Qrux wrote:
> That is, I'm not certain that kvm is using bridging...But, if it is,
> I would expect it to look something like (output simulated):
>
> bruces-box # brctl show
> bridge name bridge id STP enabled interfaces
> br0 8000.00cafebabe11 no
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Nathan Coulson wrote:
>
>> Not any time to proofread this, but this is what I use
>>
>> echo > /etc/qemu-ifup << "EOF"
>> ip addr add 0.0.0.0 dev $1
>> ip link set $1 up
>> brctl addif br0 $1
>> EOF
>
&
> BTW, any thoughts on how bridgeutils will be used by the bootscripts?
> As nice as my script was, it did require 2 seperate ifconfig.br0
> files. (Well, easier w/ Qrux's changes, but we wouldn't want to add
> support for every variation of network addresses into the bind script
> [dhcp, ipv4, i
I am about to add the qemu-kvm package to the book. I will also add a
page "Running a Virtual Machine (VM)".
The question is where to put these in the book? About the only place I
can see is
V. Servers
19. Major Servers
but this doesn't really seem to fit.
I could rename the part to:
ig.eth0 is ONBOOT=no.
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#!/bin/sh
# Begin /lib/services/bridge
#
# Description : Bridge Boot Script
#
# Authors : Nathan Coulson - nat...@linuxfromscratch.org
# Bruce Dubbs - bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org
#
Qrux wrote:
> Looks good. You were more precise about where you performed the
> loop--and it seems to make more sense. I'll try them out as soon as
> I can.
>
> This is a usage point, but I'm not sure that having ifconfig.eth0 and
> encouraging people to set ONBOOT=no when it's part of a bridge
Ken is js185-1.1.0-DESTDIR-1.patch different from
js185-1.0.0-DESTDIR-1.patch?
I moved the directory in patches from js to js185 so the scripts will
work, but the version of the patch still needs to be updated. If the
patch is the same, I can just make a symlink.
In any case the patche
I added kvm-qemu to the book. It is a first try for virtualization and
it took quite a bit of trial and error to get it to work.
I've deviated a little from the rest of the book. The 'configuration'
section is quite long and basically describes one way to use kvm/qemu.
We don't usually do tha
Tobias Gasser wrote:
> Qrux schrieb:
>
>> You could include Xen. ;) And VirtualBox (though someone else would have
>> to write that bit).
>
> i have a machine running lfs 6.x with virtualbox.
>
> i can check against a current build (with current vb) and write a hint.
> i'm not an xml or git g
DJ Lucas wrote:
> On 01/30/2012 10:47 AM, Tobias Gasser wrote:
>> Qrux schrieb:
>>
>>> You could include Xen. ;) And VirtualBox (though someone else would have
>>> to write that bit).
>> i have a machine running lfs 6.x with virtualbox.
>>
>> i can check against a current build (with current vb)
Qrux wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2012, at 8:58 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> What are the advantages/disadvantages of VB over Xen and KVM? If it
>> doesn't add any significant capabilities, I don't see the effort to make
>> it fit into BLFS as useful.
>
> I think ther
Qrux wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> This looks interesting (Xen vs KVM):
>
>
> http://iopscience.iop.org/1742-6596/219/4/042005/pdf/1742-6596_219_4_042005.pdf
Good paper.
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Qrux wrote:
> At the moment, there's a large body of support and activity for both
> Xen and KVM. They are both in the mainline kernel (as of 3.0), which
> means supporting both "out-of-the-box" is more feasible. Xen takes
> more work setting up (though, that's just editing your GRUB conf
> file
Qrux wrote:
> What is "CMMI" in this context? Not sure what "Capability Maturity
> Models" has to do with kvm-qemu...
LOL. CMMI = configure && make && make install, not Capability Maturity
Model Integration. Yes, it's an overloaded term. :)
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Qrux wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> You know I added kvm-qemu to BLFS a couple of days ago, right?
>
> I added a BLFS-style markdown page:
>
> https://github.com/qrux/xlapp/blob/master/README-blfs.md
>
> It tries to mimic the style
a...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
> Author: andy
> +--disable-nis: This option disables building
> +Network Information Service/Yellow Pages support in pam_unix and
> pam_access
> +as the needed headers files are no longer installed by glibc.
