All packages tarball for 6.8?

2011-06-27 Thread Rob Landley
The mirrors listed at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/packages.html#packages have one-big-tarball versions of the packages and patches for all the previous releases... but not this one. Is the current tarball anywhere? Rob -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://w

Re: All packages tarball for 6.8?

2011-06-28 Thread Rob Landley
On 06/27/2011 10:47 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Rob Landley wrote: >> The mirrors listed at >> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/packages.html#packages have >> one-big-tarball versions of the packages and patches for all the >> previous releases... but not this one. &

6.8 still shows SUSv3, not SUSv4.

2011-07-08 Thread Rob Landley
In the "LFS and Standards" part of the 6.8 preface, it lists the Single Unix Specification Version 3. A couple points: A) SUSv4 shipped in 2008. B) SUSv4 actually comes from (and is approved by) other standards bodies, it's also known as POSIX-2008, IEEE Std 1003.1, and The Open Group base speci

6.8 patch tweaks.

2011-07-08 Thread Rob Landley
I'm automating LFS 6.8, and two of the patches don't apply with busybox patch: 1) gcc-4.5.2-startfiles_fix-1.patch Requires "fuzz" support, which I didn't implement because it tends to mis-apply patches. (This is not the same as applying at an offset, this is discarding context lines in order to

Re: 6.8 patch tweaks.

2011-07-08 Thread Rob Landley
On 07/08/2011 11:00 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> 2) rm "$SRCDIR"/procps-3.2.8-fix_HZ_errors-1.patch || exit 1 > >> The path has a "//" which means -p1 winds up with an absolute path after >> discarding one "/". > > I'm not sure what you mean here with the 'rm ... |exit 1', but the patch > applies c

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS will need bc.

2013-04-01 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/01/2013 04:59:50 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > > I'd seen comments on the kernel list about bc being required in > > 3.9, and then forgotten about them (on my desktops I have it anyway, > > for xscreensaver). It gets used for kernel/timeconst.h > > https://patchwork.kernel.o

Re: [lfs-dev] LFS will need bc.

2013-04-01 Thread Rob Landley
On 04/01/2013 04:59:50 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I don't mind adding it to LFS. It's one of the first things I build > because I use it in my scripts for measuring build size. > > An additional package to move from LFS might be lsb_release-1.4 to > complement what we have in Section 9.1. And I ha

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/03/2013 09:54:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I'm going to write a program to automatically identify out of date > packages for LFS. Has anyone already done such a beast? > > As I review the packages, it seems that the only constant is > inconsistency. Trying to parse versions is quite package

Re: [lfs-dev] util-linux issues

2013-05-14 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/14/2013 01:59:08 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > 2. Also, I did a test of setting /etc/mtab as a symlink to > /proc/mounts > and it seems to work properly although the output of 'mount' is a bit > more verbose. My objection of 'mount' not specifying the device for > the > rootfs is fixed. I th

Re: [lfs-dev] Raspberry Pi

2013-06-06 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/31/2013 05:49:45 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Armin K. wrote: > > On 06/01/2013 12:27 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > >> Is there any interest in LFS for the Pi? > > > From what I've heard - it's an ARM board. > > That's right. > > > LFS only supports x86/x86_64 > > and it doesn't support cross-