Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-13 Thread DJ Lucas
On 03/13/2011 11:39 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > Okay, so I was just thinking...<Deity> > help us! I figure we have at least 6 months, potentially a year until > the next major LFS release, and now seems like a pretty good time to > explore some of the ideas that have been shelved for

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-13 Thread DJ Lucas
On 03/13/2011 11:45 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > > >> * EGlibC - Seems like Debian and friends are moving to EGlibc, gives us >> a couple of niceties but nothing major, not sure what other distros are >> doing, but I've seen a lot of mentions of it recently. The work is &g

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-13 Thread DJ Lucas
On 03/14/2011 12:03 AM, Nathan Coulson wrote: On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 9:45 PM, DJ Lucas <mailto:d...@linuxfromscratch.org>> wrote: On 03/13/2011 11:39 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > Okay, so I was just thinking...<Deity> > help us! I figure we have at least 6

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-13 Thread DJ Lucas
deviated on, and LFS-ized where CLFS differs. You'd be largely on your own (as I am), but this is no different than where you are now. :-) I had thought about trying to maintain an internal copy in docbook source, but it is just entirely too much work and I've got enough of that as is.

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-14 Thread DJ Lucas
Robert Xu wrote: >On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 16:45, Ken Moffat >wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:39:04PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >> >>> * Dynamic boot script - No more static list of links, this kind of >ties >>> into LSB Bootscripts, but there are othe

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-14 Thread DJ Lucas
Ken Moffat wrote: >On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:39:04PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: > >> * Multi-lib - Shunned previously, but there are many projects that >> expect this environment. > For people who build from source, which projects *expect* multilib on >x86_64 ? For

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-15 Thread DJ Lucas
On 03/14/2011 08:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I've read about 15 messages on this topic and will try to incorporate > the relevant areas in my response. Thanks. > Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 11:39:04PM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >>> Okay, so I was just thin

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-15 Thread DJ Lucas
Andrew Benton wrote: > >What would it take to compile a 64 bit system without the /lib >=> /lib64 symlink (i.e, with the libs installed into /lib and >no /lib64)? Obviously, it works as it is, it just looks like an ugly >hack. I'd much rather (for aesthetic reasons) do away with >{/usr,}/lib64 if

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-26 Thread DJ Lucas
-info /usr/share/info/*.info Simple enough? :-) This is pretty much the gist of everything in LFS. The little sample addition was for my own use, but figured I'd leave it in there for others if they wanted to use something similar. -- DJ

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-27 Thread DJ Lucas
g ldconfig, and existing machine specific tasks like the /etc/localtime copy or adding a configuration file in /etc (3c). Distribution specific tasks go here. Things like copying skel items to all users folders and the like simply get tacked on at the end by the packaging tool, again, not cover

PPL and Cloog-Pharma

2011-04-05 Thread DJ Lucas
..just building for the heck of it for now in a test build. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the ab

Add '/usr/bin/file -> /tools/bin/file' symlink when creating symlinks in Ch6?

2011-04-10 Thread DJ Lucas
A warning message is printed when running make in chapter 6 binutils about not finding /usr/bin/file in a multi-lib build. Can somebody doing a regular LFS build check your build logs and see if the same is true for normal LFS? -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and

Re: Add '/usr/bin/file -> /tools/bin/file' symlink when creating symlinks in Ch6?

2011-04-10 Thread DJ Lucas
On 04/10/2011 10:29 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> A warning message is printed when running make in chapter 6 binutils >> about not finding /usr/bin/file in a multi-lib build. Can somebody doing >> a regular LFS build check your build logs and see if the same

Re: Add '/usr/bin/file -> /tools/bin/file' symlink when creating symlinks in Ch6?

