Bootscripts - init.d/modules

2005-08-24 Thread Larry
There is a typo in this script: s/MORMAL/NORMAL It's after boot_mesg Larry -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Bootscripts - init.d/modules

2005-08-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
There is a typo in this script: s/MORMAL/NORMAL What's wrong with Mormal? ;) -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote: [cc'd to BLFS-Dev from BLFS-Support] Archaic wrote these words on 06/25/05 12:01 CST: [snip what is already instructions in the book] make -C browser/installer cd dist mv firefox /opt/firefox-${version} ln -sf /opt/firefox-${version}

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 08/24/05 12:35 CST: But, I like having multiple browsers so that I can look at different things on different desktops. Epiphany works with the book's current instructions, with a different set of instructions the .pc files didn't get installed (and they

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Randy McMurchy wrote: I will play with developing a wrapper script to put in /usr/bin so that it calls /opt/firefox/firefox appropriately (depending on if it is called with a URL or new-tab URL. I suggest Archaic's method of building Firefox be implemented into BLFS immediately. The only

LFS Editor Manual - Status

2005-08-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
I was just trying to recall what the status was of the LFS Editor's Manual. Have we got it completely up-to-speed now? If not, what's left to be done? I'll be taking a look at it shortly. If it is up to date, will we be wanting to publish it somewhere a little more official? Right now I have a

Re: LFS Editor Manual - Status

2005-08-24 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I was just trying to recall what the status was of the LFS Editor's Manual. Have we got it completely up-to-speed now? If not, what's left to be done? I'll be taking a look at it shortly. If it is up to date, will we be wanting to publish it somewhere a little more

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: No, what we've always done in the past is create a symlink in /usr/bin: ln -sfv /opt/firefox/firefox /usr/bin Ah, OK. Guess I never paid attention to what you had been doing. That would indeed be simpler. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Richard A Downing
Randy McMurchy wrote: snip Please folks, comment on this as I would like to implement immediately. We'd really need a compelling reason why we don't change the existing instructions to use Archaic's method. I don't have time this week or next (family visiting) to investigate, but I trust you

[Fwd: Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2]

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
[forwarded from blfs-support] Original Message Subject: Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2 Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 15:47:44 -0500 From: Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:30 CST: The issue of profile locking when trying to

Fwd: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
Damn, I did it twice in a row! (wrong list before) -- Forwarded message -- From: Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Aug 24, 2005 2:04 PM Subject: Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2 To: BLFS Support List blfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I'm now leaning to simply doing a sed on the installed /usr/bin/firefox after using the current book instructions. This makes the profile locking issue disappear. Randy, Look at the file mozilla/browser/app/mozilla.in This is the

Re: [Fwd: Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2]

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:54 CST: Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 08/24/05 15:30 CST: The issue of profile locking when trying to open a URL in an already running Firefox received some attention on blfs-support. Kevin Somervill went through the run-mozilla.sh script

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Randy McMurchy
Andrew Benton wrote these words on 08/24/05 16:25 CST: Surely the choice is between /opt and /usr/local? I vote for /usr/local. It'd be good to try and keep executable scripts and binaries out of /usr/lib Actually, I'm now leaning to simply doing a sed on the installed /usr/bin/firefox after

Re: Firefox and profile locking: Chapter 2

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 8/24/05, Randy McMurchy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, special thanks to you for bringing up the old archive message where this fix was originally posted. Kudos, dude. No problem. The very special thanks really goes to Kevin Somervill for actually going through the firefox (mozilla) script

Datapoint, x86_64-64

2005-08-24 Thread Ken Moffat
Test results from a pure64 build (gawk was still 3.1.4, although I doubt that makes a difference here). This is just intended as an initial marker, for binutils the book expects no errors - maybe we'll change that if people confirm these results. This build was from an LFS-6.1 pure64 host.

Essential pre-reading link

2005-08-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hi All, The LFS book(s) link to Richard's Essential Pre-Reading Hint in the Prerequisites section, as you may already be aware. The hint, in turn, mentions that there is a better maintained version at http://www.109bean.org.uk/lfsdocs/LFS-prereading.html Firstly, Richard, is that still correct?

Thunderbird mailto fix

2005-08-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
In accordance with the earlier post about the fix for the firefox script that enables urls to be opened in a running instance, here's a similar set of patches for thunderbird. These let the mailto go to thunderbird if it's running already without the need for wrapper scripts or -remote.