Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Alice Wonder wrote: > On 5/16/2013 2:08 PM, alex lupu wrote: > >> >> BTW, a "patch" is mostly in the eye of the beholder; some call many of >> them, "sed". >> >> > > Cute, I like it. > Submitting sed scripts upstream though seems

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 09:44:50PM +0200, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: >>> On Thu, 16 May 2013 15:22:19 -0300 >>> Fernando wrote: >>> >>> I have sent this in the morning, about 7 hours ago, it never appeared. >>> >>> Now, I have edited some words to see if the anti-spam was blockin

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Alice Wonder
On 5/16/2013 2:08 PM, alex lupu wrote: > > BTW, a "patch" is mostly in the eye of the beholder; some call many of > them, "sed". > > Cute, I like it. Submitting sed scripts upstream though seems to be frowned upon, they like patches. I agree with the conce

[lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread alex lupu
Hi Aleksandar, You wrote (excerpt): I just went back to analyze the bug report and your fix that you reported in the mail, and the only logical explanation is that your (or any LFS') copy of db2html did something different than the developers copy of db2html. If db2html is generated during the bui

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 09:44:50PM +0200, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: > >On Thu, 16 May 2013 15:22:19 -0300 > >Fernando wrote: > > > > I have sent this in the morning, about 7 hours ago, it never appeared. > > > > Now, I have edited some words to see if the anti-spam was blocking > > them. > > It a

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Fernando
Em 16-05-2013 16:44, Aleksandar Kuktin escreveu: >> On Thu, 16 May 2013 15:22:19 -0300 >> Fernando wrote: >> >> I have sent this in the morning, about 7 hours ago, it never appeared. >> >> Now, I have edited some words to see if the anti-spam was blocking >> them. > > It arrived for me, as well as

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Alice Wonder
gt; I prefer sed for minor changes that don't really affect how the program operates but maybe fix a build (or sometimes just make install) issue and patches for bug fixes that are a result of coding bugs. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: > I don't think that worrying over the need for patches is a good > use of time I agree with this, but remember the slogan of LFS. 'Your distro, your rules'. Users are free to use patches or not. The thing to remember is that the LFS editors don

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 16/05/2013 20:22, Fernando a écrit : > I have sent this in the morning, about 7 hours ago, it never appeared. Actually, I got it at 12:38 (western European time), while the one where you added the above sentence arrived at 20:22. Both are on gmane too... Regards Pierre -- http://linuxfromscra

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
>On Thu, 16 May 2013 12:37:21 -0400 >alex lupu wrote: > > Am 16.5.2013 03:03, schrieb Stefan & Rebekka Wetter: > > I wonder, why these patches are needed? > > Are the upstream-sources not able to be compiled without? > > Good questions (as they say). While tr

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Aleksandar Kuktin
>On Thu, 16 May 2013 15:22:19 -0300 >Fernando wrote: > > I have sent this in the morning, about 7 hours ago, it never appeared. > > Now, I have edited some words to see if the anti-spam was blocking > them. It arrived for me, as well as the follow-up email. Perhaps Yahoo is also using the echo-

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Fernando
I have sent this in the morning, about 7 hours ago, it never appeared. Now, I have edited some words to see if the anti-spam was blocking them. Mensagem original Assunto: Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches Data: Thu, 16 May 2013 07:38:49 -0300 De

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Ken Moffat
it if it solves the problem - from time to time people point out that a sed will do the same job ;) For LFS, I try to do the same as the book. I don't think that worrying over the need for patches is a good use of time : there are all sorts of packages - some mostly get tested on osx or a BSD

[lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread alex lupu
Am 16.5.2013 03:03, schrieb Stefan & Rebekka Wetter: > I wonder, why these patches are needed? > Are the upstream-sources not able to be compiled without? Good questions (as they say). While trying to stay on topic, I'll take the liberty and rephrase them to Why are patches nee

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Fernando
Em 16-05-2013 06:30, Alice Wonder escreveu: > On 5/16/2013 12:03 AM, Stefan & Rebekka Wetter wrote: ... >> in the lfs-book you need some patches. I wonder, why ... > The number of patches in LFS is very small compared to the number of > patches in any Linux distributi

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Alice Wonder
On 5/16/2013 12:03 AM, Stefan & Rebekka Wetter wrote: > Hi, > > in the lfs-book you need some patches. I wonder, why these patches are > needed? Are the upstream-sources not able to be compiled without? > > Thanks! > > Best Regards > Stefan > The number of patche

