Re: [blfs-support] fcron md5sum BLFS 10.1/development

On 3/29/21 5:13 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:30:50 -0500 rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: The fcron md5sum I see differs from the documentation. md5sum fcron-3.2.1.src.tar.gz generates 489a7f41afdd88f9312b517b8a6c2433, while the documentation shows

Re: [blfs-support] Two suggestions

On 3/27/21 1:54 PM, Rainer Fiebig via blfs-support wrote: Ahh - this one made it! Despite containing "SPAM". So that's probably not the reason the other one did not come through. Really strange. I'm thinking about a gmail-account. But I'm not too enthusiastic about google and such. I value

Re: [blfs-support] Two suggestions

On 3/26/21 12:36 PM, Rainer Fiebig via blfs-support wrote: Hi all! First, thanks to you and the team of LFS for your work and effort! I think that in terms of digital self-empowerment LFS/BLFS is the most important and most valuable Linux-distribution of all. There is hardly anything to

Re: [blfs-support] State of LFS hints

On 3/26/21 7:34 AM, Daniel Mowitz via blfs-support wrote: After looking through the hints directory listing and comparing it with the mailing list, I noticed that none of the recent submissions were added. (The last change I could se was in 2019 and the list was still active since.) So, what is

Re: [blfs-support] Missing directory patch directory for systemd 10.1

On 3/3/21 7:31 PM, Pat Barnes via blfs-support wrote: On 3/3/21 6:40 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 3/3/21 5:06 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 05:21:28PM -0500, Pat Barnes via blfs-support wrote: While trying to install libxml2-2.9.10, I tried

Re: [blfs-support] Missing directory patch directory for systemd 10.1

On 3/3/21 5:06 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 05:21:28PM -0500, Pat Barnes via blfs-support wrote: While trying to install libxml2-2.9.10, I tried to download the patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/10.1/libxml2-2.9.10-security_fixes-1.patch It

Re: [blfs-support] Missing directory patch directory for systemd 10.1

On 3/3/21 4:21 PM, Pat Barnes via blfs-support wrote: While trying to install libxml2-2.9.10, I tried to download the patch: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/10.1/libxml2-2.9.10-security_fixes-1.patch It seems that http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/10.1/ doesn't

[blfs-support] LFS and BLFS Version 10.1 are released

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 10.1, LFS Version 10.1 (systemd), BLFS Version 10.1, and BLFS Version 10.1 (systemd). This release is a major update to both LFS and BLFS. The LFS release includes updates to glibc-2.33, and binutils-2.36.1. A

[blfs-support] LFS-10.1-rc1 is released

The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS Version 10.1-rc1. It is a preliminary release of LFS-10.1. The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS Version 10.1-rc1. It is a preliminary release of LFS-10.1. Major changes include toolchain updates to

Re: [blfs-support] Is it worth jumping in for me? / Can LFS be even more simple?

On 2/6/21 8:16 PM, 5--- via blfs-support wrote: Sure, that is the 'init' program (/sbin/init) which needs to be replaced. Than you can strip down your system to be a two-files-OS (1. kernel, 2. your init). Doubt whether it is really fun ;-) Thank you everyone for the replies. I tried this on a

Re: [blfs-support] Is it worth jumping in for me? / Can LFS be even more simple?

On 1/7/21 10:14 AM, Paul via blfs-support wrote: On 1/7/21 1:34 AM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: If you are strapped for time, there is an alternative.  You could use jhalf to build the lfs system, and then you have a fully working base system, and then you could boot into lfs

Re: [blfs-support] Is it worth jumping in for me? / Can LFS be even more simple?

