On Mon, 03 Oct 2005 06:50:52 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork
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>I had fully intended to leave LFS ... I wasn't able to keep myself away.
Sounds like an addiction.
>Manuel roused my attention with jhalfs
Since we talked last, I improved my diy-linux scripts to do what I
mentione
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 12:25:34 +1000 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The part that of course can be automated however, is the building of the
>individual pieces themselves. One thing I haven't seen in any system
>completely yet I don't think though (or certainly no system on Linux anywayz)
>is a s
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:21:15 -0500, Randy McMurchy
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>>>I find it very useful to know how every file on the system was installed,
>>>and which package installed it.
>>
>> Why?
>3) It helps me to keep the BLFS book accurate, as BLFS (the same as
> LFS) annotates install
On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:03:12 -0500, Randy McMurchy
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>I find it very useful to know how every file on the system was installed,
>and which package installed it.
Why?
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On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 07:54:17 +1000 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've never seen a single package management solution yet that I've
> been entirely happy with.
People struggle with package management because "packages" are what
distribution vendors provide.
But who needs packages? Building
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 22:08:50 -0400, Joshua Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> tell me which changes (if any) would be needed for that shell?
>
>honestly, far too many ... tcsh is a csh derivative, the syntax and
>such is far removed form the bourne shells ... it would require a near
>full re-wri
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 20:29:38 -0600, Archaic
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>> In section 1.1, How to Build an LFS System, the following sounds (at
>> least to my ears) grammatically odd: "While this may initially seem like
>> a lot of work to isolate the new system from the host distribution, a
>>
On Sun, 04 Sep 2005 19:49:12 +0100, Matthew Burgess
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Randy McMurchy wrote:
>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1854005,00.asp
>"A good resource for beginners is www.linuxfromscratch.org".
They say there's no such thing as bad publicity ... but in this case,
maybe
On Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:38:02 -0400 (EDT), Jeremy Huntwork
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>extracting the commands from the book's XML source ... Manuel has created
>a XSL stylesheet that can extract all the commands and dump them into text
>files.
diy-linux seems to be doing this too.
>This could b
