On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 1:49 PM, William Harrington
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> There's a reason why there is a separate branch for systemd LFS.
>
> People can choose to use it or not. It doesn't matter if people like
> systemd or not. They can go on a rampage with their advantages and
> disadvantages. People contri
On Oct 20, 2011 8:48 AM, "feralert" wrote:
> As I am new in LFS and this is my first attempt, I have a couple of
> comments that might help make the book easier to follow (at least to a
> non-english newbie like me). This are stuff that got me lost for a
> while and think that, if clarified, would
> as getting closed. And ssh appears not to work - so, if there is a
> problem, fixing it might be "difficult".
I can access it just fine. Maybe there is a problem on your end.
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to appear, disjointed. Using one of the fixes from
Fedora helped me, and I decided to cobble it with some other useful
patches into this nice little megapatch.
I would like to see this in the book soon. If you had the issue I was
talking about, please reply.
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pts "user jdoe remotename adsl"
}}}
For Wifi with DHCPCD:
{{{
# The primary network interface:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet wifi dhcp
ssid "DontPanic"
service
start_opts ""
stop_opts ""
print_ip true
print_all false
}}}
See? All simple.
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changes to the bootscripts, I suggest
that we fix the above mentioned issues.
We should start with only using one configuration file per interface,
using SERVICE to set which program to use for setting up the network.
If you have any questions, I am open to replies.
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On Jul 10, 2011 5:34 PM, "Bruce Dubbs" wrote:
> I've done a partial rewrite of the bootscripts and want to put them out
for comment.
I know this might be a little too late to say this, but I would personally
like to see something like systemd or upstart in the book or a fork of it.
These newer sys
, so I just forget them and move on.
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://nfsv4.bullopensource.org/doc/tirpc_rpcbind.php
and you can download it from here:
lhttp://downloads.sourceforge.net/libtirpc/ibtirpc-0.2.2.tar.bz2
I really haven't built this, but once I can give it a try, I'll give it a try.
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ypes.patch.
I also checked the info dir file with vim, looked normal to me.
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t of fixes, mostly from Fedora, that fix some issues with Texinfo,
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On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 2:35 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Yes. The kernel headers include definitions for the kernel only. Don't
> use the kernel headers for applications or utilities.
Unless you want to use the kernel for direct hardware access or
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mv -v /usr/bin/{xz,unxz,xzcat,lzma,unlzma,lzcat} /bin &&
mv -v /usr/lib/liblzma.so.* /lib &&
ln -sfv ../../lib/liblzma.so.0 /usr/lib/liblzma.so
3. Add --docdir=/usr/share/doc/xz-5.0.0 to the configure command.
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The only thing left is to change the sed in the LFS book, and that's it.
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list this belongs on, I belive it belongs on all of the
-dev lists, but I'll first send it to the lfs-dev list.
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pages.
So, that makes the sed for disabling the manpages pointless and it
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6.33 Perl 5.12.2. In the description for libnetcfg, it says:
"Can be used to configure the libnet"
which doesn’t really make sense. A better description would be:
"Can be used to configure the libnet Perl module"
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ld like normal.
3. After a set amount of time, update the IANA files and make a new release.
This seems like a plausible way of handling things.
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new version of IANA-Etc. I'll mantain this
package and make announcements here. The only thing I need is some
hosting space. If you have some on one of your sites, can you give me
some space to make new versions of IANA-Etc?
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I think we should do? Fork IANA-Etc into our own
package, lfs-iana-files, using the same scripts but using the latest
IANA files as sources to format.
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On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On 4 August 2010 22:07, William Immendorf wrote:
>> I have a simpler fix in a form of a sed:
>>
>> sed -i '/#include /i#include ' src/m4.h
>>
>> This should get M4 compiling again.
>> --
>
n a form of a sed:
sed -i '/#include /i#include ' src/m4.h
This should get M4 compiling again.
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build in
> optimization libraries for chapter 5.
Thanks for pointing that out for me. I think CLFS should follow your
advice just for build time's sake.
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If i
--enable-cxx added to it's configure.
* As for PPL, use --enable-interfaces="c,cxx" to prevent PPL from
building the Java interface (there is no Java compiler in the chroot
enviorment, by the way) in the temp toolchain phrase.
