Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online.
>>>
>> Yet it does.
>>
>>
>>> I
>>> think it's a sinthat portage decid
Harry Putnam writes:
> So next tried an actual Gentoo user name:
>
> smbpasswd reader
> root # smbpasswd reader
Gackkk I left out the all important -a
Sorry for the line noise
Its so seldom that I have to work on samba config I forget between
times whatever steps are needed.
This time I just copied an old config over to a new[ish] gentoo
install.
Now attempting to set smbpasswds. First I tried to give a windows
client user name (but no such user on gentoo OS). Failed
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online.
>
> Yet it does.
>
>> I
>> think it's a sinthat portage decides to remove files from MY machine,
>> files that I'm curr
Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>
>> On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever?
>>>
>>> I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me.
>>>
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
>
>> I absolutely HATE this about portage. Update your machine just
>> thinking about trying a new piece of software and then find you cannot
>> immediately go back. Gentoo was supposed to
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:48:07 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse
> down a directory tree?
You don't, that's not sed's job, which is to edit the text you give it.
Use find to generate a list of files for sed to work on.
> And whi
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:42:43 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I have NEVER asked portage to keep a copy of EVERYTHING online.
Yet it does.
> I
> think it's a sinthat portage decides to remove files from MY machine,
> files that I'm currently using, files that I require.
It doesn't. It may remove fil
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> I absolutely HATE this about portage. Update your machine just
> thinking about trying a new piece of software and then find you cannot
> immediately go back. Gentoo was supposed to be about choice. Seems
> it's not about my choice anymore.
Hi,
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 04:44, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 22 June 2009 15:56:47 Mike Mazur wrote:
>>
>> I noticed some issues with the power management setup I had when I
>> upgraded kernels over the last few months. This past weekend I decided
>> to crack down on this to see whether th
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:06:42 -0700
Mark Knecht wrote:
> Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing
> what I was just using:
If it ain't broke, don't fix it. ;-)
Portage does drop many old packages over time, to keep the package
database to a reasonable size.
--
-- -
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 03:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Gentoo is for me. Gentoo is the only distro I run and the only one
>> I've run for at least 6 years. Gentoo has run on THIS VERY MACHINE for
>> over 4 years and it is the ONLY distro that ha
On an x86 machine with kernel 2.6.17-gentoo-r4, I did "eix-sync" and
"emerge -NauvD system" and received a response including the following line:
[blocks B ] >=sys-fs/udev-126 (">=sys-fs/udev-126" is blocking
sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.5-r1)
Doing "emerge -p -C udev" elicited the following lines:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever?
>>
>> I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me.
>
> As a last attempt at damage control, try th
On 06/24/2009 03:27 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Gentoo is for me. Gentoo is the only distro I run and the only one
I've run for at least 6 years. Gentoo has run on THIS VERY MACHINE for
over 4 years and it is the ONLY distro that has EVER run on this
machine. Today I run eix-sync and emerge xorg-x11 a
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Family gets no MythTV for a few days, or maybe forever?
I'm trying to mask things to check this and emerge is really mad at me.
As a last attempt at damage control, try the full update anyway. Remove
"fglrx" from VIDEO_CARDS and replace it wit
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>> Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing
>> what I was just using:
>> [...]
>>
>> Is xorg-server-1.1.1 completely gone and I'm hosed? I'm not finding it
>
On 06/24/2009 03:06 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
[...]
Am I hosed again? Did updating portage break my machine by removing
what I was just using:
[...]
Is xorg-server-1.1.1 completely gone and I'm hosed? I'm not finding it
on my my machine. The only variations on that theme seem to be in
/var/db/pkg.
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>>> On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi all,
Main question is whether there is any change in the way I s
On Jun 23, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed
recurse down
a directory tree? And while I'm at it, how do I change the field
separator
from / to enable me to search on that character?
maybe something like:
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
>> On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>> Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
>>> the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
>>>
>>>
Hello list,
I'm reduced to asking a newcomer's question: how can I make sed recurse down
a directory tree? And while I'm at it, how do I change the field separator
from / to enable me to search on that character?
