bootscripts and IP aliasing

2005-09-05 Thread Archaic
In the good ol' days, one could merely have an ifconfig eth0:{1,2,3} etc. to alias as many addresses as one desired. Then we switched to iproute2 and that broke. According to man ip we need a way to add a LABEL=something to the ifconfig files so we can call ip with a label argument. At least that

Re: [Fwd: Comments Regarding D.I.Y. Linux from PC Magazine]

2005-09-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 09/05/05 07:08 CST: Randy McMurchy wrote: [cc'ing to lfs-chat where this thread now belongs; please direct all replies there] I don't subscribe to lfs-chat, nor am I about to. Who pissed in your corn flakes this morning? Who said anything about

Re: [Fwd: Comments Regarding D.I.Y. Linux from PC Magazine]

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Randy McMurchy wrote: The magazine article mentions LFS in *one* sentence. A good resource for beginners is LFS. Hardly misleading or defamatory. Calling LFS a good resource, is to everyone in the world, a good thing. Unfortunately, the for beginners doesn't belong, but that hardly makes it

gcc4 - proposed changes to glibc check

2005-09-05 Thread Ken Moffat
So everybody on i686 can expect *some* failures in the glibc math tests with gcc-4. I've got the patch from Drepper's (whoops, from _Mr_ Drepper's) commit (thanks, Greg) which solves half of the failures. Looking at fedora4, even with their ability to selectively pick fixes from CVS they use

Re: [Fwd: Comments Regarding D.I.Y. Linux from PC Magazine]

2005-09-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: Anyone can write anything they want to in a publication, be it fiction or be not. This is a wholly incorrect statement. Ever heard of the word 'libel'? [sigh.] Here goes Jeremy again, making an issue out of nothing. Who said anything about libel? Other than you?

Re: gcc4 - proposed changes to glibc check

2005-09-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Ken Moffat wrote these words on 09/05/05 11:03 CST: [snip bunch of good stuff] Dislikes ? Objections ? Responses of but it all passes on my pentium-plus ? Better wording ? Good work, Ken. FWIW, I think that the SBU and disk space should include building all locales. Here are my figures.

Re: gcc4 - proposed changes to glibc check

2005-09-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 09/05/05 11:10 CST: Good work, Ken. FWIW, I think that the SBU and disk space should include building all locales. Here are my figures. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/build/Build-System/Installed-System/glibc-2.3.5 cat sbu.time 15.31 SBU [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: [Fwd: Comments Regarding D.I.Y. Linux from PC Magazine]

2005-09-05 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 09/05/05 11:11 CST: It would be wise of you to learn to read more carefully and to think a bit more clearly before you speak. I read and comprehend excellently, however, thanks for thinking about me. :-) I suppose I should have put a disclaimer in my

Re: bootscripts and IP aliasing

2005-09-05 Thread Zachary Kotlarek
On Sep 5, 2005, at 7:33 AM, Archaic wrote: In the good ol' days, one could merely have an ifconfig eth0:{1,2,3} etc. to alias as many addresses as one desired. Then we switched to iproute2 and that broke. According to man ip we need a way to add a LABEL=something to the ifconfig files so we

Re: gcc4 - proposed changes to glibc check

2005-09-05 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 5 Sep 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote: Randy McMurchy wrote these words on 09/05/05 11:10 CST: Good work, Ken. FWIW, I think that the SBU and disk space should include building all locales. Here are my figures. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/build/Build-System/Installed-System/glibc-2.3.5 cat

Re: gcc4 - proposed changes to glibc check

2005-09-05 Thread Matthew Burgess
Ken Moffat wrote: I propose to change this to something like snipped proposal Dislikes ? Objections ? Responses of but it all passes on my pentium-plus ? Better wording ? No dislikes at all, Ken! I'll review your final wording once it's committed, as I find it much easier to grok

Re: bootscripts and IP aliasing

2005-09-05 Thread Archaic
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:42:24AM -0500, Zachary Kotlarek wrote: Are you trying to get labels for your interfaces or just additional addresses? The 3.2.2 bootscripts call `ip addr add`, which will work for as many IP addresses as you'd like to use on an interface. Unless I'm

DocBook-XSL-1.69.1 book update

2005-09-05 Thread M.Canales.es
Hi! I'm planning to update all [B,H]LFS books (trunk and active branches) to use the new DocBook-XSL-1.69.1 version the next Saturday 2005-09-10 at 12h UTC. Please, update your machines to can render the books using that new XSL version. Thanks. -- Manuel Canales Esparcia Usuario de LFS