Re: udev testers required

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jim Gifford wrote: There was also to be a hold on udev util that was worked out also. That's not the way I saw things Jim, apologies if I've misunderstood something. To me, things got delayed simply because the move to a single rules file caused folks to think "why are we setting policy in the

Re: Bug 1061 - buggy binutils host problems

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: Andrew Fyfe wrote: Greg Schafer (http://www.diy-linux.org/x86-reference-build/) has been building pass 1 of binutils and gcc dynamically for a while without any problems. Thanks. Shockingly, I actually read the book for once, to see what it had to say

Re: udev testers required

2005-03-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Matthew Burgess wrote: That's not the way I saw things Jim, apologies if I've misunderstood something. To me, things got delayed simply because the move to a single rules file caused folks to think "why are we setting policy in the book". The way I saw things was that we could do a simple merg

Re: udev testers required

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
Kevin P. Fleming wrote: But why does LFS-SVN need to wait on BLFS? BLFS is not based on LFS-SVN, it's based on LFS-6.0. Exactly, so if we go and remove all those users and groups that we don't think are required/desired on a base LFS system then it'll cause pain for those then installing package

Re: Bug 1061 - buggy binutils host problems

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: OK guys, I want to get this one out of the way a.s.a.p. And it's now fixed as of r4741, or at least I think it is! Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: udev testers required

2005-03-13 Thread Jim Gifford
Matthew Burgess wrote: Jim Gifford wrote: There was also to be a hold on udev util that was worked out also. That's not the way I saw things Jim, apologies if I've misunderstood something. To me, things got delayed simply because the move to a single rules file caused folks to think "why are we

Re: udev testers required

2005-03-13 Thread Kevin P. Fleming
Matthew Burgess wrote: Exactly, so if we go and remove all those users and groups that we don't think are required/desired on a base LFS system then it'll cause pain for those then installing packages from BLFS that require those users/groups to be present. Admittedly, the pain is minimal (a '

Re: udev testers required

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jim Gifford wrote: Which I had that ready and was told to hold off.I had the updates rules posted on my website for a long time and submitted them into the bug report. Which I only saw *after* I'd applied the change and was closing the bug :( When I asked to apply them I was told to hold on. I'm

Re: Bug 1061 - buggy binutils host problems

2005-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Don't get me wrong, I don't mind Gerard doing a release ( :) ) if that's what is felt is the best approach. I just wonder if it's worth basing the release off of 6.0 (i.e. no package upgrades, etc.) or if we branch from trunk/ and freeze for release on

Re: udev testers required

2005-03-13 Thread Jeremy Utley
Matthew Burgess wrote: Kevin P. Fleming wrote: But why does LFS-SVN need to wait on BLFS? BLFS is not based on LFS-SVN, it's based on LFS-6.0. Exactly, so if we go and remove all those users and groups that we don't think are required/desired on a base LFS system then it'll cause pain for those

Re: Bug 1061 - buggy binutils host problems

2005-03-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: OK guys, I want to get this one out of the way a.s.a.p. And it's now fixed as of r4741, or at least I think it is! You might want to revisit section 4.5 and change the dicussion to "Standard Build Unit" :) On the same page, you might also want to remov

Re: Chapter 6 - GCC Instructions

2005-03-13 Thread Edwin van Vliet
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, In the Chapter 6 instructions to build GCC, it says this: "The full GCC package contains additional compilers. Instructions for building these can be found at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/gcc.html."; This is true enough. However, it's misleadin

Re: Bug 1061 - buggy binutils host problems

2005-03-13 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: You might want to revisit section 4.5 and change the dicussion to "Standard Build Unit" :) Thanks Bruce. I made the suggested changes apart from the link to the SBU page. Once the pages are in the website repo I'll update the link. I'll probably get to it some time next we

Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.11.0

2005-03-13 Thread Alex Potter
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: [ANNOUNCE] linux-libc-headers 2.6.11.0 Date: Sunday 13 Mar 2005 22:29 From: Mariusz Mazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Available at http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/ Changes: - updated to 2.6.11 (adde