Re: [blfs-dev] Question about SANE

2013-02-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, On 10/30 of last year Bruce updated the SANE package and added the parameter --disable-latex to the configure command. There is no reason listed in the Command Explanations why. My tests show that if TeX is installed, the latex procedure does what it is supposed

Re: [blfs-dev] DejaVu Fonts Instructions

2013-02-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, In the DejaVu Fonts installation instructions shown on the Xorg configuration page, the instructions seem to need an update. First, the fonts are now in a subdirectory of the source directory, so the installation of the TTF files do not work as shown in the

Re: [blfs-dev] A good example why Command Explanations are important

2013-01-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: On 01/25/2013 10:40 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote: 3) The --libexecdir= switch points to a non-standard location. libexecdir location has always been /usr/lib/packagename, Yes, historically it was, however, it should now be where the package maintainer chooses

Re: [blfs-dev] A good example why Command Explanations are important

2013-01-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Earlier there was/is a discussion on why BLFS is adamant about describing the various commands/descriptions/parameters/options used in the instructions for BLFS packages. I would like to present a really good example why these trivial (to us Editors) blurbs in

[blfs-dev] Thanks

2013-01-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
To Armin and Randy: Thanks for all the updates to BLFS lately. We are down to 31 open tickets and progress has been quite steady. It looks like many of the tickets left open are fairly simple version updates. LFS will be going into a freeze for 7.3-rc1 in two or three weeks. The goal of

Re: [blfs-dev] edguide [was: Higgs Syncronization]

2013-01-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas Trepl wrote: Hi all, I just had a look to the Editors Guide an i think there is some tweaking required. Just to make sure that I do not mess up anything (and not being totally confused) : Q: svn repo lives on svn.linuxfromscratch.org from now on? The edguide names it at

Re: [blfs-dev] Higgs Syncronization

2013-01-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Somehow, my installation of the BLFS book in my sandbox doesn't point at the new server. I do not even want to think how it happened as I have been cloning my sandbox (BLFS repo) for years every time I have a new build. My most recent updates are not being

Re: [blfs-dev] ConsoleKit

2013-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: I've been using (pure (no bootscripts)) systemd for the past 4 months when I upgraded to LFS 7.2, and I'm quite happy with it. I don't see what all the negative fuss with it was all about. We try to explain what is going on with the boot process. Systemd makes it

Re: [blfs-dev] ConsoleKit

2013-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 01/21/2013 07:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: I've been using (pure (no bootscripts)) systemd for the past 4 months when I upgraded to LFS 7.2, and I'm quite happy with it. I don't see what all the negative fuss with it was all about. We try to explain

Re: [blfs-dev] Persistent files/directories in /run

2013-01-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, Excuse my ignorance on this subject as the /run filesystem is new to me and I am curious how everyone is handling directories in /run that are expected to exist after a system reboot. Many packages create directories during their installation procedure in /run

Re: [blfs-dev] OpenJDK: problem

2013-01-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Hi, Only to report a bug. In openJDK instructions, the book says this command: export PATH=PATH:/opt/OpenJDK-1.7.0.9-bin/bin It should say: export PATH=$PATH:/opt/OpenJDK-1.7.0.9-bin/bin OK, thanks. Fixed in revision 10941. -- Bruce --

[blfs-dev] sbc checksum

2013-01-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I downloaded sbc-1.0.tar.xz and the checksum was aa2bc39c4a09aade064efea4bbbc4b2d but the book has d01dab8c54638710c958cc2ceaff145a Which is correct? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: [blfs-dev] orca

2013-01-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 01:25:00AM +0100, Armin K. wrote: Dana 11.1.2013 0:44, Jean-Philippe MENGUAL je napisao: Hi, On my lfs, I build orca, as I need a screen reader in my daily usage of LFS and because I want to build gnome3.6 to do tests. BLFS mentions, as recommended

Re: [blfs-dev] spice (libvirt)

2013-01-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobias Gasser wrote: spice does not search for /usr/X11/include i know, the book does no longer support this and i already have some other packages where i have to spcecify flags or patch the makefiles. We do support alternative locations for Xorg. Some packages need to have the

Re: [blfs-dev] libjpeg-turbo revisited

2013-01-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Back in summer, I asked about libjpeg-turbo and if it should be added in the book. libjpeg-turbo is a fork of the original IJG libjpeg that uses SIMD to accelerate many things such as encoding and decoding of jpeg images. It is fully compatible with current libjpeg (v8) and

