Re: perl-5.10.0

2008-10-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
2008/10/29 Bryan Kadzban <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Useless warnings: who cares. Authors of CGI scripts, because users see the warnings, at least under thttpd. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Un

Re: development/chapter06/glibc

2008-11-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
coreutils explicitly uses zh_CN.GB18030, not zh_CN.UTF-8. Besides, zh_CN.UTF-8 is already covered by the sentence "In addition, install the locale for your own country, language and character set." -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinf

Re: LFS 6.4 is released

2008-11-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
the explanatory material throughout > the book, improving both the clarity and accuracy of the text. Big thanks to the Editors who made this possible. And congratulations to all with this new release! -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: libidn update

2008-12-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
2008/12/2 DJ Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: >> Testcase (I think it should even be put into the book): >> >> LANG=en_US xterm >> in that xterm: curl http://räksmörgås.josefsson.org/ >> > Thanks for the testcase Alexander. All of

Re: Aiming for 7.0

2008-12-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
support LVM and RAID only if there is a corresponding page in LFS or BLFS. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Moving to Grub2?

2008-12-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ion LVM on /dev/hda1 GRUB2 in MBR Last time I tried this, it worked and then, on the next reboot, failed. See http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-dev/2008-March/061078.html OTOH, since (B)LFS doesn't support LVM2 anyway, I don't consider the failure of this test a showstopper.

Re: Moving to Grub2?

2008-12-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
2008/12/4 Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > OTOH, since (B)LFS doesn't support LVM2 anyway, I don't consider the > failure of this test a showstopper. But the docs are still in too bad shape. E.g., the wiki page http://grub.enbug.org/CommandList doesn't reall

Re: Moving to Grub2?

2008-12-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
various bugs. See (experimental) http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/g/grub2/grub2_1.96+20081201-1/changelog -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Future LFS 7.x Plans

2008-12-06 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
In x86 -> x86 CLFS, Chapter 5 Gawk just sits there, and all subsequent packages use the host Gawk while building. To me, this looks like deliberately ignoring an advantage of host-target compatibility. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/lis

Re: Adapting LFS SVN for multilib

2009-01-18 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
lve this. The advantage about immediately gaining these temporary tools in $PATH is indeed lost. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS Toolchain

2009-01-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
se explain why? (note: I neither agree not disagree, just want to see your thoughts about the educational component and compare with my own). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Pending package updates

2009-02-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
9-1 > locale due to a bug in Man-DB (reported upstream). OK, this is indeed a bug in man-db. > I'd like to think that I'll get a response back from the Man-DB maintainer > over the course of next week, at which point I'll decide how to proceed with > t

Re: Re-adding *startfile_prefix_spec

2006-01-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
box either from http://bochs.sf.net/ or (buggy, crashes on 32-bit code) from http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/ Both Bochs and QEMU can boot the official x86_64 LFS LiveCD on a regular x86 box, and Bochs can even run /lib/libc.so.6. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

Re: Redundancy in ncurses installation

2006-01-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
tallation of ncurses. Looks like those issues are no longer there, and the "rm" command is not needed. But please verify this by reinstalling ncurses over themselves. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Redundancy in ncurses installation

2006-01-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
a symlink /lib/libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.5, and that the /usr/lib/libncursesw.so symlink and /usr/lib/libncurses.so ldscript are correct. But you seem to have already done this :) -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxf

Re: Redundancy in ncurses installation

2006-01-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
process that's running! They are not used. Certainly :) The used file may be /lib/libncursesw.so.5 (which is a symlink pointing to 5.5). The (completely different) file affected by "echo" is /usr/lib/libncurses.so (note: this is not a symlink), which is used only by /usr/

Re: udevsend and bootscripts

2006-02-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
--daemon is not needed". -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

perl libc patch incomplete?

