Re: A way to keep track of packages while installing LFS

2006-02-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Justin, > I am using the LiveCD, - snip - > I would like to see how to > keep track of what files different packages > install. I'm running LiveCD to build LFS and run "script" to record keystrokes and screen output and save the same on HD. Because once reboot the logfile will disappear.

Re: A way to keep track of packages while installing LFS

2006-02-01 Thread Justin O'Neil
> Look at the FAQ listed in the signature of this email. > -- > Dan > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > Oh crap! That's usually the first thing I do! Can't belive I over

Re: spawnig too fast [Off Topic]

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Hamilton
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 09:33, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: > > http://redora.redhat.com > > It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. > What was its name, Astro? :-) > Oh boy, more LFS humor. Is this one of those distros tha

Re: A way to keep track of packages while installing LFS

2006-02-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/1/06, Justin O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well anyway, before I start into chapter 6, I would like to see how to > keep track of what files different packages install. Not exactly a > Package Manager, just a system of keeping track of what I got. Any > suggestions? I've looked into P

A way to keep track of packages while installing LFS

2006-02-01 Thread Justin O'Neil
Hello, I have successfully completed chapter 5 in the LFS 6.1 book. I am using the LiveCD, and I have to say, that thing is a piece of work! Well anyway, before I start into chapter 6, I would like to see how to keep track of what files different packages install. Not exactly a Package Manager,

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-02-01 Thread Josh
--- Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ...(if you follow me)... yep, i follow. thank you for the alternative, i'll probably try it out sometime, just to satisfy my curiosity. i've set it up how i want it for right now, though. grub is on hdb's MBR and BIOS drive priority is to check hdb fi

Re: Config error in binutils pass1

2006-02-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/1/06, rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > >Did configure give you an error, or did you just go looking through > >config.log and found this? Because there'll be tons of errors in > >config.log. If you got an error from running configure, what did tha

Re: Config error in binutils pass1

2006-02-01 Thread rick
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Dan Nicholson wrote: >Did configure give you an error, or did you just go looking through >config.log and found this? Because there'll be tons of errors in >config.log. If you got an error from running configure, what did that >say? If not, you can move on. The error was onl

Re: Config error in binutils pass1

2006-02-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/1/06, rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Started over today using 6.1.1 with the LiveCd as host. Upon > running config of binutls pass 1 section 5.3 I get the > following error message > > configure:2252:17: gmp.h: No such file or directory Did configure give you an error, or did you just go

Config error in binutils pass1

2006-02-01 Thread rick
Started over today using 6.1.1 with the LiveCd as host. Upon running config of binutls pass 1 section 5.3 I get the following error message configure:2252:17: gmp.h: No such file or directory configure: In function `main': configure:2256: error: `choke' undeclared (first use in this function) co

Re: PTY test

2006-02-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/1/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've seen non-zero returns from pwconv and grpconv on a fairly recent > Shadow. Interesting. This doesn't happen for me. I found another one in my scripts that maybe fails: cd /usr/share/info rm dir for f in * do install-info $f dir 2>/dev/

Re: PTY test

2006-02-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 1 Feb 2006, Dan Nicholson wrote: As far as I know, the only commands in the LFS book that will complete unsuccessfully are make check's and the stripping commands. I've seen non-zero returns from pwconv and grpconv on a fairly recent Shadow. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das

Re: PTY test

2006-02-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/1/06, Richard Melville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Each time I have reached the PTY test after the installation of > *dejagnu*, and issued the command > *expect -c "spawn ls"* the shell just echoes *spawn ls*. Why is this? As the others have said, that's the right output. You can get into

Re: PTY test

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Melville
Richard Melville wrote: / Hi />/ />/ This is my third attempt at building LFS 6.1 as I have not had enough />/ time to complete before. />/ Each time I have reached the PTY test after the installation of />/ *dejagnu*, and issued the command />/ *expect -c "spawn ls"* the shell just echoes

Re: package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 2/1/06, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2/1/06, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > During installation of perl, I add the option > > -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/lib/perl-addons to Configure. This allows me to > > keep the perl package and perl modules separate. > > Isn't it the

Re: PTY test

2006-02-01 Thread Chris Staub
Richard Melville wrote: Hi This is my third attempt at building LFS 6.1 as I have not had enough time to complete before. Each time I have reached the PTY test after the installation of *dejagnu*, and issued the command *expect -c "spawn ls"* the shell just echoes *spawn ls*. Why is this?

Re: PTY test

2006-02-01 Thread Matt Darcy
Richard Melville wrote: Hi This is my third attempt at building LFS 6.1 as I have not had enough time to complete before. Each time I have reached the PTY test after the installation of *dejagnu*, and issued the command *expect -c "spawn ls"* the shell just echoes *spawn ls*. Why is this?