Re: [blfs-dev] changelog-2012.txt not found

2013-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 01/05/2013 10:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Armin K. wrote: Again, same error. Now just on lfsbook.linuxfromscratch.org http://lfsbook.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/changelog-2012.txt Hmm. I put it there again just now. I think it will stay, but we need to check again tomorrow

Re: [blfs-dev] changelog-2012.txt not found

2013-01-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/changelog-2012.txt gives error 404 I think I've got it fixed now. It's not updated daily like most of the other files, so it was just a matter of getting it in the right place. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] changelog-2012.txt not found

2013-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 01/01/2013 05:54 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Armin K. wrote: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/changelog-2012.txt gives error 404 It's there now, but it should have shown up automatically. I'll keep an eye on it. Again, same error. Now just

Re: [blfs-dev] libvirt

2013-01-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 01/03/2013 11:03 PM, Tobias Gasser wrote: any hint what else i can try to build 1.0.1? As you see, libtirpc is not yet ready to take over RPC stuff. That's why Glibc developers introduced --enable-obsolete-rpc switch if an user wants to enable RPC API/ABI once again. It

Re: [blfs-dev] udev #3

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobias Gasser wrote: i have --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no as mentionned in the book, but still a lot of systemd stuff is installed how can i disable building this unwanted stuff? as far i can understand udev from lfs is very limited. i have introspection and i want gudev installed. until

Re: [blfs-dev] udev #3

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobias Gasser wrote: Am 02.01.2013 21:21, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: Tobias Gasser wrote: i have --with-systemdsystemunitdir=no as mentionned in the book, but still a lot of systemd stuff is installed how can i disable building this unwanted stuff? as far i can understand udev from lfs is very

Re: [blfs-dev] udev #1

2013-01-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobias Gasser wrote: Am 02.01.2013 13:38, schrieb Tobias Gasser: systemd-196 make check has a lot of failures due to hard coded /usr/lib/udev/rules.d in src/test/test-udev.c where as /lib/udev/rules.d should be used! easy to fix with a simple sed. meanwhile i know i was wrong building

Re: [blfs-dev] transcode

2013-01-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I think the real question is whether people using k3b, such as Baho, and anyone using dvd::rip, can get those to successfully use transcode. For people using transcode on the command line, I suspect that transcode commands which use ffmpeg will still be problematic. I've

[blfs-dev] Pipermail

2012-12-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
BLFS Trac wrote: Also, someone broke pipermail ... Unfortunately that was done on purpose. Gerard had 500 GB over his normal download limit last month and got hit with a huge change. Most of it seemed to be downloading all of pipermail by multiple entities. We'll try to get it back when

[blfs-dev] Happy new year

2012-12-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've updated the dates for the book to 2013 and archived the 2012 changelog. You won't see the update in -book since it is over 200K and I deleted the posting. The on-line book will be updated in a few hours. Here are some statistics: 1469 Total Changes 127 abenton 247 bdubbs

Re: [blfs-dev] Clive, Quvi

2012-12-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote: Yes, I had thought to the blog yesterday, and forgot while sending my mail here. Is there some format (some rules as the text in the hints)? Or is it a fully free style text? I don't know if some policy is established related to the blog as it's a recent

Re: [blfs-dev] TCP-Wrappers

2012-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Ken Moffat wrote these words on 12/15/12 20:39 CST: On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 08:16:12PM -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote: No big deal, I was just trying to find out the reasoning. Please see the BLFS-dev archives from June 2012 under the title 'TCP Wrapper'. I agree with

Re: [blfs-dev] TCP-Wrappers

2012-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/12 21:23 CST: tcpwrappers just gets in the way. For -support issues, it causes more problems then it solves. What problems is it expected to solve? :-) (sarcasm) I suppose it is difficult to explain the syntax of the hosts.allow

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc

2012-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, I am a bit confused with the language in the libtirpc instructions. Paraphrasing, it says that /usr/include/rpc/rpc.h should not be installed by default if the version of Glibc is =2.14, but I just installed current LFS-Development that includes Glibc-2.16 and

