On Sat, 2009-04-04 at 12:10 +0200, michael lang wrote:
Ah, I'll try that the next release the next time I build LFS, but now
that I have rebooted, the issue seems to be gone. Thanks guys.
Oh, the patch will solve that problem, no question. Problem is, there
are a number of bugs like this one
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 22:40 -0700, Chris Burel wrote:
...After much trial and error, I tried installing hal 0.5.12rc1, which
seems to have fixed the problem. Now I get 143 devices listed by
hal-devices instead of 5.
Missed your original post, sorry, but you've come up with the right
answer
On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 10:33 +0200, Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
So, actually there is no way to build LibOFX under LFS. I am not sure, if a
Debian source with a Debian diff-File are applicable under LFS, and I would
not now how to proceed ( the diff file is a *.diff.gz )
The files were
On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 22:14 +0200, Dr. Edgar Alwers wrote:
Hi Simon,
thank you for your explanations. I worked out a patch file for the official
libofx-0.9.1 file pointed to by the BLFS book.
With this patch now libofx-0.9.1 builds also under gcc-4.3.
The patch bases on the Debian files
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 11:22 +0100, richard.melvi...@ntlworld.com wrote:
I recently found that I needed MySQL-python-1.2.2 and I hadn't even been
aware of its existance before.
What is the general feeling for adding it to the book? Build and install
were pretty trivial and error-free.
If
On Wed, 2009-04-29 at 19:48 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
It's an interesting question. I have no idea if they will be fully
backwards compatible. If I was doing it, I'd steer clear of
'uninstall' and rename any old libraries so that they won't be found
(and then remove them once everything is
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 10:45 +0100, richard.melvi...@ntlworld.com wrote:
In answer to your reply above: if ease of installation were a bar to
entry in the book then the book would become very sparse indeed.
Agreed, but conversely, the book would be an unmaintainable monster if
things went to the
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 13:55 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
Dunno when it decided to mention usb-storage, but it seems to work
(I don't print from kde). This is with the host controllers built
in and the usb printer and usb storage as modules. Perhaps this
system has always reported like that
On Sat, 2009-05-09 at 13:43 +0100, lux-integ wrote:
The alsamixer levels are all 'up'. In kde kmix and other audio
applications still refuse to budge.
Not just up, but un-muted? Alsamixer is a somewhat clunky interface, and
it's pretty easy to have the volumes maxed out without noticing
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 01:50 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote:
I realize that this post is very old. I'm now playing catch-up. Do
you, by chance, have a reference for that recommendation? I'm preparing
to commit hal-0.5.11 and hal-info-20081022 with only the
udevinfo/udevadm patch. Are there other
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:12 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote:
Simon Geard wrote:
Your timing is impeccable - they finally released 0.5.12 yesterday :)
Hehe...should've sent this Sunday as I had intended to do. The
util-linux requirement kills the new release...have to wait till
Yes, I just
On Thu, 2009-05-14 at 13:12 -0500, DJ Lucas wrote:
Hehe...should've sent this Sunday as I had intended to do. The
util-linux requirement kills the new release...have to wait till
LFS-6.5/7.0. 0.5.11 seems to be stable with the udevadm patch, but I'll
review what the distros are doing too.
On Sat, 2009-05-16 at 06:10 -0600, Matthew Burgess wrote:
That said, it was already planned to migrate pkg-config across to LFS
as so many packages are adopting it, it makes sense to have it part of
a base system.
True enough - these days, it's really on a par with autoconf, automake,
and
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 15:29 -0400, Gabe Yoder wrote:
everything compiles fine, it is just that once the application is launched,
web pages are displayed wrongly, even the Edit - Preferences menu is
displaying wrong, putting unnecessary spaces between the left menu items
(Appearance,
On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 02:39 -0400, Dominic Ringuet wrote:
About the same topic, I wonder if this bug should be reported to the
gcc or mozilla folks. If gcc 4.3.X works fine, I doubt mozdev folks
will get that problem on their shoulders. Add to that if some distros
got both seamonkey and gcc
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 10:39 +0200, thorsten wrote:
using links -g as a browser works fine, however in firefox the display
of pages is screwed up. It seems like the space between two lines is
extremely large. Also sub-windows of firefox (i.e. preferences) are very
very large. much larger than
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 10:08 -0400, Dominic Ringuet wrote:
Maybe it is the same bug that I have, which seems to be a nspr bug.
see:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39869
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487844
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439144
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 00:27 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
but for me firefox-3.5-on-xulrunner doesn't find some of the internal
mozilla headers - maybe because I'm trying it on /opt, or maybe it needs
a patch.