On 1/6/21 10:24 PM, Paul via blfs-support wrote: I am interested in the idea of LFS to better understand Unix/Linux. I have been using Linux (Ubuntu/Debian/Arch) as my desktop for several years and it bothers me that I still don't understand A LOT about how it works. I like the idea of being

Re: [blfs-support] Problems downloading patches using jhalfs

On 12/21/20 4:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I think patches are not on osuosl (or if they are, not in blfs/svn). Usually there is no problem downloading them from higgs, except when they have just been committed (they are not yet in blfs/svn). But higgs seems unresponsive at times these days. The

Re: [blfs-support] Problems downloading patches using jhalfs

On 12/21/20 4:55 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 04:06:36PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 12/21/20 3:17 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 19:19 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: Connecting

Re: [blfs-support] Problems downloading patches using jhalfs

On 12/21/20 3:17 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: On Mon, 2020-12-21 at 19:19 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: I've hit this several times during my current attempt to use jhalfs to build the parts of blfs which I have not yet built : trying to download a patch from

Re: [blfs-support] libvdpau and graphviz

On 12/16/20 2:53 PM, William Harrington via blfs-support wrote: Greetings, I've gone through the libvdpau meson_options.txt and I don't see where graphviz is ever mentioned. libvdpau after install only has: 0x0001 (NEEDED) Shared library: [libX11.so.6]

Re: [blfs-support] Update the kernel to 5.10.1

On 12/15/20 1:59 PM, James Read via blfs-support wrote: Hi, I have a running LFS system. Was thinking about updating the kernel to the latest stable version (5.10.1). Is this a bad idea? Could it break the system? You can do that, but do NOT replace the kernel headers. glibc depends on

Re: [blfs-support] How to make an iso of BLFS

On 12/8/20 3:07 PM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: [Profanity removed] People like you should be banned from internet access for LIFE. Christopher. This message was totally uncalled for. If you do this again, you will be the one banned. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-support] How to make an iso of BLFS

On 12/8/20 2:29 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 14:03:51 -0600 Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 12/8/20 1:22 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:33:48 -0600 Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 12/8/20 12:00 PM, Scott

Re: [blfs-support] How to make an iso of BLFS

On 12/8/20 1:22 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 12:33:48 -0600 Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 12/8/20 12:00 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: The only sane way ( successful way ) to build LFS for it to be installed onto other machine is to 1

Re: [blfs-support] How to make an iso of BLFS

On 12/8/20 12:00 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: The only sane way ( successful way ) to build LFS for it to be installed onto other machine is to 1. Use a package manager 2. Build ALL the packages in a clean chroot 3. Create a base system of packages and all the

Re: [blfs-support] libreoffice 7.0.3.1

On 12/6/20 11:41 AM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: Hello, When I attempted to install libreoffice, I received the following error: Various low-level dependencies are missing, please install them: aclocal -I /usr/share/aclocal: aclocal -I /usr/share/aclocal is

Re: [blfs-support] libuv-/aclocal-issue: workaround

On 11/30/20 7:01 AM, Rainer Fiebig wrote: Hi! With the directives in BLFS-10.0 (and earlier) libuv-* can't be built because libuv's autogen.sh can't find aclocal and stops with an error. This issue has been discussed before (Oct. 2019) and "autoreconf" has been suggested as a solution. This

Re: [blfs-support] qtwebengine patch does not apply

On 11/26/20 1:17 PM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: Sent: Friday, November 27, 2020 at 7:23 AM From: "Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support" To: blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Cc: "Bruce Dubbs" Subject: Re: [blfs-support] qtwebengine patch does not apply

Re: [blfs-support] qtwebengine patch does not apply

On 11/26/20 12:15 PM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: Hello, The provided patch does not seem to have been created correctly. When you go to apply it, it asks which file you wish to patch. I see that Bruce modified it, so perhaps this could be checked and corrected? I just

Re: [blfs-support] libraw demosaic-packs

On 11/22/20 4:58 AM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: Hello, I notice that the demosaic packs are still being shown as being able to be optionally downloaded and used in the book. However, the developers have discontinued them, and now if you do a ./configure --help, they are not

Re: [blfs-support] Bug on Libspiro page

On 11/10/20 4:07 PM, Radim Kohout via blfs-support wrote: The first link is without the dot: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/10.0/general/libspiro.html Radim Kohout út 10. 11. 2020 v 23:05 odesílatel Radim Kohout > napsal: Hello, I've found a