Re: [blfs-dev] libtirpc

2012-12-15 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/12 22:29 CST: The glibc folks left it out for a couple of versions and then put it back after a lot of complaints. LFS 7.1 had the problem of leaving it out. Which means the text in the BLFS book should be modified ever so slightly

Re: [blfs-dev] k3b build issues

2012-12-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 12/14/2012 05:25 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I was trying to build k3b today and ran into some problems with ffmpeg. I did apply the existing patch, but that wasn't enough. Searching the web, I found http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde3/2012-07/msg00019.html Applying

Re: [blfs-dev] k3b build issues

2012-12-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Are you sure that you have used the correct patch? That's it. I had the -1 patch, not the -2 patch in my files and didn't notice the change. Thanks. That's why I was confirming. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

[blfs-dev] k3b build issues

2012-12-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I was trying to build k3b today and ran into some problems with ffmpeg. I did apply the existing patch, but that wasn't enough. Searching the web, I found http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde3/2012-07/msg00019.html Applying the equivalent of this patch allowed the program to build and it

Re: [blfs-dev] Perl Modules

2012-12-11 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, I've been working on updating the Perl Modules page. I really like how all the dependency links now point at a page where you can download the current version of the package instead of hard-coding a version into the BLFS instructions. This makes the upkeep of

Re: [blfs-dev] CA Certs

2012-12-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Hi all, I'd like to give some input about the CA Certs installation. First, why are the shell scripts installed in /bin and not /usr/bin? The wget program is not available and chances are networking is not enabled in single usr mode (why else would /usr not be mounted?)

Re: [blfs-dev] CA Certs

2012-12-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/10/12 17:11 CST: I don't think so. The code is right there to see. It's only three scripts and they need to be in the PATH to run with the instructions given. What benefit would DESTDIR give? Actually, they don't *have

Re: [blfs-dev] cvs stray i

2012-12-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
John Burrell wrote: Bruce - not sure if I should report this - seems too trivial. But, here goes - in the last gray box at the bottom of the CVS page there is a stray i - first char in that box. This gives me: /usr/src/programming/cvs/build: line 57: i: command not found on running my

[blfs-dev] A new LFS Blog

2012-12-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
applications in an LFS environment. -- Bruce Dubbs linuxfromscratch.org -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3671: libtasn1 3.1

2012-12-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 12/02/2012 09:58 AM, Tobias Gasser wrote: GNOME Keyring from the book can perfectly work with Xfce. There is not any conflict between GTK+3 and GTK+2... hmmm. http://blog.xfce.org/ scroll down to 'Gtk3' First 2 things: no Xfce 4.10 is not using gtk3, only the

Re: [blfs-dev] fonts package name typo

2012-11-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tomasz Sekściński wrote: Hi, Index: BOOK/pst/ps/a2ps.xml === --- BOOK/pst/ps/a2ps.xml (wersja 10873) +++ BOOK/pst/ps/a2ps.xml (kopia robocza) @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ paraIf desired, install the downloaded i18n-fonts by

Re: [blfs-dev] xfsprogs fail on execution

2012-11-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Tobias Gasser wrote: building xfsprogs as in the book fails. compiling and installing seems to work. but several libraries are not installed! I created a ticket so we don't forget about this. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] OT - Hardware Problems again, but perhaps solved

2012-11-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em seg, 29/10/12, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: De: Bruce Dubbs Assunto: Re: [blfs-dev] OT - Hardware Problems again, but perhaps solved Para: BLFS Development List Data: Segunda-feira, 29 de Outubro de 2012, 13:08 Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Yesterday, one 500MB

Re: [blfs-dev] libsoup-2.40.1

2012-11-13 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Dana 13.11.2012 22:26, Fernando de Oliveira je napisao: --- Em ter, 13/11/12, Armin K. kre...@email.com escreveu: I am just following the book. But libsoup could not be installed without glib. I think glib should be *required* in libsoup. It cannot be built without glib. At

Re: [blfs-dev] cups-filters-1.0.24

2012-11-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Every reinstall fails, then I have definitely added the line rm -v /usr/share/cups/charsets/pdf.utf-8 to the script. Error log: ... make install-data-hook make[2]: Entrando no diretório

Re: [blfs-dev] Questions on contributions (RE: seamonkey-2.13.2)

2012-11-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Bruce, Thank you for the comments in the ticket. One thing I do not understand. * general.ent needs a date change at the top Also, I did not want to use svn to send, as once you told me, because being the first attempt, I was expecting (many) corrections. I

