Re: New Linux Headers method

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> There is a problem, however. The script uses open() but with 3 >> arguments instead of 2. From what I've found so far, this change in >> syntax was introduced in perl-5.8.0, so the installation of Linux >> Headers fails if the host's version of

Re: New Linux Headers method

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > There is a problem, however. The script uses open() but with 3 arguments > instead of 2. From what I've found so far, this change in syntax was > introduced in perl-5.8.0, so the installation of Linux Headers fails if > the host's version of perl is < 5.8.0. I'm investig

New Linux Headers method

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Just FYI: Seems that the headers_install (and therefore headers_check) command in the kernel source is a now a Perl script. This appears to be new in 2.6.27.x See here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/8/29 There is a problem, however. The script uses open() but with 3 arguments instead of 2. From

Re: Teminal issues in -dev

2008-10-16 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The real issue is that the --bind mount of /dev is unmounted as are > /proc and /sys. (BTW, this issue would also affect any attempt to use > the grub installed in chroot, since that needs the devices corresponding > to

Re: random stuff (literally)

2008-10-16 Thread Robert Connolly
On Thursday October 16 2008 03:35:39 am Jan Dvorak wrote: > > I added patches yesterday and today to make Bash use /dev/urandom for > > $RANDOM, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ RANDOM=1 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $RANDOM > 16838 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $RANDOM > 5758 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ RANDOM=2 >

Re: Teminal issues in -dev

2008-10-16 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:30:46 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I don't believe it's about simply minimalism, but it's about keeping to >> the point. If it is really beneficial to many users in various >> circumstances to have such a command in the book

Re: Teminal issues in -dev

2008-10-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 00:30:46 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't believe it's about simply minimalism, but it's about keeping to > the point. If it is really beneficial to many users in various > circumstances to have such a command in the book, great, add it. But if > it's

Re: LiveCD Future

2008-10-16 Thread Uwe Düffert
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, TheOldFellow wrote: > However, I do not believe that there is much value in it as a > bootstrap, when, as Alexander says, there is knoppix (and a plethora of > other LiveCD distros) and maintenance resources are scarce. Well, I really do believe there is value in a (minimal,

Re: LiveCD Future

2008-10-16 Thread Pierre Lorenzon
Hi all, I must first say tha I am blind. And terefor I greately appreciate the lfs livecd since its simplicity make it very easily customizable. Indeed it is not difficult to take the existing livecd and add accessibility tools to it like brltty or a speech synthesis. I know that in the community