Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Abhay Kedia wrote: > Can someone suggest an appropriate alternate please? I don't know if it's appropriate since I never used alsaplayer, but mpeg123 is a good player for "Just play me this file on a console without much hassle". Other candidates woul

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-20 Thread Brian Harring
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 09:14:24AM +0200, Michael Weyersh??user wrote: > Abhay Kedia wrote: > > Can someone suggest an appropriate alternate please? > > I don't know if it's appropriate since I never used alsaplayer, but > mpeg123 is a good player for "Just play me this file on a console > without

[gentoo-dev] General info

2006-08-20 Thread sHadoW MaN
Hi I am never has programmed on Linux but I looked on the net about hardware interrupts library I wanted to make a program as Fdisk using C++ ( I have kdevelop installed) Is there a web site who has all general I/O headers Any idea please Thanks cApTaiN_FaNtAsTiK ___

Re: [gentoo-dev] General info

2006-08-20 Thread Luis Francisco Araujo
sHadoW MaN wrote: Hi I am never has programmed on Linux but I looked on the net about hardware interrupts library I wanted to make a program as Fdisk using C++ ( I have kdevelop installed) Is there a web site who has all general I/O headers Any idea please This list is for specific gentoo d

Re: [gentoo-dev] General info

2006-08-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 20 August 2006 05:35, sHadoW MaN wrote: > I am never has programmed on Linux but I looked on the net about hardware > interrupts library try http://forums.gentoo.org/ -mike pgpkWVRc0kd7g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] New Forums Staff : jmbsvicetto

2006-08-20 Thread George Prowse
On 20/08/06, Mark Kowarsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please welcome our latest forums staff, Jorge Vicetto aka jmbsvicetto. > /me hugs Jorge. Glad to have you on board. Mark All we need now is to find out how to pronounce your name George -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-dev] Reminder about the need to revision bump virtual providers when migrating to new style virtuals

2006-08-20 Thread Petteri Räty
When migrating to new style virtuals you must revision bump everything providing the new style virtual to get rid of the PROVIDE files in /var/db/pkg. ./app-admin/gamin-0.1.7/PROVIDE:virtual/fam If you do not do this, Portage considers the virtual installed without actually looking at the new sty

Re: [gentoo-dev] General info

2006-08-20 Thread Wernfried Haas
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 05:58:11AM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > try http://forums.gentoo.org/ More specifically the OTW forum which is open to general discussion as the question doesn't sound like a Gentoo support question. See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewforum-f-10.html cheers, Wernfr

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-20 Thread Mike Doty
Christian Heim wrote: The media-sound/alsaplayer package is pending removal as requested by [EMAIL PROTECTED] for multiple buffer overflows [1], dead upstream [1] and a crash occurring when playing uLaw/AU Audio File [2]. The package is currently masked and is pending removal on 15th September

[gentoo-dev] writing net.xx style init script

2006-08-20 Thread paul kölle
Hi all, I need to write an init-script for multiple instances of the same service with different configurations (need to start/stop them individually) similar to what the net.xx scripts do. I thought I could get the instance name from $0 and use it as a key to look up the configuration in /etc/co

Re: [gentoo-dev] writing net.xx style init script

2006-08-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 20 August 2006 08:01, paul kölle wrote: > How do I get the name of the called script in /etc/init.d? Better ideas? use $SVCNAME see the sshd init.d script for some examples -mike pgp5jeIZEuyzr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-dev] writing net.xx style init script

2006-08-20 Thread Marius Mauch
paul kölle schrieb: Hi all, I need to write an init-script for multiple instances of the same service with different configurations (need to start/stop them individually) similar to what the net.xx scripts do. I thought I could get the instance name from $0 and use it as a key to look up the co

Re: [gentoo-dev] writing net.xx style init script

2006-08-20 Thread Roy Marples
On Sunday 20 August 2006 13:01, paul kölle wrote: > I need to write an init-script for multiple instances of the same > service with different configurations (need to start/stop them > individually) similar to what the net.xx scripts do. Sounds like you want to look at the openvpn or vsftpd init s

Re: [gentoo-dev] writing net.xx style init script

2006-08-20 Thread paul kölle
Mike Frysinger wrote: > On Sunday 20 August 2006 08:01, paul kölle wrote: >> How do I get the name of the called script in /etc/init.d? Better ideas? > > use $SVCNAME > > see the sshd init.d script for some examples thanks mike, you got me started ;) actually there is plenty of choice here: ge

Re: [gentoo-dev] User support system [WAS: Sunrise contemplations]

2006-08-20 Thread Jeffrey Forman
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 13:29 +0200, Jakub Moc wrote: > Simon Stelling wrote: > > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >> I already suggested an bug-reporting tool, which automatically > >> collects all the necessary data, several weeks ago. This tool is > >> simply called by commandline and asks the users severa

Re: [gentoo-dev] writing net.xx style init script

2006-08-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 20 August 2006 11:22, paul kölle wrote: > Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Sunday 20 August 2006 08:01, paul kölle wrote: > >> How do I get the name of the called script in /etc/init.d? Better ideas? > > > > use $SVCNAME > > > > see the sshd init.d script for some examples > > thanks mike, yo

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-20 Thread Joshua Jackson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Doty wrote: > Christian Heim wrote: >> The media-sound/alsaplayer package is pending removal as requested >> by [EMAIL PROTECTED] for multiple buffer overflows [1], dead upstream >> [1] and a crash occurring when playing uLaw/AU Audio File [2]. >>

Re: [gentoo-dev] [treecleaner] Last rites: media-sound/alsaplayer

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Weyershäuser
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian Harring wrote: > he meant mpg123 (as-is), and/or mpg321 (gpl2), not mpeg123... > > ~harring Right, I did, my bad... Thanks for the correction :) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFE6Qts6q4f+IV6B/wRAguuAJ4y9B

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: If I may interject...

2006-08-20 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 17 August 2006 05:20, Duncan wrote: > excerpted below, on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 18:01:37 -0700: > > I told a friend that there were some in the community who called > > proprietary software slaveryware. His response? "Holy shit!" If that > > term spreads, we can forget about convincing othe

Re: [gentoo-dev] Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-20 Thread Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez
I have another proposal... remove all themes from portage. We only need ebuild og gtk-engines and similar. Themes don't need a build system or are complex to install. Any user can go to www.X-theme.org watch the screenshot, download the theme and install it. We must mantain ebuild of themes tha

[gentoo-dev] Re: Proposal for cleaning portage a bit (themes and other eyecandy stuff)

2006-08-20 Thread Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-
That wastes space. Why would you want to install a theme several times for each user when you can just install it once and have everyone use it? Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 21 Aug 2006, Jose Alberto Suarez Lopez wrote: I have another proposal... remove all theme