Re: svn bootscript regression

2011-06-07 Thread Archaic
directory feature is actually the corner case for specifying multiple configurations for a single interface. -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

svn bootscript regression

2011-06-07 Thread Archaic
Network interface configuration used to be either a file or a directory named ifconfig.. With the latest lsb-compliant bootscripts, it seems that the bootscript won't accept a file and neither will ifup unless using -c. Is this intentional? -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/ma

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-10 Thread Archaic
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 11:56:23AM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/appendices/mit.html > > This license is fine with me. I have no objections, either. Just wondering why. -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-10 Thread Archaic
cope of the > book, we'd need approval from all contributors. That is currently > AFAIK Alexander, Archaic, Bruce, Dan, Jeremy, Matt, Michael Tremmor > (IPFire), Nathan, and Myself. What license you have in mind? Actually, I was referring to what Bruce said: http://www.linuxfromscratch

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-10 Thread Archaic
e > simply because it was requested so many times in the past, but possibly > disable the functionality by default? Disabled by default sound like a good compromise. -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

bootscript suggestion

2009-04-16 Thread Archaic
The kernel printk level is initially chosen before the consolelog script runs, yet that script demands that the choice is also made in /etc/sysconfig/console else it may override your initial decision. If someone uses 'quiet' on the kernel cmdline, they've made their choice and, IMO, should not hav

inetutils before perl

2009-04-15 Thread Archaic
fig.h @@ -1357,7 +1357,7 @@ #define HAS_UNAME /**/ /*#define HAS_PHOSTNAME/ **/ #ifdef HAS_PHOSTNAME -#define PHOSTNAME "/tools/bin/hostname"/* How to get the host name */ +#define PHOSTNAME "/usr/bin/hostname" /* How to get the host name */

Re: vimrc recommendation

2009-04-01 Thread Archaic
On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:22:47PM +0300, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > > Actually Tony answered me, that the most > sane solution is to source mswin.vim which offers a more nice environment. Was he referring to vim on linux or vim on windows? -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromsc

Re: vimrc recommendation

2009-04-01 Thread Archaic
u automatically get those changes. Indeed, that sounds like a better option. -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

vimrc recommendation

2009-03-31 Thread Archaic
The vimrc that LFS creates is very spartan. There is a default configuration that isn't bad plus it gives new users a quick idea of how powerful the rc can be. cp runtime/vimrc_example.vim /etc/vimrc The if statement for bg=dark is not included, but could be appended if so desired. -- Ar

man-pages has a home page now

2009-03-31 Thread Archaic
--- packages.ent(revision 8850) +++ packages.ent(working copy) @@ -351,6 +351,7 @@ +http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/";> I was hoping to use &kernel;, but that has /pub/ at the end. Oh well. :) -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/list

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-23 Thread Archaic
S all-in-one genesis script was a bad idea? :^( -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Dash, Bash, and other musings

2009-03-23 Thread Archaic
x27;d go for it (but I'd still have bash available). However, too many language choices isn't necessarily a good thing. -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

iproute2 installation question

2009-03-22 Thread Archaic
n the source tree is very spartan. :/ Is anyone intimately familiar with this package? -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

perl's use or non-use of pthread

2009-03-20 Thread Archaic
cations on reentrancy. I currently have access only to Arch Linux and FreeBSD, and the main perl binary in those links to libpthread. I'm curious what debian-based and redhat-based distros are doing. Any thoughts? -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lf

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-20 Thread Archaic
ed changed to gawk. Likewise, I suspect that some call gawk when they should be calling awk. iana-etc is a case where it is done correctly. It calls gawk, but really does need it (as written) and cannot use mawk. -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://ww

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-20 Thread Archaic
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:10:05AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote: > > > PS: Nice to see you back on the lists, Archaic. > > I agree. Archaic, don't be a stranger. /me waves at Bruce! -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/lis

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-20 Thread Archaic
isn't the only choice has been made. -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-20 Thread Archaic
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 04:55:15AM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > # type [ > [ is a shell builtin > > # type test > test is a shell builtin If this is true for all sh-compatible shell, then I concur. Haven't tested it, though. > PS: Nice to see you back on t

coreutils instructions

2009-03-19 Thread Archaic
The LFS bootscripts use both [ and test, so these should be moved to /bin. readlink is not used by LFS/BLFS bootscripts, but is moved to /bin. The FHS does not mention readlink at all, so just wondering if this is the correct thing. -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

misc observances

2007-06-03 Thread Archaic
page, where the docs are symlinked, a hardcoded reference to vim70 exists. -- Archaic -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Build Logs for 6.2

2006-08-14 Thread Archaic
ou > building on? I'm running builds on 3 machines. 2 are dual CPU so I'll probably just use the 3rd box which was used to create all the previous logs. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.