Re: [blfs-support] LSB-Tools fails to create symlinks properly

On 11/10/20 11:43 AM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: Now compliant with the man page and LSB specs. What we have now is compliant with both. https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_5.0.0/LSB-Core-generic/LSB-Core-generic/etc.html "In addition to the requirements for /etc in the

Re: [blfs-support] LSB-Tools fails to create symlinks properly

On 11/10/20 7:09 AM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2020 06:00:54 -0500 Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: [putolin] man inittab A more elaborate inittab with different runlevels (see the comments inside): # Level to run in

Re: [blfs-support] LSB-Tools fails to create symlinks properly

On 11/9/20 8:47 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: LSB-Tools will fails to create symlinks properly in the following layout mv /etc/rc.d/init.d /etc layout as follows /etc/init.d /etc/rc.d/ rc0.d rc1.d rc2.d rc3.d rc4.d rc5.d rc6.d rcS.d The design of the layout is: $ ls -l

Re: [blfs-support] LSB-Tools broken again

On 11/9/20 12:58 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: I am working with the sysinit package and lsb-tools. in __init__.py line 96: elif os.path.exists("/etc/rc.d./init.d"): should be elif os.path.exists("/etc/rc.d/init.d"): as path:

Re: [blfs-support] QtWebEngine - make: *** [Makefile 49: sub-src-make_first] Error 2 - BLFS 10.0

On 10/18/20 5:16 PM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: On 10/17/20 9:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 04:11:07PM -0500, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: Compiling QtWebEngine fails with the following end output:     make[3]: *** No rule to make

Re: [blfs-support] Issues building gdk-pixbuf-2.40.0

On 10/14/20 10:50 PM, DJ Lucas - LFS via blfs-support wrote: Being that nobody is reporting it, I'm guessing not, but I'll ask anyway. Has anybody had issues building gkd-pixbuf-2.40.0? From a related bug report, it looks like some missing dependency elsewhere. It really doesn't matter much as

Re: [blfs-support] Qt5 Multiple versions

On 10/14/20 1:42 PM, Wayne Sallee via blfs-support wrote:  Original Message  *Subject: *  Re: [blfs-support] Qt5 Multiple versions *From: * Bruce Dubbs Via Blfs-support *To: * Blfs-support *CC: *Bruce Dubbs *Date: *  2020-10-14  01:48 PM On 10/14

Re: [blfs-support] Qt5 Multiple versions

On 10/14/20 12:10 PM, Wayne Sallee via blfs-support wrote: The idea of using /opt to be able to create multiple versions of qt5 is a good idea. I found some problems that might need to be addressed in the BLFS instructions. run: find /usr/bin -lname '*/opt/qt*' | xargs ls -lhd and you will

Re: [blfs-support] Berkeley DB

On 9/26/20 10:33 PM, Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: [deleted trask talk] Christopher. Stop posting this type of thing or you will be blocked. -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe:

Re: [blfs-support] Berkeley DB

On 9/26/20 6:36 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 9/26/20 6:40 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 06:18:14PM -0400, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 9/26/20 5:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 9/26/20 4:26 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs

Re: [blfs-support] Berkeley DB

On 9/26/20 5:18 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 9/26/20 5:44 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 9/26/20 4:26 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.5 Chapter 22. Databases Berkeley DB-6.0.20 Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V

Re: [blfs-support] Berkeley DB

On 9/26/20 4:26 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: Beyond Linux® From Scratch - Version 7.5 Chapter 22. Databases Berkeley DB-6.0.20 Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 9.0 Chapter 22. Databases Berkeley DB-5.3.28 Why was Berkeley DB-6.0.20 reverted to Berkeley

Re: [blfs-support] xinit-1.4.1

On 9/17/20 10:58 AM, Hans Meier via blfs-support wrote: Hello, Is sed -e correct in xinit-1.4.1 on the last command? Should it not be sed -i ? sed -e '/$serverargs $vtarg/ s/serverargs/: #&/' $XORG_PREFIX/bin/startx sed -i '/$serverargs $vtarg/ s/serverargs/: #&/' $XORG_PREFIX/bin/startx I