Could be - it's working fine for me, with no special changes. What
headers are the
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 05:03 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
Hi.
I tried to install Hal from the dev version of the book, but got
something telling me that Udev doesn't provide a libvolume anymore. I
googled this, and couldn't find some suitable workaround.
Yeah, the book still has 0.5.9.1,
On Fri, 2009-07-10 at 12:18 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
those within include/xulrunner-1.9.1, e.g. prprf.h which defines things
like PR_sscanf - fails when it tries to link libbrowserprovider.so (or
before that in extensions/gnomevfs if gnome is not disabled).
Ok, so NSPR problems, basically.
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 23:42 -0400, Dave wrote:
how would the kernel autodetect the new hardware, the audio cards
wouldn't be the same, and load appropriate modules?
It just would. The kernel knows what hardware is present, and the driver
modules know which hardware they support. All that's
On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 12:56 +0100, lux-integ wrote:
Greetings,
I am about to embark on compiling geda from sources (url
http://www.gpleda.org/sources.html) on a clfs machine. gEDA/gaf requires
guile-1.8.x while gwave requires guile-1.6.3. Also gerbv requires
gtk-2.4.14
and
On Sat, 2009-07-25 at 08:22 -0400, Mag Gam wrote:
I am trying to build mod_python but I am having python dependency
problems with Python shared library. Does anyone have a good recipe to
build this with all or most the python bindings? I would like to have
Mysql/Postgresql/Subversion support
On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 02:11 +0200, Pierre Mege wrote:
I tried a more recent version of gtk+ gtk+-2.17.6 but did not see any
substantial change (owing to what i have read from
Dominic's post, this bug has been first reported as fixed but is
still persistent, undecided and/or unsolved) .
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 00:02 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
Background: when I saw that gconf now demands PAM I was double-plus
unimpressed - for me, KISS is mandatory. Found some gentoo patches
to build gconf without PAM, but I'm aware they might be the cause of the
problem I'm seeing.
Well, it
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 19:33 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
Sure, except they're actually for PolicyKit, not GConf itself
(my memory is unreliable). A random link is
http://ftp.uni-kl.de/pub/linux/gentoo-portage/sys-auth/policykit/files/
Ah, that makes more sense than GConf depending on PAM itself.
On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 23:27 +0200, Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote:
Adding those options didn't solve the problem. But going to Hal 0.5.13
seems to work. Console-Kit looks like it disappeared (or it is not on
the freedesktop site), but PolicyKit looked OK.
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 08:07 -0500, William Immendorf wrote:
I found out that the download location is now
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit/dist.
BTW, should we add ConsoleKit to the book?
We'll probably have to sooner or later - not sure if current HAL
requires it, but I'm
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 15:42 +, Ken Moffat wrote:
So, I'm open to suggestions (except those that begin download from
adobe - I want libre, not binary downloads).
Anybody else seeing this ? Anybody using gnash and NOT seeing this
problem ?
Tried Swfdec? Never used it myself, but
On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 22:09 +, William Immendorf wrote:
How does Linux-PAM use X.org?
It doesn't, is the short version, but I suspect we're misunderstanding
your question. Can you be more specific about what you want to know?
Simon.
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On Sun, 2009-11-15 at 18:46 +0100, Simone Dalmasso wrote:
Hi list,
I'm compiling the X window System, I get errors during the build of
the Xorg libraries:
No package 'xext' found
No package 'xt' found
No package 'xmu' found
for the libXaw library and others.
Can you suggest me how can I
On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 17:02 -0600, krendosha...@dementedfury.org wrote:
I see several problems here: first it can't find your fonts, you've
either not compiled them or they're in a different directory. If
they're in a different directory and you wish to keep them there,
then you can use
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 00:27 +, Ken Moffat wrote:
FWIW, I tried a minimal gnome, based on what I'd
been using for 2.26. GConf2 needs hal, or something
else I'd rather not have, so I stuck with 2.26 for that.
