howto for jhalfs LFS-devel build ?

2008-11-21 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hello. I've spent a couple of ours now tryng to get jhalfs (svn trunk) to build the LFS svn version. But I can't get it done. - I've built by hand a couple of times already (at the time of 6.3 apprx.) - I've googled but couldn't find nothing Is there a step-by-step howto anywhee

Re: [BUG]svn version : wrong download link for the mpfr sources

2009-03-04 Thread Jens Stroebel
Emmanuel Trillaud wrote: > In the trunk version SVN-200902017 section 3.2 > The download link for the mpfr lib is wrong : > http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr-2.4.0.tar.bz2 > SHOULD BE > http://www.mpfr.org/mpfr-current/mpfr-2.4.1.tar.bz2. > 2.4.1 is the last version. ...but if I may say so,

Ticket #2552 (set MTU size in network scripts)

2009-04-23 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hi. I wanted to write this for a while already, so here it goes: Like thomas, we had to adjust the MTU for our interfaces; we do it per default like this in the ipv4 service script: = patch start --- lfs/sysconfig/network-devic

Re: Problem with bash-3.2 patch

2007-03-15 Thread Jens Stroebel
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 03:20:05PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 3/14/07, Richard Gill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > In the latest development branch (SVN-20070314), the > > bash-3.2-fixes-2.patch creates a problem in bash, as regular > > expression matches in conditionals don't work anymor

Re: Problem with bash-3.2 patch

2007-03-15 Thread Jens Stroebel
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:11:31PM +0100, Jens Stroebel wrote: > Reading your posts, I got and applied the above-mentioned patch; > contrary to what I expected, [[ $test =~ $regexpr ]] worked, whereas > [[ "$test" =~ "$regexp

Re: Problem with bash-3.2 patch

2007-03-16 Thread Jens Stroebel
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:12:11PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: [..snip...] > > Following up my own post, sorry, but I thought the above incomplete after > > a bit more testing: > > > > It seems like it's OK to "" the left side of the comparison, > > but not the regex which should

thunderbird + firefox: 1.5.0.9 -> 1.5.0.10 (system_nss patch)

2007-03-21 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hi out there. Due to the mozilla security announcements ( http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/ ) concerning versions 1.5.0.9, I was inclined to upgrade both to 1.5.0.10. I had to recognize that, while the pago-patch from BLFS still applies, the system_nss patch didn't like to

download location for shadow down since a while ?

2007-05-14 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hello. I've been trying for some time now to get the shadow-4.0.18.1 source from ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/shadow-4.0.18.1.tar.bz2 ; the site is not resolvable, though. ( ping ftp.pld.org.pl ping: unknown host ftp.pld.org.pl host ftp.pld.org.pl Host ftp.pld.org.

URL to vim-7.1-mandir-1.patch not accessible under URL from LFS devel book?

2007-05-14 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hello again; While keeping track with the changes in the LFS devel book, I came across the vim-7.0 -> 7.1 update. The patch-list at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter03/patches.html references the URL for the mandir-patch: http://www.linuxfromscr

Re: download location for shadow down since a while ?

2007-05-15 Thread Jens Stroebel
Dan Nicholson wrote: > Yeah, that's about the least reliable server on the internet :) You > can just use a mirror for now. > > http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/LFS/lfs-packages/development/shadow-4.0.18.1.tar.bz2 Thanks for the link. New version now already integrated in the p

samba vulnerability, new version 3.0.25

2007-05-15 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hiya. In the daily routine of running over vulnerability reports, I encountered a samba vulnerability report I thouht I'd mention here: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23972 and, corresponding, the release announcement at http://news.samba.org/

udev-110 ->111 changed behaviour for naming net-devices?

2007-05-21 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hello. I tried to follow the LFS-devel book on udev but ran into the following: Setup: - kernel 2.6.21 - udev-111 - 2 network cards; one builtin (broadcomm, using tg3), one connected via pcmcia (using 8139too) - first network card is assigned name eth0 via udev-rule ==

Re: udev-110 ->111 changed behaviour for naming net-devices?