Re: package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 2/1/06, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > During installation of perl, I add the option > -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/lib/perl-addons to Configure. This allows me to > keep the perl package and perl modules separate. Isn't it the meaning of site_perl ? > If you are installing to / then yo

PTY test

2006-02-01 Thread Richard Melville
Hi This is my third attempt at building LFS 6.1 as I have not had enough time to complete before. Each time I have reached the PTY test after the installation of *dejagnu*, and issued the command *expect -c "spawn ls"* the shell just echoes *spawn ls*. Why is this? Thanks in advance Richard

Re: package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 2/1/06, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've used, since the beginning and up to now, the package users system. > I've got a user (perl) that is the owner of the Perl package. During installation of perl, I add the option -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/lib/perl-addons to Configure. This allows

Re: package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Luca Dionisi
Thanks I think I will assign any new package user installing things in Perl in a new group, let it be "perlish". Then I will make writeable by that group all the files in the /usr/lib/perl5/ structure. (after each installation, of course) Another question: - do you know if there is a mechanism

Re: Getting MAC Addresses

2006-02-01 Thread Stefan Krah
Dr. Edgar Alwers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:49, Stefan Krah wrote: > > For a single host on the network: > > > > ping -n1 && arp -a > > delivers invalid option --1 > also other options ( -Rv ) do not deliver my MAC's :-( It's actually: ping -c1 && arp -a

Re: package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 02/01/06 09:19 CST: > I don't understand how it decides > between lib/perl5/site_perl and lib/perl5/5.8.7. Looks like you'll > have to give write privelages on both. Almost *always* lib/perl5/5.8.7 is what is installed from the Perl distribution itself. site_p

Re: package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/1/06, Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is: >- what are the commands commonly used in the install phase? Don't know. Look at a Makefile from a module. >- where are the new files going? Here's a list from two common modules Module-Info-0.28 #!paco-1.9.6 11287996

Re: package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Luca Dionisi wrote these words on 02/01/06 08:57 CST: > I've used, since the beginning and up to now, the package users system. > I've got a user (perl) that is the owner of the Perl package. > > As I understand, to install a module, or even a program written in Perl, > the common practise is to

package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Luca Dionisi
Hi community, I eventually need to install some Perl programs (and modules). I've used, since the beginning and up to now, the package users system. I've got a user (perl) that is the owner of the Perl package. As I understand, to install a module, or even a program written in Perl, the common p

Re: gkd-pixbuf-config ?

2006-02-01 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/31/06, Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If the package you're trying to install is Gtk-Perl-0.7009 then > good luck. This package is a mother-f**. Hint: keep running the > build until it builds everything. Chances are it won't the first time > through. It really sucks. With pati

Re: What next?

2006-02-01 Thread Matt Darcy
boovarahan boovarahan wrote: Hi All ! Now that I have got my own LFS stsyem, I want to move around to BLFS. Unfortunately, the softwares have to be downloaded manually from various sites which is laborious and time consuming. I wish I had them like LFS live CD. One more point ! Having used KDE

Re: Getting MAC Addresses

2006-02-01 Thread Clemens Haupt
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:39, you wrote: >On Wednesday 01 February 2006 10:50, Rainer Peter Feller wrote: >> hm ... >> ifconfig -a >> ifconfig from net-tools > >Tja, one problem is that ifconfig does not more exist for kernel > 2.6.15, and iwconfig -a does not the job ! ;-( >Edgar tcpdump -i

Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 885, Issue 1

2006-02-01 Thread boovarahan boovarahan
>The next task at hand is to figure out how to > > tweak the windows boot.ini file to default boot my LFS system. After > > that I can modify any and all linux configuration files to suit my > > tastes. Once I've accomplished that, it's on to the BLFS book. :-D I am playing with a lot of lin

Re: Getting MAC Addresses

2006-02-01 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 11:49, Stefan Krah wrote: > For a single host on the network: > > ping -n1 && arp -a delivers invalid option --1 also other options ( -Rv ) do not deliver my MAC's :-( Edgar -- - Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers Weinheim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

What next?

2006-02-01 Thread boovarahan boovarahan
Hi All ! Now that I have got my own LFS stsyem, I want to move around to BLFS. Unfortunately, the softwares have to be downloaded manually from various sites which is laborious and time consuming. I wish I had them like LFS live CD. One more point ! Having used KDE and GNOME, now I want to have

Re: Problem with kernel

2006-02-01 Thread Cluster
"Michell L. Garcia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Necessary of aid to compile kernel.. I compiled and this giving to this > message of error when start mine linux? > > My partitions are of the type reiserfs, in make menuconfig in file system > activated the support for reiserfs. > > Error in st

Re: LCFS Build complete!

2006-02-01 Thread John Gay
On Wednesday 01 February 2006 04:12, Jim Gifford wrote: > Thanx John, we really appreciate the comments. The CLFS list is up as > cross-lfs, still awaiting gmane to sync up with it. > Saw that, but figured it was for book-development comments. Signed up and see you there! Cheers, John Ga

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-02-01 Thread Alan Lord
Josh wrote: > One thing I noticed in doing this, was that my hard drives were swapped in grub, but not once the LFS Operating System took over. What I mean by that is that where LFS's hda was grub's (hd0) and hdb was grub's (hd1), after I changed the boot priority in my BIOS, hda (the windows d