Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/29/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/hostreqs.html > > OK, done. I don't know if it builds automatically or not, bu tI think > so. BTW, the text was already there. Oh, someone fixed it already (probably Matthew). Great. Som

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 1/29/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> OK, I agree with Alex. Lets just do `cat /proc/version' and let it go. > > Bruce - > > While you're at it, could you fix a longstanding bug and put bison > into the host requirements? Do you mean in http://www.linuxfr

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/29/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OK, I agree with Alex. Lets just do `cat /proc/version' and let it go. Bruce - While you're at it, could you fix a longstanding bug and put bison into the host requirements? It's needed for the bash patch in Ch. 5. I think pretty much any ve

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 1/29/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Linux version 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL_lustre.1.5.97smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc >> version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 SMP Fri Jan 12 17:22:43 MST >> 2007 >> >> And Alex: >> >> Linux version 2.6.18-3-686 (Debian 2.6.18-7)

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ismael Luceno wrote: > This string depends on the locale in use when the kernel was compiled, > so it will not work on all systems, it needs to be more generic: > > $ cat /proc/version > Linux version 2.6.19.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc versión 4.0.3) #1 Fri > Dec 15 02:19:26 UYT 2006 > > $ sed -r

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/29/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Linux version 2.6.9-42.0.3.EL_lustre.1.5.97smp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc > version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2)) #1 SMP Fri Jan 12 17:22:43 MST > 2007 > > And Alex: > > Linux version 2.6.18-3-686 (Debian 2.6.18-7) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc >

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Ismael Luceno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bruce Dubbs escribió: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On 1/29/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Dan Nicholson wrote: On 1/28/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: >> cat /proc/version | head

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 1/29/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Dan Nicholson wrote: >>> On 1/28/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tushar Teredesai wrote: > cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7 >>> Pet peeve. Don't use cat to create input strea

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/29/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > On 1/28/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Tushar Teredesai wrote: > >>> cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7 > > > > Pet peeve. Don't use cat to create input streams when the shell is

Re: KDE and dbus

2007-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Luca wrote: > Bruce Dubbs ha scritto: >> What I still don't understand is why one could get into >> the situation that "packages install a D-Bus .service file outside of >> the standard /usr/share/dbus-1/services directory". Have you run in >> that situation? > I don't know if it can be compared

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 1/28/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tushar Teredesai wrote: >>> cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7 > > Pet peeve. Don't use cat to create input streams when the shell is > perfectly capable on it's own with <. vs > sed -n 's/.*gc

Re: KDE and dbus

2007-01-29 Thread Luca
Bruce Dubbs ha scritto: > What I still don't understand is why one could get into > the situation that "packages install a D-Bus .service file outside of > the standard /usr/share/dbus-1/services directory". Have you run in > that situation? > > > -- Bruce > Hi Bruce. I don't know if it ca

Re: KDE and dbus

2007-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 1/28/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> and I got an error about not finding /usr/local/share/dbus-1/services/. >> With research, I see we set this in the dbus >> /etc/dbus-1/session-local.conf file, but we never create the directory! > > I guess I didn't writ

LFS LiveCD 6.2-5 released

2007-01-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
The new stable version of LFS LiveCD, 6.2-5, is out. The only changes to the 6.2-4 CD are: * Updated the kernel to 2.6.16.38 * Reflected this in the book * Fixed inability of Midnight Commander to go into directories containing the underscore character * Fixed GRUB non-installability to

Re: headers_install and ICA

2007-01-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 06:33:48PM +, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Tuesday 09 January 2007 19:00, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > All headers in /usr/include are blown away by > > 'make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=/usr headers_install' which has "unfortunate" > > results on glibc (thinks I'm building for i686-p

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > This would seem to work (maybe the .* is too greedy). > > sed -n 's/.*gcc version \([^() ]*\)[() ].*/\1/p;q' < /proc/version The intent is to show not only the gcc version, but the kernel version too. Is there anything wrong with displaying the whole /proc/version file? -

Re: Fwd: LFS Script suggestion

2007-01-29 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/28/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > cat /proc/version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1-3,5-7 Pet peeve. Don't use cat to create input streams when the shell is perfectly capable on it's own with <. > On a recent Debian installation, this prints: >