Re: some minor bootscript things

2005-09-16 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Archaic wrote: Before you send patches, they need to work on ash as well, which IIRC, is the closest representation of the original bourne shell. But do we need a closest implementation of the original bourne shell or something that strives to be POSIX-compliant as much as possible? In the

Re: RFC - Cross-LFS Future

2005-09-16 Thread M.Canales.es
El Jueves, 15 de Septiembre de 2005 23:43, Jim Gifford escribió: If we do this, we could remove chroot from the Cross-LFS, since it's only there for same arch to same arch capability. Exactly ;-) -- Manuel Canales Esparcia Usuario de LFS nº2886: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org LFS en

Re: RFC - Cross-LFS Future

2005-09-16 Thread Jürg Billeter
On Don, 2005-09-15 at 14:43 -0700, Jim Gifford wrote: M.Canales.es wrote: Yes, that is how I see it also. Both books could be almost indentical except in how the tolchains are created and the way used to build the final system (boot or chroot). If we do this, we could remove chroot

Re: some minor bootscript things

2005-09-16 Thread petrus
Which is ... odd, because IIRC, ash and sh don't *have* a source builtin. [1] All they have is ., but if that doesn't work in zsh, we'll be forced to remove support for one or the other shell. AFAIK, the problem there is only related to zsh's /bin/sh compatibility mode...Zsh when called by

MD5

2005-09-16 Thread petrus
According to this:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5 and a number of articles I've seen on Slashdot, MD5 is apparently no longer entirely secure...there's a story on /. at the moment actually about Microsoft dropping MD5 for use in Vista. Should we possibly start considering something else? I

Re: MD5

2005-09-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to this:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5 and a number of articles I've seen on Slashdot, MD5 is apparently no longer entirely secure...there's a story on /. at the moment actually about Microsoft dropping MD5 for use in Vista. Should we possibly start

Re: MD5

2005-09-16 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Matthew Burgess wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to this:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Md5 and a number of articles I've seen on Slashdot, MD5 is apparently no longer entirely secure...there's a story on /. at the moment actually about Microsoft dropping MD5 for use in Vista.

iproute page - extra blank space

2005-09-16 Thread Robert Connolly
Hi. In chapter06/iproute2.html, the ./configure command line has an extra unneeded space on the end. It has been there for a while. robert -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: iproute page - extra blank space

2005-09-16 Thread Matthew Burgess
Robert Connolly wrote: Hi. In chapter06/iproute2.html, the ./configure command line has an extra unneeded space on the end. It has been there for a while. Thanks, fixed now. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the

Re: MD5

2005-09-16 Thread petrus
In what context? For hashing our own tarballs? Or do you mean not Yes...hashing our own tarballs. I hadn't thought of it, but it makes sense that we'd need to keep it for backward compatibility. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: MD5

2005-09-16 Thread petrus
Another alternative to using md5sums to check the integity of a system is to use sha1sums in addition to md5sums. It is not computationally feasable to produce two files that have the same md5sum *and* sha1sum. That sounds like a good idea. --

Re: MD5

2005-09-16 Thread petrus
Both shasum and the library it needs, mhash, are available from here if anyone is interested. http://www.netsw.org/crypto/hash/ The below address is the sourceforge download page for mhash as well. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4286 --

Re: MD5

2005-09-16 Thread petrus
sha1sum is included in coreutils and is standard on LFS. It is? Excuse me for a minute while I go and wipe the egg off my face. ;-) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page