Re: package management & updates

2006-09-17 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/16/06, Vladimir A. Pavlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Let's assume we installed _all_ the packages into separate subdirectories of /usr/pkg (the packages needed for boot should be placed to /pkg, while ones not needed should go to /usr/pkg. To simplify the description, we install all of them

Re: package management & updates

2006-09-17 Thread kriss
hi PV i suggest you to devel a systeme management tool that can handle differents versions so you'll have no problems in futur thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: package management & updates

2006-09-17 Thread Ag. Hatzimanikas
On Sun, Sep 17, at 10:23 Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > > > > Now I have a package that cannot be compiled with glibc-2.3.6 since it > > > requires glibc-2.4. > > > > Is this real, or a made up example ? Any _source_ that needs a > > specific version of glibc is at least unusual. > > It's my gues

Re: package management & updates

2006-09-17 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:23:55PM +0400, Vladimir A. Pavlov wrote: > The bad things for me are: > > 1. Rebuilding a whole system (including BLFS) requires too much time. >Adding one really needed library is much faster. > Sure. I'm trying to point out that you can easily spend more time th

Re: Chap 8.4 Problem with GRUB

2006-09-17 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/17/06, Ellis Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did copy those files in (first just e2fs & reiser, later at your advice all) but this was only after realizing I had the problem. I went back to see if I'd messed up the grub install and noticed I'd overlooked that step. I run grub but still

Re: Chap 8.4 Problem with GRUB

2006-09-17 Thread Ellis Wilson
I did copy those files in (first just e2fs & reiser, later at your advice all) but this was only after realizing I had the problem. I went back to see if I'd messed up the grub install and noticed I'd overlooked that step. I run grub but still get the same messages. Do I need to backtrack for gr

Re: Chap 8.4 Problem with GRUB

2006-09-17 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 9/17/06, Ellis Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Almost to my own distro, but ran into a problem on the last page (of course) of instructions trying to make grub setup my hd0. I've got 4 partitions on a 160gb hd, 1 being M$ (unfortunately) 2 being ext3 (LFS), 3 being a storage fat32 partitio

Chap 8.4 Problem with GRUB

2006-09-17 Thread Ellis Wilson
Hi all, Almost to my own distro, but ran into a problem on the last page (of course) of instructions trying to make grub setup my hd0. I've got 4 partitions on a 160gb hd, 1 being M$ (unfortunately) 2 being ext3 (LFS), 3 being a storage fat32 partition and 4 being my swap. Now upon trying to roo

Re: package management & updates

2006-09-17 Thread Vladimir A. Pavlov
On Sunday 17 September 2006 03:00, Ken Moffat wrote: > What is so bad about scripting your builds, and then building a new > system with the latest versions of everything ? Yes, it means > having at least two potential '/' filesystems, and probably a > separate /home, but it's no big deal and mea

I'm inviting you

2006-09-17 Thread tega_x
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Chapter 6 GCC Make Error

2006-09-17 Thread ksudhindra
I am facing a problem with GCC 4.0.3 in chapter 6. In file included from ../../../sources/gcc-4.0.3/gcc/crtstuff.c:64: ../../../sources/gcc-4.0.3/gcc/tsystem.h:90:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory ../../../sources/gcc-4.0.3/gcc/tsystem.h:93:23: error: sys/types.h: No such file or direc

Re: coreutils-5.96

2006-09-17 Thread Wei Chong
Yeap, it is in the path unfortunately :-( Wei Chong. --- "Vladimir A. Pavlov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 10 September 2006 09:59, Wei Chong wrote: > > src/su dummy -c "make RUN_EXPENSIVE_TESTS=yes > check" > > > > the test fail with following error: > > > > Making check in lib > >