Re: [RFC] Udev configuration changes

2005-09-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:35:52PM -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: ### RATIONALE FOR REMOVAL ### ptmx - isn't directly accessed by a user. /etc/fstab dictates pty perms That's incorrect; this change would break PTYs completely. And apparently your statem

Re: [RFC] Udev configuration changes

2005-09-14 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 9/14/05, Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to go against everything my BLFS editorial colleagues have said, > but I rather like this proposal. > > I think it adds to the educational nature of both books. > > If a device exists and has no rule in the lfs set, then a node is >

Re: [RFC] Udev configuration changes

2005-09-14 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Archaic wrote: > And apparently your statement is also incorrect because ssh can > properly create ptys all day long with the proper permissions. So > apparently a closer look into both scenarios is warranted. I didn't try ssh. But I did try xterm and expect (both of which use PTYs), and both fai

Re: A small compact distro

2005-09-14 Thread Joachim Beckers
Dom wrote: > So I know I'm not making it easy for myself here, but does anyone have any > suggestion on making, not necessarily a tiny distro, but making it using > minimal resources and being as small as possible. I've read the tips and > stuff, and I'll do them next time, but I would like more he

GCC4 Profile

2005-09-14 Thread Ioan Ionita
As I was looking around in http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alfs/downloads/profiles/lfs/svn/ for a nice profile, after jhalfs failed to do its work (complex nested bash scripts always seem to fail for one reason or another), I happily stumbled upon profile-LFS-GCC4.tar.bz2 To my surprise, I found o

Re: [RFC] Udev configuration changes

2005-09-14 Thread Emu
-snip lengthly messages- Hi all, I have been following this thread and I have a suggestion that I believe to be a good compromise. When installing the Udev package in LFS, add a file called 99default to the /etc/udev/rules.d directory which basically just puts all the devices in their defaul

Re: [RFC] Udev configuration changes

2005-09-14 Thread DJ Lucas
Tushar Teredesai wrote: > On 9/14/05, Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Sorry to go against everything my BLFS editorial colleagues have said, >>but I rather like this proposal. >> >>I think it adds to the educational nature of both books. >> >>If a device exists and has no rule in

Re: [RFC] Udev configuration changes

2005-09-14 Thread Jim Gifford
Matt, one thing I think everyone here has forgot, what about cross-lfs. How will the change affect us. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/