* CLoog-PPL needs --with-bits=gmp in the temp toolchain
ARE meaningful for LFS, as GRUB
uses them to find where the root partition is. I use an Initramfs, but
it's still meaningful. So, the description should be reworked to:
"The search lines are used by GRUB to find the root partition where
the kernel is located. Therefore, they should not
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 6:48 AM, William Immendorf
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> I think you should just be patient, Bruce. Wait for 2.6.33.3 to come
> out, and hopefully your system will boot up again.
Or if you are impatient, try using the attached patch.
I think it fixes the segfault issue.
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default configuration is using the e1000 driver. If I make this one
> change in the config, init segfaults at boot.
I think you should just be patient, Bruce. Wait for 2.6.33.3 to come
out, and hopefully your system will boot up again.
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On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Petersen Liman wrote:
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xes. It also includes editorial work on the explanatory
> material throughout the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of
> the text.
Great, as I built the book with LFS SVN-20100219, which is very close
to LFS 6.6-rc2, and it works! Working on BLFS SVN now...
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part belongs to LFS, and
the X.org/Gallium3D driver belongs to BLFS. Thefore, please reopen
2584 and I will open a new ticket on BLFS conserning the X.org/Gallium
driver.
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Neither am I, but I think we have a old Grub splash image laying
around at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/artwork/lfs-grub-splash.xpm.
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On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 11:48 PM, Troy Will
wrote:
> I set up a Facebook profile where I can post my pictures, videos and events
> and I want to add you as a friend so you can see it. First, you need to join
> Facebook! Once you join, you can also create your own profile.
Oh jeez, will you tell
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Greg Schafer wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:12:43 -0700, Nathan Coulson wrote:
>> I have been experimenting with a multilib LFS System (where /lib,
>> /usr/lib are used for 64bit, and /lib/32, and /usr/lib/32 are used for
>> 32bit).
>
> I advise against this. Not
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Greg Schafer wrote:
> Because that way lies madness (as has been discussed many times before).
>
> IMHO, a saner solution is a 32-bit "build" chroot and a package manger.
Eh, I was thinking of a hybrid of LFS, CLFS and DIY for multilib. What
do you think of that?
W
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:23 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> A 32-bit libc is a consideration. I don't know how to do that yet. I've only
> had a 64-bit system for a week. Looking at grub-0.97, it also uses ncurses,
> so
> I think we'd need a 32bit version of that too.
This has got me thinking: If we
Before you release 6.5, look at this: the Vim patch is out of date.
The patch level is now 234, and we gotta do somethin' to update it!!!
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notified him.)
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Subject: Re: Groff update, are you acepeting it?
To: William Immendorf
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:46:31PM -0600, William Immendorf wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> OK, I committed the changes. I was able to boot into this build and
> everything
> seemed to work. Devices were recognized and the network was up.
One more problem: In the CH6 E2fsprogs step, you didn't mention what
--disable-libblkd and --dis
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Matthew
Burgess wrote:
> Attached are my patches for all outstanding 6.5 tickets. It upgrades
> Util-Linux-NG as far as 2.16-rc2. This has survived a build and boot
> test. Feel free to commit them (in the order listed in 'series'), or
> have me commit them if you
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 4:24 AM, Guy
Dalziel wrote:
> Gilles, I believe that 6.3 is on the livecd, it certainly is on mine.
> lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2160.iso should be the most recent, I hope this
> helps.
And also, it's the version of the current non-development BLFS. But I
would like to see this lFS v
Hey,
I'm just wondering: How do you calculate the SBU amount for (B)LFS
packages? Because I want to see the SBUS for new packages, and recent
versions of packages.
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On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:11 PM, DJ Lucas wrote:
> And I thought that I had been complaining on this long enough so that we
> would never violate the FHS again. ;-) Even as rare as a remote /usr
> mount is now days, libz really must be moved to /lib if anything in /bin
> or /sbin links against it
Oops, due to a odd glitch, I sent the same message twice. I apologise for that.
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New version of udev, which as always, has bugfixes.