Re: [blfs-support] Gwenview is unable to launch

On 9/14/20 10:52 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 09:08:47AM -0400, Linux Lover via blfs-support wrote: Upon researching it seems cfisio is apart of that which is installed at 3.19 I'm at a loss lol P;lease don't top post, it makes it very hard to follow the

Re: [blfs-support] Default Printer Not Showing In Firefox Or Thunderbird

On 9/9/20 1:33 AM, Michael Shell via blfs-support wrote: On Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:31:58 +0200 Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: added the line `gtk-print-backends = cups,file,lpr' to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini and now firefox shows the printer. Thanks for posting the solution. Maybe

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS 10.0 Patch Not Found

On 9/3/20 8:21 AM, Vaughan Butler via blfs-support wrote: Building gptfdisk-1.0.5, the patch URL is not found. In fact the folder http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/blfs/10.0 does not exist! Found the correct patch in the svn folder. That has been fixed. Thanks for the report. --

[blfs-support] LFS and BLFS Version 10.0 are released

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 10.0, LFS Version 10.0 (systemd), BLFS Version 10.0, and BLFS Version 10.0 (systemd). This release is a major update to both LFS and BLFS. The LFS release includes updates to glibc-2.31, and binutils-2.34. A

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS - PHP-7.4.9 Missing SQLite Configure Fail

On 8/31/20 8:19 AM, Jon Wilder via blfs-support wrote: In following the published configure opts in the PHP chapter of the Development systemd version of the BLFS book, configure kept failing due to SQLite missing on my system. I installed MariaDB, then attempted the build again, and got the

Re: [blfs-support] GCC fails to find headers that are present on the system

On 8/30/20 3:04 PM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: On Sat, 2020-08-29 at 20:20 -0400, Chris Gorman via blfs-support wrote: Hello Again, I believe I have found the culprit for my 'broken' search path for gcc and g++. In 'Introduction to Xorg-7' we are told to run the following if we

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS-9.0 BLFS-9.1 BLFS-SVN util-macros

On 8/27/20 5:45 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On Thu, 27 Aug 2020 16:59:19 -0500 Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 8/27/20 4:31 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: *.pc file in wrong directory install -m755 -d /usr/lib mv /usr/share/pkgconfig /usr/lib/ pkg

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS-9.0 BLFS-9.1 BLFS-SVN util-macros

On 8/27/20 4:31 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: *.pc file in wrong directory install -m755 -d /usr/lib mv /usr/share/pkgconfig /usr/lib/ pkg-config searches both /usr/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/share/pkgconfig man pkg-config -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS: README for building book from source

On 8/18/20 12:13 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: $LastChangedBy: bdubbs $ $Date: 2016-10-15 16:13:31 -0400 (Sat, 15 Oct 2016) $ How do I convert these XML files to other formats like HTML, PDF, and TXT? You need to have some software installed that deal with these conversions. Please

[blfs-support] LFS-10.0-rc1 is released

The Linux From Scratch community announces the release of LFS Version 10.0-rc1. It is a preliminary release of LFS-10.0. This version of the book has undergone a major reorganization. It uses enhanced cross-compilation techniques and an environment isolated from the host system to build tools

Re: [blfs-support] Download MD5 sum does not match for Cairo package

On 8/13/20 6:53 PM, Elias Rudberg via blfs-support wrote: Hello everyone, For Cairo-1.17.2+f93fc72c03e the MD5 sum does not seem to match. The BLFS book 9.1 says: - Download (HTTP): http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/BLFS/cairo/cairo-1.17.2+f93fc72c03e.tar.xz

Re: [blfs-support] Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 9.1: LSB-Tools-0.6

On 8/13/20 4:51 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: I have the following issues with this package: Error! Unable to locate Requried-Start dependency localnet for script: network warning: %post(rngd-14-1.armv7hnl) scriptlet failed, exit status 2 Error! Unable to locate Requried-Start