GConf 2.28 doesn't use Hal, but it does have use Policykit, which I
guess is what
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 20:08 -0300, LinuxPuertoMontt wrote:
working on in other machine, can't copy and paste.
As an alternative to copy-paste, you could send the output of the
command to a file, and copy it to a memory stick or something. A lot
less effort for you than manually typing it out on
On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 13:56 +, Richard Melville wrote:
Hi All
I'm having dinner with Stormy Peters, Executive Director of the Gnome
Foundation, on Wednesday night. I wondered if anybody on this list
had any questions that they would like me to ask her on their behalf.
I'm going to
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 17:32 -0500, cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote:
Hi
Building Gnome-desktop 2.28 from Blfs gives the following error - has
any one seen this?
Is gnome-doc-utils installed? That seems to be what provides the xml2po
package...
Simon.
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On Tue, 2009-12-15 at 20:28 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote:
If no mistakes on my part on this subject,
this will cause errors for some packages
looking in the wrong place.
Is this a trend?
It's not a mistake on your part - it just seems to be that a small
number of packages install their
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:56 -0500, Chris Staub wrote:
First, it doesn't matter what order, unless there are duplicate files in
both directories. Second, as noted in the manpage, /usr/lib/pkgconfig
and /usr/share/pkgconfig are both searched by default anyway so they
don't need to be in
On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 14:00 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote:
The Udev developers, in their relentless quest for perfection
decided to join the crowd with their own pc file in 149.
Interesting... I'd not noticed that one (it's present as early as 146,
btw). Going by the contents of /lib/udev, I
On Tue, 2009-12-22 at 01:02 +, lux-integ wrote:
thanks for the suggestion. A more detailed reading of :-
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/graphics.html
would suggest FOP ideally needs an X-server installed.
Well, that page offers three suggestions - to run Java headless, to
On Sun, 2009-12-27 at 21:15 +0100, Jan Seynaeve wrote:
/usr/share/fonts. I was just wondering about those 'wrong' entries in
the xorg.conf and whether they affect the Xft protocol ...
No, they don't. FontPath entries affect only the use of X11's core font
functionality, which isn't much used
On Thu, 2009-12-31 at 11:42 -0500, cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote:
Although I can start system dbus in the usual way, a session dbus fails
to start as user or root with the following error:
'Failed to start message bus: Element servicedir is not allowed in
this context
EOF in dbus-launch
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 10:28 +, lux-integ wrote:
I did NOT install mesa and am unsure if the reported errors have something
to do with this.
That's exactly the problem - gl.pc is provided by Mesa.
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On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 12:07 +, lux-integ wrote:
QUESTION:
1:what is the blfs recommendation, freeglut ? OR
2: glut-source in mesalib sources? and if the latter where is it?
I always use the Mesa version. The book mentions the MesaLibs and Mesa
Demos packages - to that, I add the MesaGLUT
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 17:16 -0500, stosss wrote:
It looks like you're overthinking things and reading more into what's on
the page then what's there. It's referring to exactly what is done on
that page - configuring Shadow to use PAM. In particular, it follows up
on the previous note about
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 17:21 -0500, Chris Staub wrote:
Pasted from the Note in question:
You must create a valid /root/.bashrc file to provide a modified path
for the super-user.
Therefore, to your question of what to add to root's .bashrc - it's a
modified path. You know, since root
On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 22:27 -0500, Chris Staub wrote:
Although, If you are using this option would likely not be necessary,
as it's part of the default login.defs, so it would pretty much be used
by everyone. Otherwise, anyone who is using it would add it themselves,
in which case they
On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 15:58 -0500, cliffhan...@gardener.com wrote:
Hi
I'm installing Gnome 2.28. Am I right in saying that installing
Networkmanager is not possible with the version of Polkit-0.94 that
I've installed? 0.94 is necessary for
DeviceKit-power-012 because of
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 12:45 +1100, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote:
Last time I looked at NetworkManager, it required you to specify a
distro during the configuration phase. This was the main reason I gave
up on it. I'm curious if you are using the --with-distro= parameter and
what value you are setting
On Fri, 2010-01-08 at 20:47 +1300, Simon Geard wrote:
NM 0.8 will use the newer API, but I think that's still some way off being
released.
