Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN)
Hi all, Out of interest, which bootloaders mentioned by Jeremy for LFS 7.0 will work with x86-64? I only managed to get my x86-64 LFS build booting with EXTLINUX. Also, is anyone interested in my build notes? I've noted the changes to the 6.3 build to get a working x86-64 build. Rgds, Marc

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN) wrote these words on 05/12/08 06:39 CST: Out of interest, which bootloaders mentioned by Jeremy for LFS 7.0 will work with x86-64? I only managed to get my x86-64 LFS build booting with EXTLINUX. I really don't have a good answer to your question, as I'm guessing

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN) wrote: Out of interest, which bootloaders mentioned by Jeremy for LFS 7.0 will work with x86-64? I only managed to get my x86-64 LFS build booting with EXTLINUX. LILO, Grub2. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ:

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:06:59AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: Marc McLaughlin (LUSYN) wrote these words on 05/12/08 06:39 CST: Also, is anyone interested in my build notes? I've noted the changes to the 6.3 build to get a working x86-64 build. I also have the changes required to build

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
Jeremy Huntwork wrote these words on 05/12/08 09:28 CST: I suppose, at some point, we might want to be able to do multilib. But, at least when I started the branch, it was felt that we'd be better off just approaching a 64-bit only build. Whenever we do feel like adding multilib, build notes

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-12 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:37:24AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: I agree totally that trying to introduce multilib into LFS would be very difficult for us right now. I wasn't trying to say we should. In fact, I probably shouldn't have commented to the thread at all. But I wasn't sure if the OP

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-10 Thread Zachary Kotlarek
On May 9, 2008, at 5:05 PM, Dan Nicholson wrote: I haven't piped in on this at all, but I'd just like to say that I really, really want to be pro-grub2. I periodically peruse the grub-devel archives hoping to see that a 2.0 release is imminent. I find it ridiculous that there's no currently

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-09 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the prevailing attitude here is rather anti GRUB2. Mostly because development on it seems to focus on items perceived as useless and bloat for a boot loader. I haven't piped in on this at all, but I'd just

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-09 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:05 PM, Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that the prevailing attitude here is rather anti GRUB2. Mostly because development on it seems to focus on items perceived as useless

LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bruce Dubbs wrote: In any case, I don't see a reason that there won't be a LFS 6.4 or 7.0 release sometime this summer. At the current rate, if we do LFS 7.0 this summer it would have to be sans package manager. However, x86_64 support (and PowerPC, for that matter) is pretty much ready

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: To be current, I'd also like to see the Udev blocker sorted out before we release 7.0. See: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2057 Since I see a mention of udev: Over the past couple weeks, I've started to

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Bryan Kadzban wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: To be current, I'd also like to see the Udev blocker sorted out before we release 7.0. See: http://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/ticket/2057 Since I see a mention of udev: Over the past

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 10:35 PM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Dubbs wrote: In any case, I don't see a reason that there won't be a LFS 6.4 or 7.0 release sometime this summer. At the current rate, if we do LFS 7.0 this summer it would have to be sans package

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dennis Clarke wrote: Sorry to drop in. I just wanted you to know that I was still out here working on this little embedded PPC device and that I was getting to the boot loader issue .. eventually. Don't apologize. :) Dropping in is welcome. Just FYI. Thanks for the reminder, Dennis. I'll

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 1:35 AM, Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dennis Clarke wrote: Sorry to drop in. I just wanted you to know that I was still out here working on this little embedded PPC device and that I was getting to the boot loader issue .. eventually. Don't

Re: LFS Roadmap (Was: Re: As promised: LFS compilation summary)

2008-05-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dennis Clarke wrote: you know .. I really like the atmosphere in the LFS project. Such a nice bunch of people. Oh, we've had our moments. You don't even have to go very far back in the archives to read some. :( But I think, on the whole, we all prefer a nicer, friendlier atmosphere, and we

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-28 Thread Anderson Lizardo
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Some of the users for which 8-bit encodings work might still prefer UTF-8 for compatibility with RedHat (at the cost of incompatibility with the rest of the world). Also UTF-8 support is a requirement for LSB certification. Ubuntu 5.04 also uses pt_BR.UTF-8 on a

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-26 Thread TheOldFellow
Anderson Lizardo wrote: TheOldFellow wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: I also wanted to get some internationalisation work sorted out for LFS, so where are the non-8bit-language (indeed, apart from Manuel and Alex, where are the non-ASCII) volunteers to test this? It's all very well to Hey,

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-26 Thread M.Canales.es (on hollydays)
El Martes, 26 de Julio de 2005 04:16, Gerard Beekmans escribió: Clutter will be a concern. The TOC has to be clean and easy to navigate. Like I said above, a chapter re-organization may be required to maintain a logically flowing TOC where you don't get lost. Actually at this momment we are

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-26 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, TheOldFellow wrote: OK, we have some i18n 8-bit users, but multibyte? I see some names than might be Chinese on the list occasionally. I imagine some of our german-speaking users might prefer to use utf. I often see posts (not necessarily on lfs lists) where there are

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-26 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
TheOldFellow wrote: Anderson Lizardo wrote: TheOldFellow wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: I also wanted to get some internationalisation work sorted out for LFS, so where are the non-8bit-language (indeed, apart from Manuel and Alex, where are the non-ASCII) volunteers to test this?

LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Matthew Burgess
A number of people have emailed me privately, and its also come up on the list recently, so here's my thoughts on what could/should be going on in LFS land. Yes, I know it's taken me far too long to ditch my Release Manager hat and don my Project Manager/Planner hat, but still.. LFS-6.2:

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Tushar Teredesai
On 7/25/05, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: Now, here's the biggy. The jury's still out on this one :) I'd like to see GCC-4.x in this one, but that's dependent on the stability of said compiler with the rest of the toolchain (Glibc in particular) and its

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Matthew Burgess
Bruce Dubbs wrote: My only suggestion here is to not combine cross build techniques and gcc-4. IMO it would be better to tackle these large changes one at a time. Perhaps a LFS 6.3 with gcc-4 would be appropriate. Right, it all depends of course on whether folks want things to be

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Archaic
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:15:45PM +0100, Matthew Burgess wrote: That said, there's nothing stopping us from releasing a 7.0 that happens to contain cross build techniques and gcc-4, it's just it'll no doubt take us much longer to reach a releasable state. And there is nothing requiring an

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, Matthew Burgess wrote: LFS-6.2: This will just be an incremental release, further stabilising our already proven PLFS-based build method. GCC-3.4.x combined with Glibc-2.3.5 seems pretty robust, and adding binutils-2.16.1 to the mix should further solidify that.

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Archaic wrote: And there is nothing requiring an imminent release of cross-lfs, either. The idea of getting gcc-4 into trunk post 6.2 sounds good. What really sounds good after that is an i18n cleanup in 6.4 and a merge to cross-lfs when it is done. That said, there is also no technical reason

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread TheOldFellow
Matthew Burgess wrote: snip LFS-7.0: Now, here's the biggy. The jury's still out on this one :) I'd like to see GCC-4.x in this one, but that's dependent on the stability of said compiler with the rest of the toolchain (Glibc in particular) and its effect on BLFS packages. +1 on GCC 4.x

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 25 Jul 2005, GN wrote: On Monday 25 July 2005 12:36, Matthew Burgess wrote: A number of people have emailed me privately, and its also come up on the list recently, so here's my thoughts on what could/should be going on in LFS land. Yes, I know it's taken me far too long to

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread GN
On Monday 25 July 2005 16:40, Ken Moffat wrote: [...] kernel 2.6.12 would be nice. Given timescales, I imagine 2.6.13 will be out. But seriously, what do you see in 2.6.12 that isn't there in 2.6.11 ? Mostly bug fixes. 2.6.12 is stable now, 2.6.13 might be 'bleeding edge'. IMHO.

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Chris Staub
GN wrote: Incorporate Wifi. I know this can be tricky, but one can only wish. [...] Well, if that's not BLFS, I don't know what is ;) Almost all notebooks come with Wifi nowadays. I see it as part of the core in any distribution. Again, IMHO.. SeattleGaucho My laptop has WiFi, and I

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread GN
On Monday 25 July 2005 18:14, Ken Moffat wrote: [...] Personally, I bleed on 2.6.12 (my athlon64's ability to power off seems to have been broken by the acpi changes). But, most of the important bug fixes in 2.6.12 should be in 2.6.11.12, no ? I am running 2.6.12 in a couple of PCs with no

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: though I would like to have one point clarified, please. I've heard it said before that major version numbers in LFS were supposed to represent In the past the LFS major version number was increased when a major package in LFS had a major release. For instance, going

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Matthew Burgess wrote: Additionally, of course, cross-lfs is to be seriously considered at this point. I've not looked at Jim, Ryan, Opinions seem divided on this one. Should cross-lfs become part of the mainstream book? In other words, will every LFS'er be building according to the

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Anderson Lizardo
TheOldFellow wrote: Matthew Burgess wrote: I also wanted to get some internationalisation work sorted out for LFS, as I have to admit to being somewhat embarassed seeing all the disclaimers dotted around the book stating that things don't work right in multibyte locales. However, it looks like

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Anderson Lizardo
Gerard Beekmans wrote: [...] This way I believe we'll have the best of both world. Or we can make separate book volumes. Is that possible with Docbook? -- Anderson Lizardo [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: LFS Roadmap

2005-07-25 Thread Jens Olav Nygaard
Gerard Beekmans wrote: ... mainstream book? In other words, will every LFS'er be building according to the cross-lfs (toolchain) methodology even if they don't require it? ... My prediction is that everybody using i?86 in the near future will be wanting x86_64 or emt64 (right name?) as all