Major new features to note are:
* This version of udev now installs a library that is installed in a
diffrent location than usual. Because of this, exec_prefix and
udev_prefix cannot be used anymore. This presents a problem for LFS,
because we
New version of udev, which as always, has bugfixes.
Major new features to note are:
* This version of udev now installs a library that is installed in a
diffrent location than usual. Because of this, exec_prefix and
udev_prefix cannot be used anymore. This presents a problem for LFS,
because we
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Tobias Gasser wrote:
> with e2fsprogs 1.41.6, util-linux-ng 2.15.1 and udev 1.42 it looks like
> everything behaves as expected. just use the svn-20090611 with the
> updated e2fsprog and util-linux-ng including "--with-fsprobe=builtin"
> for util-linux-ng
I see a pr
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Tobias Gasser wrote:
> kernel 2.26.30 allows compression with gz, bz2 and lzma
>
> gzip and bzip2 are fine with the installed tools.
> lzma is missing in the book.
This is a must have package in the book, then.
> my current kernel-sizes:
> gzip 1913696
>
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Hey,
Should we use a perl with shared libraries? Just a thought.
BTW, the configure option for a shared lib perl is -Duseshrplib, and you
need to apply this sed so that DynaLoader.a is built with -fPIC,
so that it can be linked into a shared l
On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:53 PM, William Immendorf
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> Nor am I adolescent. I am a autistic 12 year old who loves computer.
I meant computers.
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Randy McMurchy
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> Just a side thought, but does anyone think that "William" doesn't
> exist, and is only a sock puppet for someone disgruntled with the
> project? I strongly believe this, as I don't think anyone could be
> as stupid as he pretends to be.
I am
I am not building OpenLDAP. It is just a complete mess, the "stable"
and the "realease" thing, the incompatibles with BDB 4.7.25, it
dosen't compile, etc, etc. Just remove this package sometime.
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:31 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Let William post to -dev. If he demonstrates that he has an emotional age
> greater than 12, we can consider restoring ticket privileges.
And I am showing a emotional age greater than 12 right now.
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Randy McMurchy
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> William Immendorf wrote these words on 02/11/09 16:04 CST:
>> THIS IS UNFAIR! WILLIAM NEEDS TO HAVE TICKET PREMITIONS!!
>
> Why must you feel you have to shout in ALL CAPS? You'd be so much
> more accepted i
Hey,
I found out that there is a new GCC version, 4.3.3. This is a
regression and docs fix release.
To see which regressions were fixed, look at this link:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=RESOLVED&resolution=FIXED&target_milestone=4.3.3
The only problem is, its nowhere to be
rive.
http://skydrive.live.com/welcome.aspx?provision=1?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_skydrive_102008Submitted by: William Immendorf (computerperson1 AT live DOT com)
Date: 2008-10-20
Initial Package Version: 5.10.0
Upstream Status: Accepeted, I guess.
Origin: Various Debian patches, and DJ's symlink securty fix.
Descriptio
DJ Lucas wrote:
>This is long, but mostly just test output. This tested on a box from
>20081012 with the added coreutils-i18n patch. Apparently, grep still
>has an issue. Need to see if we can dig up the proper patch or changes
>necessary to make it work correctly, and we still need to kill
This patch is for perl, and it is has some Debian fixes that fix #2227,
including the symlink securty patch, so we can scrap the perl securty fix patch.
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Udev is now at 130: Here are some of the changes from 124 to 130:
In udev-124:
* cdrom_id now properly recognizes blank media.
In udev-125:
* Bugfixes.
* Default udev rules are should now be put into /lib/udev/rules.d/ now, to make
it clear that they should not be edited by a user. User-made
I created a Trac ticket about LZMA utils, and I thought it would make a nice
addon to 6.4. So, it's best to move it there. LZMA in 6.4 forever.
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>That was an oversight. You can now.
Who are you talking to, DJ or me? I still can't create tickets.
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
>Thanks, William. I'll update this when I get to the Coreutils
>update. I may not pull out all the mktemp stuff completely from
>the book, as it is all commented out already and I think we
>prefer to keep stuff in there and just comment it out.
>Of course, as time goes on a
Can regular users (not just me) create tickets?
