Randy McMurchy wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 02/22/05 11:23 CST:
I read the thread that Jack gave and Gerard wants to keep the links in
both places: /usr/lib because they are needed and /lib for consistency.
After all, this is primarily an LFS issue and only marginally a BLFS
issue
Giulio Daprelà wrote:
In the file /kde/core/kdebase.xml at line 163 and following i found this
description:
termcommandkdeprint/command/term
listitem
parais a dialog box for managing diagnostic messages at
runtime./para
Maybe is better the one from the KDE website, like:
KDEPrint is the
M.Canales.es wrote:
That patch fix a look issue for verbatim enviroments, that affect some
browsers
(like Mozilla), when the pages are served like application/xhtml+xml.
By default, pre tags are indented like:
[pre class=userinput][kbd class=command]./configure
--prefix=/usr[/kbd]
I just updated BLFS to point to the livecd at ftp.linuxfromscratch.org
and was promptly told that it was a dead link. Looking at the dns
records, we have four ftp sites. The livecd is only on two and then in
different directories.
I'm repointing BLFS to anduin until the ftp sites can
Jeremy Utley wrote:
btw...has Anduin been added to the RR-DNS rotation yet?
Not yet. I still want to touch up some security issues and I still need
to put rsync on the system. Also, I don't know if the ftp mirrors are
going to mirror everything.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /srv/ftp]$ du -sh *
1.5G
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 03/07/05 18:21 CST:
You think the existing text that explains that the IPRoute2 patch
is only necessary if you don't want to install Net-Tools isn't
adequate?
Disregard my comment about this. It was a last minute add on and I
didn't reread
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Funny how some things work out.
The BLFS book was just recently changed to make cracklib a required
dependency of Linux-PAM. I didn't think too much about it.
However, tonight I screwed up and forgot to install cracklib before
installing Linux-PAM. And PAM installed just
Jiri Navratil wrote:
Instructions on
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/cvs/postlfs/firewall.html
are inconsistent about the script name
- cat /etc/rc.d/rc.iptables EOF
- /etc/rc.d/init.d/iptables
Is my understanding, that the cat commands shall be changed to
cat
Andrew Benton wrote:
In response to a post on BLFS support I looked at the pages in my
current version of BLFS (svn-20050331) and I can't see where it says to
install the iptables bootscript. Is it just me, or is this a bug in the
book?
Yes. It is a bug that I will fix soon.
Whilst I'm here
M.Canales.es wrote:
I'm thinking also in offer my work and time, after the above will be finished,
to the BLFS Team as XML/XSL editor to speed-up the current and future XML/XSL
changes and to standarize the tagging between the different pages (based on
some guidelines that should be decided by
Editors,
Please do not make ANY changes to the 6.0 branch without checking with
me first.
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Giulio Daprelà wrote:
In the file /postlfs/security/firewalling.xml ther is the following sentence:
To provide the maximum security for the firewall itself, make sure
that there are no unnecessary servers running on it such as X11 et al.
My english is not very strong, but i don't understand if
kevlinux wrote:
I would like to suggest a comment in the referenced section, maybe in
the Edit xorg.conf.new to suit your system area, regarding getting
your wheel mouse working. Specifically, to add:
Option ZAxis Mapping 4 5
in the InputDevice section.
Probably a good idea, but the wrong list.
DJ Lucas wrote:
But where to put it? I'm looking at the source for
the configuring x page, and there is not a logical place for it. Maybe
a new sub-section for tweaking the x-config file defaults? Looking now,
I think it's always kinda lacked in that area. It's just second nature
to tweak the
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 04/11/05 10:35 CST:
Hi all,
I would like to move the Guile instructions to what I feel is a
more proper category, the Programming section.
Since there is a command interpreter, I agree. I'm not familiar with guile
or scheme, but a
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/11/05 12:23 CST:
excerpt from:
http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/blfs-dev/2004-June/006401.html
Sounds like we are in violent agreement. I'll try to do the reorg tonight.
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
Jeremy Utley wrote these words on 04/12/05 23:23 CST:
Alphabetical serves no useful purpose, when it contradicts the
proper build order. At least that's my opinion, anyway.
We can go back to the other order, but I put those sections in alpha
order because of a problem I was
Robert Connolly wrote:
On April 14, 2005 02:47 am, Robert Connolly wrote:
Hi. I noticed kdebase-3.4.0 installs ksysguarddrc and xdg/ to /usr/etc.. so
it looks like --sysconfdir=/etc is needed for this package.
xdg/ is from kdelibs, so --sysconfdir=/etc would be needed there too.
