Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-04 Thread Steve Crosby
On 05 Jun 2005, you wrote in lfs.support: > On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: > >> >> Ken, FWIW my scripts do the following to avoid scanning paths that won't >> (or shouldn't!) see any changes during a build: >> >> find . -xdev ! -path "./logs/*" ! -path "./home/*" ! -path "./proc/*" \

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: > > Ken, FWIW my scripts do the following to avoid scanning paths that won't > (or shouldn't!) see any changes during a build: > > find . -xdev ! -path "./logs/*" ! -path "./home/*" ! -path "./proc/*" \ >! -path "./sources/*" ! -path "./tmp/*" ! -path

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-04 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: The repeated grep -v invocations sure burn up CPU cycles, but for me its worth it to remove _most_ of the irrelevant changes. When I do this for blfs on a running system there are still occasional irrelevant changes, e.g. to /etc/ntp.drift, so use with care. Ken, FWIW my sc

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-04 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 4 Jun 2005, Ag Hatzim wrote: > > To create the log file you can use the log-install or paco or just use > this simplier but a little more dangerous way. Use the find command to > make a log of your system *before* you built the package and one more > *after* the build,then create the diff

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-03 Thread Ag Hatzim
Chakkaradeep C C([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 10:47:59AM +0530: > > > Its a good idea to log every single package and a better idea to create > > binaries for every package,just in case something goes wrong. > > hey, how do create log of binaries, is that i have to collect manually > t

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-03 Thread Chakkaradeep C C
hi, thanks a lot Hatzim, your reply has given me several ideas. > Its a good idea to log every single package and a better idea to create > binaries for every package,just in case something goes wrong. hey, how do create log of binaries, is that i have to collect manually the names of the binar

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-03 Thread Ag Hatzim
Chakkaradeep C C([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Jun 04, 2005 at 01:27:39AM +0530: > > well, this is not a bad idea, i will try writing my own scripts and > see how far can this take me in automating my job now! :-) > Its a good idea to log every single package and a better idea to create binaries for ev

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-03 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 06/03/05 14:48 CST: > tar xjf foo-bar.tar.bz2 && > cd foo-bar && > ./configure --prefix=/usr && > make && > make install && > cd .. && > rm -rf foo-bar && > ldconfig && What? No 'make check'? :-) I too have custom scripts that I've written that do my LFS build

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-03 Thread Chakkaradeep C C
hi, > I run certain key bit by hand but then the scripts run unattended in between. > >Writing the scripts and debugging them the first time was time consuming but > >once it's done it's dead easy to update a new package in the script. Run the > >scripts again and you have a clean new system. I

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-03 Thread Andrew Benton
Chakkaradeep C C wrote: hey i think YOPER got installed on top of LFS and now both are not working.so planning to build LFS again.i think there is no other choice left!... is there any automated script which installs LFS? There is Automated Linux From Scratch http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/alf

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-03 Thread Jason Gurtz
On 6/3/2005 14:49, Chakkaradeep C C wrote: > is there any automated script which installs LFS? There are many. There is nalfs and there is a ton of various other scripts and systems other people have come up with. I suggest you give the archives a good searching and you will find all this stuff

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-03 Thread Chakkaradeep C C
hi, > Sounds like probably your PATH is messed up. I doubt Yoper was the cause, > unless it was working before you installed Yoper, in which case it would be > something screwed up after you partitioned. More than likely it was putting > Portage on there that messed something up. hey i think YO

LFS suddenly not working!

2005-06-03 Thread Chakkaradeep C C
hi everybody, i completed LFS and was happy with the system. Then came the idea of Package Management System and i was trying with Portage. So my LFS was with a Package Manager. I had built LFS in a separate extended partition, /dev/hdb5 - root /dev/hdb6 - swap so i had my