Re: LFS Directions

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Fri, 2009-09-18 at 00:20 +, Greg Schafer wrote: > (Sidenote: Any plans for LFS to incorporate parallel make into the build? > Seems like a gaping omission in this day and age of commonplace multicore > cpu's. At the very minimum, Glibc, GCC and Binutils should be given the > option of `ma

Re: devtmpfs proposal

2010-02-01 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Sun, 2009-09-20 at 14:56 -0700, Nathan Coulson wrote: > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Nathan Coulson wrote: > >> I noted that the linux kernel is working on a system called devtmpfs. > >>>From what I have read, it mount's a tmpfs, then populates it (Giving > >> us con

Re: PROPOSAL -- new group to handle multi-project tasks

2006-05-30 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 09:42 -0600, Gerard Beekmans wrote: > Soon we'll have to figure out how we want to move forward with > linux-libc-headers. Do we start our own, or do we wait for other > projects to take this on. I believe the Red Hat kernel maintainer submitted a patch adding another make

8.3.1 doesn't warn about world-writable sources

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Rosenstand
Hi, I just read chapter 8.3.1 which states: It is important to note that the files in the kernel source directory are not owned by root. Whenever a package is unpacked as user root (like we did inside chroot), the files have the user and group IDs of whatever they

Re: 8.3.1 doesn't warn about world-writable sources

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 12:27 +0200, Mark Rosenstand wrote: [snip] > This is a pretty serious flaw if people aren't aware of it, so I think > it needs to be mentioned. Oh, and it could be recommended to use the --no-same-owner --no-same-permissions arguments for tar, in case peop

Re: Book text updates

2006-08-26 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 07:31 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 7/18/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > -install -dv -m 1777 /tmp /var/tmp > > > +install -dv -m 1777 {/var,}/tmp > > > > This syntax looks wrong to me. Seems it would create a /var/tmp > > dir but not /tmp. > > It's

udev rules: to patch or tar

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Rosenstand
As the udev team is becoming better at providing default rules, I'm wondering if some of the pain in terms of (as well as errors associated with) maintaining a complete set of rules externally could be avoided. Attached is a diff between the LFS 20060920 rules and the rules.d directory from the ud

Re: udev rules: to patch or tar

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 16:49 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: > ("---" = upstream, "+++" = LFS) > > # sysfs is populated after the event is sent > > -ACTION=="add", DEVPATH=="/devices/*", ENV{PHYSDEVBUS}==&

Re: udev rules: to patch or tar

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 17:48 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 16:49 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > > > >> Mark Rosenstand wrote: > >> ("---" = upstream, "+++" = LFS) > >>

Re: udev rules: to patch or tar

2006-09-22 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 07:24 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 9/22/06, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > What I want to accomplish here is to always be able to grab the latest > > udev tarball and expect it to work, without having to wait weeks for >

Re: Udev fb[0-9]* permissions

2006-10-09 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 11:50 +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > KERNEL=="fb[0-9]*", MODE="0620", GROUP="video" > > > That's a bug. Must be 0660, because there is no such thing as > "write-only mmap" in Linux. Another locally added bug in the udev rules :( I sort of

Re: Udev fb[0-9]* permissions

2006-10-14 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 19:03 -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > Iwouldn't it make sense to take the 50-udev-default.rules from the > > suse directory (since they're well maintained) and the rest from the > > udev directory, and patch as neede

Re: Udev fb[0-9]* permissions

2006-10-14 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 15:57 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 10/14/06, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 19:03 -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > > > > Now maybe it's no more work to merge our patchset "forward" i

Re: Udev fb[0-9]* permissions

2006-10-14 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 00:50 +0200, Barius Drubeck wrote: > On Sunday 15 October 2006 00:27, Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > most LFS-people like the fact that it's pretty distro neutral and > > that you use mostly vanilla software. > Indeed. So I puzzled how does that strengthen

Re: Udev fb[0-9]* permissions

2006-10-15 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 17:59 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 10/14/06, Mark Rosenstand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 15:57 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > > > > > Why don't you supply a diff of the shipped udev rules vs. udev-config &

Re: download location for shadow down since a while ?

2007-05-21 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 08:02 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 5/14/07, Jens Stroebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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.

Re: Linux Headers question

2007-11-21 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 20:35 +, Reece Dunn wrote: > Hi, > > In the sections on building the Linux headers from the kernel sources, > the build instructions are (for section 6): > > make mrproper > make headers_check > make INSTALL_HDR_PATH=dest headers_install > cp -rv dest/in

Re: mktemp, tempfile & coreutils

2007-11-22 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 18:41 -0400, Bryan Kadzban wrote: > > I think we've given plenty of time for any users of the `tempfile' > > binary to have been updated now, so any remaining users should be > > patched to use `mktemp'. > > That's my first thought as well, but I don't know for sure how many

Re: Using Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.x.y + latest kernel version (e.g. 2. 6.14.x)

2005-11-30 Thread Mark Rosenstand
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 07:46 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 11/30/05, Feldmeier Bernd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello guys, > > > > I created a LFS 6.1.1 test system. > > But is there a problem if I use > > the latest kernel version ? > > > > Because Using Linux-Libc-Headers version > > a

Re: Using Linux-Libc-Headers-2.6.x.y + latest kernel version (e.g. 2. 6.14.x)

2005-12-01 Thread Mark Rosenstand
Matt Darcy wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > And I run a dovecot IMAP server without inotify-support on a > > inotify-enabled Linux 2.6.14 machine because it couldn't find > > > > And what is your experience with this ? > > Do you find that inotify wor

FAQ: Package management

2005-12-25 Thread Mark Rosenstand
Hi there, Not knowing anything about the development of LFS (and in the hopes of not having to) I would like to suggest two (faily big) package management systems to be mentioned on the FAQ: - pacman from Arch Linux It does dependency tracking, supports (optionally remote) package repositori

Re: FAQ: Package management

2006-01-01 Thread Mark Rosenstand
Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > > On a side note: Another headline for "Why isn't some package > > manager in the book?" would be appreciated. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/introduction/important.html#pkgmgt Yes. This