Re: Build Logs for 6.2

2006-08-14 Thread Archaic
On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 04:57:08PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > I have clean logs for Ch. 6 gcc, glibc and binutils if you'd like me > to do this now. Go right ahead. I've run into difficulties with the build. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from yo

Re: Build Logs for 6.2

2006-08-11 Thread Archaic
y > logs. I've got a build finishing up soon and will be uploading the logs. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http

Re: inotify still missing

2006-07-29 Thread Archaic
On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 08:55:40AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Please create a ticket for this. Done. http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1845 -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscrat

inotify still missing

2006-07-28 Thread Archaic
Subject says it all. I know of three developers that have said it works. I've been using it since Dan first made the patch. I see this as a must for the final release. I recall someone saying something about fixingthe patch headers, but I don't recall who or when. -- Archaic Wa

Re: problems building 6.2

2006-07-27 Thread Archaic
um} from the > instructions? I just re-rolled my local tarball, but it slows down testers who build overnight. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail

problems building 6.2

2006-07-27 Thread Archaic
The udev-config tarball unpacks into the wrong directory. # tar tf ../sources/udev-config-6.2-pre2.tar.bz2 udev-config-6.2/ udev-config-6.2/25-lfs.rules <..> Note the missing "-pre2" from the directory name. This causes the jhalfs build to die. -- Archaic Want control

ticket #1659

2006-06-05 Thread Archaic
plus the glibc or gcc errors not noted above. Thanks. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.or

Re: build-logs

2006-05-27 Thread Archaic
On Sat, May 27, 2006 at 12:22:47PM -0600, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > I believe that, previously, Archaic was creating these build logs with > his personal scripts, which up to now has been sufficient. Not just previously. Still. > Now, however, we have perhaps a opportunity to

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-24 Thread Archaic
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 08:35:09PM +0100, TheOldFellow wrote: > > What I can't understand is why, when the CLFS rules have been working > for months, that LFS had to reinvent the wheel? The LFS rules have existed since at least June 15, 2004. They predate the CLFS book. --

Re: Inconsistent policy about udev rules in LFS/BLFS

2006-05-24 Thread Archaic
most appropriate to cover it in BLFS. Bruce has already posted one proposal for BLFS in the blfs-dev list. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscr

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
should not be thrown out just because that are in the lfs repo. They should be copied into the new repo and continued. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailma

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
email that detailed all the changes currently made. There's more in my working copy as well. Things like adding more subsystem rules so a few more devices won't need to be enumerated. svn://linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/udev-config -- Archaic Want control, education, and security fro

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
s can use. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
ook's rules should be confronted, but neither of them should be the base for the new rules because they both do inefficient things. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linux

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
have the ability to have computer monitor's hooked up to them. I can certainly understand that, but would that require a change to blfs bootscripts, or just the base bootscripts? Other than architectural differences in the base scripts, what would need to be changed in blfs? -- Archaic Wan

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
l his work. I just packaged it, so what has been done so far is basically Alex's work with me pitching in a bit. IOW, there is no need to throw the baby out with the bath water yet. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
pecially since they use cat commands to create the rules they need. As for bootscripts, it was always my put forth that CLFS differs in method, but not final product, so I'm not understanding why the bootscripts are different, either. Any cluebats would be welcome. -- Archaic Want control,

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages - My final post on this matter

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
his thing to move forward, I'm all for it. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscri

Re: libXvMCW

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:03:49AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > I surely don't see it that way. Not that yes or no question, the fact that a lot of questions have had to be asked to write up the deps of various packages to contend for the differences. -- Archaic Want control

Re: libXvMCW

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
ires a lot of hassle only because of Xfree. Does any editor here use Xfree? -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages - My final post on this matter