Andy is this true? LFS-7.0 has an errata
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:19:37 -0600
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> a...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
>>> Author: andy
>>> +--disable-nis: This option disables
>>> building
>>> +Network Information Service/Yellow Pages
Qrux wrote:
> As for files; a find before- and after-install gives a listing of
> over 800 files that Xen installs. ~450 of these are python files it
> installs as part of the core suite, including management tools.
> Another 200 or so are support files in /usr/share. It's a large,
> complex thi
Qrux wrote:
> The instructions on the svn LVM2 page could use a bit of updating.
>
> The package isn't usable (at least according to docs) without certain
> options.
I've certainly been able to create, format, and mount an lvm partition
with the current commands:
# pvcreate /dev/sdb5
Writing
Qrux wrote:
>
> Don't want the kernel subdir? Maybe:
>
> install -d /usr/share/doc/lvm2-2.02.90
> cp -va doc/{kernel,*.txt,example*} /usr/share/doc/lvm2-2.02.90
>
> is better?
Version 2.02.88 doesn't have a kernel subdir. I didn't look at the latest.
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Ken Moffat wrote:
> Looking at x7driver.html, I notice a humungous sed which ostensibly
> recodes some driver pages (for evdev, ati, fbdev, glint, newport) so
> that they are no longer in UTF-8 and can be displayed correctly by
> man-db. AFAIK, man-db is all about displaying manpages in both
> UT
I've added mdadm and a new page, About RAID, to the book.
I'd appreciate feedback on ways to improve it.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/raid.html
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Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 05:32:37PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Ken Moffat wrote:
>>> Looking at x7driver.html, I notice a humungous sed which ostensibly
>>> recodes some driver pages (for evdev, ati, fbdev, glint, newport) so
>>> that th
Qrux wrote:
> Nice page.
>
> Just recently been dealing with a HW card that udev doesn't like
> (doesn't have SERIAL or SHORT_SERIAL), so I've been thinking about
> this a lot recently.
>
> * * *
>
> As for pros v cons...
>
> I would think the main advantage to modern HW RAID systems is the
> a
Qrux wrote:
> New pages are great, but...How close is BLFS to getting to a
> "release" w.r.t LFS-7.0? Just two days ago, iproute and zlib failed
> to wget. Not sure about iproute (I think it's a server error), but
> zlib updated to 1.26 and they didn't keep the old version around
> (srsly, who do
Ken Moffat wrote:
> What surprised me is that /etc/mdadm.conf isn't mentioned. I
> thought I had to create this (either manually, or by running some
> command - I forget which), and without it the kernel cannot assemble
> the array(s) ?
It's optional. There are ways to monitor an array using m
Andy,
You updated pcre to 8.30. The changelog shows the md5sum changed from
"f14a9fef3c92f3fc6c5ac92d7a2c7eb3" to
"d5ee0d9f6d2f0b7489331d04b6c182ef"
But when I just downloed it, the checksum was:
98e8928945d04279581e778fbdff pcre-8.30.tar.bz2
Also, the book says the download is 1.6M
Ken,
brasero, eog, and empathy do not have size/space/time data.
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Armin K. wrote:
> Yesterday I tried to send a message to blfs-dev mailing list, but I got
> "It's awaits moderator approval - suspicious headers." I have registered
> there nicely, mail.com server supports authentification, I tried both
> with webmail and icedove (Debian Thunderbird), always sam
Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 09:34:29PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Ken,
>>brasero, eog, and empathy do not have size/space/time data.
>>
> True. There will be others. Of the approx 180 packages, some are
> not dependencies of what I regard as
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:36:35 +
> bdu...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
>
>> Missing emacs-23.4.tar.gz
>> Missing pcre-8.30.tar.bz2
> Just a random thought.
> I've seen these emails hundreds of times but it's only just occurred to
> me; if you have the name of the package a
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Interesting. I had been going to suggest (if I didn't already),
> half in jest, that libproxy could be dropped from the book since it
> is no longer required by the gnome packages and now uses that
> unpleasant replacement for configure. Do you use it ?