I used to have a "SED and AWK" book, but it seems to have walked; and I
can't see
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
>> the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
>>
>> I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends th
On 06/24/2009 02:20 AM, Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi all,
Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends that uses
an old 2.6.19 kernel with an old 8.28 ati-driver package. The mac
Hi all,
Main question is whether there is any change in the way I select
the fglrx driver with xorg-server-1.5?
I have a big emerge running on one of my MythTV frontends that uses
an old 2.6.19 kernel with an old 8.28 ati-driver package. The machine
does not use a keyboard or mouse. I cannot
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:59:02 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> > It's really not that hard, but you seem to be trying to find clever
>
> Walking's hard -- until you learn.
But you've been using Gentoo for some time now, so you would be expected
to have a grasp of the fundamentals. After all, you pa
> Create two partitions on sdb
> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/gentoo/var
> mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/gentoo/home
>
> It's really not that hard, but you seem to be trying to find clever
Walking's hard -- until you learn.
> solutions when the simple one will do.
Well, of course the simple things have a way of
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 13:15:13 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> OK, been staring at this terminal for about an hour. I'm at
> r...@sysresccd /mnt/gentoo where sda1 is mounted. Do I just mount sdb1
> on /mnt/gentoo too? Do I delete home and var then mkdirs on sdb2?
> Won't they just be re-made on the sam
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 21:15:13 Maxim Wexler wrote:
> > I'd put /home and /var on the SD card to start with, you may need to
> > put /usr/src on there too or your SSD may fill up when installing or
> > compiling a second or third kernel.
> >
> > I'd also move the portage tree there, but you can do
> I'd put /home and /var on the SD card to start with, you may need to
> put /usr/src on there too or your SSD may fill up when installing or
> compiling a second or third kernel.
>
> I'd also move the portage tree there, but you can do that
> post-installation by moving /usr/portage to /var/portag
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 18:09:39 James wrote:
> Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes:
> >app-arch/xz-utils **
> >
> > in package.keywords. I used that because is the only version
> > available. If you wish narrow it down nonetheless, use:
> >
> >~app-arch/xz-utils- **
>
> Both wor
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 17:49:40 James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> > * removes masking keywords if the package is stable on your arch
> > ~* removes masking keywords if the package is stable on any arch
> > ** removes masking keywords for the package unconditionally
>
> none of th
Does anyone know about the following warning I got after upgrading to
php5-5.2.10?
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: mm_create(0, /session_mm_cli500) failed,
err mm:core: failed to open semaphore file (Permission denied) in
Unknown on line 0
Downgrading gets rid of the warning and a google search revea
Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes:
>app-arch/xz-utils **
> in package.keywords. I used that because is the only version
> available. If you wish narrow it down nonetheless, use:
>~app-arch/xz-utils- **
Both work!
got it now. Sorry but reading the man pages on portage an
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> I cheat and just do this:
> x11-wm/enlightenment * ~* **
Does not work for xz-utils. Neil's post may be the reason,
but there is definately nothing I've read (in man pages)
to distinguish these anomalous cases?
> But enlightenment is a special case. e17
On 06/23/2009 06:28 PM, James wrote:
Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes:
There's a point to everything. You need to use whatever suits what you
want to do.
Ok got it.
Now how do I unmask the version of:
app-arch/xz-utils
Available versions: **
By putting:
app-arc
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes:
> > make the app-arch/xz-utils- (SVN) version available.
> This ebuild doesn't have a valid KEYWORDS line, try something less broken.
OK, I tried is because there does not seem to be other dependancies.
Pick an example for me, cause nothing I ever do
Nikos Chantziaras arcor.de> writes:
> There's a point to everything. You need to use whatever suits what you
> want to do.
Ok got it.
Now how do I unmask the version of:
app-arch/xz-utils
Available versions: **
James
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 16:40:51 James wrote:
> Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> > > This is my (mis)conception, although, as you have suggest,
> > > there are (gentoo) cultural norms that do suggest
> > > certain boolean operations should not be used,
> > > in say for example, package.keywords?
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:40:51 + (UTC), James wrote:
> app-arch/xz-utils
> Nothing I tried in either package.keywords or package.unmask
> make the app-arch/xz-utils- (SVN) version available.