2006-05-23 Thread Archaic
his unified, same as many others. Please reply to the link above and we can start the ball rolling. If it becomes a productive thing, I will have another email ready shortly for the next chunk of device rules to be scrutinized. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your oper

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-22 Thread Archaic
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 02:26:49PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > > > That was the point of this thread, Archaic, I said after Ryan and I > discussed this I would post a response. So let's just forgot the whole > thing and leave both projects separate. Jim, you didn't post

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-22 Thread Archaic
his is nothing new nor is it a bad thing especially in regard to how threads go so off topic on this list. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listin

Re: Unifying the Udev Rules Packages

2006-05-22 Thread Archaic
nal unedited message is below. - Forwarded message from Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - To: Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Archaic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 14 May 2006 21:27:18 -0600 User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1 -=OFFLI

Re: LFS-6.2 release plan [was Re: GNOME-2.14 Status]

2006-05-21 Thread Archaic
On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 10:20:53PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > Archaic, >Can you provide a link to that post? I'll link to every pending lfs-dev item in my inbox. The first one is a summary with several more links (some of which are already dealt with). http://linuxfromscratch.or

Re: LFS-6.2 release plan [was Re: GNOME-2.14 Status]

2006-05-21 Thread Archaic
t with. Some are not ticketed so I posted a consolidating thread that serves well for notes. I don't think we can freeze this week. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://lin

Re: nitpick in NSS instructions

2006-05-18 Thread Archaic
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 06:04:28PM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > > I suppose this one is just personal preference. I find creating and > exiting a shell a much cleaner, more elegant solution. Perhaps, but it doesn't script as easily. ;) -- Archaic Want control, education, and

Re: "write" and tty device perms

2006-05-16 Thread Archaic
alk were the bomb! :) I am inclined to go with 620, but I'll wait for community discussion. BTW, in many cases a ^l will "unclobber" the screen (like in vim, and ncurses-based apps). -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux Fr

Re: "write" and tty device perms

2006-05-15 Thread Archaic
On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 07:21:34PM -0600, Archaic wrote: > > TTYPERM 0600 > needs to be > TTYPERM 0620 I forgot to mention that 620 is how the book sets up /dev/pts as well. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardene

"write" and tty device perms

2006-05-15 Thread Archaic
objections? -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-14 Thread Archaic
rovide comments to what I wrote so we can move towards a finalized product. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-14 Thread Archaic
've started a new thread that adds much more to think about. And yes, dumping the script and using the pre-existing tools is the way to go if we switch to manual creation of these rules. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux F

persistent CD symlinks

2006-05-14 Thread Archaic
;t want to assume. For a 5th option, we could use (in the case of Alex's drive): ACTION=="add", ENV{ID_SERIAL}=="5VO1306DM00190", SYMLINK+="cdrom1" This is true device persistence without the problem of uniqueness associated with #3 above. However, it suffers from a s

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-14 Thread Archaic
ill be able to see the output of it when it generates the rules file that the book instructs them to edit. I'm indifferent on this. I see merit in both ways. However, if there is ever to be a cooperative udev configuration between the books, we will need community feedback. -- Archaic W

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-14 Thread Archaic
ated for these devices only once. This generated file is completely customizable, and those device symlinks will never change. Plus, and new devices added will automatically be added to the generated file (again, each device is added only one time). It seems like a win-win. -- Archaic Want contro

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-14 Thread Archaic
On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 02:52:02PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > Archaic and all I came around an interesting way to fix the cd-symlink > issue Jim, this thread is for discussion of what I posted. There was nothing about disks in my OP. Please start a new thread so people can distinguish b

Re: summary of udev changes.

