Re: BLFS 6.3 outstanding tickets

2008-04-21 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:45:14AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: There are a few unclaimed 6.3 tickets that we need to address: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2479 : goffice Reported by Ken Thanks for the reminder - I've moved it to future. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie,

My editing status

2008-04-21 Thread David Jensen
Hi all, I don't want to resign, however I currently do not have ssh available and may lose internet access for a time. I have Mpg123 assigned to me, they are at 1.4 and climbing, I will not be updating it. Someone should reassign it, I cannot. I hope to be active one day soon! --- David

Re: Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 04/21/08 18:37 CST: Today I finally spent some time addressing a few patches people have sent in about compressdoc and some other bugs I noticed along the way. I appreciate your efforts, though I sort of look at repairing the compressdoc script akin to fixing

Re: Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 04/21/08 18:37 CST: Today I finally spent some time addressing a few patches people have sent in about compressdoc and some other bugs I noticed along the way. I appreciate your efforts, though I sort of look at repairing the

Re: Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 04/21/08 18:37 CST: Today I finally spent some time addressing a few patches people have sent in about compressdoc and some other bugs I noticed along the way.

Re: Fixes for the compressdoc script

2008-04-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 04/21/08 19:37 CST: It's not me you need to convince, but the other LFS users. Our man utility supports compressed pages, and people seem to want this functionality. I'm just trying to keep the script maintained while fixing obvious bugs in it. Well,

RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be compliant with the Linux Standards Base. It doesn't have to be for 6.3, but it is relatively easy. The install issues: Requires beecrypt (CMMI) RPM is basically CMMI, but needs --without-selinux for LFS The install

Re: RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Randy McMurchy
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/21/08 22:56 CST: I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be compliant with the Linux Standards Base. Cool. You're thinking it would be just another package like all the others? What I mean is; that we won't be recommending

Re: RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bruce Dubbs wrote: I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be compliant with the Linux Standards Base. Which version? 4.x and 5.x are completely different beasts. Anyway, LFS contains a severe deviation from LSB (no libncurses.so.5 by default, only a

Re: RPM

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/21/08 22:56 CST: I would like to add RPM to BLFS because it is required for a system to be compliant with the Linux Standards Base. Cool. You're thinking it would be just another package like all the others? What I mean is; that

Re: BLFS 6.3 outstanding tickets

2008-04-21 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Bruce Dubbs wrote: There are a few unclaimed 6.3 tickets that we need to address: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/2065 : Sane UDEV Looks like this one should be handled by Randy or Alexander Or retitled to drop the usb group and moved to the future, because it is a too-big