This ebuild doesn't have a valid KEYWORDS line, try something less broken.
--
Neil Bothwick
Head
On 06/23/2009 05:40 PM, James wrote:
[...]
So entries in package.keywords should just have the ~ in front of them?
No point in using other boolean operations in the package.keywords file?
There's a point to everything. You need to use whatever suits what you
want to do.
~: This version an
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes:
> > This is my (mis)conception, although, as you have suggest,
> > there are (gentoo) cultural norms that do suggest
> > certain boolean operations should not be used,
> > in say for example, package.keywords?
> That's more just a safeguard against forgetting yo
On 06/23/2009 11:15 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
I was quite surprised when I tried to emerge media-libs/tiff (3.8.2-r6)
today. I got the error messages
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0 (Change USE: +objc)
[...]
So, why the requirem
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:15:02 +0200 (CEST)
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was quite surprised when I tried to emerge media-libs/tiff
> (3.8.2-r6) today. I got the error messages
>
> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0 (Change USE:
On 6/22/09, James wrote:
> Arttu V. gmail.com> writes:
>
>> More reading: ebuild(5)"
>
> Ah, ok so there is not restriction on using any of the
> the boolean operators in any config file underneath
> /etc/portage? as section 5 does not mention any
Well, for those files t
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 10:27:37 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Well that's easy, just don't use kdm :-)
>
> If you want pretty, there's entrance
> If you want light, there's slim
> If you want hard-core, there's xdm
If you want lazy, use kdm with auto-login.
--
Neil Bothwick
.sig? we don't need
Massimiliano Ziccardi wrote:
> Thank you all for your beautiful help and your patience (my thread is
> 33 mails long!!).
>
> This has been one of the best support I have ever got (much better
> than many paid support services).
>
> Thank you!
>
> Massimiliano
That's the beauty of Gentoo. If the f
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 09:38:32 Dale wrote:
>
>> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:51:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>>
This sounds cool. I don't unmask a lot or anything but something like
KDE 4 comes to mind for this. That requires a lot
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> There's also gdm. But I don't talk about gdm. It's personal, and painful.
> Don't ask :-)
>
Well, tell us why you don't like gdm. :-)
;-p
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On Tuesday 23 June 2009 09:38:32 Dale wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:51:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
> >> This sounds cool. I don't unmask a lot or anything but something like
> >> KDE 4 comes to mind for this. That requires a lot of work. I'm going
> >> to have to check to se
Thank you all for your beautiful help and your patience (my thread is 33
mails long!!).
This has been one of the best support I have ever got (much better than many
paid support services).
Thank you!
Massimiliano
Hi,
I was quite surprised when I tried to emerge media-libs/tiff (3.8.2-r6)
today. I got the error messages
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-devel/gcc-4.4.0 (Change USE: +objc)
(dependency required by "media-libs/tiff-3.8.2-r6" [ebuild])
(dependency re
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:59:14 -0700
"Kevin O'Gorman" wrote:
> I am exploring a few things about terminal programs, and am finding
> their man pages hard going. Just as an example, the xterm page
> coverage of -geometry points to the man page for X(7), but no such
> page exists on my system, and I
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:51:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>
>> This sounds cool. I don't unmask a lot or anything but something like
>> KDE 4 comes to mind for this. That requires a lot of work. I'm going
>> to have to check to see if autounmask supports this too.
>>
>
> I
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 01:51:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
> This sounds cool. I don't unmask a lot or anything but something like
> KDE 4 comes to mind for this. That requires a lot of work. I'm going
> to have to check to see if autounmask supports this too.
It does, it creates a file called autounmask
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:12:01 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote:
> Ok, I did it! No more LVM! Wiped the SSD and made one partition out of
> it. Mounted it on /mnt/gentoo and unpacked the stage3 tarball. Silly
> question: now what? Where do I mount the SD card prior to unpacking
> portage? Do I make separat
On Tuesday 23 June 2009, Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:18:25 +0200
>
> Francesco Talamona wrote:
> > I am looking for a software to keep a paperless diary, but I seem I
> > can't find anything valid, at first I tried app-office/qchartdiary,
> > it doesn't run, then I found www-app
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