2011-04-11 Thread DJ Lucas
On 04/11/2011 07:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: >> On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 22:47:24 -0500 >> DJ Lucas wrote: >>> It does seem to build correctly, but I don't think it'd be bad to go >>> ahead and add the symlink with perl when creating t

Re: Coreutils test failures

2011-04-19 Thread DJ Lucas
did an install. > > I also tried on a ubuntu system (x86_64) and got no failures at all. I > did skip the root tests. > Same results here. Same two tests failed exactly once. Unable to reproduce after that. I'd exit chroot and start over, but I'm manually (slowly) running thro

Readline and linking to ncurses

2011-04-25 Thread DJ Lucas
Going through the book manually for the first time in a while. The instructions to build readline force linking against the non-wide libncurses, this actually doesn't matter as the script adds the wide version, but is there any reason not to explicitly use -lncursesw? -- DJ Lucas --

Re: Readline and linking to ncurses

2011-04-25 Thread DJ Lucas
On 04/25/2011 06:21 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > is there any reason not to explicitly use -lncursesw? Additionally, in that same command block, the semicolons and backslashes should not be necessary unless I'm just missing something. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for vir

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-09 Thread DJ Lucas
ake maintenance merges between the two much easier, but that really isn't your responsibility unless you choose to make it so, which is currently a manual effort. > So this raises the question of licensing and/or proper > attribution. From what I can tell, the scripts don't contain a

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-09 Thread DJ Lucas
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >On 5/9/11 2:53 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> The simple solution is to stop networking before applying changes. >When > >Yes, I know. :) But in practice that becomes an annoyance. Admins used >to working Fedora/Debian/Ubuntu or others assume that chan

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-10 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/09/2011 10:33 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> >> You know what? I think we are over thinking this. How about a state >> file? Upon successful initialization of an interface, copy the config >> file to a subdir of /run/network. The ifdown script source

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-10 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/10/2011 07:25 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > I'm just about done with the DESTDIR POC (still need to add instructions > to account for lib64 -> lib since I did this on multilib first) but that > can use some time to mature a bit anyway, so should have time on Wed if > one of y

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-10 Thread DJ Lucas
Archaic wrote: >On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 07:25:50AM -0500, DJ Lucas wrote: >> >> * ifup - copy configuration file from /etc/network/$int/$file to > >> /run/network/$int/$file upon successful initialization of the >interface. > >I believe /var/run is a mo

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-10 Thread DJ Lucas
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >On 5/10/11 8:25 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> * Most important, pull as much as possible of the items below >from >> LightCube OS's files to ease merging and keep the diffs to a minimum >so >> that they are easily shared across distrib

Re: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-10 Thread DJ Lucas
, just drop a text copy in SVN and it will be there. All of the contributors to the new scripts have agreed to that license (knowingly or not). The only maintenance burden comes once a year on Jan 1st. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is

udevadm --settle

2011-05-11 Thread DJ Lucas
After updating from udev-165 to udev-168, I ran into a timing issue with settle using tmpfs for /dev. My swap partition failed to mount because the device node was not present. No other changes than those made to the bootscripts and FS layout to account for /run. I rebooted a few more times to s

Re: udevadm --settle

2011-05-12 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/11/2011 11:14 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> After updating from udev-165 to udev-168, I ran into a timing issue >> with settle using tmpfs for /dev. My swap partition failed to mount >> because the device node was not present. No other changes than

Re: udevadm --settle

2011-05-12 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/11/2011 11:25 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> After updating from udev-165 to udev-168, I ran into a timing issue >> with settle using tmpfs for /dev. My swap partition failed to mount >> because the device node was not present. No other changes than

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-14 Thread DJ Lucas
s folder before they go into the book and move the old to bootscripts-old afterward. I'll post a patch for the necessary book, udev-config, and rendering changes to the list at that time. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and

Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-14 Thread DJ Lucas
m ${CONFMODE} etc/init.d/lfs-functions ${EXTDIR}/init.d/lightcube-functions install -m ${MODE} etc/init.d/halt ${EXTDIR}/init.d/ install -m ${MODE} etc/init.d/console ${EXTDIR}/init.d/ install -m ${MODE} etc/init.d/localnet ${EXTDIR}/init

