Re: KDE4

2010-03-09 Thread Robert Xu
On Mar 9, 2010, at 6:12, Matthew Burgess wrote: > On Tue, 9 Mar 2010 11:28:24 +0100 (CET), > tho...@equinox.homelinux.org wrote: >> Because 4.4.1 has been released, I started another try to setup KDE4. >> LFS-6.6 is out so a crystal clear and modern basis seems to be a good >> start for this test

Re: KDE4

2010-03-09 Thread Robert Xu
e to kde4, otherwise it might seem like BLFS is becoming obsolete :-\ -- Cya Later, Robert Xu Ever tried Linux? :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: KDE4

2010-03-10 Thread Robert Xu
ugh, > and as > others have pointed out, walking away from the behemoth that is KDE > now is > an option open to anyone, like me, who's had enough of the bloat. > > That's probably a good idea, in the end. Let's just keep kde3. The farthest I go for databases in kde is sqlite. -- Cya Later, Robert Xu Ever tried Linux? :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

lsb-bootscripts maintained?

2010-03-10 Thread Robert Xu
Hi all, I've been wondering if the lfs LSB bootscripts are being maintained, since I want to use them and integrate them with plymouth for a bootsplash. (I have no idea how to do this, any tips would be great). Are the bootscripts being maintained? -- Cya Later, Robert Xu Ever tried

Re: grammar correction chap 4.1 LFS 6.6

2010-03-12 Thread Robert Xu
rtually any given thing, is almost always inversely proportional > to its' > degree of popularity. > Yes, but after building LFS a few times, you come to appreciate package management. Jhalfs does this nicely, but as I recall, many things are broken with jhalfs at the moment :( -

Re: grammar correction chap 4.1 LFS 6.6

2010-03-13 Thread Robert Xu
make a decision. Please. We can talk about the development with other distributions another time, at least AFTER 6.6 is released. -- Cya Later, Robert Xu Ever tried Linux? :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Testing

2010-03-28 Thread Robert Xu
gt; > Looking at the archive sorted by date the last previous was > on March 19, so that's about right for me. > > I'm just having the problem of getting all the emails about 6-10 hours late. Like now, I just got an email sent at 10:24 AM, and it's 5:38 PM now. > Mi

Re: Bzip2 version mismatch

2010-04-01 Thread Robert Xu
I'm looking at F-13 bzip2 spec file, and they kept the library version back at 1.0.4. I don't see any issues reported to the bugzilla in fedora, so i'm guessing this was something minor... > I suppose I should go look to see if the maintainer is aware of it... > > -- &g

Re: [spammer]

2010-04-15 Thread Robert Xu
edIn, it tries > really hard to send invitations to everyone in your contacts. He may > have done this inadvertently without realizing everyone it was being > sent to. > This is why i never let any online service into my contact list. :P -- Cya Later, Robert Xu Ever Tried Linux? :) -- http://l

Re: Just for fun

2010-05-15 Thread Robert Xu
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:55, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I added a new image to the lfs home page. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ looks cool! :) > >   -- Bruce > -- -- Cya Later, Robert Xu Ever tried Linux? :) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Warning re Expect

2010-06-12 Thread Robert Xu
#x27;s expect becomes (pretty much) obsolete? Is there any alternative to expect? -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Sysvinit --> Upstart?

2010-07-06 Thread Robert Xu
distributions already use upstart (Ubuntu, Fedora) or will use it > in future (openSUSE, Debian). > > What are you thinking about that? > Sounds nice, but maybe wait? -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Sysvinit --> Upstart?

2010-07-06 Thread Robert Xu
On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 14:49, Sebastian Plotz wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 06.07.2010, 14:09 -0400 schrieb Robert Xu: >> But that requires SysVinit tools. > > Did you mean halt, init, runlevel, shutdown, telinit, ...? They are all > included in Upstart, too. > > Upstart is

Re: Sysvinit --> Upstart?

2010-07-06 Thread Robert Xu
d explain what it offers for an LFS > system, then that will help the discussion a lot. > > Note that if you are concerned about boot speed, my SVN system gets a > bash prompt in about 8 seconds. > > Offering Upstart in BLFS may be an option too. BLFS sounds like a good place to

Re: Sysvinit --> Upstart?

2010-07-06 Thread Robert Xu
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Re: Sysvinit --> Upstart?

2010-07-07 Thread Robert Xu
nto the box or tries to print something). >> That sounds quite interesting. I run cupsd all the time but I haven't >> printed anything in weeks. > > See xinetd in BLFS. > So why can't we put it in BLFS? I'd just wait for until fedora tries out their systemd.

Re: Website

2010-07-24 Thread Robert Xu
ommunity.linuxfromscratch.org > > I personally think this would be a nice replacement for both trac and the > main site. That looks pretty good for a replacement of the aging LFS site. > > -- > JH > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev >

Re: Website

2010-07-24 Thread Robert Xu
On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:33, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > On Jul 25, 2010, at 12:53 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> If we were setting up a new project, I might want to use Redmine, >> but we >> manage LFS using Subversion, Mailman, and Trac and have been using >> those >> tools for about 6 years. The main w

Re: Website

2010-07-27 Thread Robert Xu
hmm... On Jul 27, 2010, at 6:06, Yaacov-Yoseph Weiss wrote: > O.k. I'll jump in and risk the consequences... > > On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Jeremy Huntwork > wrote: >> It's interesting what logs will show. >> >> For instance, the access logs for community.linuxfromscratch.org >> show 117

Re: Bootscript future

2010-08-10 Thread Robert Xu
> > Regards, > > Matt. > Maybe see what commands they used to build SysVinit? They may have supplied a parameter we don't. -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Why isn't dpkg included in the LFS book

2010-10-26 Thread Robert Xu
oftware on their own and learn the inner workings of a Linux system without any PM or heavy dependency "crap". (a small version of DSL? lol) -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

can I announce project releases on here?

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Xu
Hi all, Would I be allowed to post annoucements of project releases here? (That pertain to (A|B|C|H)LFS (very very much)) -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: can I announce project releases on here?

2010-11-18 Thread Robert Xu
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 17:59, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Sure. Or I can send you the announcement. -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-14 Thread Robert Xu
ow what you mean by this ? It's the first time I've heard > the phrase "dynamic boot script".  I hope this isn't anything to do > with upstart or systemd, what I've seen of those fills me with a > mixture of horror and disgust ;) > The LSB bootscripts work

Re: Thinking forward LFS-7.0

2011-03-14 Thread Robert Xu
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 19:02, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Robert Xu wrote: >> >> The LSB bootscripts work similar to insserv on (newer) Debian and SuSE, >> right? > > Yeah. Instead of hardcoding the symlink order as is done in

Re: Changes to contrib bootscripts

2011-05-21 Thread Robert Xu
for years and what Debian Squeeze and on is using. Or, you could just symlink all the initscripts to a rc location in /usr/sbin/rc like /usr/sbin/rcnetwork for tab completion. -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: systemd

2011-08-02 Thread Robert Xu
rence for the future. I'm eager to hear about this :D -- later, Robert Xu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-dev] udev + systemd to merge

2012-04-03 Thread Robert Xu
Hi all, As brought up somewhere on the openSUSE mailing list, http://lwn.net/Articles/490413/. Will LFS continue to avoid systemd? Because udev will still be buildable on its own. -- later daze. :: Robert Xu :: protocol.by/rxu -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http