Re: [blfs-dev] pulseaudio runaway

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 23:39, Thomas Trepl via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 30.04.2019, 15:59 -0600 schrieb Roger Koehler via > blfs-dev: > > On Tue, Apr 30, 2019, 3:50 PM Ken Moffat via blfs-dev < > blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > On

Re: [blfs-dev] From xfce4-xkb-plugin to rustc, layering?

On Mon, 5 Nov 2018 at 07:28, Thomas Trepl via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 01.11.2018, 14:47 -0400 schrieb Jean-Marc Pigeon > via blfs-dev: > > Hello, > > > > ... > > > > Well... as there is countries flags in "svg" format you > > need librsvg,

[blfs-dev] Emacs and EWW

A very nice web browser EWW (emacs web wowser -- a backronym) has been included in the default emacs build since version 24.4. It includes the "duck duck go" web search engine which launches automatically if EWW does not detect a URL or a file name typed into the minibuffer. I can confirm that

Re: [blfs-dev] Trimming BLFS

On 24 September 2018 at 20:36, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > > btrfs-progs-4.17.1 > xfsprogs-4.18.0 > Maybe it's not relevant here but these two are the default file systems for openSUSE Tumbleweed. Btrfs has matured over the years and is an

Re: [blfs-dev] Mailing list issues

On 30 August 2018 at 20:17, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 01:45:10PM -0500, Brendan L via blfs-dev wrote: > > It happened to me a few months ago, I was wondering what was up. > > > It happened to me this morning on blfs-support, I

Re: [blfs-dev] colord fix for warnings:

On 29 April 2018 at 01:19, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 09:55:45PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > On 04/27/2018 08:08 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Looking at the sed in colord, I question its usefulness. Sure, > > > without it ninja produces the warnings,

Re: [blfs-dev] libressl

On 22 April 2018 at 16:51, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/22/2018 10:32 AM, ag wrote: > >> On Tue, Apr 10, at 10:48 ag wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Apr 09, at 02:49 Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> >>>> On 04/09/2018 02:18 PM, Richard

Re: [blfs-dev] pppoe network service script

On 18 April 2018 at 17:45, Tim Tassonis wrote: > > I'm not asking for inclusion into blfs-bootscripts and also agree with > Bruce that pppoe maybe is not the bright future of internet connectivity, I > just wanted to share it in case someone has a similar setup. > > It

Re: [blfs-dev] openssh-7.7p1

On 9 April 2018 at 21:59, Tim Tassonis <st...@decentral.ch> wrote: > On 04/09/2018 09:18 PM, Richard Melville wrote: > >> On 9 April 2018 at 17:31, Tim Tassonis <st...@decentral.ch > st...@decentral.ch>> wrote: >> >> On 04/09/2018 09:47 AM, Richar

Re: [blfs-dev] openssh-7.7p1

On 9 April 2018 at 20:49, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/09/2018 02:18 PM, Richard Melville wrote: > > Well, I disagree. Joel Sing has made it clear that he wants libressl to >> be a drop-in replacement for openssl. He has also stated publicly that he

Re: [blfs-dev] openssh-7.7p1

On 9 April 2018 at 17:31, Tim Tassonis <st...@decentral.ch> wrote: > On 04/09/2018 09:47 AM, Richard Melville wrote: > >> On 7 April 2018 at 23:48, Tim Tassonis <st...@decentral.ch > st...@decentral.ch>> wrote: >> >> On 04/08/2018 12:42 AM, Bruce

Re: [blfs-dev] openssh-7.7p1

On 7 April 2018 at 23:48, Tim Tassonis wrote: > On 04/08/2018 12:42 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> It's disturbing that openssh still requires a 60K patch to build with >> openssl-1.1.0. openssl-1.1.0. has been in release since August 2916. >> > > I guess that's probably

Re: [blfs-dev] Versioning

On 18 March 2018 at 08:33, Pierre Labastie wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot remember who (and on which list) did complain about versioning. > I've > found this: https://semver.org/ > > Maybe we could mention it to our upstream devs... > You can't remember!!!? :-) It was

Re: [blfs-dev] A few suggestions including a package manager

On 4 March 2018 at 15:41, Pierre Labastie wrote: > On 04/03/2018 06:34, m...@pc-networking-services.com wrote: > > > 2) There is a package manager already that works on building from source > > code. It is called nix https://nixos.org/nix/. I have off and on > looked >