I'll check if it is
Qrux wrote:
> LVM2 should have a bootscript and a link in /etc/rc.d/rcS.d; if that
> hasn't been done yet, feel free to include the one I use (which I've
> kept in the LFS/BLFS template).
Thanks for that.
> The meat of it is doing:
>
> vgscan --mknodes vgchange -a y
>
> to create the DM entries
Qrux wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> Qrux wrote:
>>> LVM2 should have a bootscript and a link in /etc/rc.d/rcS.d; if
>>> that hasn't been done yet, feel free to include the one I use
>>> (which I've kept in the LFS/
Qrux wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> Do you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM set?
>
> Absolutely.
>
> When you boot and do lvdisplay -a, do you see "LV Status: available"?
I'll have to get back to you on that. When I was doing RAID, I
Qrux wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:55 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> Qrux wrote:
>>> On Feb 13, 2012, at 8:40 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Do you have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_DM set?
>>> Absolutely.
>>>
>>> When you boot and do lvdispl
Andrew Benton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'd like to add git to the book. Does anyone have any objections?
No objection. That would be a useful addition.
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Qrux wrote:
> On Feb 13, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> Qrux wrote:
>>> LVM2 should have a bootscript and a link in /etc/rc.d/rcS.d; if
>>> that hasn't been done yet, feel free to include the one I use
>>> (which I've kept in the LFS/
Qrux wrote:
> On Feb 14, 2012, at 4:41 PM, DJ Lucas wrote:
>
>> On 02/14/2012 06:08 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>> What do you think of adding a line to the start of the start code of
>>> checkfs:
>>>
>>> if [ -x /usr/sbin/vgchange ]; then
>>>
Qrux wrote:
> Is there a reason ntpd is run with -x?
>
> The big slew is nice, but is there a reason it's preferred over the kernel
> discipline?
When you are booting, there is probably nothing else really depending on
timestamps. We might as well just slew the time to be correct. In most
ca
>>> But instead, I'm going to suggest that we just stop mentioning
>>> testsuites in BLFS.
>> Or at least make it optional?
>
> In principle, I think testsuites are awesome; I like the confidence
> they give that the system works as advertised.
>
> I mean, if you're compiling from source, you
Qrux wrote:
> It also wasn't the question I was asking. I run ntpd in daemon mode,
> because I want it to keep correcting my time after boot, and that's
> where the slewing/stepping behavior is relevant.
Yes daemon mode is the script default.
> * So, I propose turning -x off.
OK, I won't make
Qrux wrote:
> Isn't libxml2 generally separately-distributed?
Yes. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/libxml2.html
> Does it have a test suite?
Yes.
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Qrux wrote:
> Appears to be an error on line 37:
>
> Starting named.../etc/rc.d/init.d/bind: line 37: ievaluate_retval:
> command not found
>
> I think "ievaluate_retval" should be "evaluate_retval".
Yes, it's a typo. I'll fix it.
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A 30 character file name and 8 characters for version?
Double that to add the directory name. That really sucks.
This doesn't fit the width of the book at all.
What do you think of this change?
I don't have time to put up a html version right now, but I think you
can get the idea from the xml.
Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 07:47:17PM +, Ken Moffat wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 10:17:14AM -0500, Armin K. wrote:
>>> The ln -s stuff is wrong for gnome-settings-daemon in gdm
>>> instructions. Yet that is a bit ugly. Most major distros patch 3
>>> or 4 files to look i
I've been studying the initramfs structure for inclusion in BLFS, mostly
by looking at the dracut scripts. This is what happens:
The initfamfs is a complete set of directories that you would find on a
normal root filesystem. It is bundled into a single cpio archive and
compressed with one of
Qrux wrote:
> On Feb 20, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> For most distros, modules are the biggest reason to have an
>> initramfs -- plus the fact that they want a one size fits all
>> methodology. In a way, this is the antithesis of LFS where we
>> gener
Nathan Coulson wrote:
> modules, I personally would want to exclude this so I can upgrade
> kernel/initramfs separately on my own build/projects.
That is a very good point.
> I feel that for
> the BLFS book though, that most people would want to include kernel
> modules, and if we are only pres
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> As an example, look at this init:
>
> https://github.com/jhuntwork/LightCube-OS/blob/master/packages/mkinitramfs/init.in
Well that's certainly easier than dracut. I would want to add UUID and
LABEL capabilities.