And not 24 hours after I wrote that, I see a 0.7.998 snapshot - perhaps
the first beta - has gone up on the Gnome FTP site. Nothing on the NM
mailing list
On Wed, 2010-01-13 at 12:05 -0600, Hops Error, Line 21, alcoholi.c
wrote:
After a little bit of experience getting an eglibc-based cross
compiler working (both with instructions from CLFS and some hints in
eglibc's mailing list), I was wondering if there was ever going to be
an eglibc ticket
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 19:09 +, Hops Error, Line 21, alcoholi.c
wrote:
Playing the what-if game, though, if one day eglibc actually managed a
proven high degree of binary compatibility, would there be
instructions here? In my opinion it is a possibility, with a few
popular distros full of
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 22:01 -0800, Johnneylee Rollins wrote:
So what you're saying here is I can just use my lgs build and it will
work on other computers of the same architecture?
Within limits. Binaries built on one machine will run on another,
assuming you're not trying to run a build
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 14:54 +, Hops Error, Line 21, alcoholi.c
wrote:
Just this, from bitter experience: build everything so it boots from a
USB stick first, and then write just your filesystem to a non-bootable
CD second.
In fact, not all that much reason to worry about CD boot these
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 05:46 +, Joao Henriques wrote:
/usr/X11/lib/libX11.so: undefined reference to
`xcb_connection_has_error'
/usr/X11/lib/libX11.so: undefined reference to `xcb_poll_for_reply'
/usr/X11/lib/libX11.so: undefined reference to
`xcb_get_maximum_request_length'
On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 14:42 -0500, Ken Koehler wrote:
5) gsview text searching in pdf files doesn't work with either ps2ascii
or pstotext... after fighting for a day trying to find a pdf reader that
will work and allow text searching, I finally caved and downloaded acroread
Evince, the gnome
On Mon, 2010-02-01 at 13:45 -0300, Alonso Graterol wrote:
My question would be if Gtk-2.0.gir should have been built in the
first place (I guess so) and why why it was not.
If you mean should it have been built as part of Gtk+ itself, the answer
is no - not yet. I think the next release has
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 18:49 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
I was disappointed when I saw that LFS seemingly ineluctably
was wedded to udev. I see that BLFS has some hints for doing
things without it, but then leaves the sysadmin to his own
devices (no pun intended) thereafter, with a one sentence
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 19:18 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Would someone like to educate me on the risks involved with autofs,
and why one would prefer autofs to whatever it is that HAL can do
on its own, please?
I've no experience with it myself, but I believe that where HAL (and
successors) deal
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 16:27 -0700, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
Do you know if it is possible to configure DBus so that this workaround
is not needed?
You'd want to check docs for details, but the default dbus system.conf
contains a line that includes the contents of system.d. Potentially you
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 00:27 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
That's about 45 *feet* wide. I'll leave it out there in case anyone
wants to try to do something useful with it, but it's not likely.
I'd think that it's not very useful for processing by _humans_,
but after
On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 10:43 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Simon Geard wrote:
But in practice, writing your own tool to do it is entirely unnecessary,
since that's exactly what 'make' does. Just write a Makefile expressing
dependencies, and let it do the job for you. For example:
The tool I
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 15:35 -0500, stosss wrote:
Why is it that you and other developers are so touchy about the book
and its condition and people pointing out things that could be done
different, better or whatever? Why do you and the others insist on
thinking there is nothing wrong with the
On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 17:18 +0600, Dmitry Sokolov wrote:
Hello
When i building some package, this package have a Recommended,
Optional and Required packages.
(Dependencies).
Can you answer me Yes or No or When on my questions.
1. Required packages needs to installed before current
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 13:59 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Since I'm on the verge of starting in to build BLFS, it would
be helpful to know when the next release may be available. I
realize that can be very difficult to estimate when you do something
not full time. What I'm asking for is order of
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 03:34 -0500, stosss wrote:
So maybe a note should be added or the order in the options list
changed. So some one else does not get tripped by this.
In what way is it unclear? The xsltproc command is provided by libxslt,
which as you pointed out, is a required dependency in
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 02:07 -0500, stosss wrote:
I looked back through the book and see that libxslt is listed as
required in libxcb. I was tired and must have missed it. But I saw it
and built it under xmlto.
oh well, sorry for the noise.