Thanks for the
Jeremy Utley wrote:
Here's how I solve that when following the BLFS book...keep in mind this
is only one solution out of many possibilities, but this works quite
well for me.
Jeremy,
What you are describing is a depth first search. That's what I do
also. My technique is a little more
Jamie Bennett wrote:
On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:08 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Just to try it out, I donloaded a copy of Acrobat Reader 7 for Linux and
installed it. On my LFS 6.1 testing system it flashes the splash screen
and exits without any error messages of any kind.
ldd on the binary does
Jrg Billeter wrote:
Some plugins of Acrobat 7 need libstdc++.so.5, i.e. the standard c++
library coming with gcc 3.3. So either install it or remove the
Reader/intellinux/plug_ins directory...
Renaming the plugins directory worked. I may consider installing
libstdc++.so.5 in the future, but I've
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 04/14/05 17:24 CST:
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 04/14/05 17:08 CST:
Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU
To me, the *lack* of precision in this example is much more misleading
that what we have now.
Let's say for the sake of roundness
There is a patch to this package to bring it up to libmikmod-3.1.11a.
The books's sed:
sed -i -e s/VERSION=10/VERSION=11/ \
-e s/sys_asoundlib/alsa_asoundlib/ \
-e s/snd_cards/snd_card_load/g \
-e s|sys/asoundlib.h|alsa/asoundlib.h|g \
configure.in
looks like it is still
Jeremy Utley wrote:
Having the Mesa 3d libs installed will break hardware 3D-rendering
always - whether it be DRI-based, NVIDIA drivers, or ATI's FireGL
drivers. People will be limited to software 3d rendering.
Thanks Jeremy. I can confirm that with the mesa libraries installed I
get 635
Jeremy Utley wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Jeremy Utley wrote:
Having the Mesa 3d libs installed will break hardware 3D-rendering
always - whether it be DRI-based, NVIDIA drivers, or ATI's FireGL
drivers. People will be limited to software 3d rendering.
Thanks Jeremy. I can confirm
Matthew Burgess wrote:
If you've any problems with the approach above, let me know.
No. Your approach seems great. We don't get dunned with gcc-4.0 issues
and both lfs and blfs get appropriate input. Thanks for the heads up.
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Matthew Burgess wrote:
The primary objectives have been to develop the widget code of the
LessTif Toolkit. Intermittently, the window manager (mwm) and the
combination of UIL compiler and libMrm are being worked on.
I agree with Matt. In this case the primary purpose of the package is
as a
I'm trying to install libgnomeprint-2.8.0.1. As a prereq for gnumeric.
I have not installed gnome. The instructions say:
./configure --prefix=`pkg-config --variable=prefix ORBit-2.0` \
--sysconfdir=/etc/gnome --disable-gtk-doc
But ORBit-2.0 is not listed as a dependency. When I execute:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Actually, the instructions say that libgnomeprintui, not libgnomeprint
is the dependency.
Yes but libgnomeprintui has a required dependency of libgnomeprint.
There is a huge difference here. Much of GNOME will need to be
installed to satisfy the dependency.
Perhaps.
Randy McMurchy wrote:
it probably doesn't need an immediate fix.
Agreed.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My Makefiles have:
COPY = install
COPY_FILE= $(COPY)
COPY_DIR = $(COPY) -r
INSTALL_FILE= $(COPY_FILE)
INSTALL_DIR = $(COPY_DIR)
This is due to line 1 of the sed which we apply to mkspecs/linux*/qmake.conf.
You *were* testing this on a *Linux* system,
M.Canales.es wrote:
Inside the tarball there is three file: a full commented template.xml, and
allmost full rewrite of chapter06.xml and chapter07 with some modifications
to the Adding tags section.
I haven't had time to look at the editor's guide, but I did look at the
template. It looks
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 04/21/05 07:23 CST:
I'm just curious what causes this, whether it's a 2.6.x issue or a ps issue.
Belgarath which runs a 2.4 kernel and procps 3.1.8 doesn't seem to have
this problem. My username is longer than 8 characters and it
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
The kernel version has nothing to do with the display of usernames. It
doesn't even know about usernames--only uids and gids. It has to be in
the ls/ps code.