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS mc question

On 8/9/20 7:06 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: On Sun, 2020-08-09 at 11:27 +0200, Alexey Orishko via blfs-support wrote: On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 1:01 AM Christopher Gregory via blfs-support wrote: According to midnight commanders github commit list, this file was removed from the

Re: [blfs-support] vsftpd segfault

On 8/4/20 8:35 PM, Alexey Orishko via blfs-support wrote: Hi guys, Just got a system running v.9.1 and decided to check dmesg. Unfortunately I saw vsftpd segfault: [ 50.395920] vsftpd[685]: segfault at 0 ip 7f87cf2676aa sp 7ffe2ab68e48 error 4 in libc-2.31.so[7f87cf133000+149000] [

Re: [blfs-support] Startpar

On 7/17/20 4:58 AM, Leandro Nini via blfs-support wrote: Hello, does anyone have experience with startpar? It's the sysvinit companion to allow starting services in parallel but I can't find much useful info on how to use it. I am not familiar with startpar, but question why (other than

Re: [blfs-support] Plasma 5.19 new dependency

On 7/7/20 1:25 AM, Leandro Nini via blfs-support wrote: Hello, just as a head up, kwin-5.19 has a new required dependency on plasma-wayland-protocols. Version 1.0 of the package is available at https://download.kde.org/stable/plasma-wayland-protocols/1.0/ Thank you. We will be upgrading to

Re: [blfs-support] Microcode on skylake - request for success/failure reports

On 6/16/20 8:42 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: Intel released fresh microcode on 20200609 to provide mitigation for the SRBDS vulnerability, and this week's kernel releases list Mitigation: Microcode for srbds on affected machines with that microcode. But on Monday Pierre made me aware

Re: [blfs-support] polkit update in BLFS Dev

On 6/12/20 3:34 AM, Ivan Wagner via blfs-support wrote: Hello, I'm using BLFS Dev and the Change Log says polkit was updated to allow the use of js68 and calls the new version polkit-32450615.  Where did this new version come from?  Because I don't see this version on the polkit gitlab page

Re: [blfs-support] OpenSSH

On 6/6/20 5:01 AM, Greekforce1821 via blfs-support wrote: The LFS/BLFS system is running on a Virtual Machine with bridged networking. The output of the command ( ss-lt ) is the same one as you described earlier. Ping the LFS using my ip address of my BLFS system? Please do not top post on

Re: [blfs-support] OpenSSH

On 6/5/20 5:25 PM, Greekforce1821 via blfs-support wrote: Good evening gentlemen, I created an ssh server in my BLFS system (still using terminal without having a GUI). When I boot my system the SSH server starts but, when I use the PuTTY to connect an error message (Connection Refused) pops

Re: [blfs-support] gpm-1.20.7 package does not work

On 5/23/20 11:59 AM, jcarlos via blfs-support wrote: Sorry Bruce I have done a reboot and it works Thanks for your help It's good that they help you so fast You didn't need a reboot. You could have used: $ sudo /etc/init.d/gpm start -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-support] gpm-1.20.7 package does not work

On 5/23/20 11:19 AM, jcarlos via blfs-support wrote: hi guys, i have installed gpm-1.20.7 package in LFS 9.1 and i cant copy and paste with mouse. I have recompiled the kernel with the configuration: Device Drivers --->    Input device support ---> [CONFIG_INPUT] <*> Mouse interface

Re: [blfs-support] Older GCC install

On 5/16/20 4:30 PM, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote: Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 3:13 PM From: "Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support" To: blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Cc: "Bruce Dubbs" Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Older GCC install On 5/16/20 6:39 AM, Clif

Re: [blfs-support] Older GCC install

On 5/16/20 6:39 AM, Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support wrote: Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2020 at 12:11 AM From: "Don Cross via blfs-support" To: "BLFS Support List" Cc: "Don Cross" Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Older GCC install On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 6:00 PM Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support