> And the script that creates the image:
>
> https://gi
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> On 2/21/12 3:03 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
>> On 2/21/12 2:49 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>>> As an example, look at this init:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/jhuntwork/LightCube-OS/blob/master/packages/mkinitramfs/init.in
>>
Baho Utot wrote:
> Where does this leave this
>
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/Root_FS_on_RAID+encryption+LVM.txt
It's still there. The initramfs page in the book will probably
reference it.
Note that LVM2 and mdadm are already in the book. I don't think dmraid
is n
Ken Moffat wrote:
> At the moment, we have two varieties of tags for past LFS-releases
> : built (known to build, but has not been tested), and checked
> (builds, and works properly). Am I alone in wondering if there is a
> case for something in the middle, such as 'builds, and seems to
> work'?
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
As an example, look at this init:
https://github.com/jhuntwork/LightCube-OS/blob/master/packages/mkinitramfs/init.in
And the script that creates the image:
https://github.com/jhuntwork/LightCube-OS/blob/master/packages/mkinitramfs/mkinitramfs.orig
Very interesting. I
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> On 2/21/12 8:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Very interesting. I took your scripts and hacked them a bit. I set it up
>
> Oh, one other thing that I was going to do at some point but also hadn't
> gotten around to yet was to pull in the requ
Andrew Benton wrote:
> Hello,
> I'd like to add Rox Filer to the book. Rox is a file browser, a bit
> like Nautilus or Konqueror but it doesn't need a whole desktop
> environment to install. Both it's dependencies are in the book. It
> works well with a lightweight window manager like Fluxbox.
> An
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:34:51 -0600
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> Andrew Benton wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I'd like to add Rox Filer to the book. Rox is a file browser, a bit
>>> like Nautilus or Konqueror but it doesn't need a
I added the section
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/initramfs.html
Feedback appreciated.
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Qrux wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2012, at 7:00 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> I added the section
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/initramfs.html
>>
>> Feedback appreciated.
>
> Looks pretty awesome.
>
> Might want to include cpio as
Jeremy Huntwork wrote:
> One thing I would recommend is that if for some reason the initramfs
> doesn't manage to mount the root device and it drops you to a shell when
> it encounters a problem, it can be very useful to have both lsmod and
> insmod available (maybe even rmmod, but that's not a
Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> LFS "7.0 svn", 6.8, 6.7, 6.5.
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-neon=/usr
>
> Only Perl and Python bindings.
>
> Not only apr (1.4.6) but also apr-util (1.4.1) required. Although apr is not
> in the book, it is cited, so...
>
> Perhaps I am missing some configu
Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> LFS "7.0 svn", 6.8, 6.7, 6.5.
>
> I believe "make install" should be referenced once, not twice in BLFS:
>
> Now, as the root user:
>
> make install
>
> And then, as the root user:
>
> make install
LOL. Yes it should. I suppose we really, really wanted to have
Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 06:52:12PM +, Andrew Benton wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:37:19 -0800 (PST)
>> Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I do install them from downloaded ones, it is easier and no necessity
>>> of asciidoc.
>> Do you have something against asciid
Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
> What are the exact definitions of recommended and
> optional dependencies?
There aren't really any exact definitions. Required dependencies are
those where the package won't build without or has vastly reduced
functionality.
Recommended is the editor's call. Basicall
Andrew Benton wrote:
> It looks to me that slib and gnucash are completely broken. Does anyone
> have the energy to get this working or should we just remove slib and
> gnucash from the book?
If we can't get it working right now, we probably ought to remove it.
Another alternative is to just mar
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In Command Explanation for shadow, one of the command should be:
> sed -i -e 's@#ENCRYPT_METHOD DES@ENCRYPT_METHOD
> SHA512@' 's@/var/spool/mail@/var/mail@'
>
> and in the book, SHA512 is replaced by MD5. In the command itself, it's
> SHA512, not MD5 as
Jean-Philippe MENGUAL wrote:
> The explanation is for command:
> sed -i -e 's@#ENCRYPT_METHOD DES@ENCRYPT_METHOD MD5@'
> 's@/var/spool/mail@/var/mail@'. But the command which is used actually
> is: sed -i -e 's@#ENCRYPT_METHOD DES@ENCRYPT_METHOD
> SHA512@' 's@/var/spool/mail@/var/mail@'
>
Olaf wrote:
> On 2012-02-23 04:00, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> I added the section
>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/postlfs/initramfs.html
>>
>> Feedback appreciated.
