Re: What's Going on

2006-05-04 Thread M.Canales.es
El Jueves, 4 de Mayo de 2006 23:29, Jim Gifford escribió: > The biggest problem I've had about the md5sums in ALFS is that they are > ones we have created. We shouldn't be recreating them, but using the > author's version. I know we have repackages items so they are .bz2, but > that's not keeping a

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-04 Thread Jim Gifford
The biggest problem I've had about the md5sums in ALFS is that they are ones we have created. We shouldn't be recreating them, but using the author's version. I know we have repackages items so they are .bz2, but that's not keeping a clean chain. That's my objection. If we are not going to prov

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-04 Thread M.Canales.es
El Jueves, 4 de Mayo de 2006 02:42, Archaic escribió: > jhalfs was discussed in dozens of threads a long time ago. What you are > arguing against is a method to test the book directly from it's XML. And that was one of the goals listed in the specifications when the work on the newxml format was

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Archaic wrote: > On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:36:53PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: >>> >> I can understand that, but we should just provide a link to the sources >> md5 instead of creating our own. It helps prevent any contamination of >> the file by us. > > Not every package has an md5 file. None

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Jim Gifford
to notify them on what's going on. I've been tied up with CLFS and work lately, and as I've stated in email to Randy, if someone notified me via an email or IRC that's when I responded. You know how it is when your busy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Archaic
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 06:36:53PM -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: > > > I can understand that, but we should just provide a link to the sources > md5 instead of creating our own. It helps prevent any contamination of > the file by us. Not every package has an md5 file. None of our patches do, eithe

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Jim Gifford
Randy McMurchy wrote: Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/03/06 20:36 CST: I've never seen a ticket assigned to me to answer questions. After all that's why we have the ticket system in place. You mean you've been monitoring the lists and because nobody assigned you a ticket, you have

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jim Gifford wrote these words on 05/03/06 20:36 CST: > I've never seen a ticket assigned to me to answer questions. After all > that's why we have the ticket system in place. You mean you've been monitoring the lists and because nobody assigned you a ticket, you haven't contributed to any thread

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jim Gifford wrote: Perhaps you should visit more often. ;) There have been a few udev rules threads that I'd appreciate your comments on, too. I've never seen a ticket assigned to me to answer questions. After all that's why we have the ticket system in place. I think perhaps we have diffe

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Jim Gifford
are for convenience. I can understand that, but we should just provide a link to the sources md5 instead of creating our own. It helps prevent any contamination of the file by us. If I'm missing the point of what's going on, somebody give me a clue. I know I haven't done a lo

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Archaic
checked it against the upstream checksum file (if it exists). But many upstream packages don't have md5's. For that reason alone, I think the book should have them. The rest are for convenience. > If I'm missing the point of what's going on, somebody give me a clue. I &

Re: What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jim Gifford wrote: I see to many conflicts of interest. I see a lot of ALFS stuff getting merged into the LFS book, with no real discussion. What do you mean "a lot of ALFS stuff"? You've commented on one idea today, the md5sums, that is ALFS-oriented. What else are you referring to? -- JH -

What's Going on

2006-05-03 Thread Jim Gifford
t I'm accused of all the time, having no discussion with the other developers seems to be happening and I'm not at the root of the problem. If I'm missing the point of what's going on, somebody give me a clue. I know I haven't done a lot of work in LFS lately, but tod