Re: [blfs-support] xterm-353.tgz md5 sum doesn't match

On 4/25/20 10:28 AM, Richard via blfs-support wrote: Also, you may be right about DNS forwarding in some cases. When I used FF to download the file: mypaint-brushes-v1.3.0.tar.gz FF downloaded a file that had the correct md5sum, but the file name was slightly different:

Re: [blfs-support] xterm-353.tgz md5 sum doesn't match

On 4/24/20 9:32 AM, Richard via blfs-support wrote: On 4/23/20 2:08 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 4/23/20 10:51 AM, Richard via blfs-support wrote: I've downloaded xterm-353.tgz from two different locations, and in each case I get the following md5sum, which doesn't match

Re: [blfs-support] xterm-353.tgz md5 sum doesn't match

On 4/23/20 10:51 AM, Richard via blfs-support wrote: I've downloaded xterm-353.tgz from two different locations, and in each case I get the following md5sum, which doesn't match the value given in the blfs-9.1 book: fd3c8948475b53044a72a10ba04e8088 I don't know where you got your version, but

Re: [blfs-support] Package updates

On 4/21/20 2:02 PM, Leandro Nini via blfs-support wrote: Other packages moved to github and updated are faac, now found at https://github.com/knik0/faac version 1.30, and faad2, https://github.com/knik0/faad2 version 2.9.1. Thanks you. I'll get these updated today. Hello, spotted another

Re: [blfs-support] Problem in booting with initrd in LFS-8.4

On 4/21/20 12:50 AM, Nagasayanam, V.S via blfs-support wrote: Hello, I have completed LFS-7.x, 8.4, 9.0 and 9.1 successfully. However, I could not use initrd in LFS-8.4. While booting, it throws up 'File not found and press any key to continue' error in the beginning itself. I have Q4OS as

Re: [blfs-support] Package updates

On 4/15/20 4:30 AM, Leandro Nini via blfs-support wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support" Thanks for the heads up. We don't always find out when developers move to github but leave their old versions in place. We need these notifications to get

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS 9.1 - Iptables - Boot script configuration section missing?

On 4/13/20 1:16 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 4/13/20 1:11 PM, José Carlos Carrión Plaza via blfs-support wrote: Hello co-listers: Apparently the traditional “Configuring Iptables” section on BLFS iptables page has disappeared from 9.0 to 9.1 including the “Boot Script” subsection. On the next

Re: [blfs-support] BLFS 9.1 - Iptables - Boot script configuration section missing?

On 4/13/20 1:11 PM, José Carlos Carrión Plaza via blfs-support wrote: Hello co-listers: Apparently the traditional “Configuring Iptables” section on BLFS iptables page has disappeared from 9.0 to 9.1 including the “Boot Script” subsection. On the next page ("Setting Up a Network Firewall”)

Re: [blfs-support] New package: chkconfig

On 4/3/20 6:05 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: It really isn't difficult to build LFS on an ARM platform. I don't know why LFS is so adverse to adding it as a platform, being all the schools and instuitions that use the Raspberry pi as a learning platform. We are adverse because

Re: [blfs-support] Building BLFS with jhalfs: must LFS be completely up to date?

On 4/2/20 4:22 AM, Stephen Berman via blfs-support wrote: On the weekend I built LFS SVN-20200319 with jhalfs (it was the first time I tried jhalfs, and it succeeded), and yesterday I wanted to start on BLFS, but when I ran the BLFS/update-lfs.sh script (after fixing a syntax error, which I

Re: [blfs-support] libusb kernel configuration - BLFS 9.1

On 3/30/20 6:47 AM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: A minor point, but I think the following is inaccurate:    Device Drivers --->         [*] USB support ---> [CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT]           <*/M> Support for Host-side USB  [CONFIG_USB]      (Select any USB hardware

Re: [blfs-support] Firefox 'gold linker' mozconfig documentation - BLFS 9.1/development

On 3/24/20 10:18 AM, rhubarbpieguy--- via blfs-support wrote: I'm a touch confused about the following in the Firefox mozconfig documentation:    # Do not specify the gold linker which is not the default. It will take    # longer and use more disk space when debug symbols are disabled.

