Re: Package User package management

2009-04-03 Thread Tushar Teredesai
ave any build dependencies (only run-time dependencies) it can be the first package to be installed in chroot. I do that in my installation. Of course if you have a package manager that has build-time dependencies, the package manager should be installed later in the process. -- Tushar Teredesai

Re: A Suggestion For A Simple Package Manager

2009-03-20 Thread Tushar Teredesai
os) provide an option to compile and install a minimal version of the package. Most of the discussions on PM in LFS tend to end with using DESTDIR for package installation which does not affect what packages and what dependencies the user wants to install. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:tus...@linu

Re: A Suggestion For A Simple Package Manager

2009-03-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
ogram need to be recompiled, and issue the commands to recompile them." What you mention as critical is only for critical for a LFSer. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:tus...@linuxfromscratch.org http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lf

Re: Optimization

2007-04-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
n faults occur from that library and not from the binary > itself. > That is correct. The way I understood your previous e-mail was different. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/

Re: Optimization

2007-04-16 Thread Tushar Teredesai
one can also use linker optimization (LDFLAGS=-0n). -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: long group names

2007-02-05 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 2/5/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is if safe to just recompile shadow? (I mean, is there some post-install > to do?) Recompiling shadow should do it. There are no additional steps involved. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfro

Re: long group names

2007-02-05 Thread Tushar Teredesai
e man page says a group name has 16 characters maximum. > However, I had groups with longer names in gentoo. > Any idea? > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/downloads/shadow/shadow-4.0.13-naming_convention_fixes-1.patch -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://

Re: Proper choice of package management strategy

2007-01-19 Thread Tushar Teredesai
most (all?) major distros. So it is easy to find workarounds when you get stuck with a package that does not have straight forward commands for fakeroot installation. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mai

Re: Remake of LFS chapter 5

2006-10-17 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/17/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bad misstake, the stripping of debug went ok but the strip with the unneeded flag gave me; Please re-read the second paragraph in <http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter05/stripping.html>. -- Tush

Re: package users: installing the linux package

2006-10-12 Thread Tushar Teredesai
. In the former case should /boot be made an installation directory? Yes. What about grub that needs to have some of its files (/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/{stage{1,2},*stage1_5}) copied to /boot/grub? User grub. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~

Re: Hints that will be deleted

2006-10-09 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/9/06, Rainer Peter Feller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 12:38 -0500, Tushar Teredesai wrote: > Hi: > > Please refer to Alexander's e-mail at > <http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/hints/2006-August/003360.html>. > I

Hints that will be deleted

2006-10-08 Thread Tushar Teredesai
ou have any objections. Thanks. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Thunderbird-1.5 Spelling (SOLVED)

2006-02-09 Thread Tushar Teredesai
y internets floating around, it is hard to keep track ;-) BTW, looks like I am on the same internet as you are:) -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscrat

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

2006-02-02 Thread Tushar Teredesai
iles from one installation on another unless you are using exactly the same packages on both systems. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.ht

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 pe

Re: package users and Perl

2006-02-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
ou are installing to / then you may just provide pkg users write permissions to /usr/lib/perl-addons/perllocal.pod and /usr/lib/perl-addons. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: ht

Re: recompiling lfs+blfs with utf-8 support

2006-01-12 Thread Tushar Teredesai
://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/manual/html_chapter/binutils_14.html>. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-19 Thread Tushar Teredesai
he devs do. :-) So basically guys who know how to upgrade the toolchain packages don't need to read the LFS book :) -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-19 Thread Tushar Teredesai
ppreciate a link. Most of the times I have seen it mentioned by folks who were burnt by glibc upgrades on binary distros. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.lin

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > I remember reading on the glibc mailing list that glibc is always > > backward compatible, i.e. an application compiled for glibc-2.2 should > > work on a glibc-2.3 system. > > >