2006-02-04 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
pter 5 Perl. While nobody reported a failed compilation because of that, it is still bad. Proposal: If all of the above gets verified, add the equivalent of the following sed to the perl -libc patch: sed -i 's,in \$usrinc,in /tools/include,' Configure -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://li

Re: Building 'clean' production system

2006-02-05 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
lease. B) Roll your own distro by installing LFS on a non-production machine and copying all the needed files to a production one. Be sure that you know how to deal with security updates and other bugs. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

[DIY BUG] bash wants en_US locale

2006-02-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Please don't import this into HLFS, because I think that "no" would be the correct result for uClibc. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [DIY BUG] bash wants en_US locale

2006-02-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
with that package" on http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/introduction/locale-issues.html) effectively defeats the purpose of the page because the blackilst is always incomplete. Yes, this does mean that UTF-8 support in LFS is next to useless now. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Use of words in Udev_update

2006-02-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
psmouse and other modules. 5) The need to create persistent device names is not explained at all. 6) Method for blacklisting drivers is not explained. 7) ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", MODALIAS=="*", RUN+="/sbin/modprobe $modalias" should be expanded to all

Re: [DIY BUG] bash wants en_US locale

2006-02-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
assword to pure ASCII. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [DIY BUG] bash wants en_US locale

2006-02-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
BLFS problems right now in the wiki. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

GPM, W3M and Lynx instruction changes

2006-02-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
. Harmless if GPM is compiled with curses (default). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: GPM, W3M and Lynx instruction changes

2006-02-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Links Whoops, should be http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/LinksBrowser I (mistakenly) thought that Links means something special to Trac. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http

Re: Version SVN-20060210 missing ncurses 5.5 fixes patch?

2006-02-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
due to the patch missing from Chapter 5. Read the patch header and click through the mentioned Debian bug reports in order to verify this statement. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

[Announce] LFS LiveCD 6.2-pre3 Released

2006-02-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
CD mailing list. To download the new LiveCD, visit the LFS LiveCD download page for a list of mirrors: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/download.html -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscrib

Re: Udev_update branch: /dev/pts and /dev/shm directories not created

2006-02-20 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
So I guess I must have a typo somewhere else. The issue is that MODALIAS and ${modalias} are not supported in udev > 080. Please use ENV{MODALIAS} and $env{MODALIAS} instead. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch

Re: [Announce] LFS LiveCD 6.2-pre3 Released

2006-02-20 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
lexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: unzip552 and PK 2.1 Compat

2006-02-20 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Tushar Teredesai пишет: On 2/20/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thus, libunzip.so is a useless library for BLFS readers and should not be installed in BLFS. That applies to any other useless library. That is not the general policy. Sorry for my misunderst

Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-02-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
persistent device naming is not explained (Ticket #1672) My personal wish to Matthew Burgess: please patch your kernel with Suspend2 and try to get it fully working, in order to have a real motivation to build everything as modules. If done properly, this will allow you to hibernate your computer

Re: Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-02-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
it is now unfixable Heisenbug :( -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[RFC] Marking upstream bugs as such

2006-02-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
actually preferred? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Comments on Trac ticket mails

2006-02-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
-encoding to "8bit", something like this: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This depends on the mail server that correctly handles 8-bit messages (i.e. practically anything). Then one can view the mail spool with vim. -- Alexander E

Re: Comments on Trac ticket mails

2006-02-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
t; content-transfer-encoding. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-02-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: 2) There is no "udev_retry" initscript. The idea is that, if a program specified in the "RUN" rule exits with nonzero status (presumably because it needs /usr), udev places a symlink into /dev/.udev/failed. The udev_ret

Re: Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-02-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: 3) Linux-2.6.15 is used, which means that some deices (e.g., IDE CD-ROMs and input devices) won't get modaliases or won't generate uevents properly. There is already a note i

Re: Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
c9:78:9a:bc", NAME="intel" +EOF +This rule will always rename the network cards The "replaceable" tagging and the "nodump" role are missing, also 's/This rule/These rules/' Sorry for that. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
he logging verbosity and call this target, so that everything gets logged. Two more bugs: 1) ">/proc/sys/kernel/hotplug" doesn't unset the default hotplug handler. You need "echo", in order for the kernel to see the terminating newline. 2) No /dev/bus/usb

Re: Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-02-24 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
work. We want to mount tmpfs on /dev for start, but not for restart. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: gcc bugs

2006-02-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 2/28/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GCC Bugzilla search (http://tinyurl.com/k7sx9) shows 25 other fixed critical bugs targetted at 4.0.3. What should be done with them? I think we should only backport the patches that we need to stop an

Re: Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-03-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: WARNING: the patch is incomplete. It assumes that SCSI module autoloading rules are already added, but they are in fact not. Erm, they are in the udev-config-6.rules file, unless you've spotted a problem with those? They don'

Re: [LFS Trac] #684: Must re-evaluate package order then document the rationale.