Re: [blfs-support] Package updates (libwacom and psutils)

On 3/24/20 3:06 AM, Leandro Nini via blfs-support wrote: Hello, (re-sending here as I'm not on the -dev list) there are a couple of package updates that seem to have slipped from your radar. First is libwacom, now maintained on github at https://github.com/linuxwacom/libwacom. The latest

Re: [blfs-support] Firefox/Seamonkey Bookmarks

On 3/22/20 9:46 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: I'm having a problem adding/changing/deleting Firefox/Seamonkey Bookmarks. FF reads/uses my existing bookmarks just fine, but I found I cannot modify them.  Upon testing I rebuilt to the latest FF and SM, but the issues are the same. I tried on two

[blfs-support] Firefox/Seamonkey Bookmarks

I'm having a problem adding/changing/deleting Firefox/Seamonkey Bookmarks. FF reads/uses my existing bookmarks just fine, but I found I cannot modify them. Upon testing I rebuilt to the latest FF and SM, but the issues are the same. I tried on two different systems, but both are recent 9.1

Re: [blfs-support] Problem in compiling mozjs-60 - reply to the solution

On 3/22/20 5:50 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 04:41:58PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 3/22/20 4:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 08:04:53AM +, spiky0011 via blfs-support wrote: On 22/03/2020 05:30

Re: [blfs-support] Problem in compiling mozjs-60 - reply to the solution

On 3/22/20 4:14 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 08:04:53AM +, spiky0011 via blfs-support wrote: On 22/03/2020 05:30, Nagasayanam, V.S via blfs-support wrote: Sir, This is in continuation of my previous mail wherein I expressed my difficulty in compiling

Re: [blfs-support] Problem in compiling mozjs-60 in BLFS-9.1

On 3/21/20 9:27 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: The problem happens in chroot because '/run' is empty. The fix when building in chroot is: # mount --bind /run /mnt/lfs/run Note that this must be run on the host, not from within chroot. -- Bruce --

Re: [blfs-support] Patching Linux Kernel 5.5.7 to Add Support for AUFS Filesystem

Please send me you hint as an attachment. I'll add to our hints collection. -- Bruce DohrniiOn 3/15/20 11:04 AM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via blfs-support wrote: Subject of Hint: Patching Linux Kernel 5.5.7 to Add Support for AUFS Filesystem ORIGINAL AUTHOR: JIMMY ANDERSON

Re: [blfs-support] How can I make an efficient backup or clone of my basic linux from scratch (lfs) system?

On 3/12/20 11:15 AM, Don Cross via blfs-support wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 11:44 AM Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming via blfs-support > wrote: Subject: How can I make an efficient backup or clone of my basic linux from scratch (lfs)

Re: [blfs-support] FAILED: meson-test

On 3/12/20 12:08 AM, Χάρης Καραχριστιανίδης via blfs-support wrote: Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:17 AM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 04:09:46PM -0400, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote:

[blfs-support] LFS and BLFS Version 9.1 are released

The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS Version 9.1, LFS Version 9.1 (systemd), BLFS Version 9.1, and BLFS Version 9.1 (systemd). This release is a major update to both LFS and BLFS. The LFS release includes updates to glibc-2.31, and binutils-2.34. A total

[blfs-support] Almost ready for the 9.1 release

We are almost ready for LFS/BLFS 9.1. All tickets are closed and all BLFS packages tagged as ready. What is left is to tweak anything that might come up in the next couple of days. The current development versions of both LFS and BLFS will become the new stable versions of the books.

