Future LFS 7.x Plans

2008-12-05 Thread Jim Gifford
It seems now that LFS is ready to go into the world that CLFS has been in for a while. There seems to be a lot of discussions, that are going to be a duplication of work, and no one from LFS reaching out to the CLFS team for input on what issues we have seen and what you will cross. It was prop

Re: The new build method is in...

2008-12-05 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Ken Moffat wrote: > Last time this was discussed, the general view seemed to be that > pure64 was a step far enough. Care to remind me what the advantages > of multilib builds are ? For me: Flash. Either "standard" flash, or nspluginwrapper-flash -- both require 32-bit libs somewhere. (nsplugi

Re: The new build method is in...

2008-12-05 Thread Zachary Kotlarek
On Dec 5, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: Last time this was discussed, the general view seemed to be that pure64 was a step far enough. Care to remind me what the advantages of multilib builds are ? I'm looking at the "whole system" here, most of which is in BLFS (or, for existing multil

[Fwd: Re: Mailing lists archives]

2008-12-05 Thread DJ Lucas
William Harrington wrote: > So anyone gonna fix the archives? None of the archives can be > downloaded. > > No archive from any mailing list can be downloaded. Forwarded to lfs-dev so that at least some of the proper people see it. I don't recall the admins group address right off the to

Re: The new build method is in...

2008-12-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 03:58:24PM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~jhuntwork/lfs-trunk > > There is no technical hindrance to bringing in multilib, the changes are > minimal. The effect is not so minimal. I would like to know people's > thoughts on how to deal

Re: The new build method is in...

2008-12-05 Thread DJ Lucas
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > There is no technical hindrance to bringing in multilib, the changes are > minimal. The effect is not so minimal. I would like to know people's > thoughts on how to deal with multilib in LFS. Specifically, how do we > handle for x86, where multilib is not an option? Do w

The new build method is in...

2008-12-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
...Mostly. With revision 8755, the new build method from DIY is in place with the exception of support for multilib. (More on that in a second.) I tried to make as many textual changes as I could to keep the accuracy of the book on a high level, but I'm sure I missed some things that reference

Re: Proper use of digests [was: Re: lfs-dev Digest, Vol 1235, Issue 1]

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gordon Schumacher wrote: > But what is the further intent here The intent is for the subject line to reflect the general content of the reply. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information pa

Proper use of digests [was: Re: lfs-dev Digest, Vol 1235, Issue 1]

2008-12-05 Thread Gordon Schumacher
TheOldFellow wrote: > If you MUST reply to a digest, do try and get the Subject right. My error, I missed it on that message. I *do* try - since I did get it right on my other messages. I forgot this time. But what is the further intent here - the digest shouldn't exist? That one should use i

Re: Moving to Grub2?

2008-12-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> Check this out: http://wiki.debian.org/Grub/Grub2 > > Yes, they have good manual pages in Debian. Thanks for the link. Let's > hope this documentation will be accepted upstream. > > It is still worth mentioning that Debian uses a SVN snaps