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

2021-01-11 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Mittwoch, dem 06.01.2021 um 22:24 -0600 schrieb Paul via blfs- support: > 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 >

Re: [blfs-support] Network issue with VirtualBox

2020-10-11 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Samstag, den 10.10.2020, 11:39 +1100 schrieb Fosca via blfs- support: > > Hello Everyone, > > Nice to meet you all. > > Well I have just managed to do LFS-10.0 in VirtualBox. > > The way I set it up was to install ArchLinux with the Anarchy-Installer > since Arch is quite uptodate with

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

2020-08-14 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Hi Scott, Am Freitag, den 14.08.2020, 07:24 -0400 schrieb Scott Andrews via blfs-support: > On Fri, 14 Aug 2020 08:18:09 +0200 > Christopher Gregory via blfs-support > wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > As a general rule we do not give assistance to people who are doing > > things outside the scope

Re: [blfs-support] LiveCD

2020-06-01 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Montag, den 01.06.2020, 11:53 +0300 schrieb Greekforce1821 via blfs-support: > Good morning gentlemen, I have a question for you. Is it possible, when I > finish my BLFS build, to create an iso image just like an ordinary livecd in > order to share my fully customised BLFS distro? Generally

Re: [blfs-support] Older GCC install

2020-05-16 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Samstag, den 16.05.2020, 13:39 +0200 schrieb Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support: > > 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

Re: [blfs-support] Falkon browser 3.1 not working, QtWebEngine problem?

2020-04-05 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Sonntag, den 05.04.2020, 11:07 + schrieb Mark Broeders via blfs-support: > Hello! > > I've succesfully completed a (B)LFS (development version) install and > everything works great so far, but I can't seem to get Falkon browser > working. I suppose the problem must be with QtWebEngine,

[blfs-support] OT: folding@home / corona

2020-04-05 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Hi all, for those who have some spare CPUs and might want to donate them to the FAH project, I hacked a little setup script with which you get the FAH client running on you LFS box. FAH provides data packages on which some calculations has to be performed. Actually, the project provides data to

Re: [blfs-support] New package: chkconfig

2020-04-03 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Freitag, den 03.04.2020, 12:38 -0400 schrieb Scott Andrews: > On 4/3/20 12:21 PM, Thomas Trepl wrote: > > Am Freitag, den 03.04.2020, 10:42 -0400 schrieb Scott Andrews via > > blfs-support: > > > Any interest in adding chkconfig to the system V book? > > >

Re: [blfs-support] New package: chkconfig

2020-04-03 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Freitag, den 03.04.2020, 10:42 -0400 schrieb Scott Andrews via blfs-support: > Any interest in adding chkconfig to the system V book? > > I have successfully added it to my systems. > > I also have a script that starts and stop daemon and will tell you all > the daemons present on the system

Re: [blfs-support] Base system What are Yall using?

2020-02-24 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Sonntag, den 23.02.2020, 12:28 -0500 schrieb Scott Andrews via blfs-support: > What packages do most here add to the LFS build to create your "BASE" system? > > I add the following: > > raspberrypi - raspberry pi firmware, kernel add additional boot scripts > > rpm - package manager > > yum

Re: [blfs-support] [lfs-support] Bug in xsltproc [XSL Stylesheet issue (PDF)]

2019-11-21 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Donnerstag, den 21.11.2019, 19:17 +0100 schrieb Thomas Trepl: > Hi again, > > just as a follow-up: > > I asked the Apache/FOP guys about that issue: > > http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-fop-users/201911.mbox/ajax/%3C4d044e44a7a07fcf688ffda8e

[blfs-support] Bug in xsltproc [XSL Stylesheet issue (PDF)]

2019-11-21 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Hi again, just as a follow-up: I asked the Apache/FOP guys about that issue: http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/xmlgraphics-fop-users/201911.mbox/ajax/%3C4d044e44a7a07fcf688ffda8e8de2724d81a5c4f.camel%40linuxfromscratch.org%3E and subsequent answers. Looks like it is a bug somewhere in

Re: [blfs-support] openjdk8 + ant

2019-10-27 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Sonntag, den 27.10.2019, 02:59 + schrieb DJ Lucas via blfs- support: > > On 10/26/2019 5:26 PM, Thomas Trepl via blfs-support wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > i have for some reason to use openjdk8 for which i used the > > instructions just like if would be jd

[blfs-support] openjdk8 + ant

2019-10-26 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Hi all, i have for some reason to use openjdk8 for which i used the instructions just like if would be jdk-12. Java (jdk8) works pretty fine so far. Now i wanted to build ant (as a prerequisite to Tomcat) but failed at the $ bootstrap/bin/ant -Ddest=optional -f fetch.xml command. It reports an

Re: [blfs-support] LFS 8.4 rc

2019-02-16 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Samstag, den 16.02.2019, 15:18 +0100 schrieb Gerhard Gedigk via blfs-support: > Hello, > > please correct the example for the German console fonts. (7.6.5) > > KEYMAP="de-latin1" # is correct > > FONT="lat0 ... needs to be changed to lat1 as well. > This is needed to display the special

Re: [blfs-support] twm menu not working

2019-02-08 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Freitag, den 08.02.2019, 16:37 +0100 schrieb Cliff McDiarmid via blfs-support: > lHi > > I'm building a new LFS. I've got to the Xorg testing and I'm booting into > the three windows and clock. I haven't got a left click twm menu though. > So i can't move the windwos etc. > > Have

Re: [blfs-support] twm and xinit?