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Matthew Burgess wrote:
>William,
>Actually, through your actions we realised that the Trac permissions weren't
>set correctly. Only LFS editors should be able to re-open & close tickets and
>change target milestones and the>like; it's part of our responsibilities of
>ticket triage and releas
I have a new patch that removes the Mktemp package permentaly and mentions
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Philipp Christian Loewner wrote:
>> For "reopening trac ticket 2113", that was concerning LZMA, and a LFS
>> member and I had a ticket open-close argument with each other.
>I noticed that.
Yes, but you Christian troll trying to degrade my image, UNSUBSCRIBE YOURSELF!
You don't belong here.
Philipp Christian Loewner wrote:
>Normally I don't tend to respond to such messages nor am I in any way
>an LSF-dev but seriously, you best be trolling.
>If you are not, then you should really think about how to introduce
>your ideas to people who don't know you and who are not, in any way,
>p
Philipp Christian Loewner wrote:
>Normally I don't tend to respond to such messages nor am I in any way
>an LSF-dev but seriously, you best be trolling.
>If you are not, then you should really think about how to introduce
>your ideas to people who don't know you and who are not, in any way,
>ple
REOPEN TRAC TICKET #2213 IMMENDALY AND LET MY HAVE MY TRAC PRIVLAGES BACK TOO!
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>What are the dependencies for Schematron and NVDL?
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Matthew Burgess wrote:
>> DocBook V5.0 offers new functionality. DocBook V5.0 provides significant
>> improvements over DocBook V4.x. For example there is general markup for
>> annotations, a new and flexible system for linking, and unified markup for
>> information sections using the info elemen
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>I think you proposal and the discussion has reached a point where we are just
>rehashing what has been said. The question has been asked about the
>advantages
>of RelaxNG. The only answers I've heard are basically:
>1. We can add out own tags.
>2. Because it is there.
Ken Moffat wrote:
>Last time I looked (admittedly a _long_ time ago), java didn't build
>on the architecture I was using, with the then-current toolchain.
>No, it wasn't x86, but at the moment I can happily render my local
>versions which sit on a different architecture. You haven't yet
>unders
About my previous email, I meant that for a secure server, not for the book.
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> So far, I've managed without java, and I see absolutely zero reason
> to install it on my machines.
Unforuntaly, we have to put Java as a reqirment here for the validator (JNVDL)
and the transformer. (Saxon) You will have to live with that.
> At the moment, you haven't both
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> the biggest
>> barrier I think we have, is the fact that xmllint and xsltproc couldn't
>> handle RNG documents correctly.
>To me this is a show stopper. We need those or the equivalent programs to
>generate the book in its various forms, wget-list, etc.
Then try both
Anyway, I meant that we should create our own RNG shema that is based on
Docbook 5.0. Oh, and I mentoned we needed to update the .xsl files.
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Oh and for the root element, you need to add the LFS namespace and the sub
namespaces to the root of the document. Like
"xmlns="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/rng""; and
"xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude""; for the XInclude part. Also, we
need "xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xli
Here is a reworded plan for the future of LFS:
1. Use Relax NG instead of DTDs. They offer more flexibilty than DTDs. If you
want to learn about RNG, see this link:
http://www.relaxng.org/tutorial-20011203.html
I think it is best to base it on Docbook 5.0. Please read this:
http://www.docboo
We need to change some of the elements and replace them with new elements, such
as the screen and userinput combo. We also need to change decreapted Docbook 4
elements, such as ulink and bookinfo to link and info, respcrety. Also, we can
remove elements we don't need.
We need to change the he
We will proably need to change some decrepated elements, like ulink and
bookinfo, and for the entries, we can use this:
%general-entities;
%allent;
]>
No change to the .ent files is needed, but we need to change the xsl
stylesheets.
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>See:
>http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/855
>It's been around for 4 years, but we've never really addressed it.
I've seen it, that will fix the ticket and make LFS more flexible.
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Here's my plan for the future of the LFS format:
1. Use Relax NG instead of DTDs. It offers more customatibility than DTDs. And
if you're sick of XML, you can use RNCs. (Relax NG Compact Syntax) You can also
put elements from Docbook 5.0 in and take out ones you don't want. Also, you
can creat
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