2006-05-13 Thread Archaic
in /etc/udev/rules.d. Why? For modularity. All rules could be in one file, but then adding more rules becomes harder (think BLFS instructions to add digital cameras). > Is the newest udev compatible with older kernels, like 2.6.11.12? No. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-13 Thread Archaic
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 01:12:17PM -0600, Archaic wrote: > > KERNEL=="vcs*", GROUP="tty" Forgot one that isn't matched by the above: KERNEL=="vcs", GROUP="tty" # Added # (clfs) doesn't have

RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-13 Thread Archaic
hat, suse KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*",MODE="620" GROUP="tty" # Changed from 666 (too lax). Need to ensure this doesn't break anything. A live # debian box shows 620, but the rules show 666. # (clfs) NAME="%k" is unneeded # last_rule - debian, gentoo, redhat, suse KERNEL=="vcs*", GROUP="tty" # Changed from 600 to default # (clfs) NAME="%k" is unneeded and 620 is suse-specific. All others use default. # last_rule - gentoo, redhat, suse KERNEL=="console", MODE="600" GROUP="tty" # Changed from 622 # (clfs) NAME="%k" is unneeded # last_rule - debian, redhat, suse -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: removing old branches

2006-05-12 Thread Archaic
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 05:18:48PM -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > Agreed. Let's just ditch it. It's going nowhere fast. And the others (save the latest stable release)? -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux F

Re: removing old branches

2006-05-12 Thread Archaic
look. As it turns out, I'm glad I did. There hasn't been any housecleaning in some time. :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-de

Re: removing old branches

2006-05-12 Thread Archaic
that it isn't worth trying patch it up, but that's not my decision to make. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http:/

Re: removing old branches

2006-05-12 Thread Archaic
time) when you have to retrieve the root of the repo. Look in LFS/trunk and you will see a file documenting exactly what revision each tag/branch was removed. It is trivial to grab the revision you need. Also, the XML is already archived for historical purposes at archive.linuxfromscratch.org --

removing old branches

2006-05-12 Thread Archaic
all of those books is in the archive section. IIRC, the procedure is to keep the last stable-released book and bootscript tags and remove the rest. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs

Re: adding a udev-config directory to the repo

2006-05-07 Thread Archaic
On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:44:26AM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > If you do that it will take me another thousandth of a second to update > my working copy. > > *sigh* Shall I drop the occasional 60 MB file in there, then? :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and sec

Re: adding a udev-config directory to the repo

2006-05-07 Thread Archaic
also > put other files in the etc/ directory that are documented in Chapter 7. I'd like to keep udev configuration separate from the bootscripts. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfroms

adding a udev-config directory to the repo

2006-05-07 Thread Archaic
I can't imagine anyone disagreeing, but just to make sure, I'm wanting to add the udev-config stuff to the root of the LFS repo just like the bootscripts are. We currently have no revision control and that is just a hassle. Any arguments against this? -- Archaic Want control, educ

Re: [BLFS Trac] #1680: /proc/bus/usb is obsolete

2006-05-07 Thread Archaic
erhaps suboptimal from a philosophical POV. The whole user/group thing is still in debate, so I will leave it as it for now since BLFS does add the group attribute. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromsc

Re: Getting 6.2 ready for testing

2006-05-07 Thread Archaic
ng around like maniacs isn't going to help the new book. The new server has been shipped and it is possible that that will interfere with release anyway. Until then, we just keep doing test builds and keep squashing bugs and everything will be fine. -- Archaic Want control, education, and secu

Re: Getting 6.2 ready for testing

2006-05-07 Thread Archaic
contradicted yourself. :) After much thought on Ken's thread about the "stable" releases, I see no reason to freeze the kernel, at least within 2.6.16. 2.6.17 will not be added. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch

Re: Getting 6.2 ready for testing

2006-05-07 Thread Archaic
.6.12.0-inotify-1.patch and was discussed here: http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2006-April/056688.html -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mai

Re: Getting 6.2 ready for testing

2006-05-07 Thread Archaic
r the now commonplace kernel upgrade). I'll get the kernel one done probably today. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

Re: tar tests

2006-05-06 Thread Archaic
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 01:29:50AM +0400, Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > When building LFS-20060420, I had an error while testing tar in > chapter6. Please post on lfs-support. This is an error on your end, not the book's. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from you

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Archaic
our patches do, either. Why provide links for some and md5s for others? > I've never seen a ticket assigned to me to answer questions. After all > that's why we have the ticket system in place. Discussion, for the most part, happens here, not in tickets. -- Archaic Want control, ed

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Archaic
gt; know I haven't done a lot of work in LFS lately, but today since I had > some free time, I ventured out and looked at the outstanding tickets, > and this is how I felt after looking at them. Perhaps you should visit more often. ;) There have been a few udev rules threads that I'd