Re: [blfs-dev] Finishing up BLFS checks for LFS-7.2

2012-11-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em dom, 4/11/12, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: De: Bruce Dubbs Assunto: Re: [blfs-dev] Finishing up BLFS checks for LFS-7.2 Para: BLFS Development List Data: Domingo, 4 de Novembro de 2012, 22:55 Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em qua, 31/10/12, Bruce Dubbs escreveu

Re: [blfs-dev] gegl-0.2.0 and (gtk-?)doc

2012-11-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em dom, 4/11/12, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: De: Bruce Dubbs Assunto: Re: [blfs-dev] gegl-0.2.0 and (gtk-?)doc Para: BLFS Development List blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org Data: Domingo, 4 de Novembro de 2012, 22:58 Perhaps we should promote gtk-doc to recommended

Re: [blfs-dev] Finishing up BLFS checks for LFS-7.2

2012-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em qua, 31/10/12, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: I updated the instructions yesterday. They build OK, but have not been tested. Please use the most current instructions and let me know how it goes. After solving some problems, I could install sane and xsane today

Re: [blfs-dev] gegl-0.2.0 and (gtk-?)doc

2012-11-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Resending with proper line format. --- Em dom, 4/11/12, Ken Moffat escreveu: De: Ken Moffat Assunto: Re: [blfs-dev] gegl-0.2.0 and (gtk-?)doc blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org Data: Domingo, 4 de Novembro de 2012, 21:10 On Sun, Nov 04, 2012 at 02:29:39PM -0800,

Re: [blfs-dev] A significant BLFS milestone

2012-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas de Roo wrote: Maybe this is the right moment for a BLFS 7.2 release? That thought did occur to me, but I think the rate of development is too fast. What we have now will be out of date soon as updates to packages are released. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-dev] A significant BLFS milestone

2012-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 10:43:43AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Thomas de Roo wrote: Maybe this is the right moment for a BLFS 7.2 release? That thought did occur to me, but I think the rate of development is too fast. What we have now will be out of date soon as updates

Re: [blfs-dev] A significant BLFS milestone

2012-11-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Thomas de Roo wrote: Ken Moffat schreef op 2012-11-02 18:11: On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 10:43:43AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Thomas de Roo wrote: Maybe this is the right moment for a BLFS 7.2 release? That thought did occur to me, but I think the rate of development is too fast. What we

Re: [blfs-dev] Finishing up BLFS checks for LFS-7.2

2012-10-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: pst/scanning/sane.xml: Update to 1.0.23 Needs scanner pst/scanning/xsane.xml: Needs Scanner How about _built tags? Not the best result, but I suppose it will have to do for now. I will try to build and check these two,

Re: [blfs-dev] sshfs-fuse-2.4 depencies

2012-10-31 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: I do not remember getting this before lfs7.2: configure: error: Package requirements (fuse = 2.3 glib-2.0 gthread-2.0) were not met: No package 'glib-2.0' found No package 'gthread-2.0' found It looks like we need to add glib. It's not in any docs, but is in

[blfs-dev] Finishing up BLFS checks for LFS-7.2

2012-10-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I'm in the final stages of checking all the BLFS packages for compatibility with LFS-7.2, but need some help. I can't easily check the following: gnome/applications/sound-juicer.xml: Needs GNOME multimedia/videoutils/dvb-apps.xml: Needs TV card networking/netutils/wicd.xml:

Re: [blfs-dev] Finishing up BLFS checks for LFS-7.2

2012-10-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 10/30/2012 08:17 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm in the final stages of checking all the BLFS packages for compatibility with LFS-7.2, but need some help. I can't easily check the following: gnome/applications/sound-juicer.xml: Needs GNOME I can check this one. Thanks

Re: [blfs-dev] Revive Ekiga?

2012-10-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Should we re-add Ekiga to book? 3.3.2 is available from August 2011 and it is GTK+3 port. It should work (tm). Recently there has been 3.9.90 release which is sort of unstable, but I guess that distros are going to migrate asap. Which one should we choose? Opal and Ptlib

Re: [blfs-dev] OT - Hardware Problems again, but perhaps solved

2012-10-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: So, past Monday, I finally sent it for repair. Now it is back since Friday, apparently working without problems. The technician did not know exactly what to do, only some ideas. The composite solution I found: 1. Replacing all cables (technician's and my idea).

