Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: > 1) Unclear status of wireless network support. The CD doesn't contain > wpa-supplicant and doesn't have firmware for most wireless network cards > (even though we qualify as ISV and thus can redistribute ipw firmware). > However, I can't test this because I don't have a wireless c

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: > 6) In Japanese locales, fontconfig chooses the wrong default font (AR PL New > Sung, while it should use Kochi fonts) Sorry for the wrong report. I confused fonts because I didn't know that Kochi fonts included embedded bitmaps, too. Since the font was not antialiased, I wrongly tho

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
I want to just say out front what my opinion of the LiveCD is before I respond to individual points. The most important task of the livecd is to provide a host with a known working kernel and toolchain to allow people to build *LFS. Next, it should provide tools that allow the *LFS support channels

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: > "If you're using the toram option, you must remount the CD to use the > package tarballs in /lfs-sources." > > I don't know if that's all that's correct. I didn't investigate when I > was using toram yesterday. Now we have an additional variable: the -nosrc CD, which doesn

Re: Preparing for 6.3 Release

2007-06-11 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/11/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > "If you're using the toram option, you must remount the CD to use the > > package tarballs in /lfs-sources." > > > > I don't know if that's all that's correct. I didn't investigate when I > > was using toram y