Fair enough...
I am going to build LFS/BLFS
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 01:32 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
The issue is trying to hit a moving target. I'm not going to try
to do that. If the book is still changing, there is a reason. I may
find out what that reason is, before the fix is in.
The book will *always* be changing, and the reason is
On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 17:38 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
Right now, GNOME is almost there. X has some changes that need to be
done. I'm currently doing many packages. I can actually see a release
happening.
The Gnome release calendar has 2.30 due out in about 6 weeks. Will BLFS
have 2.28 be
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 08:32 -0600, Randy McMurchy wrote:
If the community's expectations are that we have the most current
release of every package in the most recent BLFS book, then the
expectations are too high and are unreasonable.
It's not a reasonable expectation that the book will
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:48 +, Andrew Benton wrote:
How do I tell git to remember all the changes to ${CURRENT_FILES} but to not
keep a copy of ${REMOVED_FILES}
You don't - it's a version control system. If you don't want the
tarballs versioned, don't store them in git.
Instead, your
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 10:27 +, Andrew Benton wrote:
I'm surprised that git couldn't be configured to only track the
current files.
Why surprised? That's the fundamental purpose of a version control
system, to keep track of *every* version that's been committed to it. If
it only kept the
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:34:45 +, Ken Moffat
zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com
wrote:
Any suggestions for something that's easy to build (no 'cmake',
please), and can play .flv video files from stdin ?
I'm afraid I can't provide specifics, but I'd be surprised if gstreamer
didn't include a source
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:40:29 +, Ken Moffat
zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com
The perl script is less than 9400 lines, so I might yet be tempted
to try to work out what is going on, when I've got a spare month.
You say that like 9400 lines of Perl isn't all that much? I have to
disagree - for a
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:45 +, Andrew Benton wrote:
Hello world,
I recently rebuilt my system and used libpng-1.4.0. Most things worked
fine but there were 3 packages that gave me trouble.
cairo-1.8.8 needs to be configured with
./configure png_REQUIRES=libpng14
gimp needed a sed
sed
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 20:43 +1300, Simon Geard wrote:
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 14:45 +, Andrew Benton wrote:
Hello world,
I recently rebuilt my system and used libpng-1.4.0. Most things worked
fine but there were 3 packages that gave me trouble.
cairo-1.8.8 needs to be configured
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 03:45 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
Why set up a wireless network connection by using a GUI
requiring compiling and installing a huge pile of gunk,
for example, when some very simple CLI commands can be issued,
and put into a script, where they will live forever?
Oh, that's
On Mon, 2010-03-22 at 00:26 +, Andrew Benton wrote:
I think this is a bug in libdrm-2.4.14. I couldn't get libdrm-2.4.14 and
Mesa-7.6 to
work for me. libdrm-2.4.12 worked with Mesa-7.5.2 (but was slow: 600fps in
glxgears)
libdrm-2.4.17 worked with Mesa-7.7 (fast: 3600fps in glxgears but
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 18:12 -0500, Dale Stein wrote:
Hi, I was building NetworkManager-0.8 and one of the config options
which apparently is required
is the --with-distro= It builds just fine with Debian as the distro.
What distro would lfs be closest to?
Thanks!
I use Redhat, but it
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 07:38 -0300, Maginot Junior wrote:
Well, let me say that I'm trying to make network-manager work like
expected on my distro too
Pointless, as far as I'm concerned. Integration with distro-specific
config files is only useful if you have some reason for wanting to keep
On Fri, 2010-04-09 at 15:12 +0200, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
In mho, wicd should become incorporate in KDE as the standard network
manager.
Unlikely, given the relative maturity of wicd vs NM.
Wicd currently supports only Ethernet and Wifi - it has no support for
3G connections, no
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 13:57 -0400, stosss wrote:
I have heard that HAL is going away. udev seems to work well in place
of HAL. I do not know what the overall Linux community is planning
with its planned replacement for HAL.
Correct. Udev itself takes over the core function of HAL, as a
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 15:17 -0400, linux fan wrote:
On 4/10/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't know, but I'm guessing that gtk-doc has something to do with it. Do
you have
gtk-doc installed?
No.
Yes, it is to do with gtk-doc.