[blfs-dev] Archive Sawfish?

2012-10-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Should we archive sawfish? It has not been updated since January 2010. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/sawfish.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: [blfs-dev] Archive Sawfish?

2012-10-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jocelyn Fréchot wrote: Le 29/10/2012 18:11, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Should we archive sawfish? It has not been updated since January 2010. Sawfish has moved away from Sourceforge: http://sawfish.wikia.com/ Latest release (1.9.1) is from september. Thanks. I'll try it out

Re: [blfs-dev] Archive Sawfish?

2012-10-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jocelyn Fréchot wrote: Le 29/10/2012 18:11, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : Should we archive sawfish? It has not been updated since January 2010. Sawfish has moved away from Sourceforge: http://sawfish.wikia.com/ Latest release (1.9.1) is from september. The build with the new version seems

[blfs-dev] Remove ptlib and opal?

2012-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I just spent some time updating ptlib and opal. Both packages were a bit of a pain because they needed a sed and a patch respectively. Then I checked what used these packages. The only package that uses ptlib is opal and the only package that uses opal is archive/gnome-obsolete/ekiga.xml :(

[blfs-dev] Archive lrpng?

2012-10-28 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Should we archive lprng? AFAICT, most of the programs it provides, lrp, lpq, lprm, lpstat, etc are provided by cups and cups seems to be much more active. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10804 - trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office

2012-10-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 10/26/2012 08:29 PM, bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: bdubbs Date: 2012-10-26 12:29:14 -0600 (Fri, 26 Oct 2012) New Revision: 10804 Modified: trunk/BOOK/xsoft/office/abiword.xml Log: Add required dependency to abiword Just curious, have you used

Re: [blfs-dev] Request for volunteers

2012-10-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
John Burrell wrote: Bruce I'd like to help but I'm running an svn version of LFS, not 7.2. I guess that disqualifies me, right? That depends on the svn version. Anything after 2012-08-23 (7.2-rc1) would be OK. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] Missing Gnome Files

2012-10-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Dana 21.10.2012 20:04, Bruce Dubbs je napisao: OK, the files repo is now up-to-date. I took a look at anduin's blfs hieararchy and found lot of packages there that are not in the book anymore. If you desire, you can remove the following tarballs from anduin's blfs directory

[blfs-dev] Request for volunteers

2012-10-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
In reviewing the status of the book, I see that we still have 42 packages that have not been confirmed as building and running properly for LFS-7.2 and were last checked for LFS-7.0. I'd like to ask for some volunteers to check some of the packages below and answer the following questions:

Re: [blfs-dev] Missing Gnome Files

2012-10-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 10/22/2012 02:01 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Armin K. wrote: Dana 21.10.2012 20:04, Bruce Dubbs je napisao: OK, the files repo is now up-to-date. -- Bruce I took a look at anduin's blfs hieararchy and found lot of packages there that are not in the book anymore

Re: [blfs-dev] docbook-xsl-1.77.1 instructions

2012-10-22 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: On 22/10/12 09:22, Armin K. wrote: Dana 21.10.2012 22:37, Wayne Blaszczyk je napisao: Hi All, The following instruction creates a file called docbook-xsl-1.77.1 rather than a directory. install -v -m644 -D README \

[blfs-dev] Missing Gnome Files

2012-10-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin, The book has been updated to use gnome-system-log-3.6.1.tar.xz and gucharmap-3.6.1.tar.xz, but neither are available at the gnome web site. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: [blfs-dev] Missing Gnome Files

2012-10-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 10/21/2012 06:57 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Armin, The book has been updated to use gnome-system-log-3.6.1.tar.xz and gucharmap-3.6.1.tar.xz, but neither are available at the gnome web site. Whoops. It should be gnome-system-monitor-3.6.1 and gucharmap-3.6.0 OK

Re: [blfs-dev] Missing Gnome Files

2012-10-21 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Dana 21.10.2012 20:04, Bruce Dubbs je napisao: OK, the files repo is now up-to-date. -- Bruce I took a look at anduin's blfs hieararchy and found lot of packages there that are not in the book anymore. If you desire, you can remove the following tarballs from anduin's

