>
> Question: are these new dirs named gentoo OR gentoo.conf
> and so on for the other two?
>
> Maxim
Went ahead and named them just gentoo etc no .conf. And paludis --sync worked!
But the dirs are empty. Would it have worked if I had added .conf to the dir
names?
mw
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:59:06PM +0200, Jarry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there some software for "live" partition backup/copying/cloning
> with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton
> Ghost or O&O DiskImage in windows-world?
>
> Some of them should have linux version (e.g. clo
On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:31:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > it's a live CD, and that's the only safe way to do a whole disk
> > backup.
>
> Well, no. I have a small rescue partition on each of my Gentoo boxes,
> not necessarily on the physical disk to be backed up. Quite useful from
> time to
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 23:56:48 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> it's a live CD, and that's the only safe way to do a whole disk backup.
Well, no. I have a small rescue partition on each of my Gentoo boxes, not
necessarily on the physical disk to be backed up. Quite useful from time to
time, such as when
On Tue, 19 May 2009 22:08:10 +0100
Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Michael Higgins wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500
> >
> > Paul Hartman wrote:
> > > Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working
> > > connection to a Checkpoint VPN.
> >
> > Thanks, Paul. I'v
On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:29:15 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote:
> > I haven't tried toggling the wireless, but the sleep key
> > and power button
> > can be used with ACPI and sys-power/hibernate-script.
> >
> > % cat /etc/acpi/events/sleep
>
> I did an emerge of acpi but it didn't create anythi
On Tue, 19 May 2009 20:28:44 +0200, Jarry wrote:
> > Then use LVM and tar. Otherwise, trying to backup an in-use partition
> > can result in inconsistencies.
>
> I'm using O&O DiskImage with WinXP, and never had any inconsistency
> while doing backup of "live" partition. I'd like to have the s
On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:38:21 -0700 (PDT)
maxim wexler wrote:
> When the portage2paludis script completes it says I need to create
> /var/db/pkg/.cache...
If you enable caching, you'll have to create '.cache' subdir (default
name) in every used repository.
>...and directories beneath it named
Hi group,
When the portage2paludis script completes it says I need to create
/var/db/pkg/.cache and directories beneath it named after
/etc/paludis/repositories.
Under /etc/paludis/repositories there are gentoo.conf, installed.conf and
layman.conf.
Question: are these new dirs named gentoo
On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Michael Higgins wrote:
> On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500
>
> Paul Hartman wrote:
> > Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working
> > connection to a Checkpoint VPN.
>
> Thanks, Paul. I've already the "solution", as I'm not so much trying to get
> some
On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500
Paul Hartman wrote:
> Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working
> connection to a Checkpoint VPN.
Thanks, Paul. I've already the "solution", as I'm not so much trying to get
something accomplished (access machines "inside" which I can do
> I haven't tried toggling the wireless, but the sleep key
> and power button
> can be used with ACPI and sys-power/hibernate-script.
>
> % cat /etc/acpi/events/sleep
I did an emerge of acpi but it didn't create anything in /etc. Did you make
them by hand?
Maxim
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On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and
> > world will not be bloated at all.
>
> Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Michael Higgins wrote:
> My next step is to get on the phone with the folks who have access to the
> "checkpoint" VPN device to see if they can tell me what fails.
Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working
connection to a Checkpoint VPN. The
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 9:28:44 PM, Jarry wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 May 2009 19:50:59 +0200, Jarry wrote:
>>
>>> Nothing. But this is what I expect from such a software:
>>>
>>> 1. backup of partition in use (sync disk, snapshot of partition)
>>> 2. "smart" copying (only sectors
fe...@crowfix.com schrieb am 19.05.2009 20:25:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
>> Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and world
>> will not be bloated at all.
>
> Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 19 May 2009 19:50:59 +0200, Jarry wrote:
Nothing. But this is what I expect from such a software:
1. backup of partition in use (sync disk, snapshot of partition)
2. "smart" copying (only sectors with data)
3. automatic partition recovery (including partition-table
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and world
> will not be bloated at all.
Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants to.>
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On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:07:33 +0100
Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 17 May 2009, Mick wrote:
> > Thanks Graham,
> >
> > On Saturday 16 May 2009, Graham Murray wrote:
> > > Here are some samples.
> > >
[8<]
>
> The more I try to use VPN the more I love SSH!
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/87920
Mick --
This
On 19 May 2009, at 18:32, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
...
So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world to
world-bloated and running emerge --depclean -p just to see what would
happen. The answer is ... a loop!
