joe Ciccone
Matthew Burgess wrote: > > Glibc I've not upgraded because I was put off by upstream's > recommendation not to run it in production environments coupled with a > couple of bugs I've read about on the lfs lists. They've probably > been fixed by patches, but I've lost track of those! If anyone can

Re: Package Users Hint

2006-08-19 Thread Chris Staub
Alan Lord wrote: [Please forgive my intrusion here, and this is not intended to be a dig or attack on anyone - just my immediate thought...] Whilst I understand your sentiment above; seeing this thread directly following from Randy's "Dead Project?" seems a bit ironic... Surely, with the c

Re: Package Users Hint

2006-08-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Alan Lord wrote: PPS - What ever happened to Jeremy Huntwork? In his last mail, he mentions real-life issues. I also got a reply to my private mail about the PPC LiveCD status. P.S. I am busy until September 4 with Windows installation in the classroom. Linux has been removed from there on my

Re: Package Users Hint

2006-08-19 Thread Alan Lord
Chris Staub wrote: As I recently mentioned in a reply to the lfs-support list, I believe package users is really more trouble than its worth. The paragraph describing it, in the "Package Management" page, should be removed from the book. Note: A similar warning should be added to the ALFS we

Re: Package Users Hint

2006-08-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: Note: A similar warning should be added to the ALFS webpage, saying that you should not even attempt ALFS until you can successfully build a system manually without errors and without any help from support channels, and that any user who does try ALFS without this prerequisi

Package Users Hint

2006-08-19 Thread Chris Staub
As I recently mentioned in a reply to the lfs-support list, I believe package users is really more trouble than its worth. The paragraph describing it, in the "Package Management" page, should be removed from the book. It is the cause of many user issues reported in the support lists and #lfs-s

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
Joe Ciccone wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Noted that there is some minor trivial updates to CLFS recently, the occasional package updates to LFS, and updates to jalfs (which is only as good as the [x]LFS books), there really is no development going on at all any more within the LFS project. As

Re: Dead Project? (I hope not)

2006-08-19 Thread M.Canales.es
El Sábado, 19 de Agosto de 2006 06:59, Randy McMurchy escribió: > Recently there was a call for funds to replace the Belgarath server. > Funds were raised in a matter of days. For all practical purposes, > anyone who contributed money, wasted it. That call for funds (and the > raising of it) was *