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-14 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/14/2011 04:09 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: On 05/14/2011 02:47 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: DJ, You need to change the version/release date in general.ent and lfs-bootscripts-version in packages.ent to actually publish the bootscript changes. Do you wnat me to do it

Re: Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-14 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/14/2011 04:37 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > Everything is covered per this conversation in SVN with the exception of > accounting for missing /run in LightCube OS, but I think it was decided > that it would be added. Also no ip flush (I forgot, but will get it in a > day or two) on do

Re: Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-14 Thread DJ Lucas
ny) provides a script > appropriate to handle the interface shutdown? > > Zach Actually, yeah, that is a great idea! We had planned to merge the dhcp scripts anyway to simplify Gnome-System-Tools interface management in BLFS. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dang

Re: Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-15 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/15/2011 01:22 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > On 05/15/2011 12:11 AM, Zachary Kotlarek wrote: >> Could we just do this in ifdown: >> >> if [ -x /lib/network-services/dhcp ]; then >> /lib/network-services/dhcp $interface down >> fi >> >

Re: Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-15 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/15/2011 01:39 AM, Nathan Coulson wrote: On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 9:36 PM, DJ Lucas <mailto:d...@linuxfromscratch.org>> wrote: On 05/14/2011 04:37 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > Everything is covered per this conversation in SVN with the exception of > accounting f

Re: udevadm --settle

2011-05-15 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/16/2011 12:59 AM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> > I see some traffic on linux-hotplug about this as well, so it looks like > it's not LFS-specific, at least. (Arch and Debian have both had bugs > reported about this.) The messages from Kay so far seem

Re: Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-16 Thread DJ Lucas
7;ip addr flush $1' to the end of the ifdown script yet). That is another thing too, now that ifup and ifdown are no longer in a controlled environment and available to admins without mucking around in the network-devices tree, some error checking needs to be done in the scripts for proper a

Re: Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-16 Thread DJ Lucas
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >Zachary Kotlarek wrote: >> On May 16, 2011, at 12:49 AM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> >>> I also *think* the only way the cached config might not match the >>> running config is if root mucked with the running config manually. >> >> >> Or when /run is not writable at the time th

Re: Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-17 Thread DJ Lucas
they are much cleaner and easy to follow now. Scripts attached for review. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. #!/bin/sh # Begin /etc/init.d/network ### BEGIN INIT INFO # Provides:$network # Required-

Re: Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-17 Thread DJ Lucas
e of ONBOOT. Conditions on the value of ONBOOT could actually be harmful when stopping networking. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscra

Re: Summary: Using the LSB Bootscripts

2011-05-18 Thread DJ Lucas
if someone wants to review the script and learn from it. I went ahead and changed all four examples to inline tests. >> echo "ERROR: ${INTERFACE} is not a valid network interface." >> echo "" >> exit2 > That should be

Re: udevadm --settle

2011-05-18 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/16/2011 12:59 AM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> > I see some traffic on linux-hotplug about this as well, so it looks like > it's not LFS-specific, at least. (Arch and Debian have both had bugs > reported about this.) The messages from Kay so far seem

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-18 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/14/2011 11:12 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > Attached patch is pretty invasive, 33 KB uncompressed. :-) I wasn't > sure whether to leave inittab in the book where it is currently, but I > am thinking from a packaging POV that it should remain as is and be > removed from the bootsc

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-18 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/18/2011 01:58 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 5/18/11 1:16 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> Alright, with last commit to lsb-bootscripts, I think we are ready to >> go. Bruce, Matt, you guys get a chance to review the patch? > I've been looking over the scripts, they look good,

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-18 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/18/2011 05:50 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 5/18/11 1:16 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> On 05/14/2011 11:12 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >>> Attached patch is pretty invasive, 33 KB uncompressed. :-) I wasn't >>> sure whether to leave inittab in the book where it is current