That makes sense. Might shadow have an effect on this as well
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I just did an experiment. I created a user 'averylongname' and ps does
indeed change this to a number, but ls -l adjusts the column width to
accomodate the long name. Investigating...
Investiation complete. The following comment is in the procps source at
line 1018 of ps
Jeremy Utley wrote:
In the book, we create a lot of users and groups. Almost none of them
have uids/gids specified. Right now, if a user/group is created without
specifying, a uid value 1000 or a gid value 100 is used. The LSB
says system uids/gids should be below 100. I am proposing a book
Jeremy Utley wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Not a bad idea, but we have several ftp and email servers. I thought
about using the same number for all the ftp servers and the same numbers
of all the mail servers, but that would make the different packages
conflict.
They're going to conflict
M.Canales.es wrote:
A link to the actual program/libary description or to the configuration steps
for configuring files without the need to scroll-down the full package page.
Got it. My misunderstanding. There is no need to change. I'll add the
explaination to the edguide.
-- Bruce
Randy McMurchy wrote:
I've not mentioned this yet, however, it's probably time to. I
find the new indentation method to be *very* difficult to work
with.
What is the point in it?
To me, it just makes the job of updating the packages more
difficult. It should be the other way around. I
Randy McMurchy wrote:
The link to the Editor's Guide seems to be broken on the BLFS web
site main page. I tried it on some of the mirrors and directly from
Belgarath.
Thanks, fixed.
The link was to guide.html, but the file was index.html. I renamed
index-guide and it should sync up on the
Randy McMurchy wrote:
M.Canales.es wrote these words on 05/15/05 17:38 CST:
El Lunes, 16 de Mayo de 2005 00:16, Randy McMurchy escribi:
I really think it is wrong to change the capitalization the maintainer
provides, simply because it is used in a title.
In some packages documentation the
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 05/15/05 18:20 CST:
What I'm looking for is to be consistent with the package names that the
originator uses. If they are using different cases in different
situtations, than I think its OK for us to do the same. Otherwise, we
should
Jeremy Herbison wrote:
As I posted in blfs-support, it appears portmapper, at least when run using
the blfs bootscript (and not started by inetd/xinetd as the portmapper manpage
recommends), runs as UID 1 regardless of whether or not that is even a valid
UID. Either the book needs to add a bin
DJ Lucas wrote:
Hi guys. I found a new burning program and absolutely love it - K3B.
Well new to me being it's a KDE app, but it looks equally good
(respecting your gtk2 theme) in gnome. Reminds me much of Nero-5 on
Windows. In order to make it display writing and buffer status, it
needs
Matthias Berndt wrote:
Greetings,
refering to http://blfs-bugs.linuxfromscratch.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1334 I
want to know - just for fun - if the uninstall-targets should remove
configurationsfiles like $(EXTDIR)/sysconfig/autofs.conf?
I don't think so, but how do you think?
My
DJ Lucas wrote:
Actually I wouldn't use a bootscript for gdm/xdm/kdm, but it was decided
in not one, but two different discussions (one was heated) that this is
easiest from the users POV as opposed to setting it up in inittab.
Maybe its the Alzheimer's, but I don't remember either of these
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Hi all,
Mostly directed to Bruce. FYI, and a question for everyone else.
At the bottom of the SVN main BLFS page (table of contents) there is
a new List of Tables section.
This is an artifact of the default xsl scripts.
The only link in this section is broken.
And
M.Canales.es wrote:
El Jueves, 2 de Junio de 2005 07:20, Bruce Dubbs escribió:
Manuel, can you give us some options here?
I vote for removing the TOC link, is more easy and IMHO has nosense to create
a List of Tables when there is only one table.
Fixed in few minutes...
Thanks
Randy McMurchy wrote:
My question
is more about the policy that run-time dependencies aren't listed
unless there is a special exception. To me, this qualifies as a
special exception.
We don't need it in dependencies. ssh does not need to be built before
rsync.
I will defer to whatever
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Again, like the rsync instructions, I'll have to defer to Bruce's
judgment. It is not required to build, yet we provide instructions
to use it during the configuration. To me, it is as you say, now a
required dependency, however, as you correctly point out, it isn't.
