Re: New cracklib and Heimdal

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 07/24/05 00:00 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: I have got Cracklib-2.8.3 ready to commit. I also finished the patch. Would you like me to commit the update? Yeah, go ahead and do it if you've already indexed and described the new programs in /usr/sbin. Yes, this is

Re: BLFS 6.1 release strategy

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/24/05 16:38 CST: I have just gone through bugzilla and marked packages for BLFS 6.1. Right now there are 56 (out of 83 open) showing a target milestone of 6.1 If anyone thinks that a bug's target milestone should be upgraded to 6.1 (or delayed back to

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 07/24/05 18:48 CST: I used the following standard CMMI for installation and did not run into any problems. (That is I did not run the aclocal, automake, autoconf commands before running configure). Well, I cannot explain this then. Someone put this

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
David Jensen wrote these words on 07/24/05 19:00 CST: It bombs here also. However it looks like this fixes it: ln -sf /usr/share/automake-1.9/install-sh . The existing link is to /usr/share/automake/install.sh which does not exist. My fix is not of course robust. Ideas? We could play

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread David Jensen
On 07/24/05 19:00:24, David Jensen wrote: The existing link is to /usr/share/automake/install.sh which does not exist. My fix is not of course robust. Ideas? This leads to more questions. Should there be links /usr/share/automake-automake-1.9 /usr/share/aclocal-aclocal-1.9 It seems a

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread David Jensen
On 07/24/05 19:12:06, David Jensen wrote: On 07/24/05 19:00:24, David Jensen wrote: The existing link is to /usr/share/automake/install.sh which does not exist. My fix is not of course robust. Ideas? This leads to more questions. Should there be links /usr/share/automake-automake-1.9

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
David Jensen wrote: On 07/24/05 19:00:24, David Jensen wrote: The existing link is to /usr/share/automake/install.sh which does not exist. My fix is not of course robust. Ideas? This leads to more questions. Should there be links /usr/share/automake-automake-1.9

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Thomas Pegg
On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 18:22 -0500, Tushar Teredesai wrote: Hi: Is there a reason for regenerating the autotools for sgml-common? The included configure file worked for me. If we don't regenerate, then we don't need the automake patch. --Tushar. Does this ring any bells:

Proftpd uses /var/run/proftpd (BZ#786)

2005-07-24 Thread DJ Lucas
Okay, this should be easy enough. Just which solution is better? Add /var/run/proftpd to createfiles, or modify proftpd to use /var/run. I lean toward the modification to use /var/run. What say the group? http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=786 -- DJ Lucas --

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 7/24/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas Pegg wrote these words on 07/24/05 20:58 CST: On Sun, 2005-07-24 at 18:22 -0500, Tushar Teredesai wrote: Hi: Is there a reason for regenerating the autotools for sgml-common? The included configure file worked for me. If we don't

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 07/24/05 23:01 CST: This brings up another question that I had brought up on LFS recently http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-dev/2005-July/052280.html. I will go on record as being against this proposal. Seems like Tush and I have been

Re: Proftpd uses /var/run/proftpd (BZ#786)

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/24/05 23:06 CST: DJ Lucas wrote: Okay, this should be easy enough. Just which solution is better? Add /var/run/proftpd to createfiles, or modify proftpd to use /var/run. I lean toward the modification to use /var/run. What say the group?

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tushar Teredesai wrote: This brings up another question that I had brought up on LFS recently http://archives.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/lfs-dev/2005-July/052280.html. I'm really not anxious to add those packages to BLFS, if for no other reason than division of labor between the LFS

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/24/05 23:21 CST: Also IMO, LFS should provide a fairly full ability to build other packages and that includes flex and autotools as well as m4, tcl, make, perl, and bison. Be careful here. Tcl is not installed in LFS. Are you suggesting that it get moved

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/24/05 23:21 CST: Also IMO, LFS should provide a fairly full ability to build other packages and that includes flex and autotools as well as m4, tcl, make, perl, and bison. Be careful here. Tcl is not installed in LFS. Are you

docbook-utils

2005-07-24 Thread David Jensen
I see docbook-utils-0.6.14 installs its docs in /usr/share/doc/html/docbook-utils-0.6.14 sed -i 's:/html::' doc/HTML/Makefile.in That moves it to /usr/share/doc/docbook-utils-0.6.14. If there are no objections, I will commit it. -- David Jensen --

Re: Proftpd uses /var/run/proftpd (BZ#786)

2005-07-24 Thread DJ Lucas
Randy McMurchy wrote: DJ Lucas wrote these words on 07/24/05 22:38 CST: Okay, this should be easy enough. Just which solution is better? Add /var/run/proftpd to createfiles, or modify proftpd to use /var/run. I lean toward the modification to use /var/run. What say the group? Hmmm...

Re: Proftpd uses /var/run/proftpd (BZ#786)

2005-07-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/24/05 23:06 CST: DJ Lucas wrote: Okay, this should be easy enough. Just which solution is better? Add /var/run/proftpd to createfiles, or modify proftpd to use /var/run. I lean toward the modification to use /var/run. What say the

Re: sgm-common: command changes

2005-07-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Tushar Teredesai wrote these words on 07/24/05 23:46 CST: Instead of aclocal automake -acf autoconf, I plan to change it to autoreconf -f -i. It achives the same end result with fewer keystrokes. Comments? There are over 80 bugs in BLFS and you want to refine a package where the instructions

Re: sgml-common installation

2005-07-24 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 7/25/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tush, You wrote: IMO, the autotools are never required unless you are building software of CVS HEAD. For all released packages the generated files are included with the package. Also, only LFSers who maintain packages need

Re: xorg defines

2005-07-24 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 7/19/05, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems that it would be reasonable to put the parameters presented into the host.def file as defines, but leave them commented out. There should also be an explanation in the same place. Tushar, since you brought up the issue, how about

Re: Fontconfig documentation

2005-07-24 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 7/9/05, Tushar Teredesai [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/9/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To have a switch that is explained as this disables building the documentation as a default, and then a bit later a note that says to install the documentation just plain seems

Re: BLFS 6.1 release strategy

2005-07-24 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 7/24/05, David Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/24/05 16:42:27, Randy McMurchy wrote: In my opinion, the book is stable now, and could be released as is (just a couple of package updates first). Adding almost 50 package updates right before a *major* release is just asking for