Re: LFS 6.4 is released

2008-11-23 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sun, Nov 23, at 09:51 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS > Version 6.4. This release includes numerous changes to > LFS-6.3 (including update to Linux-2.6.27.4, GCC-4.3.2, Glibc-2.8) and > security > fixes. It also includes editorial

Berkeley DB instructions.

2008-12-14 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
Hi, Is the following command correct in the db page, or I am missing something obvious? chown -Rv root:root /usr/share/doc/db-4.7.25 ~ Regards, Ag. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above inf

Re: Berkeley DB instructions.

2008-12-14 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sun, Dec 14, at 10:10 Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > Hi, > > Is the following command correct in the db page, or I am missing > something obvious? > > chown -Rv root:root /usr/share/doc/db-4.7.25 > ~ > Please disregard. I am trying a new metho

Fwd: Groff/Man-DB info.

2009-03-15 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
- Forwarded message from William Immendorf Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:35:41 -0500 Hey Ag, A while back, Colin Watson (Debian's Groff maintainer and the maintainer of Man-DB) and I had an email relay between each other about the update to Groff 1.20.1. Recently, Colin responded with more info

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-23 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Mon, Mar 23, at 07:12 Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > If you were looking at a system (not just a computer system) and you > found that one part took twice the resources and twice as long to > start up as another part offering similar functionalit

Re: coreutils instructions

2009-03-23 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Mon, Mar 23, at 05:52 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 23, at 07:12 Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> > >> If you were looking at a system (not just a computer system) a

Re: Dash, Bash, and other musings

2009-03-23 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Mon, Mar 23, at 05:45 Archaic wrote: > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:02:07PM +0200, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > > > > Yes, this came up a few times and there is no reason to repeat > > ourselves. I think the consensus was that following established standards > >

Re: vimrc recommendation

2009-04-01 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Wed, Apr 01, at 07:19 Spencer Collyer wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:40:30 -0600, Archaic wrote: > > The vimrc that LFS creates is very spartan. There is a default > > configuration that isn't bad plus it gives new users a quick idea of > > how powerful the rc can be. > > > > cp runtime/vimrc_

Re: vimrc recommendation

2009-04-01 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Wed, Apr 01, at 04:50 Archaic wrote: > On Wed, Apr 01, 2009 at 09:22:47PM +0300, Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas wrote: > > > > Actually Tony answered me, that the most > > sane solution is to source mswin.vim which offers a more nice environment. > > Was he referrin

Re: The time has come

2009-04-25 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sat, Apr 25, at 10:00 Dan Nicholson wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi Dan, It's little bit difficult to me to find the right words and to speak about you ... anyway we have a quite expressive word down here (Χαρμολύπη - that I can't find the definition in English, I don't think there is a single englis

Re: LFS-6.5-RC1 released

2009-07-18 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sat, Jul 18, at 10:44 Randy McMurchy wrote: > Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 07/18/09 10:05 CST: > > > The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of > > LFS Version 6.5 Release Candidate 1. > > [snip] > > It is our intention to release LFS-6.5 final within 2 week

Re: NILFS2

2010-01-05 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
Hi Andy, On Wed, Jan 06, at 12:12 Andrew Benton wrote: > Hello, > I've been using one of the newer file systems in the kernel, NILFS2, on > my Dell netbook. It has some features which work well on flash memory > but it also has some quirks which made it difficult to set up at first. > When you m

Re: [LFS-DEV] stable kernel in next release ?

2010-01-19 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
Hi Ken, On Tue, Jan 19, at 08:03 Ken Moffat wrote: > We've always used current kernels in the book, but many of our users > seem to have a distinct unwillingness to upgrade to newer kernels. > This week, Greg KH formally announced that he intends to maintain > 2.6.32 long-term > http://www.kroah.c

Re: ext4

2010-01-27 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Wed, Jan 27, at 12:41 ICMP Request wrote: > Hello guys! I haven't had time to see much of the discussions of the > list, so sorry if it was asked recently, but either on stable and also > on dev versions of the book you are still creating an ext3 filesystem > instead of ext4. I would like to

Re: Backporting Nouveau to the 2.6.32.* kernel

2010-02-21 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sun, Feb 21, at 02:05 William Immendorf wrote: > Hey all... > > Since Nouveau appeared in Linux-2.6.33, many distros backported the > Nouveau patches (including Fedora) to the 2.6.32.* kernel. I was think > LFS should do this two, and I was planning on making a split Trac > ticket for Nouveau:

Re: grammar correction chap 4.1 LFS 6.6

2010-03-13 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sat, Mar 13, at 03:37 stosss wrote: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:13 PM, +Jan wrote: > > > > I stopped reading right here.  It is their book. Absolutely disagree. This book doesn't belong to none specific. It has been written to show to the world how to make a usable operating system from plain

Re: LFS Milestones

2008-10-05 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sun, Oct 05, at 03:00 DJ Lucas wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I have added a new milestone, 6.4, for the current effort. It can be > > removed if > > the consensus is that what we are currently working should be 7.0. > > > > My understanding is that we are updating the packages currently i

Re: LFS Milestones

2008-10-06 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
Hi Bruce, On Sun, Oct 05, at 12:49 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > That seems reasonable.It > would not be hard to branch a 6.3.1 from 6.3 and commit changes to that as > appropriate. I'm not sure what the release procedures should be. Do we do > a > -rc1, etc for a minor errata change? I am thin

Re: Chapter 6 Coreutils installation

2008-10-13 Thread Agathoklis D. Hatzimanikas
On Sun, Oct 12, at 11:56 Randy McMurchy wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 10/12/08 11:46 CST: > > > Usually the reason is because the path to the tools gets built into > > another script/program. In the dependencies appendix, it says that sed > > must be built before e2fsprogs. I think i