2018-12-06 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Montag, den 03.12.2018, 04:40 + schrieb Hans Malissa via blfs- support: > Hi, > > I'm in section "Xorg-7 Testing and Configuration" in BLFS 8.3-systemd. Xorg > seems to work, and when I issue startx I get the Xorg desktop with 3 xterm > windows and 1 xclock window. However, the windows

Re: [blfs-support] php-7.2.9, strange directories after make install

2018-09-10 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Montag, den 10.09.2018, 19:12 +0200 schrieb Thomas Trepl via blfs- support: > Am Montag, den 10.09.2018, 09:41 -0400 schrieb Jean-Marc Pigeon via > blfs-support: > > Hello, > > > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/php.html > > Version

Re: [blfs-support] php-7.2.9, strange directories after make install

2018-09-10 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Montag, den 10.09.2018, 09:41 -0400 schrieb Jean-Marc Pigeon via blfs-support: > Hello, > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/php.html > Version 2018-09-08 > Here is a list of directories which I think are > unexpected after a "make install". > >

Re: [blfs-support] Common post install commands

2018-09-01 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Samstag, den 01.09.2018, 00:34 +0100 schrieb Ken Moffat via blfs- support: > On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 11:52:42PM +0200, Thomas Trepl via blfs- > support wrote: > > > > More generally spoken, the DESTDIR-method is pretty fine as long as > > you > > take in accou

Re: [blfs-support] Common post install commands

2018-08-31 Thread Thomas Trepl via blfs-support
Am Freitag, den 31.08.2018, 23:06 +0300 schrieb Waleed Hamra via blfs- support: > Greetings guys; > > What are some common post install commands I should know about? > For instance, I know that if a package installs a .desktop file, I > should run "update-desktop-database" to update the cache.

Re: [blfs-support] logrotate sed missing -i

2018-08-19 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Sonntag, den 19.08.2018, 03:29 +0300 schrieb Waleed Hamra: > Greetings guys; > > On this page: > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/systemd/general/logrotate.html > > , the second sed is missing the -i parameter. > Good catch - will fix that. -- Thomas --

Re: [blfs-support] [blfs-dev] BLFS-Basic

2018-07-13 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Freitag, den 13.07.2018, 11:17 -0500 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > On 07/13/2018 04:08 AM, thomas wrote: > > Am 2018-07-09 22:08, schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > > > ... > > > In addition, upstream changes are released often. The average is > > > about 3.5 packages every day, seven days a week. > > > ... > >

Re: [blfs-support] [blfs-dev] BLFS-Basic

2018-07-10 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Montag, den 09.07.2018, 15:08 -0500 schrieb Bruce Dubbs: > As most of you know, BLFS is huge. If it is printed on paper, it > would > take over 2000 pages. There are over a thousand individual packages > in > the book. Wow, never seen that in this way... > In addition, upstream changes are

Re: [blfs-support] qt5 without openssl really is a bad idea. Was Re: Make problems with Qt-5 on BLFS-8.1

2017-12-13 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Sonntag, den 03.12.2017, 23:40 + schrieb Ken Moffat: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 10:49:31PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > The idea of disabling (old) openssl in qt has attractions, I might > > give it a try - but the only qt progs I usually build are qupzilla > > (uses qtwebengine) and

Re: [blfs-support] raid array is read-only

2017-11-23 Thread Thomas Trepl
Ken, you are my hero! See comments below: Am Freitag, den 24.11.2017, 01:35 + schrieb Ken Moffat: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 09:53:57PM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > there is a problem as my raid device is read-only so > > /etc/rc.d/init.d/checkfs

[blfs-support] raid array is read-only

2017-11-23 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi all, there is a problem as my raid device is read-only so /etc/rc.d/init.d/checkfs fails. The machine is built on the C236 chipset and I have enabled raid5. There are 3 1TB disks combined to an raid-5 array. The partiton type is gpt, grub+EFI installed on /boot. the partition layout is

Re: [blfs-support] Error in xorg-fonts

2016-09-20 Thread Thomas Trepl
Am Dienstag, den 20.09.2016, 15:24 +1000 schrieb Samuel Tyler: > > > On Tuesday, 20 September 2016, Thomas Trepl <thomas@linuxfromscratch. > org> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I got following message while installing the Xorg fonts: > > > > .

[blfs-support] Error in xorg-fonts

2016-09-19 Thread Thomas Trepl
Hi all, I got following message while installing the Xorg fonts: ... checking for memory.h... yes checking for strings.h... yes checking for inttypes.h... yes checking for stdint.h... yes checking for unistd.h... yes checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config checking pkg-config is at least