Em 10-07-2012 14:01, Bruce Dubbs escreveu:> Armin K. wrote: >> On 07/10/2012 06:35 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> Armin K. wrote: >>>> On 07/10/2012 06:20 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>>>> Armin K. wrote: >>>>>> Hi there. There was some talk about splitting Xorg Packages into >>>>>> seperate ones. I went with Xorg Applications first. I did not make >>>>>> instructions for every package, since there are too many of them, and >>>>>> nearly all of them are required at runtime of Xorg Server, so it's >>>>>> dependency list would become big. Anyways, I took the way of generating >>>>>> the wget and md5sum lists manualy instead of putting them to server. >>>>>> These lists are generated using xml entities of each package. >>>>>> >>>>>> You can see how that looks here: >>>>>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg/x/x7app.html >>>>>> >>>>>> Also, there is a patch for that at >>>>>> http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg.patch.gz if desired. >>>>>> >>>>>> I won't commit anything if someone does not like that way. >>>>>> >>>>>> Drivers splitup is next on my TODO list. >>>>> >>>>> It looks OK to me, but I think we need to add in a loop for the build >>>>> process with the wget list as input. This would be similar to the >>>>> script at http://linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/xorg/x/xorg7.html >>>>> >>>>> for package in app.wget >>>>> do >>>>> packagedir=$(echo $package | sed 's/.tar.bz2//') >>>>> [ "x$(echo $packagedir | cut -c1 )" != "x#" ] || continue >>>>> tar -xf $package >>>>> pushd $packagedir >>>>> ./configure $XORG_CONFIG >>>>> make >>>>> make install >>>>> popd >>>>> rm -rf $packagedir >>>>> done 2>&1 | tee -a ../xorg-app-compile.log #log the entire loop >>>>> >>>>> -- Bruce >>>>> >>>> >>>> I don't have anything against that, but do note that such instructions >>>> would require configure and make to be ran as root user. >>> >>> Hmm. We don't generally do it, but we could use 'sudo make install'. >>> >>> -- Bruce >>> >> >> I think someone already mentioned that. It could be myself or DJ, I >> would need to search blfs-dev archives for that. But even that would >> require user interaction since sudo times out. What do others say? I >> don't have any issues with building packages as root user, especially >> "famous" ones. > > I think a paragraph explaining the options would be good. Let the user > decide. Personally, I use sudo without a PW so there isn't a timeout > issue. We even show how to do that on the sudo page. > > I also show how to do that in the paper I posted last night.
Thank you very much, Armin. I think sudo would only ask for the PW once, given the time it takes for each pass through the loop. I myself do these as root. -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
