Re: New BLFS Editor

2005-07-29 Thread Shane Shields
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Please help me in welcoming Richard Downing (aka TheOldFellow) as a new BLFS Editor. Richard has been contributing to the lists since 2002 and will be a valuable asset to the BLFS Team. I was a little early on blfs-book I guess. ;) Again, nice to

Re: Upcoming package freeze

2005-07-29 Thread Richard A Downing
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: Just a heads up. I will be going through BZ again tonight and re-examining the outstanding bugs for the 6.1 release. When that is done, I anticipate a package/bug freeze sometime tomorrow. After that, the only non-targeted changes should be P1

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: No..it is not their problem. It is definately a distro problem. Even if they supply the example dev.d script? udev-064/etc/dev.d/snd/controlC0/alsa.dev: #!/bin/sh -e exec /usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0 IMHO a bug in the upstream example (that we would use otherwise without much

Re: New BLFS Editor

2005-07-29 Thread M.Canales.es
El Jueves, 28 de Julio de 2005 19:02, Bruce Dubbs escribió: Please help me in welcoming Richard Downing (aka TheOldFellow) as a new BLFS Editor. Richard has been contributing to the lists since 2002 and will be a valuable asset to the BLFS Team. Welcome on-board, Richard :-) -- Manuel

Re: Upcoming package freeze

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
David Jensen wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: 1459 Mozilla See my comments: http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459 Mail is buggy here. If it is not a security update, lets ignore it I downgraded because it is too annoying. I missed that comment. Changing to future.

Speling

2005-07-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Just for grins, I did: find -name \*.xml -exec cat {} \; | ispell -H -l|sort|uniq Do you think we might have a specialized vocabulary? :) It's not hard to find the problem words. Just do: grep -r misspel * It's taking a while to fix the spelling errors. I've gone through the b's, but if

Re: Speling

2005-07-29 Thread David Jensen
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Just for grins, I did: find -name \*.xml -exec cat {} \; | ispell -H -l|sort|uniq Do you think we might have a specialized vocabulary? :) It's not hard to find the problem words. Just do: grep -r misspel * It's taking a while to fix the spelling errors. I've gone

Re: Speling

2005-07-29 Thread David Jensen
David Jensen wrote: I'll start on 'h'. Done with 'h and i'. Should I commit? snip from Sysstat collect and historize performance and activity data. 'historize' makes me cringe, but it is in the dictionary. Maybe just 'record'? -- David Jensen --

Re: Upcoming package freeze

2005-07-29 Thread TheOldFellow
Richard A Downing wrote: I'd like to add fcron-2.9.7 (Bug#1482) because I'm updating the text to fix bug#1472, and it has a fix for a nasty (fcron) mailing bug. I have tested it anyway. Richard. Bruce, You didn't rule on this, just on Mozilla. I'm asking about fcron. I'm ready to

Re: Exim

2005-07-29 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote: Not to mention that the man page says that increasing the fuzz factor can result in a faulty patch. My feeling is that using the -F flag is encouraging readers to do something which should really be discouraged. Indeed. If you have to increase

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread DJ Lucas
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: No..it is not their problem. It is definately a distro problem. Even if they supply the example dev.d script? udev-064/etc/dev.d/snd/controlC0/alsa.dev: #!/bin/sh -e exec /usr/sbin/alsactl restore 0 IMHO a bug in the upstream

Re: Temporarily remove Courier from BLFS?

2005-07-29 Thread DJ Lucas
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, I am recommending to temporarily remove Courier from the BLFS book until after 6.1 is released. BLFS should not release such an old package (7 revs behind and almost a year has gone by since BLFS has updated Courier). This is deplorable. The reason being

Re: Temporarily remove Courier from BLFS?

2005-07-29 Thread Randy McMurchy
DJ Lucas wrote these words on 07/29/05 21:55 CST: I have no preference. I had seen the 6.2 target and unassigned myself till after release. I'll update it for 6.1 if it's deemed important enough, else comment it out and we'll get it ready for readmission in 6.2. My point is that the current

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
DJ Lucas wrote: I have 4 or 5 SBLive! cards (all identical)...lets see what happens. Never had more than 2 in a single PC before. :-) For me to remove the FIXME, it would be sufficient to post /etc/asound.state after setting different volumes on two identical cards and alsactl store. --

Re: Bugs for 6.1 (1019 Alsa restore)

2005-07-29 Thread DJ Lucas
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: I have 4 or 5 SBLive! cards (all identical)...lets see what happens. Never had more than 2 in a single PC before. :-) For me to remove the FIXME, it would be sufficient to post /etc/asound.state after setting different volumes on two