Re: [gentoo-user] Re: aliases

2009-03-26 Thread Dale
Thanasis wrote: > on 03/23/2009 05:18 AM Dale wrote the following: > >> I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the >> alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? >> >> Dale >> >> > You can also use the unalias command, eg: > $ alias ls='ls -la

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:59:02 -0300 Jorge Morais wrote: > > It's still a way to check out these new features hands-on :) > > It's a kernel. Exactly. That's definitely one of the thing you have to know about, especially if this one's got some unpredictable stuff in it. > Even if it already releas

Re: [gentoo-user] Block emerge world package

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 04:12 +0100, laurent wrote: > I though it was a layman overlay, but listing them with layman -L does > not show them. > Is there a general way to desable packages or find if they are part of > an overlay ? I'm not sure what you mean by "disable" packages? Do you mean unm

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:04:22PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: > thanks for your answer: > Here is what I did: > 1) emerge -1 neon - revdep-rebuild (everything was consistent): layman -f -a > sabayon failed, layman -s vmware failed too > 2) USE=expat emerge -1 neon; emerge -1

Re: [gentoo-user] Block emerge world package

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Albert Hopkins a écrit : On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 03:37 +0100, laurent wrote: Hi, Emerge world want to emerge dev-lang/neko 1.7.1-r1 I already have 1.8 running. How can I tell emerge not to install that package? Laurent It's a beautifull news to see dev-lang/neko!! :) Hard for me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Block emerge world package

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 03:37 +0100, laurent wrote: > Hi, > > Emerge world want to emerge dev-lang/neko 1.7.1-r1 > I already have 1.8 running. > > How can I tell emerge not to install that package? > > Laurent > > It's a beautifull news to see dev-lang/neko!! :) > Hard for me to say since I don

[gentoo-user] Block emerge world package

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Hi, Emerge world want to emerge dev-lang/neko 1.7.1-r1 I already have 1.8 running. How can I tell emerge not to install that package? Laurent It's a beautifull news to see dev-lang/neko!! :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Tom
> Mentioning the obvious just in case ... have you run a checksum on > it? Perhaps they should email it again to you? No, I just sent them my request. If that was the problem, I'm going to cry, and pull my hair out ;-) Thanks...hoping... Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:36:41 +0500 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:13:38 -0300 > Jorge Morais wrote: > > > If you had upgraded because of a needed feature, I assume you would > > have read about the release, and thus would know about Tuz. > > So you upgraded to a ~arch kernel wit

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:13:38 -0300 Jorge Morais wrote: > If you had upgraded because of a needed feature, I assume you would > have read about the release, and thus would know about Tuz. > So you upgraded to a ~arch kernel without any need. > Why? The question is probably not adressed to me, but

Re: [gentoo-user] new symbols in portage

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:13:07 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: > [0] /usr/portage > [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined > <...> > > But what does [?=>0] mean which sometimes appears? It means you are going from an ebuild of indeterminate source to one from the porta

Re: [gentoo-user] new symbols in portage

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 27 March 2009 00:13:07 maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Since updating portage I notice the following whenever I run emerge: > > <...> > Portage tree and overlays: > [0] /usr/portage > [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined > <...> > > But what does [?=>0] m

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:13:38 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: > If you had upgraded because of a needed feature, I assume you would > have read about the release, and thus would know about Tuz. > So you upgraded to a ~arch kernel without any need. > Why? Because if no one runs the testing packages, the

Re: [gentoo-user] new symbols in portage

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:13:07 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler wrote: > But what does [?=>0] mean which sometimes appears? Just the fact that ebuild, used to build given package, no longer exists. Could be something you've hacked (or just changed a bit and redigested) in haste right in portage tree, remo

[gentoo-user] new symbols in portage

2009-03-26 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Since updating portage I notice the following whenever I run emerge: <...> Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined <...> But what does [?=>0] mean which sometimes appears? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:50:46 +0200 Thanasis wrote: > Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? > usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm > > Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? > > If you had upgraded because of a needed feature, I as

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 March 2009, Tom wrote: > It seems its a > bios bug or something, I even contacted the vendor (ASRock) and they > sent me an updated flash image, which I was sofar unable to install, > for some strange obscure reason. Mentioning the obvious just in case ... have you run a checksum o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 27 Mar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > [...] Put this in /etc/fonts/local.conf: > > [...] > > I forgot to mention that is that file is empty or does not exist, create > it and put this at the beginning: > > > > > > > And this at the end (after

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-26 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Willie Wong wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: > > svn: OPTIONS of 'http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk': could > > not connect to server (http://overlays.gentoo.org) > > > > But pointing firefox to http://overlays.gentoo.org/s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash && ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, James wrote: > I do not see where you found that? I went to ncaa.com and clicked the "watch games live" link on the main page. > I get that on Konqueror, Firefox and Seamonkey. Emerge net-www/netscape-flash version 10.0.22.87 and set the -32bit USE flag (to disa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:19:13 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > You mentioned elsewhere in the thread "web server" > > > > If that's the case, I'd be telling the hosting provider that 2004 called > > and > > they want their minutes back. Then I'd be looking for a dif