Re: [lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:03 +0200, Stefan & Rebekka Wetter wrote: > Hi, > > in the lfs-book you need some patches. I wonder, why these patches are > needed? Are the upstream-sources not able to be compiled without? Depends on the patch. Some are upstream fixes not yet in an

[lfs-support] why does LFS need that number of patches

2013-05-16 Thread Stefan & Rebekka Wetter
Hi, in the lfs-book you need some patches. I wonder, why these patches are needed? Are the upstream-sources not able to be compiled without? Thanks! Best Regards Stefan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe

Re: [lfs-support] 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. Needed Patches

2012-06-30 Thread Eleanore Boyd
/30/2012 3:06 PM, Wayne Sallee wrote: >>> Do the downloads of 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. >>> Needed Patches go into $LFS/sources ? >>> >>> Wayne Sallee >>> wa...@waynesallee.com >> YES. Did you miss reading the introduction and first part of ch

Re: [lfs-support] 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. Needed Patches

2012-06-30 Thread Wayne Sallee
ages, and 3.3. >> Needed Patches go into $LFS/sources ? >> >> Wayne Sallee >> wa...@waynesallee.com > YES. Did you miss reading the introduction and first part of chapter 3? > It says so right there, unless you were skimming, which should not be > happening if this

Re: [lfs-support] 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. Needed Patches

2012-06-30 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 6/30/2012 3:06 PM, Wayne Sallee wrote: > Do the downloads of 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. > Needed Patches go into $LFS/sources ? > > Wayne Sallee > wa...@waynesallee.com YES. Did you miss reading the introduction and first part of chapter 3? It says so right there, unless yo

[lfs-support] 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. Needed Patches

2012-06-30 Thread Wayne Sallee
Do the downloads of 3.2. All Packages, and 3.3. Needed Patches go into $LFS/sources ? Wayne Sallee wa...@waynesallee.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Do lfs devs write patches?

2012-04-10 Thread Firerat
On Apr 10, 2012 8:19 AM, "gmspro" wrote: > > @bruce, > > I meant, do the lfs devs write patches? Or, do they just get the patches from somewhere else and store/mirror there http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.1/ > > @gmsamature Yes and yes -- http://

Re: [lfs-support] Do lfs devs write patches?

2012-04-10 Thread gmspro
@bruce, I meant, do the lfs devs write patches? Or, do they just get the patches from somewhere else and store/mirror there http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.1/ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: [lfs-support] Do lfs devs write patches?

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
On Apr 9, 2012 11:44 PM, "gmspro" wrote: > > @bruce, > > >>Yes. > > >> -- Bruce > > Yes for what? Yes for 'Or do they copy patches somewhere and store there in that mirror?' or Yes for 'Do some particular lfs devs write these patches

Re: [lfs-support] Do lfs devs write patches?

2012-04-09 Thread gmspro
@bruce, >>Yes. >>   -- Bruce Yes for what? Yes for 'Or do they copy patches somewhere and store there in that mirror?' or Yes for 'Do some particular lfs devs write these patches? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.1/ ' -- http://linuxfromscratch.

Re: [lfs-support] Do lfs devs write patches?

2012-04-09 Thread Andrew Benton
On Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:22:57 +0100 gmspro wrote: > Do some particular lfs devs write these patches? > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.1/ > > Or do they copy patches somewhere and store there in that mirror? The lfs patches are in a subversion repository. Some of them

Re: [lfs-support] Do lfs devs write patches?

2012-04-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
gmspro wrote: > Do some particular lfs devs write these patches? > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.1/ > > Or do they copy patches somewhere and store there in that mirror? Yes. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-suppo

[lfs-support] Do lfs devs write patches?