2007-05-22 Thread Jens Stroebel
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:22:07PM -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > But if you remove all your rules and reboot, udev will generate new > rules for all your NICs, so Alexander's suggestion of removing them all > is a good idea. Just beware that what you want isn't possible. > > (Why do you want it,

Re: udev-110 ->111 changed behaviour for naming net-devices?

2007-05-23 Thread Jens Stroebel
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:03:39PM +0200, Jens Stroebel wrote: >> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:22:07PM -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: >> >>> (Why do you want it, by the way?) >> That's because we install a laptop with a pcmcia-plugged network

Re: udev-110 ->111 changed behaviour for naming net-devices?

2007-05-23 Thread Jens Stroebel
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Hmm. I figured they'd show up on a different bus, since it is really a > different physical bus. Well, whatever. I'd still like to know where > the device symlink points though. :-) I'm not sure which one... you mean like: ls -l /sys/class/net/eth1/device

Re: udev-110 ->111 changed behaviour for naming net-devices?

2007-05-24 Thread Jens Stroebel
Bryan Kadzban wrote: > I'd like to see the results of: > grep -H . \ > /sys/devices/pci\:00/\:00\:1e.0/:03:01.0/:04:00.0/{,subsystem_}{vendor,device} /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:03:01.0/:04:00.0/vendor:0x13d1 /sys/devices/pci:00/:00:1e.0/:03:01.0/

problem description revised [was: Re: udev-110 ->111 changed behaviour for naming net-devices?]

2007-06-08 Thread Jens Stroebel
Jens Stroebel wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:22:07PM -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > >> But if you remove all your rules and reboot, udev will generate new >> rules for all your NICs, so Alexander's suggestion of removing them all >> is a good idea. Just be

Re: LFS-Bootscripts 20070730

2007-07-31 Thread Jens Stroebel
Dan Nicholson wrote: > I rolled a new snapshot that has a few changes since the last 20070420 > tarball. Please test it out so we can get any fixes in to 6.3. They > should be entirely backwards compatible with existing scripts. Hiya. I maybe should know where to look, but I don't

Re: LFS-Bootscripts 20070730

2007-07-31 Thread Jens Stroebel
, 2007 at 12:24:54PM +, DJ Lucas wrote: > Jens Stroebel wrote: > > I maybe should know where to look, but I don't... > > Where is the download location for the new LFS-bootscripts you rolled? > > > http://downloads.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-bootscr

MTU manipulation through lfs-bootscripts: has it been deprecated?

2007-09-18 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hello beautiful people :) I was in a situation which prompted (unfortunately) for lowering the MTU of a network-device to assure functionality as planned (r8169 driver, 8168B/8111 NIC) While looking at the actual bootscripts and searching a bit/asking my way around,

e2fsprogs-1.40.{5,6} + grub-0.97

2008-02-22 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hi there. When updating to e2fsprogs-1.40.6 like LFS devel did, I noticed my system(s) no longer booting via grub. Slightly inconvenient ;-) After digging around a while I found that mke2fs has changed the inode size to 256, making grub effectively unable to read the filesystem t

patch for grub-0.97 [was: Re: Choosing a boot loader for LFS 7.0]

2008-03-17 Thread Jens Stroebel
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Hello, as explained in http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2161 (a blocker), due to recent changes in e2fsprogs, Grub-0.97 no longer works (cannot read any files from the resulting filesystem, cannot be installed into MBR, and the book is thus horribly bro

berkeley-db - db-2.8.1-fixes-1.patch not present

2008-04-03 Thread Jens Stroebel
Hello. While browsing the wget list generated for the LFS devel book, I noticed that http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/development/db-2.8.1-fixes-1.patch is not present... greets, jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23.56.

Re: initd-tools-0.1.1

2008-09-01 Thread Jens Stroebel
Dan Nicholson wrote: Hiya. > It mostly seems to be working, but there is still a bug in the > Should-Stop code as well as many other bugs that probably have not > been uncovered in my limited testing. Please use with caution and > backup your /etc/init.d and /etc/rc*.d directories