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-18 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/18/2011 05:50 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 5/18/11 1:16 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> On 05/14/2011 11:12 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >>> Attached patch is pretty invasive, 33 KB uncompressed. :-) I wasn't >>> sure whether to leave inittab in the book where it is current

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-19 Thread DJ Lucas
Bruce Dubbs wrote: >Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> Firstly, thanks for taking the time to do this, it looks pretty good >to me. > >I haven't had time to review yet. > >> Secondly, what follows are probably bike-shed topics, but I'll throw >my >> 2p in along with everyone elses anyway :) : >> >> mak

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-19 Thread DJ Lucas
Matthew Burgess wrote: >On Wed, 18 May 2011 12:16:22 -0500, DJ Lucas >wrote: > >> Alright, with last commit to lsb-bootscripts, I think we are ready to >> go. Bruce, Matt, you guys get a chance to review the patch? > >Hi DJ, apologies for the delay, but I've n

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-19 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/18/2011 08:57 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 5/18/11 9:26 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> Results of a bad sed? I hadn't noticed that, only fixing the misspelling >> in the dependencies. Prior to that commit it was "kernel" when it was >> mountkernfs. Fixing. &g

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/20/2011 03:47 AM, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Thu, 19 May 2011 17:25:15 -0500, DJ Lucas > wrote: >> Matthew Burgess wrote: >> >>> make-aux-files.sh: Why renaming things to lsb-bootscripts? If we're >>> migrating (which I think we should), shouldn&

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/21/2011 07:10 AM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 5/21/11 2:48 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> I do plan to add a "service" script later that would alleviate the issue >> completely, as was suggested by Jeremy a few months ago, but I'm a >> little stuck as far as ho

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-21 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/21/2011 11:17 AM, Robert Xu wrote: > On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 08:10, Jeremy Huntwork > wrote: >> On 5/21/11 2:48 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: >>> I do plan to add a "service" script later that would alleviate the issue >>> completely, as was suggested by Jerem

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-22 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/21/2011 12:32 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On 5/21/11 12:52 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> Oh, I didn't realize that it had continued beyond the new network script >> and ifup/ifdown scripts, or rather I read it as just example, not an >> actual suggestion. Give me a few

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-22 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/21/2011 12:20 PM, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> There are a couple of packages, non-obvious packages at that, that >> install their own bootscripts and they work in the current proposal >> without modifications using the lsb functions. > I mus

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-22 Thread DJ Lucas
Okay. There will still be one change to the network script *after* I get BLFS bootscripts into place. Attached (revised) patch makes all necessary changes as of 20110523-0515 UTC. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean

Re: svn bootscripts

2011-05-30 Thread DJ Lucas
e Either need to roll back the inadvertent commit to the bootscripts tarball job or move forward with the patch I sent in. Let me know if I should do this. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.or

Re: svn bootscripts

2011-05-30 Thread DJ Lucas
ifies the job to always reorder as opposed to trying to fit a script in between others). HTH -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: svn bootscripts

2011-05-30 Thread DJ Lucas
On 05/30/2011 08:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote: >> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> DJ Lucas wrote: >>>> On 05/30/2011 12:34 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>>> In the latest svn, the bootscripts are lfs-bootscripts-2

Re: svn bootscripts

2011-05-31 Thread DJ Lucas
ot--install_initd should be used if available (think upgrades) with a fallback to a predefined order if not, for new installs. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev F

Re: Glibc-2.14 issues

2011-06-06 Thread DJ Lucas
On 06/06/2011 03:07 PM, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > I'd prefer for us not to use HJL's binutils > Then don't. That patch doesn't look all that invasive..no need to add tests for local build fix, just the 3 corrected files (bottom of the list). -- DJ Lucas -- This