2012-04-09 Thread gmspro
Do some particular lfs devs write these patches? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/7.1/ Or do they copy patches somewhere and store there in that mirror? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: Kernel patches overview

2010-06-20 Thread Paul Rogers
> Kernel newbies is usually found in google search such as kernel 2.6.33 > and writes about that http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_33 Thanks, linuxfan, exactly the sort of thing I was looking for and hadn't found yet. Doesn't look like my old desktops have any burning need

Re: Unapplied patches

2009-11-13 Thread Jonathan D. Arnold / Daemon Dancing
Philippe Delavalade wrote: > Le vendredi 13 novembre à 19:30, Philippe Delavalade a écrit : >> Le vendredi 13 novembre à 16:25, Jonathan Arnold a écrit : >>> I'm working through LFS SVN-20091112 and for the temporary system in Chapter >>> 5, I've noticed a

Re: Unapplied patches

2009-11-13 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 13 novembre à 19:30, Philippe Delavalade a écrit : > Le vendredi 13 novembre à 16:25, Jonathan Arnold a écrit : > > I'm working through LFS SVN-20091112 and for the temporary system in Chapter > > 5, I've noticed a few unapplied patches that wget-list downloads

Re: Unapplied patches

2009-11-13 Thread Philippe Delavalade
Le vendredi 13 novembre à 16:25, Jonathan Arnold a écrit : > I'm working through LFS SVN-20091112 and for the temporary system in Chapter > 5, I've noticed a few unapplied patches that wget-list downloads and was > wondering if they should be, or if they just aren't appl

Unapplied patches

2009-11-13 Thread Jonathan Arnold
I'm working through LFS SVN-20091112 and for the temporary system in Chapter 5, I've noticed a few unapplied patches that wget-list downloads and was wondering if they should be, or if they just aren't applied because it is just the temp system? These include: coreutils-7.6-i18n-1.

Re: I would really appreciate help with wireless and kernel patches

2008-08-13 Thread Tony Sauri
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:29, Daniel Corda wrote: > I have alittle problem wired dhcp work fine but I am not ususally near an > ethernet prot during the day and I have a T60 with the 3945ABG wireless > adapter after going to intes site and donwloading the kernel patch and > attempting to install it I

I would really appreciate help with wireless and kernel patches

2008-08-13 Thread Daniel Corda
I have alittle problem wired dhcp work fine but I am not ususally near an ethernet prot during the day and I have a T60 with the 3945ABG wireless adapter after going to intes site and donwloading the kernel patch and attempting to install it I have his a snag when a I modprobe the module to see if

Re: DST patches for LFS 3.

2007-02-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 12:59:26PM -0500, TIM MOORE wrote: > I am running LFS 4.0 still. I was wondering if anyone has posted what > needs to be done to update my server to reflect the new DayLights > Savings Time changes. Is there a DST patch available for LFS? > > /etc/lfs: > Linux From Scratc

DST patches for LFS 3.

2007-02-16 Thread TIM MOORE
I am running LFS 4.0 still. I was wondering if anyone has posted what needs to be done to update my server to reflect the new DayLights Savings Time changes. Is there a DST patch available for LFS? /etc/lfs: Linux From Scratch, release 4.0 --build with lfs-install 4.0.3

Re: coreutils patches

2007-01-08 Thread Zeb Packard
Hey, thanks guys, I just used sed to fix the patches (first time I did that) I'll try to pay more attention if I run in to it again. I was mostly concerned with compatibilities. On 1/7/07, Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A lot of these patches can be applied even thou

Re: coreutils patches

2007-01-07 Thread Jim Gifford
A lot of these patches can be applied even though the version referenced in the patch is an older version. There is no sense re-inventing the wheel if the current patch works. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: coreutils patches

2007-01-07 Thread Vladimir A. Pavlov
On Monday 08 January 2007 01:36, Zeb Packard wrote: > coreutils-5.96-suppress_uptime_kill_su-1.patch > > looks for 'coreutils-5.94/src/Makefile.in' > > It asks me for the file to patch then I tell it to look for v 5.96 and > all is ok. On the first hand, you're right and it should be "5.96". On

coreutils patches

2007-01-07 Thread Zeb Packard
I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but the patches I got for coreutils are generally failing to find the right files. It's not a big problem (I don't think) it just seems like the patches point to the wrong version. For instance coreutils-5.96-suppress_uptime_

Re: 6.28 Bzip2 and 6.42 Kbd-1.12 Patches

2006-12-29 Thread Wit
Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:49:49AM -0700, IsomerX wrote: > >> On 12/28/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> In the past, people have occasionally managed to download patches >>> under the wrong names (e.g. one patc

Re: 6.28 Bzip2 and 6.42 Kbd-1.12 Patches

2006-12-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, Dec 29, 2006 at 09:49:49AM -0700, IsomerX wrote: > On 12/28/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In the past, people have occasionally managed to download patches > > under the wrong names (e.g. one patch saved to two names). I guess > > you've ru

