Re: [blfs-dev] Why/Why not systemd

2014-02-04 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/04/14 20:46, Igor Živković wrote: On 02/04/2014 06:54 PM, Armin K. wrote: On 02/04/2014 06:26 PM, Igor Živković wrote: On 2014-02-04 18:18, Armin K. wrote:

Re: [blfs-dev] Tex (#4647)

2014-02-04 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/04/14 23:35, Armin K. wrote: On 02/04/2014 10:28 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:03:15PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: This ticket lists a whole lot of changes to how we build Tex from source. I took it, because I don't (in general) like packages which use their own

[blfs-dev] Fop build simplified

2014-02-06 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
The build.xml file contains all that is needed to build in one go (ant dist-bin) should only bits be needed you can use ant to download the dependencies too if you dont want full build. the problem mentioned regarding hanging building docs with forrest can be overcome by unset DISPLAY ant

Re: [blfs-dev] Tex Live : luatex

2014-02-08 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/08/14 04:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: In the current instructions for Tex Live, we have --without-luatex. This is wrong, the current option is --disable-luatex. But I have a question: someone must have thought it was a good idea to disable luatex. Why ? The

Re: [blfs-dev] News about nouveau and systemd

2014-02-10 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/10/14 14:04, Fernando de Oliveira wrote: I thought it would be worth sharing what I have just read. Perhaps not everybody knows about it yet. 1. Debian votes for systemd https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/02/msg00338.html as much as i think systemd is a stinking pile ... for

[blfs-dev] Greetings How bout a VOIP section ??

2014-02-11 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
Ekiga is under other X id like to suggest a section VOIP/Comms that will add Linphone H.323 gnugk T38Modem Hylafax Asterisk JHylafax we supply our LFS/BLFS system well it started off as such but has outgrown the book we focus on converged comunications as a company and would like to assign

Re: [blfs-dev] Greetings How bout a VOIP section ??

2014-02-11 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/11/14 21:18, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Gregory H. Nietsky wrote: my primary motivation is to train staff secondly is to give back to a project that has been a fantastic resource over the years and to contribute experience on other projects to this project. Any objections/additions

Re: [blfs-dev] Greetings How bout a VOIP section ??

2014-02-11 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/11/14 22:51, akhiezer wrote Any objections/additions to this proposal ? We can likely contrib info on what works cfg-/c- wise for UK, for asterisk and hylafax and modem and mobile, for the non-'OIP' side, if that's at all wanted to be incorp; no probs if not. (( Why no 'OIP' implem

Re: [blfs-dev] Greetings How bout a VOIP section ??

2014-02-11 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/11/14 21:18, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Gregory H. Nietsky wrote: my primary motivation is to train staff secondly is to give back to a project that has been a fantastic resource over the years and to contribute experience on other projects to this project. Any objections/additions

Re: [blfs-dev] News about nouveau and systemd

2014-02-12 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/12/14 18:43, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: This does not invalidate your comment, but I think it is always good when a source code becomes open. Even if it did, I would not get particularly upset. The comment I made was pushing the envelope. For me, nouveau does what is expected of it. But

Re: [blfs-dev] News about nouveau and systemd

2014-02-12 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 02/12/14 18:43, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: This does not invalidate your comment, but I think it is always good when a source code becomes open. Even if it did, I would not get particularly upset. The comment I made was pushing the envelope. For me, nouveau does what is expected of it. But

Re: [blfs-dev] Plan for -7.5

2014-02-15 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 15/02/2014 19:50, Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 03:07:49PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: Tomorrow I plan on creating and releasing -rc1 for LFS and BLFS. (Armin I can do LFS-systemd version too if you agree). Please have any planned package updates completed by 2000 GMT tomorrow

Re: [blfs-dev] Plan for -7.5

2014-02-15 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 15/02/2014 21:58, Ken Moffat wrote: I found some past links which led me to believe the missing xdr_ symbols were all related to static linking to old libtirpc from an old glibc. Passing LIBS=-ltirpc when configuring aymptote (the space in that string is important) caused an

Re: [blfs-dev] lsb_release configuration [Was: ... Iced Tea 2.4.1 and iced tea 2.4.5 sed unknown option to `s']

2014-02-17 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 17/02/2014 16:21, akhiezer wrote: Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 09:10:17 -0300 From: Fernando de Oliveira fam...@yahoo.com.br To: BLFS Development List blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [blfs-dev] lsb_release configuration [Was: ... Iced Tea 2.4.1 and iced tea 2.4.5 sed unknown option to

[blfs-dev] Qemu / binfmt_misc / Hybrid tool chains for cross compiling

2014-02-21 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
I spend most my time in the arm world and have been slacking when it comes to aarch64 (arm64) the reason for this is there is no hardware in the wild to support it but there some promising candidates been released in Q2 +

Re: [blfs-dev] discussion about sendmail

2014-02-25 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 25/02/2014 13:39, akhiezer wrote: Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 11:26:19 +0100 From: Pierre Labastie pierre.labas...@neuf.fr To: BLFS Development List blfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: [blfs-dev] discussion about sendmail Hi, Recently, sendmail has been archived, (see ticket #4723).

Re: [blfs-dev] discussion about sendmail

2014-02-26 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 26/02/2014 17:00, Igor Živković wrote: On 2014-02-26 15:53, lf...@cruziero.com wrote: And as asked clearly: the references are ... , what, where? Go to your favorite search engine, type sendmail vs postfix vs exim, and enjoy the read. There is ton's of FUD regarding sendmail previous

Re: [blfs-dev] Reverting my work

2014-02-26 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 26/02/2014 11:29, Pierre Labastie wrote: Maybe, when there is more time, we could start a related discussion about having optional instructions in the book not distinct in any way from mandatory ones. As you may remember, I use some kind of automation for testing the book. If optional

Re: [blfs-dev] Testing that IcedTea works properly in 7.5 ?

2014-02-26 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
On 27/02/2014 06:23, Ken Moffat wrote: So, is there any_simple_ test that an editing monkey can run, to satisfy people that it is known to build and work properly using an LFS-7.5 platform ? In this case, I happen to be running the testsuite, but the book's comment doesn't fill me with

[blfs-dev] libtiff / jbigkit

2014-02-27 Thread Gregory H. Nietsky
The book lists jbigkit as a dependancy of libtiff but has no entry for it jbigkit does not build nice it has no install target. ive added it to the repositories and added install/fixed up clean https://github.com/Distrotech/jbigkik / https://github.com/Distrotech/jbigkit/archive/master.zip A