Richard A Downing FBCS CITP wrote:
The instructions seem to be untested. Where I expect ${BASEDIR}, the
file says $(BASEDIR) and some of the / dividing elements of filenames
are missing. These work:
BASEDIR=/public_html/BLFS/
xsltproc --xinclude --nonet -stringparam base.dir ${BASEDIR} \
The Oldfellow wrote:
TheOldFellow wrote:
What's the policy on new packages in the BLFS book?
For instance I discovered an editor, called Bluefish, and introduced a
number of LFSers to it, with good reports. BLFS doesn't have a tabbed
desktop-independent X-windows editor designed for markup
Matthias Berndt wrote:
I think it makes sense to run ntpd as restricted user to prevent
security problems. By adding --enable-linuxcaps as configure
switch, one user:group combo to the system and appending -u ntp:ntp to
the bootscripts all nedded things get done.
This is a reasonable thing
Matthias Berndt wrote:
That's correct. This option is only available if the OS supports to run
the server without full root privileges. Currently, this option is
supported under NetBSD and Linux. It's disabled by default.
I still don't see how to enable the capability gracefully. Running:
$
Declan Moriarty wrote:
may I suggest you add the ruleset
70_sare_spoof.cf to trusted rulesets on your spamassassin installation,
as that will catch the forged ebay and forged paypal spam causing so
much annoyance these days. Vipul's Razor also catches about 50% of them.
It should also be
Matthew Burgess wrote:
Hi folks,
Here's an updated patch, as the existing one doesn't apply to the latest
upstream release.
Regards,
Matt.
Submitted By: BLFS Book blfs-book@linuxfromscratch.org
Date:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Here's the simplest sed my feeble mind can come up with using the
backreference method:
sed -i \
s:/\* \(#define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_BYTECODE_INTERPRETER\) \*/:\1: \
include/freetype/config/ftoption.h
How about:
sed -i s:/\* \(#define.*INTERPRETER\) \*/:\1: \
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
Um, did you guys miss my post earlier in this thread that had a sed
option much like this one?
No. We were just discussing options.
Not sure if it's better, but it's shorter:
sed -i '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/\* \(.*BYTE.*\) \*/@\1@' \
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Unfortunately, for folks that may type the commands in, it is a
bit more tedious. But I seriously doubt many guys type in the
commands from the majority of the packages in the BLFS book,
unlike the LFS book.
This may be an exception, Randy. X uses fontconfig whuch
Archaic wrote:
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 10:14:58AM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
As above. Build size includes space for both the build and the install.
Another question came up. If the package being built includes a
bootscript, does estimated build size account for both the unpacked
One of the things we ahve not been doing on anduin is making regular
backups. I am paying $10/month for 10GB of ftp space for backups.
Does anyone want to take a cut at creating a script to backup anduin so
we can put it into a cron job?
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James Robertson wrote:
I still need the latest 2.16 code on the server
anyways. I am going to try and get to it this weekend.
Lovely, thanks. I added a note to the bugzilla bug in bugzilla about
this :) In the meantime, the easiest way around this seems to be
David Jensen wrote:
I can't seem to Assign it to anyone but the book. I am an idiot, or I
am not set up properly. Probably the former.
Try [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
However, my understanding of recent threads is that a
package *must* be a compile-time dependency to list it is a
dependency. Else, it is listed in the configuration section, or
some other appropriate place.
Overall, keeping the build dependencies and run-time
David Jensen wrote:
Here is what I propose:
cat /etc/ntp.conf EOF
driftfile /var/cache/ntp.drift
server 0.pool.ntp.org
server 1.pool.ntp.org
server 2.pool.ntp.org
EOF
I would add:
pidfile /var/run/ntp.pid
The problem with the pools, AFAICT, is that it doesn't handle
Kim McCall wrote:
In the Kernel Configuration section, the first paragraph talks
clearly about something we should do in a top-level menu. But the
second paragraph refers to the Character Devices section. It seems
to be referring to the aforementioned top-level menu or possibly to
some
Original Message
Subject: Berkeley DB
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 19:02:22 -0500
From: Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David Jensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David,
Did you add the test instructions to the Berkeley DB section? If so,
it must have been while I was on vacation
Original Message
Subject: Re: Berkeley DB
Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 19:35:24 -0500
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
David,
Did you add the test instructions to the Berkeley DB section
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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 19:57:21 -0500
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David Jensen wrote:
It always *best guesses* 1 hour! 4 processes
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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 20:40:42 -0500
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Bruce Dubbs wrote
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Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:46:46 -0500
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
I've
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
$cat
Now that LFS 6.1 has been released, we need to develop a strategy for
the release of BLFS 6.1. Right now there are 52 outstanding bugs.
http://tinyurl.com/ayu3x
Of these, several are reasonably old:
Opened prior 2005: 7
Opened in
Jan: 4
Feb: 5
Mar: 2
Apr: 5
May: 19
Jun: 7
Jul: 3
Many of the
Tushar Teredesai wrote:
Anyways, I am not suggesting including the FM entries for download
locations, rather to point to the FM location in addition to the
download links that we have so that user's can get more information on
the package.
