6.8 still shows SUSv3, not SUSv4.

2011-07-08 Thread Rob Landley
In the "LFS and Standards" part of the 6.8 preface, it lists the Single Unix Specification Version 3. A couple points: A) SUSv4 shipped in 2008. B) SUSv4 actually comes from (and is approved by) other standards bodies, it's also known as POSIX-2008, IEEE Std 1003.1, and The Open Group base speci

6.8 patch tweaks.

2011-07-08 Thread Rob Landley
I'm automating LFS 6.8, and two of the patches don't apply with busybox patch: 1) gcc-4.5.2-startfiles_fix-1.patch Requires "fuzz" support, which I didn't implement because it tends to mis-apply patches. (This is not the same as applying at an offset, this is discarding context lines in order to

Re: 6.8 still shows SUSv3, not SUSv4.

2011-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Landley wrote: > In the "LFS and Standards" part of the 6.8 preface, it lists the Single > Unix Specification Version 3. A couple points: > > A) SUSv4 shipped in 2008. > > B) SUSv4 actually comes from (and is approved by) other standards > bodies, it's also known as POSIX-2008, IEEE Std 1003

Re: 6.8 patch tweaks.

2011-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Landley wrote: > I'm automating LFS 6.8, and two of the patches don't apply with busybox > patch: > > 1) gcc-4.5.2-startfiles_fix-1.patch > > Requires "fuzz" support, which I didn't implement because it tends to > mis-apply patches. (This is not the same as applying at an offset, this > is d

Bootscripts and error handling

2011-07-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been working on bootscripts. Basically, I'm rewriting them to get a better understanding. I may end up throwing them out completely but I want to discuss the issue of error handling. There are three bootscript files that use the read ENTER construct: checkfs, udev, and functions. I

Re: Bootscripts and error handling

2011-07-08 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've been working on bootscripts.  Basically, I'm rewriting them to get > a better understanding.  I may end up throwing them out completely but I > want to discuss the issue of error handling. > > There are three bootscript files that use the >

Re: 6.8 patch tweaks.

2011-07-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/08/2011 11:00 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> 2) rm "$SRCDIR"/procps-3.2.8-fix_HZ_errors-1.patch || exit 1 > >> The path has a "//" which means -p1 winds up with an absolute path after >> discarding one "/". > > I'm not sure what you mean here with the 'rm ... |exit 1', but the patch > applies c

Re: Bootscript reorganization

2011-07-08 Thread Bryan Kadzban
Zachary Kotlarek wrote: > On Jul 7, 2011, at 10:05 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> I dislike having the DHCP client update DNS on its own, because (a) >> that requires some sort of authentication to do correctly (rather >> than just a shared key between the DHCP and DNS servers, which is >> what I h

Re: Bootscripts and error handling

2011-07-08 Thread Ivan Kabaivanov
On Friday 08 July 2011 17:55:09 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've been working on bootscripts. Basically, I'm rewriting them to get > a better understanding. I may end up throwing them out completely but I > want to discuss the issue of error handling. > > There are three bootscript files that use the >