It appears you no longer have a world file (because you moved it,
On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:01 -0700
fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with
> --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I
> update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into
> emerge without the benefit of --onesho
On 19 May 2009, at 18:04, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:51:43PM +0100, Stroller wrote:
After reading other posters negative comments in this thread, I just
gave up on it.
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/179589
Heh ... I added a comment to that thread
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 19:32:01 fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with
> --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I
> update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into
> emerge without the benefit of --oneshot.
>
On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:01 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> So, what is the proper way to recreate a proper world file? If
> depclean can finally run one of these days when gentoo gets back in
> sync, is staring with an empty world file as good as anything else?
No, starting with your existin
On Tue, 19 May 2009 19:50:59 +0200, Jarry wrote:
> Nothing. But this is what I expect from such a software:
>
> 1. backup of partition in use (sync disk, snapshot of partition)
> 2. "smart" copying (only sectors with data)
> 3. automatic partition recovery (including partition-table)
Then use LV
On 2009-05-19, Michael Sullivan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend
>> on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for
>> software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)?
...
> My MythTV
On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with
> --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I
> update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into
> emerge without the benefit of --oneshot.
>
> So t
Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
is there some software for "live" partition backup/copying/cloning
with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton
Ghost or O&O DiskImage in windows-world?
What's wrong with dd?
Nothing. But this is what I expect from such a software:
1. backup of p
In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with
--oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I
update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into
emerge without the benefit of --oneshot.
So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world to
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend
> on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for
> software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)?
>
> All of the info I find about "split" MythTV systems implies
Am Dienstag, 19. Mai 2009 18:59:06 schrieb Jarry:
> is there some software for "live" partition backup/copying/cloning
> with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton
> Ghost or O&O DiskImage in windows-world?
What's wrong with dd?
Bye...
Dirk
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Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend
on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for
software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)?
All of the info I find about "split" MythTV systems implies
that the backend is a dedicated MythTV server. It seems like a
w
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:51:43PM +0100, Stroller wrote:
> After reading other posters negative comments in this thread, I just
> gave up on it.
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/179589
Heh ... I added a comment to that thread and hoped it owuld eventually
be solved, but I gu
Hi,
is there some software for "live" partition backup/copying/cloning
with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton
Ghost or O&O DiskImage in windows-world?
Some of them should have linux version (e.g. clonezilla), but I did
not find anything in portage...
Jarry
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On 19 May 2009, at 16:24, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine. Then I
read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and
pretty handy. But somewhere along the way, bash completion has
screwed up, and now various things which used
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:37:10PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote:
> Which version of bash-completion do you use ?
app-shells/bash-completion-1.0-r3
> Try as root : eselect bashcomp enable --global base and eselect bashcomp
> enable --global gentoo to get some basics...
> As a normal user, remove th
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
> On Monday 18 May 2009 22:14:43 bn wrote:
>>> If you use Ubuntu, you've got to accept their eccentric & questionable
>>> attitude to passwords, esp that they don't have a separate root password.
>>> I find that a piece of cheap popularisation contrary to UNIX principles.
James wrote:
However, now that Oracle owns mysql, maybe, just maybe, postgresql
will get a little bit more attention, across the net
and here at Gentoo
My prediction is that Oracle is going to do every thing it can
to cause Mysql to lanquish..
That probably doesn't matter consider
On Tue, 19 May 2009 08:24:57 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote:
> I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine. Then I
> read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and
> pretty handy. But somewhere along the way, bash completion has
> screwed up, and now various thi
I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine. Then I
read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and
pretty handy. But somewhere along the way, bash completion has
screwed up, and now various things which used to work before bash
completion no longer work. Such a
Konstantinos Agouros agouros.de> writes:
> yes I know I could use ~ in package.keywords. But is there a good reason
> why postgres is still @8.0 and not at least 8.2?
Dunno
However, now that Oracle owns mysql, maybe, just maybe, postgresql
will get a little bit more attention, across the
On Tue, 19 May 2009 11:19:57 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> how can I find which packages depends on sys-devel/gcc:4.2
emerge --depclean -pv sys-devel/gcc:4.2
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A good pun is its own reword.
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Helmut Jarausch schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> how can I find which packages depends on sys-devel/gcc:4.2
> (Unfortunately, equery seems to ignore the slot)
>
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut.
>
qgrep -v sys-devel/gcc:4.2
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Hi,
how can I find which packages depends on sys-devel/gcc:4.2
(Unfortunately, equery seems to ignore the slot)
Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.
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Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany
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