Re: [blfs-dev] QA in BLFS

On 4 March 2018 at 02:11, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > I have run into that with the package currency scripts. About 65% of the > packages can be automated quite easily, but the other third require a > custom procedure for each package. Look at just package names for >

Re: [blfs-dev] Archive mod_dnssd? And others

On 28 February 2018 at 12:25, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> The only reference to it that I can find is >> >> 1. archive/gnome/gnome-user-share.xml: > > Here are some more candidates for archiving: > > 2. general/prog/jinja2.xml > > The only place

Re: [blfs-dev] w3m and openssl

On 20 February 2018 at 07:41, Pierre Labastie wrote: > > A more radical step away: archive w3m. Do we really need 3 text browsers in > this book nowadays? > > I use w3m, but I use libressl instead of openssl. This issue was flagged back in 2014 by the freebsd community,

Re: [blfs-dev] ppp support in BFLS networking

On 25 January 2018 at 00:44, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Tim Tassonis wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> >> I just setup a VDSL router with LFS, adding ppp to it and then setting up >> the interface in rc.firewall. Which of course is not really optimal... >> >> >> As currenty, blfs seems

Re: [blfs-dev] Candidate for removal - guile

On 6 December 2017 at 06:30, Jeremy Henty <onepo...@starurchin.org> wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: > > > Guile is also important in relation to GnuCash and LilyPond. > > Keep in mind that LilyPond still uses guile-1, although there are > efforts to port i

Re: [blfs-dev] Candidate for removal - guile

On 3 December 2017 at 15:59, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: > >> On 2 December 2017 at 21:53, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com >> <mailto:bruce.du...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> I am proposing that we

Re: [blfs-dev] Candidate for removal - guile

On 2 December 2017 at 21:53, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I am proposing that we remove guile from BLFS. > > Packages where it is referenced: gdb, graphviz, gnutls. > > In graphviz, it is only used to create optional bindings. > In gdb it is optional and we say that it is

[blfs-dev] dbus optional dependencies

Shouldn't libcap-ng and audit be added as optional dependencies to dbus to enable audit support? Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [blfs-dev] LFS and BLFS Version 8.1 are released

On 2 September 2017 at 01:11, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS > Version 8.1, LFS Version 8.1 (systemd), BLFS Version 8.1, and BLFS Version > 8.1 (systemd). > > This release is a major update to both LFS and

Re: [blfs-dev] rustc and llvm - thoughts

On 28 July 2017 at 01:27, Ken Moffat wrote: > I was going to ask just the editors about this, but maybe people on > this list can contribute other ideas. > > I've found information in links from this week's lwn.net about new > releases for llvm and rust. I continue to

Re: [blfs-dev] AX_REQUIRE_DEFINED : which package provides this ?

On 24 July 2017 at 03:08, Ken Moffat wrote: > My attempt to build all the recommended deps for evince has failed - > after building the usual shed-load of gnome packages I normally only > build to test hte book, I eventually got to nautilus-3.24.1 and > configure blew

Re: [blfs-dev] systemd and qemu experiences

On 18 June 2017 at 03:35, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Warning: This is quite long. If replying, please trim the response to > just the relevant portion. > > Another issue is that package configuration needed to be done as the > packages are built to get a working system. I do

Re: [blfs-dev] systemd and qemu experiences

On 18 June 2017 at 03:35, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Warning: This is quite long. If replying, please trim the response to > just the relevant portion. > > Starting out, there are several packages needed to really get things > going. In my case openssh, wget, nfs

Re: [blfs-dev] Odd failure in heirloom-mailx

On 10 April 2017 at 16:27, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 03:44:12PM +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > > On 9 April 2017 at 22:45, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Ken, I'm tagging on to the end of this p

Re: [blfs-dev] Odd failure in heirloom-mailx

On 9 April 2017 at 22:45, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: > >> Mailx is one of those packages I always build before booting a new >> system, so that fcron can send mail to my server. The current build >> is using exactly the same scripts / versions as I used on

Re: [blfs-dev] wireless tools

On 15 March 2017 at 18:06, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > We are looking at a new package, https://www.kernel.org/pub/sof > tware/network/iw/iw-4.9.tar.xz. This only produces a single executable: > iw. It does not produce a library. > > It does provides functionality similar to