I really don't want to add another link for
I see on /. that debisn sid is now using x.org. Is it time for us to
drop xfree86?
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
what is the harm in keeping it?
Just the effort of updating. We're current now, but when a new release
or patches become available, we need to build and test before updating
the book. If the demand for the package is not there, should we spend
that effort?
I'm just asking
Archaic wrote:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/users.html
shows lp with a uid, but no gid. The group lp is referenced in the cups
page. If it was your intention to leave it out because it is set in LFS,
then disregard this message. :)
Disregarded. :)
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Randy McMurchy wrote:
Hi all,
At this point, with the work Manuel did and all the other Editors
providing additional descriptions and what-not to the Indexing of
the book, I think we can safely remove the This is incomplete ...
part at the beginning of the Index.
It will always be
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
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
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
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
Randy McMurchy wrote:
And, noticing that Igor set up the ext3 filesystems
on Anduin, where the checks are enabled in /etc/fstab, I would think
that he does as well (I could be wrong in that Bruce may have set up
the filesystem structure, and if so, s/Igor/Bruce/ in the above).
I'm not sure.
Laurens Blankers wrote:
Hi all,
Apache 2.0.54 (and most likely earlier versions as well) won't compile
against OpenSSL 0.9.8. See this post for a fix:
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/httpd-dev/200507.mbox/[EMAIL
PROTECTED]
Please see:
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 (security) bugs. When all the targeted bugs are
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.
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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
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
TheOldFellow wrote:
Randy McMurchy wrote:
I will admit I never used it, however, there were a couple of guys
that responded to my query after the update if things worked okay,
and they responded yes.
That is, of course, the other way to do the validation - get a user
group to do it for you.
Ken Moffat wrote:
Bruce, I take it you're going to ignore 1485 that I raised yesterday ?
And still on the subject of security, it appears that fetchmail is now
being maintained from http://fetchmail.berlios.de who have a 6.2.5.2
release to address CAN-2005-2335. See e.g.
Tushar Teredesai wrote:
I used the following to go thru each file:
for i in $(find -name *.xml | sort)
do
echo File: $i
cat $i | aspell -H -l | sort | uniq
echo
read
done
Nice.
Fixed the ones I could identify, skipped the ones that were in British
Ken Moffat wrote:
I'm afraid its me again, still failing to understand the projects'
protocols. Last week I posted the attached patch or cpio to the patches
list (fixes CAN-1999-1575 (!), CAN-2005-, CAN-2005-1229).
Apparently, I need to raise the issue on this list.
The best way to
Randy McMurchy wrote:
If this is what we have to do to make it work, then so be it. :-)
The instructions will look funny in the book, but that is better
than a broken build. Cut-and-paste ability is without question
mandatory.
I did some cross checking here. My script has:
./configure
Randy McMurchy wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/31/05 11:05 CST:
A agree with Randy that we need to have cut/paste work. It looks like
the the best alternative right now is to make the commands look like the
above, however, does anyone know why we don't use --enable-extensions=all
Ken Moffat wrote:
The response I got implied that all blfs-related patches need to be
aired on blfs-dev so that a blfs-editor can commit them to patches if
they choose.
The BLFS editors need to have a firm handle on the patches that are
actually used in the book. We set up an understanding
All the 6.1 bugs have been addressed one way or another. There are
still 52 outstanding bugs for 6.2/future in BZ.
If any editor does want to make a significant change to 6.1, please post
it here before starting. Typo/wording changes are still OK.
This is the last chance to get updates into
Wrong list!
-- Bruce
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
OK, BLFS 6.1-pre1 is on line at:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/6.1/
The tarball is at
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/downloads/6.1/blfs-book-6.1-html.tar.bz2
The 6.1 patches and bootscripts are in place in the same directory
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