Linux from Scratch

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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Fortunately, it does not use .rpm or .deb. It uses install scripts
called ebuilds, which tell the packaging system how to compile and
install each package. It can do rpm in some cases, but in generally
things are built using ebuilds.

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It's not one damn thing after another, it's the same damn thing over and
over. (History repeats itself)
Joseph C. Lininger
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And so it came to pass that on Sun, 21 Aug 2005, hank smith said

> does speak up come with a software speech oppsion?
> also what package does gento use? rpm or .deb?
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arthur Pirika"
<apirika at orcon.net.nz>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2005 5:44 PM
> Subject: Re: Linux from Scratch
>
>
>> Hi, just a note, I recently installed Gentoo, and noted that even
though
>> the latest kernel (gentoo-sources 2.6.12r9) was last modified a few
days
>> ago, it doesn't seem to have the latest speakup from cvs, with the
new
>> highlight tracking.
>> I'm currently contacting the gentoo-accessibility team to see if this
can
>> be fixed.
>> btw, if you would like to have braille access to gentoo, no prob.
During
>> install, just use gentoo-nofb as a boot parameter on the cd, and have
a
>> brltty binary at hand, as the current LiveCD doesn't have it. I'm
working
>> on this with the accessibility team, though.
>> then after installation, just "emerge brltty", and you'll have the
latest
>> stable (3.6.1) version.
>>
>> thanks,
>> Arthur.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Garry Turkington"
>> <garry.turkington at acm.org>
>> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux."
<speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
>> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 9:38 AM
>> Subject: Re: Linux from Scratch
>>
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've built Gentoo several times which is a from-source distribution.
It's
>>> nice because you get all the benefits of a fully build-it-yourself
system
>>> but things like the Gentoo install media and handbook remove the
more
>>> gratuitous difficulties.
>>>
>>> I personally learned a lot from the experience and would recommend
it to
>>> anyone who wants to get a better understanding of just how a Linux
>>> distribution works 'under the hood'.  But since you have to do
things like
>>> write your own grub.conf, fstab files and so on it's not for the
faint of
>>> heart.
>>>
>>> Gentoo nicely comes with Speakup pre-patched and I've had the latest
>>> 2.6.12-gentoor6 kernel speaking on an AMd64 system.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Garry
>>>
>>> --
>>> Garry Turkington
>>> garry.turkington at gmail.com
>>>
>>> On Sun, 21 Aug 2005, ace wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>>
>>>> Has anyone here ever done a Linux from Scratch installation?
>>>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org
>>>> If so, I would like to hear some feedback concerning this.  I wish
to try
>>>> it but would like the opinions of other people.  Is it easy to
patch
>>>> Speakup into such an installation?  I am guessing it is the same
since
>>>> one would be required to compile the kernel.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Robby
>>>>
>>>>
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