Re: [lfs-dev] Systemd branch is alive

2013-12-12 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Wednesday 11 December 2013 23:52:45 Armin K. wrote: > For those that don't know, you can read systemd version of the book > online at [1]. > > Please note that I've just applied systemd specific changes to lfs > development book which was the most current at the time, but didn't yet > run any t

Re: [lfs-dev] Some minor text tidying for v7.4-rc1

2013-08-19 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Monday 19 August 2013 15:20:10 Arthur Radley wrote: > A few things the book says are installed by some of the packages, but I > cannot find them installed on my system (or I found information about these > no longer being installed)... > GCC... > > gccbug (no information, but I can't find this

[lfs-dev] Glibc-2.18, pt_chown and terminal emulators

2013-08-19 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
In glibc 2.18, the pt_chown binary no longer gets installed by default due to security reasons. This resulted for me in konsole not working. I tracked the issue down to the missing pt_chown binary. pt_chown can still be installed by supplying the switch --enable-pt_chown to glibc, but as the binar

[lfs-dev] GCC 4.8.x installed files

2013-05-31 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
It seems the page for GCC in lfs is not up to date as to what files are installed. The following libraries are new to 4.8, but are not listed in lfs: libasan.{a,so} libasan_preinit.o libatomic.{a,so} libitm.{a,so} Also the gccbug binary seems to be removed. I also get binaries i686-pc-linux-gnu

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r11151 - in trunk/BOOK: . general/genlib introduction/welcome kde/add kde/core multimedia/audioutils

2013-04-23 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Tuesday 23 April 2013 19:36:36 Armin K. wrote: > I guess you need at least to list CMake and Qt4 as deps for QJson. Ah yes, I totally forgot about dependencies. Thanks, Armin. I will fix it. .Ragnar -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: [lfs-dev] Problem with blfs using systemd

2013-04-07 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Sunday 07 April 2013 17:50:24 John Burrell wrote: > I've built lfs-systemd-20130324 successfully and, encouraged by this, I went > on to add some blfs packages. > > When I login I don't appear to have a session set up. > > When I do: > > loginctl list-seats > > I get seat0 - 1 seat listed >

Re: [lfs-dev] How to install Systemd-193 on LFS

2012-10-09 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I think most systems are used by a single user. There are exceptions, > of course, but a Ubuntu or Gentoo or Debian system is generally used by > one user. Does this feature really provide a benefit to the single user > system? > > Servers tha

Re: [lfs-dev] How to install Systemd-193 on LFS

2012-10-08 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Monday 08 October 2012 12:28:31 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Interesting. Other than allowing systemd to run, what benefits does > using cgroups give? >From Wikipedia: cgroups (control groups) is a Linux kernel feature to limit, account and isolate resource usage (CPU, memory, disk I/O, etc.) of proc

Re: [lfs-dev] How to install Systemd-193 on LFS

2012-10-08 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Tuesday 02 October 2012 10:51:32 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Did you ever run 'mount' from the command line? I configured the kernel without any of the cgroup controllers and now only one cgroup (the systemd cgroup) shows up when issuing the mount command. My kernel config: CONFIG_CGROUPS=y # CONFIG

Re: [lfs-dev] Systemd

2012-10-08 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Wednesday 03 October 2012 19:31:14 Bryan Kadzban wrote: > I remember some ... long and IMO insane thread on the systemd-devel list > about something like this. The end result of that thread was that > "startx" is apparently not supposed to be used anymore, at least not in > its default configur

Re: [lfs-dev] Systemd

2012-10-03 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Wednesday 03 October 2012 21:12:06 Armin K. wrote: > So the answer is, just add pam_systemd to system-session. I'm afraid this doesn't work. There is still no logind session started when I run startx. Running loginctl only lists the console session, but no X11 session. And authentication as

Re: [lfs-dev] Systemd

2012-10-03 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Monday 01 October 2012 22:05:39 Armin wrote: > If you need anything else, just ask. By re-installing consolekit, polkit and upower to get the service files installed, my system is now functional. I also needed to reinstall pulseaudio to fix my sound. One thing that was not working, was authe

Re: [lfs-dev] Systemd

2012-09-27 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
On Thursday 27 September 2012 15:05:00 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > My system boots to the login prompt in about 8 seconds without it. How > much time do you think it might save? My system boots to login in around 10 seconds, and when I use KDM an additional 20 seconds. So I was hoping it might cut half

[lfs-dev] Systemd

2012-09-27 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
I decided to try out systemd myself to see what all the fuss was about and if it could reduce my boot time. I tried using roughly the instructions provided by Lemon Lime back in August 2011: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2011-August/064959.html I installed version 192. Howev

[lfs-dev] Stripping libraries

2012-08-31 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
It is stated in LFS that --strip-unneeded should not be used on libraries, as the static ones will be destroyed. I found this page: http://www.technovelty.org/linux/ Which states that --strip-unneeded is safe to use on both shared and static libraries, while --strip-all is only safe for shared on

[lfs-dev] Typo in glibc instructions

2012-08-30 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
In the glibc instructions in chapter 6 just before copying the NIS/RPC headers there is a typo: "Install NIS and RPC related headers that are not installed by default; these are required ito rebuild glibc and by several BLFS packages:" *ito* should be *to* -Ragnar- -- http://linuxfromscratch.

Re: [blfs-dev] Removal of additional KDE4 packages

2012-03-23 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >Ragnar Thomsen wrote: >> If noone objects, I will remove the following packages from the book: >> -kdegames >> -kdeedu >> -kdetoys >> -kdeaccessibility > >kdegames and kdetoys are still available at >http://mirrors.isc.org/pub/kde/s

[blfs-dev] Removal of additional KDE4 packages

2012-03-23 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
If noone objects, I will remove the following packages from the book: -kdegames -kdeedu -kdetoys -kdeaccessibility And the entire KDE4 development section: -kdesdk -kdewebdev -kdevplatform -kdevelop The rationale for this is: -the current instructions are outdated/incomplete -the download link

Re: [blfs-dev] Info needed.

2012-03-15 Thread Ragnar Thomsen
>I've got a bad feeling about this, that could add up to a significant >number of downloads. The mplayer tarball weighs in at 10MB. >Having said that, I've put an example here if people want to try it: >http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~andy/mplayer-15-03-12.tar.xz >We could make subversion and git