/etc/inputrc textual suggestion

2005-06-23 Thread Archaic
The inputrc page located at: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/testing/chapter07/inputrc.html is currently loaded with much more text than is needed, IMO, and is rather convoluted, too. Likewise, it refers to an /etc/skel directory which LFS does not create (nor does it create any regular

Section 7.9 - The Bash shell startup files

2005-06-23 Thread Archaic
Referencing: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/testing/chapter07/profile.html Issue 1: the following text sounds odd to me: ### For more information, see info bash - Nodes: Bash Startup Files and Interactive Shells. ### There is on

RE: Section 7.9 - The Bash shell startup files

2005-06-23 Thread David Fix
> Issue 1: > > the following text sounds odd to me: > > ### > For more information, see info bash - Nodes: Bash Startup Files and > Interactive Shells. > ### > Issue 3: > > such locales are not supported by LFS in any way. > > sug

RE: /etc/inputrc textual suggestion

2005-06-23 Thread David Fix
> The inputrc page located at: > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/testing/chapter07/inp > utrc.html > > is currently loaded with much more text than is needed, IMO, and is > rather convoluted, too. Likewise, it refers to an /etc/skel directory > which LFS does not create (nor does it cr

[Fwd: Re: Ch 5.10 Expect in SVN-20050621]

2005-06-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Forwarding to lfs-dev for consideration. -- JH From Don Porter in the lfs-dev list: Hello, I'm one of the maintainers of the Tcl programming language. Lately we're seeing a small but increasing number of bug reports submitted against Tcl coming from people attempting to follow the Linux Fro

Re: /etc/inputrc textual suggestion

2005-06-23 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Archaic wrote: > FIXME: The following comment needs rewritten > > # Make sure we don't output everything on the 1 line set > horizontal-scroll-mode Off > > Suggested: > > # Allow the command prompt to wrap to the next line set > horizontal-scroll-mode Off How about: # Allow long commands to wr

XML/HTML question

2005-06-23 Thread Archaic
In the inputrc page I noticed an tag. In HTML it was converted to . However, I do not see any difference in the output of this text. So I looked at the stylesheets and sure enough, that class isn't listed. So now the question is; is this an unneeded tag that should be stripped, or is this an erro

Re: Gzip package install is not complete in LFS

2005-06-23 Thread Archaic
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:48:01PM -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > > Doesn't tar require the -Z option to decompress .tar.Z files? I thought > it did. Or is this the "tar-1.15.1 and newer" comment? The info page > (1.15.1) doesn't say anything about automagically guessing the file type... It i

First console command completes but ...

2005-06-23 Thread Bernard Leak
Dear All, apologies if I'm doing something completely stupid. (or duplicating an existing question - though I don't think I am). I've followed LFS 6.0 very, very nearly 100%: see later for differences (a list complete in intention: certainly no other differences looked important fo

Re: About the LINGUAS environment variable

2005-06-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Tushar Teredesai wrote: On 6/22/05, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: export LINGUAS="it es" Many moons ago I had tried this approach, but some packages failed during compilation. I did not dig deeper. Found it was easier to just remove the unwanted translations. Maybe the situ

Re: About the LINGUAS environment variable

2005-06-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: 3) wget, gcc and glibc install all translations when LINGUAS is set to empty value. Easily worked around by setting LINGUAS to something invalid like "xx". oops, forgot to mention util-linux. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http:

Re: First console command completes but ...

2005-06-23 Thread steve crosby
On 6/24/05, Bernard Leak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, >apologies if I'm doing something completely stupid. > (or duplicating an existing question - though I don't think > I am). The only stupid question is one left unasked ;) >output as requested, and then seems to han

Re: XML/HTML question

2005-06-23 Thread M.Canales.es
El Jueves, 23 de Junio de 2005 13:09, Archaic escribió: > In the inputrc page I noticed an tag. In HTML it was > converted to . However, I do not see any > difference in the output of this text. So I looked at the stylesheets > and sure enough, that class isn't listed. > > So now the question is;

Re: new entity - "generic version"

2005-06-23 Thread M.Canales.es
El Jueves, 23 de Junio de 2005 08:24, Archaic escribió: > I made some changes in my WC and created a diff to see if something like > this might be usable and worthwhile. Basically it just keeps us from > having to update the test results link in abouttestsuites.xml. Look a good idea to me. -- M

Re: r6128 - in trunk/BOOK: . chapter01 chapter07

2005-06-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Author: archaic Date: 2005-06-23 11:22:06 -0600 (Thu, 23 Jun 2005) New Revision: 6128 Fine for testing, with the obvious omission of the erroneous Makefile change :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsu

Re: r6128 - in trunk/BOOK: . chapter01 chapter07

2005-06-23 Thread Matthew Burgess
Matthew Burgess wrote: Fine for testing, with the obvious omission of the erroneous Makefile change :) Whoops, this should have gone to lfs-book of course. Sorry for the noise folks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscr

Re: [Fwd: Re: Ch 5.10 Expect in SVN-20050621]

2005-06-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Forwarding to lfs-dev for consideration. Sorry for the noise on this one - I was told I posted something that already had been. However, I'm still of the opinion that our install instructions should be slightly altered for tcl and expect so that we can make use of th

Re: [Fwd: Re: Ch 5.10 Expect in SVN-20050621]

2005-06-23 Thread Archaic
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 03:57:01PM -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > However, I'm still of the opinion that our install instructions should > be slightly altered for tcl and expect so that we can make use of the > --with-tclinclude flag for expect. Please file a bug under svn for this and perha