Re: svn bootscript regression

2011-06-07 Thread DJ Lucas
tentional? It was done intentionally. I was not aware that anyone had ever used a file named ifconfig.interface and this was not documented anywhere. I removed it because it simply because it was one more test case in ifup and ifdown. I could certainly put it back. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has

Re: Glibc-2.14 issues

2011-06-07 Thread DJ Lucas
On 06/07/2011 09:49 AM, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 18:14:59 -0500, DJ Lucas > wrote: >> On 06/06/2011 03:07 PM, Matthew Burgess wrote: >>> I'd prefer for us not to use HJL's binutils >>> >> Then don't. That patch doesn't l

Re: "unknown HZ value" message still appears in procps utils

2011-06-07 Thread DJ Lucas
d, but I do not recall specifics. Not really sure why gitorious was chosen over alioth for project home either...curious. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lf

Re: svn bootscript regression

2011-06-07 Thread DJ Lucas
has been a little bit more of a PITA than anticipated. I was having a bit of difficulty in getting my custom attributes to play nicely, but it is all resolved now, or at least I hope it is. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clea

Re: Bootscript reorganization

2011-07-09 Thread DJ Lucas
.d/functions scripts. >> Yes, there is a lot of unused/outdated stuff in there now and much room for improvement. A complete restart would be good. I'd also like you to consider using the rc script additions from the LSB bootscripts and some of the logic from the initd_functions if you d

Re: Question about the 'K' and 'S' in script names in /etc/rc.d/rc{0, 6}.d

2011-07-18 Thread DJ Lucas
Moved to LFS-Dev. On 07/17/2011 07:57 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> On 07/17/2011 02:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> DJ Lucas wrote: >> >>>> Actually, this check needs to be removed. It causes issues for the alsa >>>> script and also se

Re: Bootscript reorganization

2011-07-18 Thread DJ Lucas
ending the available services can be reused (although they'll require some modifications). We can even tear down the interfaces properly based on a running cache constructed the same way (as was suggested a few weeks ago in the LSB thread). -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned fo

Re: Bootscript reorganization

2011-07-18 Thread DJ Lucas
On 07/19/2011 12:29 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > > The ifup script greps for all lines containing "^iface $1" (which also > has the type and service fields), record the line numbers found, get > type and service from those line numbers (f3 and f4 resp.), next line, > nex

Re: Question about the 'K' and 'S' in script names in /etc/rc.d/rc{0, 6}.d

2011-07-18 Thread DJ Lucas
On 07/19/2011 12:20 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> If alsa utils is installed, you should have K links in RLs 0,1,2,6 and >> no start links as the volume restore is handled by udev. > No, we don't have anything at RL2. At least not now. The BLFS

Re: Partial update of bootscripts

2011-07-20 Thread DJ Lucas
st. Every distro provides this now and it might be expected by some users (especially nice to have on headless systems). Also, since if{up,down} will be system tools, they need to have help text added at very least on error...but wait to see what happens when/if the single config is done.

Re: Partial update of bootscripts

2011-07-20 Thread DJ Lucas
On 07/12/2011 04:14 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > I agree, I'd like to see a hint, but not enough to actually do the work > myself... I'd look into it, but I just don't think either are quite ready for prime time, besides I like the idea of runlevels too much to give them up j

Re: Rebuilding glibc results in an infinite loop

2011-08-31 Thread DJ Lucas
to? > Yes please. I am experiencing this exact issue now on a 32bit cross build of glibc. I just had a system board failure and apparently the CMOS battery is dead or near dead. Any possibility that the system time was the issue William? make[4]: Warning: File `/tools/include/linux/limit

Re: Glibc is causing segfaults in SDL (and according to redhat's bugzilla, other programs as well)

2011-09-01 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/01/2011 11:21 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Nathan Coulson wrote: >> Glibc-2.28.8 Pretty sure that the glib version and the glibc version were mixed up. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean.