>>
>> -- Bruce
>
>
> Have not tried it, but noticed a typo her
Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> Em 23-02-2012 13:32, Fernando de Oliveira escreveu:
>> --- Em qui, 23/2/12, Bruce Dubbs escreveu:
>>
>>> De: Bruce Dubbs
>>> Assunto: Re: [blfs-dev] subversion-1.7.3 (ande previous one)
>>> Para: "BLFS Development List&q
Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
>>> guile-1.8.8
>> Are you suggesting that we go back to guile-1.8.8? What others
>> think about this? Is it a good solution?
> I was trying to build gnucash-2.4.10, using what I used before in
> other LFS systems.
>
> I am happy to have succeeded, because without gnu
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:16:50 -0600
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>>> For me it is easy to keep guile-1.8.8 as I believe, I use it just for
>>> gnucash.
>> Perhaps this is a case for a static library.
>
> It's the guile command that
Nathan Coulson wrote:
> There's been some conversation about new packages in BLFS. There are
> a few which I use myself, but never suggested them until now as I
> never really considered them as useful in a pure LFS environment.
> (great for me, but most likely not blfs material.)
>
> I thought I
Ken Moffat wrote:
> Is there any reason why we still have hal in the book ?
>
> I just attempted to comment it out, and found it is referenced from
> autofs, pciutils, gvfs, x7server, gnome-applets, kdelibs, kdebase,
> gnome-vfs, gimp, gst-plugins-good, pulseaudio, k3b.
>
> Some of these (e.g.
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 00:42:28 +
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>
>> So, does anyone use hal ?
>
> Not me. Never have.
I'm running it on an older system, but I don't know what its doing for
me there.
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Qrux wrote:
> HTTP link points to the homepage, not the actual download.
Upstream redirects to the home page if it can't find the file. They
don't keep historical versions, so that's why we get the home page.
Evidently they've upgraded from 4.46 to 4.52 since November - more than
once a month.
Andrew Benton wrote:
> Thanks to your message I've spent some time playing with gpt today
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table
> and I now think there's a good case for putting gptfdisk into LFS.
> fdisk and cfdisk are installed in LFS but if you have a GUID partition
> table they'r
Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
> Thanks for the welcome guys.
>
> As Ken noted I have contributed with some patches for KDE4 packages.
>
> I will be updating the KDE4 section to version 4.8 in the immediate future.
>
> I have been running KDE4.8 on my LFS7.0 system since it got released.
> The build ins
Armin K. wrote:
> I've been looking at BLFS Trac today, and boy - it's a mess. There are 5
> year old bugs there, yet some solved long time ago, but still on there.
> It could help if someone would tidy it up.
I've been trying. You should have seen it a few months ago.
I'll let you help if you
Armin K. wrote:
> On 03/02/2012 04:59 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Armin K. wrote:
>>> I've been looking at BLFS Trac today, and boy - it's a mess. There are 5
>>> year old bugs there, yet some solved long time ago, but still on there.
>>> It could
Armin K. wrote:
> Thank you for trusting me the work. For now, I think that I've respond
> to most of the already fixed issues. However, many of them remain, and I
> am not unable to handle them all. Anyways, as I see, there are lots of
> requests for package upgrades and new packages.
Lets d
Armin K. wrote:
> On 03/02/2012 09:47 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Armin K. wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for trusting me the work. For now, I think that I've respond
>>> to most of the already fixed issues. However, many of them remain, and I
>>> am not unab
Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
> I agree that those packages can be removed, but isn't HAL a
> requirement for KDE3, though?
It's an optional dependency. We can make it an external reference
instead of an internal one.
> I would argue to remove the whole KDE3 section. Are people still using it?
The Tr
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 11:47:07 +0100
> Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
>> In addition, clucene is no longer used by the semantic desktop in
>> KDE4 (being replaced by virtuoso). Any reason to keep it in the book?
