Re: [lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-12-09 Thread Rob Taylor
I have completed an update to the "More Control Helpers" archive, complete with a revised build script, more features in the wrapper scripts and a few more handy scripts. Find it at this page... https://www.javacrypt.com/lfs/ On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Rob Taylor wrote: > I have been wor

Re: [lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-10-08 Thread Dan McGhee
On 10/07/2013 11:27 PM, Rob Taylor wrote: Dan, The build script itself already exists in the "more_control_helpers.tar.bz2" which is as it was before I got to it. I altered it a little but for the most part it is as I found it. Now that is not to say that I can not explain most of what it doe

Re: [lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-10-07 Thread Rob Taylor
I noticed that the original more_control_helpers.tar.bz2 file mentioned in the "HINT" http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/more_control_and_pkg_man.txt is not found using the link in the "HINT". The URL should be http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/ATTACHMENTS/mo

Re: [lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-10-06 Thread Dan McGhee
On 10/05/2013 11:11 PM, Rob Taylor wrote: Hi Dan, Thanks for the feedback. I'm just on vacation for a couple of weeks to Hawaii, the big island. So I may not seem very responsive to emails for a bit. Oh goodness! I don't want to impact your vacation, but I'll still post--so that you can respon

Re: [lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-10-05 Thread Rob Taylor
Hi Dan, Thanks for the feedback. I'm just on vacation for a couple of weeks to Hawaii, the big island. So I may not seem very responsive to emails for a bit. Feel free to change or use anything I have created. I didn't really take over the hint, partially because I am not sure how much time I will

Re: [lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-10-05 Thread Dan McGhee
On 10/04/2013 01:57 PM, Rob Taylor wrote: I have updated the wrapper scripts to handle some new chmod functionality. It now supports OCTAL-MODEs that are longer than 4 digits or have preceding @ signs. See: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2012-03/txtWUJXdGwYNs.txt Where it says

Re: [lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-10-04 Thread Rob Taylor
I have updated the wrapper scripts to handle some new chmod functionality. It now supports OCTAL-MODEs that are longer than 4 digits or have preceding @ signs. See: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2012-03/txtWUJXdGwYNs.txt Where it says: " chmod, mkdir, install now accept new style

Re: [lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Taylor
Thanks for the link Hans. On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 12:51 PM, hans kaper wrote: > ** > Op Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:05:01 +0200 schreef Rob Taylor < > rtaylor...@gmail.com>: > > > I have been working through LFS 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 testing and revising > scripts for this package management system. > > I h

Re: [lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-09-23 Thread hans kaper
Op Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:05:01 +0200 schreef Rob Taylor :I have been working through LFS 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 testing and revising scripts for this package management system.I have added a number of scripts and in some cases almost entirely rewritten the existing scripts. While I have tested these scrip

[lfs-support] More control and package management using package users

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Taylor
I have been working through LFS 7.2, 7.3 and 7.4 testing and revising scripts for this package management system. I have added a number of scripts and in some cases almost entirely rewritten the existing scripts. While I have tested these scripts no one else has so, my version of this package shou

[lfs-support] More Control and Package Management using Package Users - LFS 7.2+

2012-10-10 Thread David Buchan
Hi, Thanks but I solved it! Quite chuffed with myself. Here is how: I installed shadow into /tools at the end of chapter 5. But even though I did --prefix=/tools su still demanded login.defs to be in /etc (it got installed into /tools/etc as it should have done. I simply copied the files in /too

Re: [lfs-support] More Control and Package Management using Package Users - LFS 7.2+

2012-10-10 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 08:41:50AM +0100, David Buchan wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry if this is the second time I have sent this (not sure if I sent it > right the first time). > > I am building the current development lfs and am having the following > problem. > At the start of Chapter 6, once inside t

[lfs-support] More Control and Package Management using Package Users - LFS 7.2+

2012-10-10 Thread David Buchan
Hi, Sorry if this is the second time I have sent this (not sure if I sent it right the first time). I am building the current development lfs and am having the following problem. At the start of Chapter 6, once inside the chroot environment I am using the hint "More Control and Package Management