2006-03-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
and retain alphabetical order too. Very much :-) Ed ? JOE looks like a good compromise for features, size and alphabetical order. It supports UTF-8, too. Anyway, I use Vim and don't care if it is at the beginning or at the end. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/ma

Re: [LFS Trac] #684: Must re-evaluate package order then document the rationale.

2006-03-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
with package Bar. Now, package Bar releases a new version with some subtle differences. A concrete example: bad gawk that caused gettext testsuite failures. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: Se

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
reason, need to investigate. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
u can dereference directly, but a cookie that you can pass to the ioremap() in-kernel function in order to access the hardware via the MMIO mechanism. This is always defined to the empty value and used only by checkers like Coverity. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/ma

Re: New LFS RElease?

2006-03-08 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
a real blocker that doesn't have a solution upstream (they even deny that this bug exists). Waiting for reaction of other people who can produce the bugreport. Perhaps it is a good idea to drop udev and hotplug temporarily from trunk, and update the kernel. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- ht

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-09 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ed in raw kernel (or the script created ones). The header is what makes u32 and __u32 equivalent. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
. No, that solution is wrong. Any header provided by LfsLH should be compilable by itself. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
them to avoid namespace clashes in userspace programs. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Udev bootscript and Ticket 1720 (was: Re: r7429)

2006-03-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
; -gt 0 evaluate_retval sleep 5 if test -s /dev/bug; then mv /dev/bug /dev/bugreport boot_mesg "Please paste the /dev/bugreport file to" ${WARNING} boot_mesg "http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1720";

Re: Udev bootscript and Ticket 1720

2006-03-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: . test $confirm -lt 60 || break done >/dev/bug test "$loop" -gt 0 evaluate_retval sleep 5 if test -s /dev/bug; then I meant "sleep 6", so that it is longer than any builtin kernel delay. -- Alexan

Re: Udev bootscript and Ticket 1720

2006-03-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ough, or do you think there is merit in adding it to the udev_update branch? Testing by three people is definitely not enough (especially since upstream denies the existence of the problem), so please keep this debugging tool for at least a month and remove it just before the release. -- Alexan

Re: r5718 - in trunk/BOOK: . introduction/welcome x/installing

2006-03-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
{OTF,TTF} Correct? Yes. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers -- Comparison Script Added

2006-03-17 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Jürg Billeter wrote: - asterisk: Uses linux/compiler.h, include line could just be removed as linux/ixjuser.h doesn't need the compiler.h defines due to the seds we apply to the headers Then better make linux/compiler.h an empty file. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratc

Re: Tell, please, when it is planned to release LFS 6.2 and LiveCD 6.2?

2006-03-19 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
be done at all. Add the time for testing all of this. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Chapter 5 Gawk nitpick

2006-03-20 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
account without the fix. Gettext testsuite tests only some of them. So the "e.g." is, IMHO, justified. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Minor updates for linux-2.6.16 and Udev

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ves the text about obsolete module alias documentation to the Udev troubleshooting page * Updates the examples and command descriptions for Linux-2.6.16 and the new Udev. It doesn't do the following: * Update to Udev-088 * Bind-mount the host's /dev Please review and apply.