Re: Chapter 24. X Window System - visual changes

2006-05-03 Thread Archaic
the name of the wiki page, I'd say that all topics covered on the book page are fair game. If that is the case, I'd place the notest link at or near the top of the book page. Currently it only holds font info, but it could include something from the earlier paragraphs causing the link to b

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
faces", could you please > change this to 30-network.rules and verify with your single network card? Gimme half a day and I can test it on my gateway with 2 NICs. I've got a build going currently and will test once that is done. Until then, I'll test a 1 NIC system and repo

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/udev-config-20060502-try2.tar.bz2 -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
ated by udev. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
ly that many. I found it once, but forget where. It was a c file in the kernel. A #DEFINE, IIRC. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-de

Re: md5sums

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 12:11:53AM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > Originally I did just want a separate file to be included with the > book's source. But, after Archaic reminded me that we actually link > directly to the packages now, it seems like a good idea to inclu

Re: Note about Shadow instructions

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
ut PAM is well-known for it (though granted it is generally user error). -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
usb_device", PROGRAM="/bin/sh -c 'X=%k X=$${X#usbdev} B=$${X.*} D=$${X#*.}; echo bus/usb/$$B/$$D'", NAME="%c" I put it at the beginning of the USB section. The new tarball is here: http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/udev-config-20060502.tar.bz2 -- Archaic Wa

Re: md5sums

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
the version entities, it would make it rather difficult to forget to update them, too! :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-de

Re: [RFC] Stable kernels

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
oesn't really matter other than to show that I'm uncomfortable with assumption. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http

Re: [RFC] Stable kernels

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
static device nodes. When will the next incompatible change happen in udev? Of course, if you are volunteering to track the kernel changes in released books and keep the errata up to date, that would be welcomed. ;) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating s

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
meone who knows toolchains to answer the "should or should not" question, and then I need a way to test (Dan mentioned coreutils-cvs). -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 01:50:58PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > Here's a simple program to test with archaic. Thanks Jim. :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs

Re: [Fwd: Re: modprobe bug for aliases with regular expressions]

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
t fixes it is the patch below? (needed for distros that > don't want to rev the whole package...) Alex, was the attached patch the proper fix? And have you heard anymore about the 3.3 release? There still only exists the pre1 tarball from February. -- Archaic Want control, educa

Re: testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
Thanks for the info, Dan. I forgot to ask (and it's OT according to the subject line), but do you have some advice about testing the new syscalls, or better yet, does anyone see a need to include the new syscalls? -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating s

testing inotify

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
iate it. I'd like to stay away from gui apps if at all possible because it would take quite some time to get to the actual testing stage. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- ht

Re: Finalizing the sanity checks

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 08:01:28PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > OK, here's a second go at it: Looks good. I see one thing, though: "The most likely reason is that something went wrong with the specs file amendment above." s/above// because it isn't relevant on t

Re: [RFC] Stable kernels

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
S installation can establish sanity and stability. We would need huge compile farms to try and reach any level of confidence if the base system kept changing. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.

Re: [RFC] Stable kernels

2006-05-02 Thread Archaic
/chapter09/whatnow.html > and (b) try out test (-rc) kernels [ because they do need testing ] if > they are prepared to do the necessary background reading to follow > what is going on, and prepared to handle reporting bugs on lkml. I disagree. It isn't the readers responsibility to test

Re: Fwd: Bash-3.1.17 gets lost looking for end of string in certain contexts

2006-05-01 Thread Archaic
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:37:39PM -0600, Archaic wrote: > > This issue was fixed around 3.1.10. If the patches were created properly > by us and applied properly by you, then this should not happen. I'll > look into it. Thanks for the report. Hrmm, the patch is right, and

Re: Fwd: Bash-3.1.17 gets lost looking for end of string in certain contexts

2006-05-01 Thread Archaic
ted properly by us and applied properly by you, then this should not happen. I'll look into it. Thanks for the report. -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: autoconf test results before/after alpha merge

2006-05-01 Thread Archaic
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 06:15:50PM -0400, Chris Staub wrote: > > I'm guessing you mean Automake, not Autoconf. Yes, hasty in my typing. :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlf

autoconf test results before/after alpha merge

2006-05-01 Thread Archaic
r error is always likely. :) -- Archaic Want control, education, and security from your operating system? Hardened Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above i

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