Re: GCC-4.4.1 imminent

2009-07-22 Thread lists
I use LFS in real life applications, I hope this gets included... ET Matthew Burgess writes: > Hi, > > As mentioned at http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-07/msg00411.html, > GCC-4.4.1 will be announced shortly. > > There's a report that GCC-4.4.0 fails to compile at least 'dillo' > from BLFS

Re: Package Management

2009-02-18 Thread lists
. It is still a work in progress but it works pretty cool... :) I would appreciate feedback if someone looks into: http://kitepilot.com/LFS/ Thanks Enrique A. Troconis Randy McMurchy writes: > Hi all, > > Though this topic may be borderline off-topic for the -dev lists, they

Re: A new year with a lot of memories

2009-01-24 Thread lists
Gerard, you will never know how many lives you have touched how... I went all the way to the bottom of the pit after September 11/2001, when I got laid off from my M$ C++ developer role. Back then, I had had some brief incursions with UNIX, and I was running my little WEB server off of a server

Re: Package Mangement

2008-12-31 Thread lists
BTW, my initramfs implementation SUCKS, but is complete, works for just about everything, and can easily be reversed engineered as a learning exercise. I know how to do it better now, but it is good enough as it is and serves my immediate purposes. Maybe someday I'll clean it out and make it sma

Re: Package management and creating the file system layout

2008-12-16 Thread lists
Hello there: Maybe this is irrelevant and I hope I don't offend anyone... I've been working on a LFS package manager that works out of the tools available in the "tools" directory (plus rsync and file) and that I could use to manage my LFS servers. I used the union-fs tools and I believe I

Re: Grub 2

2007-10-19 Thread lists
taipan67 wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> >> >>> Note, however, that this is not the same type of module as "insmod" and >>> "lsmod" Grub2 commands refer to. Grub2 has its own modules for loading >>> Linux kernels, loading FreeBSD kernels, support for filesystems,

Re: suggestion for addition

2007-09-25 Thread lists
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > lists writes: > >> I was reading the distro specific support on linuxquestions.org for lfs, >> someone posted the following: >> " >> earlier i could not create binutils-build directory using d command >> given in book as lfs

suggestion for addition

2007-09-25 Thread lists
I was reading the distro specific support on linuxquestions.org for lfs, someone posted the following: " earlier i could not create binutils-build directory using d command given in book as lfs user. i did it by changing to root n made $LFS/binutils-build the working directory for binutils n procee

Re: An idea for a new development model

2007-08-15 Thread lists
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 10:17:51AM -0700, lists wrote: >> If the editors pick a pm, then they are removing the "choice" part of that. > > And for that reason I think I would be against adding a specific PM to > LFS/BLFS. However, dropping

Re: An idea for a new development model

2007-08-15 Thread lists
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 08/15/07 11:42 CST: > ~snip~ > > I can't see it happening in BLFS for the simple reason that it would > be a monumental task (automating the proper inserts could perhaps be > done, but we wouldn't do that until *every* package has been

Re: An idea for a new development model

2007-08-15 Thread lists
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 07:37:12AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: >> I'll go on record as -1. > > I'm not going to push to get this into LFS. If the vast majority of > those with a voice here are for PM in LFS, great. If not, great. :) > >> I feel we should mention it, prov

Re: LFS LiveCD x86_64-6.3-min-pre1 Available

2007-07-26 Thread lists
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Hello, > > The LFS LiveCD team is pleased to announce a new 64bit-only CD. It is a > minimal CD, meaning that it contains no X Windows System and dependent > software nor any source packages. The LFS book that is included is based > on the current development x86_64 bra

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-09 Thread lists
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> Anything else? > > LiveCD. I simply have no possibility to fix all known bugs, so LFS 6.3 has > to be released without the CD and should not mention it at all. > My own issue with the livecd on the inspiron is actually the hardware, not your

Re: udev-110 ->111 changed behaviour for naming net-devices?

2007-05-23 Thread lists
Bryan Kadzban wrote: ~snip~ > > Hmm. I figured they'd show up on a different bus, since it is really a > different physical bus. Well, whatever. I'd still like to know where > the device symlink points though. :-) > > I seem to remember when I had a laptop that I used a pcmcia network card