Re: 6.28 Bzip2 and 6.42 Kbd-1.12 Patches

2006-12-29 Thread IsomerX
On 12/28/06, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the past, people have occasionally managed to download patches > under the wrong names (e.g. one patch saved to two names). I guess > you've ruled that out by using the LiveCD, but if you still get > problems, look at

Re: 6.28 Bzip2 and 6.42 Kbd-1.12 Patches

2006-12-28 Thread Ken Moffat
then went about building it. I don't really want to leave out > one of the patches from Kbd though. > > Why are these refusing to patch, and can anyone think of something to > do to correct the problem? > > IsomerX This sounds as if you tried to (re-)apply a patch. Try de

6.28 Bzip2 and 6.42 Kbd-1.12 Patches

2006-12-28 Thread IsomerX
ected!" I attempted to work around it by leaving out the -N, and answering n, then y, but all the hunks FAIL(ED). I didn't worry about bzip, I just applied the security patch, then went about building it. I don't really want to leave out one of the patches from Kbd though. Why ar

Re: patches

2006-10-01 Thread Arden
Alan Lord wrote: Arden wrote: I don't know if I have all the knowledge necessary to complete .... Patches are (almost always) applied *before* you do the configure, make, make install stages. I would say that the make install stage in when you install the package so I think

Re: patches

2006-10-01 Thread Alan Lord
Arden wrote: I don't know if I have all the knowledge necessary to complete LFS but I want to give it a go. My question is ; Should the patches be applied immediately after installing a package? The book isn't quite clear. Thanks. Arden Hi Arden, I'm not quite sure what you

patches

2006-10-01 Thread Arden
I don't know if I have all the knowledge necessary to complete LFS but I want to give it a go. My question is ; Should the patches be applied immediately after installing a package? The book isn't quite clear. Thanks. Arden -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-s

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Re: 16 Bash Patches found

2005-06-26 Thread steve crosby
On 6/27/05, Joern Abatz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I happened to search for 'bash' once on freshmeat.net, hit no.8 was > 'Gnu bash', the download location is ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash, and there > are 16 patches there. I think maybe the download location in t

16 Bash Patches found

2005-06-26 Thread Joern Abatz
I happened to search for 'bash' once on freshmeat.net, hit no.8 was 'Gnu bash', the download location is ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash, and there are 16 patches there. I think maybe the download location in the book is just not mirroring the directory. So it might actually be bash-3

Re: patches for tools?

2005-06-15 Thread Ken Moffat
7;t comment, I didn't build 6.0 and I haven't used fedora as a host. > can i use gcc-3.4.3 with binutils-2.15.91.0.2 or i have to go along > with 6.1 toolchain? > The "safer" way is to use all of the package versions from 6.1 (because they've been tested together,

Re: patches for tools?

2005-06-15 Thread Chakkaradeep C C
s a comment on lkml a few weeks ago about HJL's binutils > patches, but I don't recall what the consensus was. As to 'safe', > without extensive testing, the best you can ever say is "works for me". please can you elaborate on what you said Ken..i didnt under

Re: patches for tools?

2005-06-15 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Chakkaradeep C C wrote: > Hi all, > > > Heh, last time I looked at an SRPM was for X.org, just after the gentoo > > patches picked up a ton of stuff from RedHat - from memory, many of > > those patches were very old and for very obscure hardware (and

Re: patches for tools?

2005-06-14 Thread Chakkaradeep C C
Hi all, > Heh, last time I looked at an SRPM was for X.org, just after the gentoo > patches picked up a ton of stuff from RedHat - from memory, many of > those patches were very old and for very obscure hardware (and none of > them solved my problem). But, if the big-name rpm dis

Re: patches for tools?

2005-06-14 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Chakkaradeep C C wrote: > hi all, > > after using lfs for a whileam very much pleased with its > performance.now i want to explore things...mainly bug fixes for each > version of the tool....is the patches provided with lfs (am using > lfs 6.0) makes

patches for tools?

2005-06-14 Thread Chakkaradeep C C
hi all, after using lfs for a whileam very much pleased with its performance.now i want to explore things...mainly bug fixes for each version of the toolis the patches provided with lfs (am using lfs 6.0) makes the bugs fixed in that tool?.or is that i can find patches and patch