Re: [blfs-dev] iced tea

2012-10-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: On 10/19/2012 12:37 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been looking at updating iced tea. rant I'm into problems because the make files have hard coded paths into make files. /usr/bin/head (which is in /bin) and /bin/touch (which is in /usr/bin/touch). What are these guys thinking

Re: [blfs-dev] iced tea

2012-10-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
DJ Lucas wrote: BTW, what do we call this version. It's icedtea-2.3.3, but the build says: java version 1.7.0_0 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b36) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.2-b09, mixed mode) Right now we are calling the current version OpenJDK-1.7.0.5, but the most

Re: [blfs-dev] iced tea

2012-10-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: DJ Lucas wrote: BTW, what do we call this version. It's icedtea-2.3.3, but the build says: java version 1.7.0_0 OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.7.0-b36) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 23.2-b09, mixed mode) Right now we are calling the current version OpenJDK

Re: [blfs-dev] iced tea

2012-10-20 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Since JDK, I was numbering using book's convention and comparing numbers with other distributions and with the convention in JDK site. So, I changed the subject for what was normal in the past. What name to be used is not important for me, but in many other

[blfs-dev] iced tea

2012-10-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been looking at updating iced tea. rant I'm into problems because the make files have hard coded paths into make files. /usr/bin/head (which is in /bin) and /bin/touch (which is in /usr/bin/touch). What are these guys thinking? why can't they use the PATH? /rant Has anyone else

Re: [blfs-dev] iced tea

2012-10-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: On Fri, 19 Oct 2012 12:37:53 -0500 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I've been looking at updating iced tea. rant I'm into problems because the make files have hard coded paths into make files. /usr/bin/head (which is in /bin) and /bin/touch (which

Re: [blfs-dev] iced tea

2012-10-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em sex, 19/10/12, Bruce Dubbs escreveu: De: Bruce Dubbs Assunto: [blfs-dev] iced tea Para: BLFS Development List Data: Sexta-feira, 19 de Outubro de 2012, 14:37 I've been looking at updating iced tea. rant I'm into problems because the make files have

Re: [blfs-dev] OpenJDK-1.7.0.9 (was: iced tea)

2012-10-19 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: Previous attachment had a line out of order and with a typo. []s, Fernando Thanks. That's helpful. Right now I'm running tests, but that takes quite a while. I think we should change the book to do a 'make download' to get the aux files. I also think the patch

[blfs-dev] Older GNOME programs

2012-10-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
When checking the older programs in BLFS, I found the following GNOME packages have not been retagged for lfs72: gnome-nettool sound-juicer alacarte Are these OK for lfs-7.2? -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10721 - trunk/BOOK/x/installing

2012-10-10 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 10/10/2012 07:46 PM, Tobias Gasser wrote: Armin K. schrieb: if [ $EUID = 0 ]; then make install elif [ -x /usr/bin/sudo ]; then sudo make install else su -c make install fi Add it by default instead of AS_ROOT make install, but explain how should it be used and what it

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10721 - trunk/BOOK/x/installing

2012-10-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 10/08/2012 06:47 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Sorry for the delay, I've missed the reply somehow. Well what we have now is wrong and what we had before is also wrong. The above is right, but may not be elegant. It is, however, somewhat educational. It could be collapsed

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10721 - trunk/BOOK/x/installing

2012-10-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 10/09/2012 06:33 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Armin K. wrote: From what I see, your command would attempt to use either sudo or su even if ran as root user. Maybe some kind of am I root? checking should be done there before trying to check for sudo or execute su

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10721 - trunk/BOOK/x/installing

2012-10-08 Thread Bruce Dubbs
kre...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: krejzi Date: 2012-10-08 00:05:45 -0600 (Mon, 08 Oct 2012) New Revision: 10721 Modified: trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x7app.xml trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x7font.xml trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x7lib.xml trunk/BOOK/x/installing/x7proto.xml

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] r10719

2012-10-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, Oct 07, 2012 at 12:37:50PM -0600, bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote: Author: bdubbs Date: 2012-10-07 12:37:39 -0600 (Sun, 07 Oct 2012) New Revision: 10719 Modified: trunk/BOOK/general.ent trunk/BOOK/general/graphlib/aalib.xml

Re: [blfs-dev] ffmpeg-1.0

2012-10-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 06.10.2012 05:34, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've been looking at this package to upgrade the book and there needs to be a few changes. One thing I found is that there are several executables in the tools directory that are not installed: I guess you can live qt-faststart