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
FS is not the right place to work around libc bugs. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: RFC - Raw Kernel Headers

2006-03-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Matthew Burgess wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: BLFS is not the right place to work around libc bugs. Agreed. If someone could cook up a patch for glibc-2.3.6 I'd appreciate it. http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sys/kd.h.diff?cvsroot=gli

Re: Man-DB- More than a nitpick

2006-03-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
along and trumps this file with another, and it is not reflected in the "installed programs". Yes, someone should fix this, and you are not the first to report it. The "zsoelim" program should come from Man-DB. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail

Re: Man-DB Nitpick

2006-03-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ld not find any reference to the testsuite except the one in GNUmakefile.in that you quoted. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: udev_update: udevtrigger binary, replacement for walk_sysfs?

2006-03-25 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
there any issues with it? Already noted in Trac: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/1751 and used on the not-yet-released udev_update LiveCD. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See

udevstart replacement: another idea

2006-03-25 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
sn't create character devices at all, but neither Grub nor Lilo needs them. I propose to put this scriptlet into the udev_update book. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: gcc specs patch

2006-03-26 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
terpreter ic being changed. Also if we do use seds, we should state in the pre-requisites that the reader knows all options of sed. A typical newbie doesn't know how to replace strings with "sed", but may still read the patch. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfro

Re: Problems with udev-08{7,8}

2006-03-28 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
lined at: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/udev_update/chapter07/udev.html -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: udev_update without udevstart

2006-03-31 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
s during the install will elicit a "sorry for the noise" response. See my previously-ignored message: http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-dev/2006-March/056447.html -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: udev_update without udevstart

2006-03-31 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Chris Staub wrote: I don't see the instructions to create the devices either. Couldn't you just start the udev bootscript? That's what I've done before... That would interfere with udevd on the host. No go. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/

Re: Belgarath SSH down?

2006-04-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: SSH (port 22) seems to be broken on Belgarath. Please fix http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/1872 to avoid this in the future (assuming that the kernel on Belgarath understands the oom_adj parameter) -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: the story on udevtrigger?

2006-04-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ne objection to the changes DJ Lucas made: if $loop ends up being zero (i.e., 30-second timeout), it is not appropriate to ask the user to append comments to Ticket 1720, because it is a different issue. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://w

Re: mount --bind added to the book

2006-04-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
two nodes are completely invisible, and in single-user mode the permissions don't matter (because the devices are accessed by root). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: the story on udevtrigger?

2006-04-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
eased to 60, just in case. FreeBSD sleeps for 15 seconds unconditionally, waiting for SCSI devices to settle. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: the story on udevtrigger?

2006-04-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
sound like a big task for you, could you please find the minimum possible magic number to be used instead of "60" without causing leaks on your system? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe

Re: the story on udevtrigger?

2006-04-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
te time when the uevent sits in the kernel socket buffer. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: the story on udevtrigger?

2006-04-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ed to wait for all devices to be created, including /dev/tty63. A tty leak means that some other leak is also likely to exist. Thus, I tolerate no leaks. If this is unachievable by sane means, please remove udev. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev

Re: /dev/bus/usb

2006-04-10 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
supply an example fstab entry on that page. That sound almost too simple. Alexander, is there any more to it than above? Yes, a political question. Should the rule be placed in LFS or BLFS? My vote is LFS. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ

Re: Enscript Security Patch

2006-04-11 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/wiki/Enscript -- Alexander E. Patrakov --- enscript-1.6.4/src/gsint.h 2003-03-05 08:37:06.0 +0100 +++ enscript-1.6.4/src/gsint.h 2005-01-20 19:54:57.0 +0100 @@ -701,4 +701,9 @@ */ void printer_close ___P ((void *context)); +/* + * Escape filenames for shell

Re: udev branch. package udev.

2006-04-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
dev->name, err); - dev->reg_state = NETREG_REGISTERED; break; case NETREG_UNREGISTERING: -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[Fwd: Re: modprobe bug for aliases with regular expressions]

2006-04-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
--- Begin Message --- On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 02:59:30PM +1000, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 16:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote: > > Recently it's been pointed out to me that the modprobe functionality > > with aliases doesn't quite work properly for some USB modules. > > Sorry, my bad.

[Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] udev 090 release]

2006-04-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
This invalidates our attempts to solve Ticket 1720 :( The waiting loop "can" be replaced with the new "udevsettle" program, let's do it, but still have the bug.c check. Any leaks will be forwarded upstream. -- Alexander E. Patrakov --- Begin Message --- Here comes a ne

Re: [Fwd: [ANNOUNCE] udev 090 release]

2006-04-15 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 4/15/06, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: udev 090 Provide "udevsettle" to wait for all current udev events to finish. It also watches the current kernel netlink queue by comparing the even sequence number to make sure that ther

Re: [Fwd: Host System Requirements Page]

2006-04-22 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
they can bootstrap from a certain old distro, without mentioning what's actually required. So, mentioning the exact requirements is essential for becoming better than DIY in this aspect (even if the actual bootstrappability is worse). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
CTED], and prints a warning about exceeding the bandwidth. The monitor gets upset. The patch makes such attempt an error, thus selecting the native resolution. Also it disables some weird builtin modes such as [EMAIL PROTECTED] The end result is that a good mode is picked up by default. 3) A s

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
SYMLINK+="cdrw1" ACTION=="add", BUS=="ide", ID=="1.1", SYMLINK+="dvd1" (as I said, I have a script for autogenerating them, but let's leave it out for now) d.) Should we all use the same rules lfs/livecd/cross-lfs/hlfs even ? Let cross-lf

Re: Rally the Troops LFS/BLFS/CLFS/Livecd too

2006-04-30 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
devices become usable for root. Sorry for the duplicate. Let's renumber from I to V, and assume that IV is "III, plus ...", not "II, plus ...". -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ U

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Raw USB long rule has to be added to LFS (to 25-lfs.rules) because it deals with naming (you may want to change SYMLINK+= to NAME=). BTW, I think that this discussion belongs to lfs-dev. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:02:48AM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: KERNEL=="capi", NAME="capi20", SYMLINK="isdn/capi20" KERNEL=="capi*", NAME="capi/%n", GROUP="dialout" Won't the second rule match the bare &

Re: rule verification

2006-05-02 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
faces", could you please change this to 30-network.rules and verify with your single network card? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Samba and language settings

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
exactly nothing if other LC_* variables are not set), represents a valid language setting. Could you please get a list of locales supported by glibc, and run smbclient --help in each one, so that one can find a pattern of errors. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/

Re: [RFC] Stable kernels

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
LiveCD specific note in the README or /etc/issue that the kernel is provided in the form of the base release plus the official patch. 3) Drop me from the list of LiveCD maintainers. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfrom

Re: [RFC] Stable kernels

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
CDs. But they will be essentially untested. Solution: X11R7 libs + tightvnc + qemu, but this also needs negotiations. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Udev error in serio with IBM TrackPoint

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
booting the system. This suggestion applies only to you, not to anyone else. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Udev error in serio with IBM TrackPoint

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
the following way: ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM!="input", DEVPATH=="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}=="?*", WAIT_FOR_SYSFS="bus" Does this remove the bug report? -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Udev error in serio with IBM TrackPoint

2006-05-03 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
ched. Does the attached kernel patch help? -- Alexander E. Patrakov >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Apr 6 09:46:15 2006 Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 20:42:26 +0200 From: Kay Sievers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Driver core: bus device event delay Message-ID:

Re: [BLFS Trac] #1680: /proc/bus/usb is obsolete

2006-05-07 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
already an example how to override the group, so scanners won't be made non-functional. In the future, we should mass-install rules for SANE and libgphoto2. Text will be posted after solving the first (political) issue I raised. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [Fwd: Re: modprobe bug for aliases with regular expressions]

2006-05-13 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: On Sat, Apr 15, 2006 at 09:19:41AM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: From: Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:19:27 -0700 Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Subject: Re: modprobe bug for aliases with r

Re: RFC: new/changed udev rules - Part 1

2006-05-14 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
(and used, e.g., by qemu). KERNEL=="tty[0-9]*",MODE="620" GROUP="tty" # Changed from 666 (too lax). Need to ensure this doesn't break anything. A live # debian box shows 620, but the rules show 666. That's because the "login" program sets pe

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