Re: [blfs-support] FIXME: BLFS 9.0 ntp

On 2/25/20 11:15 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Le 25/02/2020 à 16:31, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support a écrit : On 2/25/20 4:57 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Le 25/02/2020 à 10:36, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support a écrit : Le 25/02/2020 à 10:22, Thomas Seeling via

Re: [blfs-support] FIXME: BLFS 9.0 ntp

On 2/25/20 7:27 AM, Thomas Seeling via blfs-support wrote: Hallo, sed -e 's/"(\\S+)"/"?([^\\s"]+)"?/' \ It replaces \S+ with [^\s"]+ ok, I'm defeated ;) sorry, I overlooked the caret for "not". What we end up with is: /^ *leapfile\s+"?([^\s"]+)"?/ Translated: beginning of the line zero

Re: [blfs-support] FIXME: BLFS 9.0 ntp

On 2/25/20 4:57 AM, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support wrote: Le 25/02/2020 à 10:36, Pierre Labastie via blfs-support a écrit : Le 25/02/2020 à 10:22, Thomas Seeling via blfs-support a écrit : Hallo, I made 2 simple changes to the script: We already have a sed in the book which addresses

Re: [blfs-support] Pulseaudio System sounds in kf5, lxde . xfce not working

On 2/24/20 5:07 PM, spiky0011 via blfs-support wrote: Has anyone tried system sounds on kf5, lxde, xfce. user is in audio group I'm not sure what system sounds are in xfce. However I did find xfce4-pulseaudio-plugin that controls some volume. See below. I'm looking at that also.  I'm

Re: [blfs-support] Pulseaudio System sounds in kf5, lxde . xfce not working

On 2/24/20 4:02 PM, spiky0011 via blfs-support wrote: I have kf5 running new version, I can listen to you tube etc on FF but system sounds dont work. The same for lxde and xfce dosn't work either I can play system sounds in FF as well. Pulse is built, alsa built *killall -KILL pulseaudio

Re: [blfs-support] FIXME: BLFS 9.0 ntp

On 2/24/20 10:23 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: On 2/24/20 10:15 AM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 2/24/20 10:12 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/24/20 6:39 AM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/20 10:15 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/20 8:32 PM

Re: [blfs-support] FIXME: BLFS 9.0 ntp

On 2/24/20 10:15 AM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 2/24/20 10:12 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/24/20 6:39 AM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/20 10:15 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/20 8:32 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote

Re: [blfs-support] FIXME: BLFS 9.0 ntp

On 2/24/20 9:45 AM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 2/24/20 10:12 AM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: leapfile /var/cache/ntp/ntp.leapseconds cat /etc/ntp.conf # Asia server 0.asia.pool.ntp.org # Australia server 0.oceania.pool.ntp.org # Europe server 0.europe.pool.ntp.org

Re: [blfs-support] FIXME: BLFS 9.0 ntp

On 2/24/20 6:39 AM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/20 10:15 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/20 8:32 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/20 7:52 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: This is a corrected cron file. It seems that the perl

Re: [blfs-support] FIXME: BLFS 9.0 ntp

On 2/23/20 8:32 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 2/23/20 7:52 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: This is a corrected cron file. It seems that the perl srcipt now requires -L flag which is the leapsecond file to update cat > /etc/cron.monthly/ntp-leap.cron <<- EOF     #!

Re: [blfs-support] pulseaudio flooding logs on one machine

On 2/22/20 12:56 PM, Ken Moffat via blfs-support wrote: On my initial 9.1 (sysv) build, I've now discovered why the system was all-but full : a combination of log noise from pulseaudio (which I new about, and logrotate was only rotating weekly. I saw that sys.log was about 3.5G so I manually

Re: [blfs-support] Fuzzy fonts in Firefox

On 2/19/20 2:56 PM, Collin Guan via blfs-support wrote: Hi All, I installed Firefox. When I open our great BLFS and LFS books, all pages are very fuzzy. I tried to adjust the fonts available in "Preferences" -> "Language and Appearance" -> "Fonts and Colors" in Firefox. My question is, which

Re: [blfs-support] perl-5.30.1

On 2/17/20 11:14 PM, spiky0011 via blfs-support wrote: On 17/02/2020 23:28, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: On 2/17/20 5:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/17/20 2:23 PM, spiky0011 via blfs-support wrote: On 17/02/2020 19:30, Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support wrote: On 2/17

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