[lfs-dev] About jhalfs

2012-03-03 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 03/03/2012 08:22, Qrux a écrit : > > I spent a little time with jhalfs in 6.8. I had some trouble with the build > (I'm sure it was me, or an outdated host). It's very pretty, and I might try > a similar menuconfig-style-interface in my own stuff. Right now I just use > 'read VAR' for my s

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:07:26PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Qrux wrote: > > > > *whew* I was starting to think I was the only one who'd ever > > considered running LFS (or a very close derivative) in production. > > I've been doing that since 2004. And the lfs servers are running lfs. > I'd

Re: [lfs-dev] Build method revisions

2012-03-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 10:07:26PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Qrux wrote: >>> *whew* I was starting to think I was the only one who'd ever >>> considered running LFS (or a very close derivative) in production. >> I've been doing that since 2004. And the lfs servers are runni

[lfs-dev] Security

2012-03-03 Thread Qrux
On Mar 3, 2012, at 8:57 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > and > you understand the security risks, then don't let me stop you. I appreciate the clarification of what you mean when you say "production." I sort of assume that that's always the case: "Your computers are only as secure as the competence o

Re: [lfs-dev] Security

2012-03-03 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 3/3/12 1:11 PM, Qrux wrote: > The security issues with production has been mentioned several times. I've > sort of just assumed it was a friendly "caveat emptor", and filtered it out. > But, it's now come up often enough where it seem to be implying something > stronger than the assumption

Re: [lfs-dev] Security

2012-03-03 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 01:50:13PM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 3/3/12 1:11 PM, Qrux wrote: > > The security issues with production has been mentioned several times. I've > > sort of just assumed it was a friendly "caveat emptor", and filtered it > > out. But, it's now come up often enoug

Re: [lfs-dev] Security

2012-03-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > > I think the reason this comes up is because LFS is made up of a > limited number of developers (essentially hobbyists) that don't have > the time and resources to track down all security issues. I think the term hobbyist as used here is somewhat misleading. Everyone i

Re: [lfs-dev] Security

2012-03-03 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 3/3/12 6:01 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> >> I think the reason this comes up is because LFS is made up of a >> limited number of developers (essentially hobbyists) that don't have >> the time and resources to track down all security issues. > > I think the term hobbyist as

Re: [lfs-dev] gcc cross patch in pass1

2012-03-03 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On 3/1/12 7:39 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > If I go back to the patch it wouldn't even be trying to > configure-target-zlib. The patch is good to have as a workaround, but I'd like to find out what the issue is that's causing this. I fear it's either a problem with your host's compiler or a bug in