That's going to force me to install more
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 20:43 -0400, linux fan wrote:
On 4/12/10, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
You don't. G-V-M has been obsolete for a few years, even before the
deprecation of HAL
HAL is deprecated?
Honorable bewildered self seeks enlightenment if available.
See my post
On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 15:16 -0300, Maginot Junior wrote:
I notice that distros like Ubuntu detects when the cable is
plugged and automatically connects, how can I implement that on my
distro, is that anything to do with avahi?
All the major distros use NetworkManager, which among other things,
On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 03:59 -0300, Maginot Junior wrote:
So network manager is the guy who automatically connects the box, good
to know. I will try to build NM again, since my previous tries didn't
succeed. I really thought in the beginning that this was Avahi's
task...
Nope. Avahi's job is
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 17:05 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
Just a FYI from the dark side - for me, ff-3.6.3 was unusable with youtube -
with all available x86_64 versions of libflashplayer it crashed. I
got as far as
confirming this was a change since 3.6, then discovered there is source for
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 11:57 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote:
I agree with what you say, I just wanted to add that I used to install a bunch
of binary codecs (downloaded from the mplayer website?) but lately I find that
xine (linked to a recent ffmpeg with lots of options enabled) can play
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 23:31 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
In the past, I've attempted, from time to time, to record what I'm
building and how I build it. The latest version has now been uploaded
to http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~ken/desktop-2010-05/ - a text
file summarising what I'm doing, plus
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 15:43 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
On 4 May 2010 02:43, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
What's with your comments on GConf, that you use an older version
because the dependencies of 2.28 scare you? Those dependencies are
ORBit2, libxml2, dbus-glib, polkit, and gtk
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 17:25 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
OK, I've dug out my notes from last october, but all those say is that
the new version didn't seem to be properly released and was only in
fedora (fc12). Looking at fedora cvs, it was a git pull from 20090913
and according to them depended
On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 09:42 +0100, Rodolfo Perez wrote:
Hey
I successfully installed lfs 6.5 on a partition of my laptop. Now I
would like to go on with blfs. To make life easier I would prefer to run
my new lfs 6.5 on a virtual machine in my guest system (Mandriva 2009.1)
in order to be
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 11:59 -0400, linux fan wrote:
I have an uneasy suspicion (unconfirmed) that it would be very easy
for someone to use sudo to create a .pkla file that would allow them
to do whatever in the world they want := very secure :)
If random users have sudo permissions to create
On Sun, 2010-05-09 at 10:44 +0200, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote:
I shall try it, thanks a lot. Just as an example, why I do not understand
things today:
-
An authentication agent is used to make the user of a session
prove that
the user of the
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 19:54 -0700, Carl Thorn wrote:
I have been trying to build a gnome desktop on top of an LFS version
6.6 I am up to installing the gnome-doc-utils and keep getting the
following build error. I have checked and rechecked to make sure I
have all the dependencies correct. If
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 10:35 +0200, Nicolas Richard wrote:
Also on bash, the builtin type seems to do the job of 'alias' and
'which' at the same time. Is there any drawback to using that one ?
Certainly not for an interactive shell - since it's a bash builtin,
it'll tell you *exactly* what bash
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 16:58 +1000, James Rhodes wrote:
I'm currently following the latest development book on building GNOME
and I've run into a bug which has no patch, relating to gnome-vfs
failing the 'test-async-cancel' test. I've researched and found that
there's no patch for this bug
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 22:50 +0200, Olaf Grüttner wrote:
Dear all,
I am having problems with polkit-0.94.
make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/polkit-0.94/docs'
Making all in man
make[3]: Entering directory `/sources/polkit-0.94/docs/man'
/usr/bin/xsltproc -nonet --stringparam
On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 16:35 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote:
Personally I found that the easist solution was to pass
--disable-introspection to udev and polkit.
Nothing of value was lost.
Maybe, maybe not. If you try building newer Gnome versions, you'd likely
hit problems disabling introspection
On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 10:29 +0100, Andrew Benton wrote:
On 17/07/10 05:00, Simon Geard wrote:
Maybe, maybe not. If you try building newer Gnome versions, you'd likely
hit problems disabling introspection - some things *will* require
introspection data from others.
Thanks for the info
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