RE: An idea for a new development model

2007-08-15 Thread dragosi
I'd like to give my opinion and 2 cents worth to this topic, even if I'm not a regular member or contributor. I've been reading the forums more regularly recently. I came across LFS 3 - 4 years ago, when I got upset with all other distributions that I had tried. Upset mainly because of their PM

man-db-2.4.4 large man pages bug

2007-08-07 Thread dragosi
I've just finished building LFS-SVN20070731 and after some tests observed, that looking at larger man pages (for example, bash), would produce a grotty output error, if the man page read was prematurely aborted by pressing the 'q' key. Some search on google and it seems that this is a known bug an

man-db-2.4.4 /usr/man path

2007-08-07 Thread dragosi
In chapter 6.45, a sed command removes two paths from the MANDATORY_PATH in the man_db.conf; one of them /usr/man. However, I've found that there are some man pages in /usr/man and subsequently, because of the path not being in man_db.conf, I can't display these man pages (for example, bash). Add

tcl test suite

2007-08-06 Thread dragosi
The tcl section mentions that the test suit should be run by issuing make test. However, I've found that with that, the clock test will always fail. The LFS book issues TZ=UTC make test instead and that takes care of the test failure. Any particular reason why this is different? I'm using LFS-S