[blfs-dev] ffmpeg-1.0

2012-10-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I've been looking at this package to upgrade the book and there needs to be a few changes. One thing I found is that there are several executables in the tools directory that are not installed: -rwxrwxr-x 1 bdubbs bdubbs 18672 Oct 5 22:46 tools/aviocat -rwxr-xr-x 1 bdubbs bdubbs 1086 Sep

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-03 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Henty wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: I've wondered, in the case of the kernel, whether is would be beneficial to release the drivers as a separate tarball on a different release schedule. I think that's where most of the changes occur. In an uncompressed kernel

Re: [blfs-dev] [BLFS Trac] #3583: FFmpeg 1.0

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
BLFS Trac wrote: #3583: FFmpeg 1.0 Comment(by Krejzi): How do you manage to control ticket system without it sending mails to blfs-book? I don't remember getting mail with your reply. As admin, I have a section of the summary page that allows Batch Modify Properties. That doesn't send

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fernando de Oliveira wrote: --- Em seg, 1/10/12, BLFS Trac escreveu: Changes (by bdubbs@…): * status: new = closed * resolution: = wontfix Comment: I'm going to mark this as wontfix. IM manages to do a sub-point (major.minor.point-subpoint) release way too often. It feels

Re: [blfs-dev] Mailman slow

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Is it just me or mailman is again slow today? I have at least 20 minutes delay before mails from mailing lists get to me. I haven't really noticed it, but gmail does not send me my own posts. The mail queue has 94 requests right now and mailman is supposed to purge those in 5

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Release early, release often. For major projects, weekly -rc releases, and stable point releases as-necessary, is a good thing. The release early, release often approach can be overdone. How is a typical user supposed to know when a change is significant? I have no

Re: [blfs-dev] [blfs-book] [BLFS Trac] #3588: ImageMagick-6.7.9-9

2012-10-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: I don't follow systemd, no doubt some of the changes are important for the project, but without monitoring it I can't guess which, if any, impact the udev part. I'm still hoping that standalone udev will gain traction. That would require a major attitude change from

Re: [blfs-dev] BLFS-Version 2012-09-25: cracklib md5sums

2012-09-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: The md5sums have changed md5sum cracklib-* 362232076930d062ae7db5c4b35ab824 cracklib-2.8.19.tar.gz 0a6d09b3714e0daa7bf217e0d234b255 cracklib-words-20080507.gz I downloaded the http and ftp versions of the tarball and the md5sum is correct. It is also correct for the

[blfs-dev] colord md5sum

2012-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
e1e3bfd048afa63e3187e9b9dc68f0c7 colord-0.1.23.tar.xz The book has 019fa6f9349ef39d1bd28c3dcf6fb191 -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[blfs-dev] gstreamer and friends

2012-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
We have: GStreamer-0.10.36 gst-plugins-base-0.10.36 gst-plugins-good-0.10.31 gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23 gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.19 GStreamer-1.0.0 gst-plugins-base-1.0.0 gst-plugins-good-1.0.0 gst-plugins-bad-1.0.0 gst-plugins-ugly-1.0.0 There is one small sentence: GStreamer 1.0 series are not API

Re: [blfs-dev] gstreamer and friends

2012-09-27 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Bruce Dubbs wrote: We have: GStreamer-0.10.36 gst-plugins-base-0.10.36 gst-plugins-good-0.10.31 gst-plugins-bad-0.10.23 gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.19 GStreamer-1.0.0 gst-plugins-base-1.0.0 gst-plugins-good-1.0.0 gst-plugins-bad-1.0.0 gst-plugins-ugly-1.0.0 Also: gstreamer-1.0.0.tar.xz

Re: [blfs-dev] Fwd: GNOME 3.6 released

2012-09-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: Hey guys, I just got this mail. GNOME 3.6 is in place, but I still see some components as unstable versions. (odd major version numbers, but released!) Should I merge my work? Original Message Subject: GNOME 3.6 released Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 14:32:55

Re: [blfs-dev] Fwd: GNOME 3.6 released

2012-09-26 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Armin K. wrote: On 26.09.2012 20:48, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'd say that if they deviated from the odd/even protocol for stable/unstable, then the overall announcement takes precedence. I suggest using what they say are released versions even if they are odd major version numbers

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