> Reading the description of clucene it says it's a:
> "high performance
Andrew Benton wrote:
> Hello,
> On the python2 page it says to use a sed:
> sed -i "s/ndbm_libs = \[\]/ndbm_libs = ['gdbm', 'gdbm_compat']/" setup.py
>
> and the command explanation is:
> This command is used to fix a build problem with the GDBM library.
>
> If I compile python-2.7.2 twice, once
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:53:46 -0600
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> That was added 3 years ago and replaced a patch that did something
>> similar. (Rev 7767) (python-2.6.1). It may not be needed any more.
>>
>> The sed still applies at line 11
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 10:53:46 -0600
> Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>
>> That was added 3 years ago and replaced a patch that did something
>> similar. (Rev 7767) (python-2.6.1). It may not be needed any more.
>>
>> The sed still applies at line 11
rthom...@linuxfromscratch.org wrote:
> Author: rthomsen
> Modified:
>trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/raptor.xml
>trunk/BOOK/general/sysutils/strigi.xml
> - url="&patch-root;/raptor/raptor-&raptor-version;-curl.patch"/>
> + url="&patch-root;/raptor-&raptor-version;-curl.patch"/>
> -
Armin K. wrote:
> Mmmm ... svn diff failed to create good patch for bootscripts.
You have to go up a directory to BLFS/trunk and do the `svn diff` there
to get everything.
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Armin K. wrote:
> On 03/04/2012 09:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Armin K. wrote:
>>
>>> Mmmm ... svn diff failed to create good patch for bootscripts.
>> You have to go up a directory to BLFS/trunk and do the `svn diff` there
>> to get everything.
>>
&
Andrew Benton wrote:
> On Sun, 4 Mar 2012 17:43:08 +0100
> Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
>
>> Are we including this option as default for those packages that support it?
>> Or should it just be mentioned under "Command Explanations"?
>>
>> Currently, the use of this option is not consistent throughout th
Armin K. wrote:
> On 03/04/2012 10:49 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> Armin K. wrote:
>>> On 03/04/2012 09:14 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>>>> Armin K. wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Mmmm ... svn diff failed to create good patch for bootscripts.
>>>> Yo
Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 12:14:35PM +, Andrew Benton wrote:
>> On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:08:02 +0100
>> "Armin K." wrote:
>>
>>> HAL-0.5.14 - Discussed earlier. It's unmaintained and obsoleted by
>>> udisks/upower/gvfs/whatever.
>> I've just started trying to remove Hal and it
Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
> I updated strigi and soprano. Clucene is now merely an optional
> dependency of these two packages. If noone objects, I will be
> removing it.
No objection here.
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Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
> I would like to add the wicd package to BLFS.
That's fine. I probably need to redo my laptop to test it out, but I
don't use my laptop much any more. The wireless card is PCMCIA.
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Armin K. wrote:
> Here are some more updates - p11-kit, gnutls and iptables. New
> version of p11-kit is required for latest gnutls version. Please
> review them, and if possible apply them.
Armin,
Please hold any additional patches for a couple of days. Give me a
chance to review what you ha
Qrux wrote:
> Are there people doing piecemeal upgrades?
Sure. I do that all the time. On some systems I just upgrade what's
not currently working for me. That is, there's a capability I want that
is missing.
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Ragnar Thomsen wrote:
> I want to upgrade amarok to the newest version (2.5), but it requires
> KDE4 and thus can not be used with KDE3.
>
> Should we maintain two versions of amarok in the book?
We have a couple of instances like that already, the most notable is
python. We can handle both v
I would like to announce that Armin Krejzi has accepted an offer to
become the newest BLFS Editor. Please help me in welcoming him.
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Pierre Labastie wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Maybe not everybody is subscribed to lfs-dev or jhalfs-discuss,
> so let me introduce myself. I am a (B)LFS hobbyist, mostly
> interested at the moment in working on jhalfs, in order to
> have an automated test framework.
> In the course of some tests, I noticed th
Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2012 at 07:42:30PM -0800, Qrux wrote:
>> You have to figure that most package maintainers have _also_
>> learned that same lesson; e.g., Perl devs realizing: "Oh, zlib
>> _can_ have security implications, maybe use system zlib and stop
>> embedding zlib so we don
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