[gentoo-user] Re: flash && ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread James
Paul Hartman gmail.com> writes: > Actually, I just went to the site and it says: I do not see where you found that? Try this site: http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball/men/ > So it doesn't appear the games are in Flash... unless you /only/ want > to see the highlights. The "highlight re

[gentoo-user] Re: Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:30:57 Florian Philipp wrote: About a year ago a company I worked for was consulted to maintain a hospital admin system running on SLES of about that era in a VM. We told them to upgrade or find somebody else. They went off on their merry way to

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:30:57 Florian Philipp wrote: > > About a year ago a company I worked for was consulted to maintain a > > hospital admin system running on SLES of about that era in a VM. We told > > them to upgrade or find somebody else. They went off on their merry way > > to find som

Re: [gentoo-user] flash && ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > > So the mens college basketball games are streamed over > the net. On my newly upgraded kde 4.2.1, neither seamonkey > nor mozilla-firefox nor konqueror can play these > files. the website (ncaa.com) just tells me to download > "flash-8"

Re: [gentoo-user] flash && ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM, James wrote: > Hello, > > > So the mens college basketball games are streamed over > the net. On my newly upgraded kde 4.2.1, neither seamonkey > nor mozilla-firefox nor konqueror can play these > files. the website (ncaa.com) just tells me to download > "flash-8"

[gentoo-user] flash && ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread James
Hello, So the mens college basketball games are streamed over the net. On my newly upgraded kde 4.2.1, neither seamonkey nor mozilla-firefox nor konqueror can play these files. the website (ncaa.com) just tells me to download "flash-8" to play highlights of previous games. Is this safe? Is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:41:38 Florian Philipp wrote: >> Alan McKinnon schrieb: >>> On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:47:05 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! A quick question: If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Robin Atwood wrote: >> >> Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find >> the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with >> anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Mike Kazantsev a écrit : On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:22:37 +0100 laurent wrote: sed -i 's|diff_command="diff|diff_command="colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf Oops, my bad :) Sweet :) L "Never trust one-liner fix" I bet it'd be written all over the ashes of post-apocalyptic world a

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:41:38 Florian Philipp wrote: > Alan McKinnon schrieb: > > On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:47:05 Florian Philipp wrote: > >> Hi list! > >> > >> A quick question: > >> > >> If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask > >> ...), > > > > Wow. That ke

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:47 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> A quick question: >> >> If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask >> ...), are there issues I should be aware of? >> > OTOH if pull in a really old revision of the port

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: > On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:47:05 Florian Philipp wrote: >> Hi list! >> >> A quick question: >> >> If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask >> ...), > > Wow. That kernel is what 4? 5? years old Yep, I was surprised myself. It is a virtual m

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the > fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with > anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have the > same pro

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:22:37 +0100 laurent wrote: > > sed -i 's|diff_command="diff|diff_command="colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf > > > > Oops, my bad :) > > > > Sweet :) > L "Never trust one-liner fix" I bet it'd be written all over the ashes of post-apocalyptic world as well ;) -- Mike Kazan

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:36:41 +0100, laurent wrote: > I read about a tool to color the etc-update difference, can't find it > again, if you know about it ;) colordiff, it's in portage. -- Neil Bothwick 0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Mike Kazantsev a écrit : On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:07:06 +0500 Mike Kazantsev wrote: sed -i 's|diff_command="diff -uN %file1 %file2"|diff_command="colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf sed -i 's|diff_command="diff|diff_command="colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf Oops, my bad :) Sweet :)

Re: [gentoo-user] compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:18 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: > On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 20:31 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and > > mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). > > > > Does [xcb=] means "without the flag"? > > T

Re: [gentoo-user] compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 20:31 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and > mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). > > Does [xcb=] means "without the flag"? > Tree bug? >From the Gentoo Development guide: There are also shortcu

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:07:06 +0500 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > sed -i 's|diff_command="diff -uN %file1 %file2"|diff_command="colordiff|' > /etc/etc-update.conf sed -i 's|diff_command="diff|diff_command="colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf Oops, my bad :) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:47 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > A quick question: > > If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask > ...), are there issues I should be aware of? > > Do I have to mask newer glibc-versions, newer kernel headers or some use > flag

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:53:47 +0100 laurent wrote: > What should I emerge to have my etc-update colored for differencies ? emerge app-misc/colordiff && \ sed -i 's|diff_command="diff -uN %file1 %file2"|diff_command="colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread Justin
laurent wrote: > Hi, > > What should I emerge to have my etc-update colored for differencies ? > > this is dead: > http://no.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_etc-update > > thanks > Laurent > edit /etc/etc-update.conf and exchange line 32 diff --> colordiff. and emerge colordiff. signature.asc Descri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:54:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > > compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and > > mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). > > > > Does [xcb=] means "without the flag"? > > Tree bug? > > I don't know why it sh

