Re: Package Users Hint

2006-08-20 Thread Matthias B.
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:32:27 -0400 Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > else. I can only guess that users don't really see it as a "deviation" > because it is mentioned in the book as being "specifically for LFS". I think you guess wrong here. Call me cynical (I am :-) but I think people "fo

Re: Package Users Hint

2006-08-20 Thread Matthias B.
On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 10:51:29 -0400 Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The hint itself could also use a more emphatic > warning that it should only be used by advanced LFS builders who have > already built numerous LFS systems and know exactly how the whole build > process works. Whether

Re: Defective bash in /tools

2006-08-01 Thread Matthias B.
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:47:09 -0400 Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > Hopefully, somebody has test results ? > > I think this is a known issue when using package users, but with bash, > not glibc. The bash testsuite fails a couple tests because the current > TTY is

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-22 Thread Matthias B.
Forget it. I completely overlooked that the list_package functionality that is broken by the bash bug requires man, which is not available until after bash is rebuilt. So while applying the patch in chapter 5 would fix the swarm of error messages, it would not actually enable the functionality. Sor

Re: bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-21 Thread Matthias B.
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:46:47 -0700 Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then it should be included in the hint and not book. People will miss it. The hint doesn't require any changes to the chapter 5 build instructions so far and people who have used it before won't notice the change. What's

bash patch in chapter 5

2006-07-18 Thread Matthias B.
I'd like to suggest that the bash patch be applied in chapter 5, too. Without the patch bash is pretty broken, e.g. echo "$(echo $';foo')" bash: foo: command not found whereas the correct output would be ;foo This bug breaks the list_package script from the more_control_helpers package, thereby