Apply MPFR upstream patch releases

2011-09-01 Thread DJ Lucas
According to the home page, we should be applying the upstream patches found here: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.0.1/allpatches See bugs section at: http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-3.0.1/ -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-01 Thread DJ Lucas
complexity was the main objection. I've not yet had the time to test Bruce's rewrite. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Rewrite bootscripts and Chaper 7

2011-09-03 Thread DJ Lucas
kely in hind sight, except for maybe the test runlevel 4, but even that output would likely be on screen unless you are replacing your method of remote access. More to come (along with suggested fixes) when I actually put them into use over the next couple of days. -- DJ Luc

Re: "unknown HZ value" message still appears in procps utils

2011-09-04 Thread DJ Lucas
Bertrand. > Upstream patch committed as procps-3.2.8-fix_HZ_errors-2.patch. Still needs to be updated in the book. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Diffutils default editor set to ed by default

2011-09-04 Thread DJ Lucas
Taken from cross-lfs: sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' lib/config.h Any reason not to do this in LFS? -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: "unknown HZ value" message still appears in procps utils

2011-09-05 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/04/2011 11:48 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> On 06/07/2011 05:16 AM, LANOUX Bertrand wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I have noticed the "unknown HZ value" message still appears at boot >>> time and under some unpredictable ci

Add IPv6 localhost entry to /etc/hosts file

2011-09-05 Thread DJ Lucas
ing 127.0.0.1 entry. I'm not really sure what to do about actual IPv6 entries as your prefix will likely change when your router is rebooted unless ISPs start handing out static /64s (the last 64 bits are stable as they are assembled from the MAC address with FFFE inserted in the middle).

Re: Diffutils default editor set to ed by default

2011-09-05 Thread DJ Lucas
txt %ed I can't see many people using that functionality, but it is configured incorrectly by default. :-/ Setting the EDITOR environment variable allows you to change it, but you'll never get the intended functionality out of any random editor value. -- DJ Lucas -- This message ha

Re: Add IPv6 localhost entry to /etc/hosts file

2011-09-05 Thread DJ Lucas
l said and done, I feel like I learned a bit (on a new platform - MikroTik RouterOS), and had to re-learn an awful lot as well, but IMO, sink or swim is the best possible learning method. :-) -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed t

Bootscripts rewrite

2011-09-05 Thread DJ Lucas
came to the conclusion that a rewrite was in order as opposed to 'fixing' the scripts that were already written. I understand that education was the focus, but I had thought the judicious use of comments in the extended functionality of the LSB scripts would have provided much more ed

Re: Diffutils default editor set to ed by default

2011-09-05 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/05/2011 11:58 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> Taken from cross-lfs: >> >> sed -i 's@\(^#define DEFAULT_EDITOR_PROGRAM \).*@\1"vi"@' lib/config.h >> >> >> Any reason not to do this in LFS? > I have never seen the use o

Re: Bootscripts rewrite

2011-09-05 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/05/2011 07:48 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: > > LSB defined functions belong in /lib/lsb/init_functions so that > compliant >> bootscripts work as expected. Do not include the LSB definitions directly in >> the distro's functions file. Either sour

/etc/bash_completion.d/ is not configured

2011-09-10 Thread DJ Lucas
/etc/bash_completion file from the default /etc/profile. Also, what of /etc/profile.d/ for LFS? Best continued to be left for BLFS? I would consider it nice to have in a default installation, but there is nothing that uses it until the 4th package into BLFS for me. -- DJ Lucas -- This message ha

Re: /etc/bash_completion.d/ is not configured

2011-09-10 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/10/2011 11:49 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > Grub and GLib both install bash completion scripts. Need to add > something to the default /etc/profile in the book to take advantage of them. > > Additionally, the one for grub is broken currently looking for a have() > function, which

Re: /etc/bash_completion.d/ is not configured

2011-09-11 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/11/2011 12:42 AM, DJ Lucas wrote: > > I haven't found where the Debian one is developed yet. > https://alioth.debian.org/projects/bash-completion/ -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxf

Re: /etc/bash_completion.d/ is not configured

2011-09-11 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/11/2011 12:04 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> On 09/10/2011 11:49 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >>> Grub and GLib both install bash completion scripts. Need to add >>> something to the default /etc/profile in the book to take advantage of them. >>> &

Re: /etc/bash_completion.d/ is not configured

2011-09-11 Thread DJ Lucas
On 09/11/2011 12:24 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:49:36 -0500 > DJ Lucas wrote: > >> Grub and GLib both install bash completion scripts. Need to add >> something to the default /etc/profile in the book to take advantage of them. >> > rm -rf /etc

Re: udev_retry

2011-09-15 Thread DJ Lucas
well in the context of that particular boot script...you could even write a message for each one if you wanted to have more verbose output in the event of a failure, or a stepping like we do in mountvirtfs. > I'd like to see some more discussion about this. > > -- Bruce What ya'll

Re: udev_retry

2011-09-16 Thread DJ Lucas
Bryan Kadzban wrote: >Nathan Coulson wrote: >> Another thought (one I have not actually tested, forgive me if It's >> not possible) is trigger only block devices in the first pass, then >> try devices/subsystems on the 2nd pass? > >DJ Lucas wrote: >>

Re: LFS on github (RFC)

2011-09-24 Thread DJ Lucas
istributed version control. Taking it a step further, you have all of the history of that repo, even dating back to CVS, on at least two other boxes now. I cannot possibly fathom how that could be a bad thing. I will probably go through the steps myself just for the learning aspect of it, but yeah

bootscript fixes

2011-11-05 Thread DJ Lucas
itten to the boot log in case color codes are used in screen messages, and reduced duplication of items in rc.site and init-functions (rc.site is required for init-functions/rc). Please review, and discuss if necessary, before commit. Thanks. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for virus

Re: bootscript fixes

2011-11-05 Thread DJ Lucas
On 11/05/2011 04:15 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > DJ Lucas wrote: >> Mostly for Bruce, but sent to list for everyone's review: >> >> Attached are some fixes for the bootscripts. These are mostly cosmetic, >> but there are some minor functional changes due in part to reve

Re: bootscript fixes

2011-11-05 Thread DJ Lucas
On 11/05/2011 06:04 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> DJ Lucas wrote: >>> Mostly for Bruce, but sent to list for everyone's review: > I had left the definitions > > NORMAL="\\033[0;39m" # Standard console grey > SUCCESS="\\033

Re: LFS-7.0 coreutils-8.14 libexec

2011-11-12 Thread DJ Lucas
ve misunderstood the above comment, you should set libexecdir back to /usr/lib/coreutils as this has been standard practice in LFS and BLFS for as far back as I can remember (/usr/lib/). There are several examples in BLFS for sure, and in both books IIRC. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been

[lfs-dev] man-pages download link

2011-11-26 Thread DJ Lucas
The man-pages download link in the book is incorrect, the correct one is: http://man7.org/linux/download/man-pages/man-pages-3.35.tar.gz -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

[lfs-dev] gettext configure error

2011-11-26 Thread DJ Lucas
uble with git, it will not be available in the chroot environment, but is picked up by default. -- DJ Lucas -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content, and is believed to be clean. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch

Re: [lfs-dev] gettext configure error

2011-11-26 Thread DJ Lucas
On 11/26/2011 09:27 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > Latest gettext configure can hang in chapter 5 on "checking where .elc > files should go..." if emacs is installed on the host. Should probably > add "--without-emacs" and probably "--without-git" to the chapter 5

Re: [lfs-dev] gettext configure error

2011-11-26 Thread DJ Lucas
On 11/26/2011 10:02 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: > On 11/26/2011 09:27 PM, DJ Lucas wrote: >> Latest gettext configure can hang in chapter 5 on "checking where .elc >> files should go..." if emacs is installed on the host. Should probably >> add "--without-emacs" an

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