[gentoo-user] Re: compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). Does [xcb=] means "without the flag"? Tree bug? I don't know why it shows like this with you, but here it told me that that I had to remove the xcb

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:47:05 Florian Philipp wrote: > Hi list! > > A quick question: > > If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask > ...), Wow. That kernel is what 4? 5? years old > are there issues I should be aware of? Plenty. First off, udev is unlikely t

[gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Hi, What should I emerge to have my etc-update colored for differencies ? this is dead: http://no.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_etc-update thanks Laurent

[gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! A quick question: If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask ...), are there issues I should be aware of? Do I have to mask newer glibc-versions, newer kernel headers or some use flags? What about the nptl use flag? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp sign

[gentoo-user] compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). Does [xcb=] means "without the flag"? Tree bug?

[gentoo-user] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Put this in /etc/fonts/local.conf: [...] I forgot to mention that is that file is empty or does not exist, create it and put this at the beginning: And this at the end (after the entries I posted in my previous message):

[gentoo-user] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Robin Atwood wrote: Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have the same problem. It makes no difference whether I

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Joshua D Doll
Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? Here's my link on the subject: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-logo.html --J

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some web sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 26 Mar 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: > Robin Atwood schrieb: > > Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I > > find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being > > rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 26 Mar 2009, Philip Webb wrote: > 090326 Robin Atwood wrote: > > Recently http://freshmeat.net/ updated its look > > and now the fonts are very hard to read. > > It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. > > http://www.linuxjournal.com/ seems to have the same pro

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> After a bit of Googling, it seems the accepted solution is to use HTML >> entities for those symbols and not try to use the raw characters as >> you are attempting to do. >> >> http

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Mike Kazantsev a écrit : On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +0100 laurent wrote: But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks? Because I let my server host install it with their default disk lay

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Robin Atwood schrieb: > Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find > the > fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with > anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have the > same problem. It makes no differen

[gentoo-user] Re: aliases

2009-03-26 Thread Thanasis
on 03/23/2009 05:18 AM Dale wrote the following: > > I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the > alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? > > Dale > You can also use the unalias command, eg: $ alias ls='ls -la' $ unalias ls (then it stays unaliase

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Philip Webb
090326 Robin Atwood wrote: > Recently http://freshmeat.net/ updated its look > and now the fonts are very hard to read. > It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. > http://www.linuxjournal.com/ seems to have the same problem. > It makes no difference whether I use Firefox o

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Tom
> > > Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has > > > plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers. > > > > Bios doesn't support it :( > > > > So was this machine manufactured 10 years ago or are you *that* good > in choosing crappy hardware? I regular y excel in

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 02:32 +0100, Tom wrote: > Hi > > I had a very un-nice evening, trying to get my system back into a > usable state, which I eventually managed, but that is another story. > > It made me realise I need a way to be able to use my cdrom drive to > boot cds. > Let me explain befo

[gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have the same problem. It makes no difference whether I use Firefox or Konqu

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 12:54 +0100, Tom wrote: > > Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has > > plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers. > > Bios doesn't support it :( > So was this machine manufactured 10 years ago or are you *that* good in choosing crappy hardwa

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Tom
> Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has > plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers. Bios doesn't support it :( Tom

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:32:49 +0100, Tom wrote: > So, any ideas how to do something like this? Maybe something ready > made, or a convenient script. Smart Boot Manager - http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ -- Neil Bothwick Planet 98% full! Delete Windows users? (Y/y) signature.asc Descrip

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/3/26 Helmut Jarausch : > Hi, > > the  sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild  contains > DEPEND="${RDEPEND} >        doc? ( app-text/texi2html virtual/texi2dvi ) >        python? ( dev-lang/swig[python] ) >        octave? ( dev-lang/swig[octave] )" > > What does dev-lang/swig[python] mean? > Since  dev

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 March 2009 11:14:38 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > the sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild contains > DEPEND="${RDEPEND} > doc? ( app-text/texi2html virtual/texi2dvi ) > python? ( dev-lang/swig[python] ) > octave? ( dev-lang/swig[octave] )" > > What does dev-lang/swig

[gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question

2009-03-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild contains DEPEND="${RDEPEND} doc? ( app-text/texi2html virtual/texi2dvi ) python? ( dev-lang/swig[python] ) octave? ( dev-lang/swig[octave] )" What does dev-lang/swig[python] mean? Since dev-lang/swig/swig-1.3.39 does not use the us

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: > svn: OPTIONS of 'http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk': could not > connect to server (http://overlays.gentoo.org) > But pointing firefox to http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk > lists