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Tushar Teredesai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yep, lot of times. If I remember correctly, my glibc-2.2 -> glibc-2.3 > was like that, and so were many glibc-2.3 upgrades. I take the first sentence back. I don't remember my glibc-2.2 -> glibc-2.3 upgrade (

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
ion. In the scenario you mentioned, though the vendor says glibc-2.3.4 it is in reality glibc-2.3.4 + patches from glibc cvs + vendor specific patches. So installing a prisitine glibc-2.3.4 is probably a downgrade rather than an upgrade :) -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Jeremy Byron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > > > For your current problem, one thing you could do is to use the > > following to install the new gcc: > > make DESTDIR=/var/tmp/gcc install > > This will install every

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 10/18/05, Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > > As long as you are upgrading the toolchain packages (not downgrading) > > everything should be ok, especially if they have the same major (and > > minor version?) > > I th

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
y should not be removed until the executables linked to that library are recompiled. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscri

Re: oops, how does one re-install gcc?

2005-10-18 Thread Tushar Teredesai
gcc && tar cf - . | (cd / ; tar xf - ) -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Mozilla's nspr and nss packages

2005-09-10 Thread Tushar Teredesai
make other dependent pacakges link against the installed versions. Has anyone tried this? -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

My pkg-user + DESTDIR based build scripts

2005-09-06 Thread Tushar Teredesai
ld scripts as and when I install the pacakges. I see that there is some interst on the list in using MSB's package user hint, this is my small contribution to the excellent package management concept that he created. I hope folks find it useful. Thanks. Have fun, Tushar. -- Tushar Teredesa

Re: Package user hint - the build script and subshells

2005-09-05 Thread Tushar Teredesai
u won't see any output on the console. Personally, I have two functions compilePkg and installPkg, each of them independent of each other. If I need a var that needs to be shared between the two, I set it globally. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tush

Re: Man pages

2005-09-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 9/1/05, Tarek Ghaleb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > BTW, what's the n after the sequence? > $ ls /usr/share/man/ man1 man3 man4 man5 man7 man8 mann -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfro

Re: Man pages

2005-09-01 Thread Tushar Teredesai
I think conforming to standards is not a bad thing. I'll go > ahead and toy around with relocating man pages, and report back in a > couple of weeks. > Maybe this will work: for i in `seq 1 9` n do install -d /usr/share/man/en/man$i ln -sf en/man$i /usr/share/man/man$i done --

Re: user package hint & gnome-panel

2005-08-31 Thread Tushar Teredesai
me to create a nice installation tree. The pkg-user approach allows me to maintain a sepration between the various packages (by not allowing files to be overwritten, e.g hemidial or libiconv overwriting critical glibc headers). -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxf

Re: Expect fails to build

2005-08-09 Thread Tushar Teredesai
ean that the lines were shifted. Fuzz could potentially cause problems but I don't remember seeing a patch that did. BTW, if the guidelines for patch submission had been followed, there would not have been a "better" patch ;-) -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: Expect fails to build

2005-08-09 Thread Tushar Teredesai
en. The reasons that patches are not rediffed is so that someone who has downloaded the previous previous patch knows by looking at the Initial Package Version field that the patch has not changed. That said, I don't have any problems if we make it a policy to rediff patches if they apply wi

Removal of some hints from PREVIOUS_FORMAT directory

2005-08-02 Thread Tushar Teredesai
ople know of their existence. Thanks. --Tushar. PS: CCing -support lists for wider audience. Please reply to the hints group. -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-suppo

Re: Bloated e2fsprogs?

2005-07-29 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 7/29/05, David Rosal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tushar Teredesai wrote: > > On 7/29/05, David Rosal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>Hi again. > >> > >>Continuing to reduce the size of my LFS, I've found a quite strange >

Re: Bloated e2fsprogs?

2005-07-29 Thread Tushar Teredesai
u sure they are not hardlinks? -- Tushar Teredesai mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~tushar/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page