Dependency Viewing

2006-02-01 Thread Richard A Downing
It was pointed out on Greg's DIY-Linux list that make can be used to print a dependency list - not nearly so beautifully as Nico's dependency graph, but as a useful list. I think it should be possible to generate the makefile directly from the BLFS Book XML, but I'm not competent to do this

Broken links in Book: CDParanoia and OpenSC

2006-02-01 Thread Bernard Leak
Dear List, the ftp link for CDParanoia-III-9.8 is broken. The current link is to ftp://ftp.yars.free.net/pub/software/unix/util/cd/cdparanoia-III-alpha9.8.src.tgz The site has been rearranged, and this naked tarball has vanished (though it's probably buried inside the FreeBSD

Re: Placement of Links to the Wiki in BLFS

2006-02-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Richard A Downing wrote: The wording and style of the link are more important that the page position. I'd like it to stand out with a special rendering CSS. If I have to vote on a section, I'd say Command Explanations, because I suspect (but could easily be wrong) it's quite likely that the

A couple of minor nitpicks

2006-02-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hey there. Here's a couple of things I noticed with the book, and *very* coincidentally they go hand in hand in terms of my bringing this up. First off there's a typo (or two? I'm noticing stuff as I go) on the new BLFS Wiki page: The name of the page is 'BLFS WiKi', but I don't think the

Re: Seamonkey-1.0

2006-02-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
I wrote: I am going to take care of the Mozilla - Seamonkey update myself today, unless there are objections. Unfortunately, there is an issue with Pango on the CD. While it is certainly not a showstopper for the CD (because it doesn't support printing), I would like to resolve it first, as

Re: KDE and CD Recording

2006-02-01 Thread Rainer Wirtz
Am Dienstag, 31. Januar 2006 23:52 schrieb Randy McMurchy: Rainer.wirtz wrote these words on 01/31/06 13:43 CST: Check them (and k3b) out with svn co svn://anonsvn.kde.org/home/kde/trunk/extragear/multimedia Not to argue, but because I'm actually curious, why would I consider using SVN

Re: Placement of Links to the Wiki in BLFS

2006-02-01 Thread M.Canales.es
El Miércoles, 1 de Febrero de 2006 03:02, Bruce Dubbs escribió: There has been some discussion of where to place a link to User Notes on BLFS pages. After reviewing the messages, I want to get the opinion one more time from the members of this list so we can standardize. I vote for placing it

Re: Dependency Viewing

2006-02-01 Thread M.Canales.es
El Miércoles, 1 de Febrero de 2006 10:14, Richard A Downing escribió: All that is needed is a simple list in the form, e.g.: libmng: libjpeg lcms for each package and a blank list for those with no deps. libjpeg: lcms: bc: all wrapped up with a bit of makefile magic. You can then

Re: Placement of Links to the Wiki in BLFS

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: 1) how will this link be presented? The exact format is tbd. 2) will there be accompanying text? Not really. Just User Notes: Link However, an expansion of wiki.xml is reasonable. 3) will it be anything other than a normal external link? No. -- Bruce --

GNOME test suites

2006-02-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Hi all, Looking for some advice on how to interpret many of the GNOME packages test suites. Many of the packages don't do any real testing of the build when you run 'make check', but they *will* validate all the .xml and .omf files running 'make check'. Should I count this as a test suite, and

Re: GNOME test suites

2006-02-01 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 2/1/06, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Looking for some advice on how to interpret many of the GNOME packages test suites. Many of the packages don't do any real testing of the build when you run 'make check', but they *will* validate all the .xml and .omf files running

Re: GNOME test suites

2006-02-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Looking for some advice on how to interpret many of the GNOME packages test suites. Many of the packages don't do any real testing of the build when you run 'make check', but they *will* validate all the .xml and .omf files running 'make check'. Should I count

Re: GNOME test suites

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Looking for some advice on how to interpret many of the GNOME packages test suites. Many of the packages don't do any real testing of the build when you run 'make check', but they *will* validate all the .xml and .omf files running 'make check'. Should I

Re: GNOME test suites

2006-02-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/01/06 22:34 CST: Seems a litle light for a test suite, but there are some others that are light too. I wouldn't bother to add the test time unless it is significant, say greater than 0.5 SBU. I was more looking at advice on

Re: GNOME test suites

2006-02-01 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/01/06 22:54 CST: OK, the issue then is what are we testing. If it is the build, then include it. If it is just the packaging, then it is essentially doing the same thing as the md5 sum and adds no value. In that case, it should be omitted because it is

Re: GNOME test suites

2006-02-01 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Looking for some advice on how to interpret many of the GNOME packages test suites. Many of the packages don't do any real testing of the build when you run 'make check', but they *will* validate all the .xml and .omf files running 'make check'. Should I count