Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011 03:49:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box. > I did a qfile for this and nothing was found. > > What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems? I'd be interested to find out too. Same file here and equery

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 6/22/2011 2:35 PM, Dale wrote: When I did that, it complained that cantor was built with no backend. Did you get the same thing? It said this here: WARN (postinst) You have decided to build cantor with no backend. To have this application functional, please do on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:34:35 -0500, Dale wrote: root@fireball / # eix cantor [I] kde-base/cantor Available versions: (4) 4.6.2{tbz2} 4.6.3{tbz2} (~)4.6.4{tbz2} {+R aqua debug +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix ps} Installed versions: 4.6.4(4){t

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/22/11 22:14, Albert Hopkins wrote: > Perhaps, but it's trivial to convert qcows to other formats. > Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the conversion would increase the size of the disk imag

[gentoo-user] /etc/machine-id ???

2011-06-22 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box. I did a qfile for this and nothing was found. What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems? Best regards, mcc

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thursday, June 23 at 08:16 (+0700), Pandu Poluan said: > Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ? I haven't any. I have no experience with XenServer appliances.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wednesday, June 22 at 21:31 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said: > > The stage4 > > (excluding portage) would be ~90MB (bz2). The disk image (compressed > > QCOW is about 120MB) > > The only issue with qcow2 is that in order to use it with VB, IIRC you > need to convert it to raw before you can im

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/22/11 18:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is Gentoo >> after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-) > Some people won't be happy until we go back to Grub style error messages, > preferably i

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/22/11 20:11, Albert Hopkins wrote: > > On Wednesday, June 22 at 16:52 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > >> The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on >> windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right. >> >> Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo

RE: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance From: Albert Hopkins Date: 2011-06-23 07:11 >I have a program that I use to create Gentoo VM appliances. I have no >idea if it works with vbox or vmware as I run KVM, but I think it >*should* work. Anyway if yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:55:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Helicopters are reserved for those with a death wish Unless the helicopter is an air ambulance, not that what I was doing to require an air ambulance in the first place was particularly sane. -- Neil Bothwick Know thyself. If you nee

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Wednesday, June 22 at 16:52 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: > The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on > windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right. > > Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance > somewhere that I can just install a

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Harry Putnam
kashani writes: > On 6/22/2011 2:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> If that isn't available maybe someone has a fairly current kernel >> config that is known to boot on a windows host with guest gentoo. >> > > http://badapple.net/files/gentoo-vbox.config > Windows 7, vbox 4.0.8, gentoo-sources-2.6.36-

[gentoo-user] Password protection without apache2?

2011-06-22 Thread Grant
I'd like to password protect the "motion" webcam stream at my.external.ip.address:port. Do I need to run apache2 in order to do that? It seems like overkill but I don't think motion has password protection built-in. - Grant

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht writes: > Hi Harry, >I have an up-to-date Gentoo 64-bit/KDE Virtualbox VM but I haven't > tested it on a Windows host. I suppose could try that given some time. > >I'd have no problem donating a copy if people wanted it and there > was some public place that we could put it. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Dale wrote: > > I emerge -C ifc and revdep-rebuild rebuilt some stuff but it is gone now. >  So, you may have to work with it but it *might* be removable too. > > Dale Hi Dale, For me this was more about following along with the thread and learning about this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread justin
On 6/23/11 12:11 AM, walt wrote: > On 06/22/2011 12:13 AM, justin wrote: > >> I found the culprit. It should be fixed now, so please resync later >> today and everything is normal again. >> >> justin > > Hi justin. Just want to say thanks for being a gentoo dev, and even > bigger thanks for tak

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote: > This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is Gentoo > after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-) In what way is it bad? Gentoo used to fail to install stuff because your USE flags were wrong and you had to go on a treasure hunt t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 16:34:35 -0500, Dale wrote: > root@fireball / # eix cantor > [I] kde-base/cantor > Available versions: (4) 4.6.2{tbz2} 4.6.3{tbz2} (~)4.6.4{tbz2} > {+R aqua debug +handbook kdeenablefinal kdeprefix ps} > Installed versions: 4.6.4(4){tbz2}(01:24:34 PM > 0

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:44:00 Indi did opine thusly: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Dale wrote: > > Then again, I don't fly either. I have told people that if they > > see me on a plane, close the lid on my coffin. That's the only > > way I would get on a plane. > > You haven't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread kashani
On 6/22/2011 2:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: If that isn't available maybe someone has a fairly current kernel config that is known to boot on a windows host with guest gentoo. http://badapple.net/files/gentoo-vbox.config Windows 7, vbox 4.0.8, gentoo-sources-2.6.36-r5, no video drivers kashani

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Indi
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Dale wrote: > Then again, I don't fly either. I have told people that if they > see me on a plane, close the lid on my coffin. That's the only > way I would get on a plane. > You haven't lived until you've been up in a small, underpowered ultralight

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/22/2011 2:35 PM, Dale wrote: > When I did that, it complained that cantor was built with no backend. > Did you get the same thing? It said this here: > > WARN (postinst) > > You have decided to build cantor with no backend. > To have this application functional, please do one of below: >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/22/2011 11:35 AM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> >> I suppose you got the idea by now ;-) Do you need dev-lang/R? If >> not, then "emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R". Do you need the >> package(s) that this brings up? If not, continue --depclean those >> until you reach something

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
walt wrote: On 06/22/2011 12:13 AM, justin wrote: I found the culprit. It should be fixed now, so please resync later today and everything is normal again. justin Hi justin. Just want to say thanks for being a gentoo dev, and even bigger thanks for taking time to check in with us h

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 21:12:21 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 21:16:30 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: > > Am 22.06.2011 20:22, schrieb Dale: > > > Sebastian Beßler wrote: > > >> It is not a FEATURE its a default option > > >> > > >> NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Todd Goodman wrote: * Dale [110622 16:41]: Matthew Finkel wrote: [...] Do correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't blas-reference pulled in by merging gcc with USE="fortran"? Or did you install blas-reference for another reason? No clue. I just -c'd some stuff and kept

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 6/22/2011 9:33 AM, Dale wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> On 06/22/2011 02:18 PM, Dale wrote: >>> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Uninstall sci-libs/blas-reference I guess. And probably whatever depends on it. Please do an "emerge -pv --depclean blas-reference" and post the output so

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: > The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on > windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right. > > Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance > somewhere that I can just install and then u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: For kicks I decided to give -fortran a try. I find it interesting that with Fortran installed using either the fortran flag in package.use, or just not setting the flag at all, I apparently do not need the c++ libraries that I do need when I choose -fortran. However it seems th

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Todd Goodman wrote: > > No actually blas-reference fails to build unless gcc is built with the > fortran use flag enabled (since there's no fortran compiler available.) > > The deps pulling in blas-reference are in my previous mail. > > Todd If you have virtual/f

[gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread walt
On 06/22/2011 12:13 AM, justin wrote: > I found the culprit. It should be fixed now, so please resync later > today and everything is normal again. > > justin Hi justin. Just want to say thanks for being a gentoo dev, and even bigger thanks for taking time to check in with us here in the gento

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Todd Goodman
* Dale [110622 16:41]: > Matthew Finkel wrote: [...] > > Do correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't blas-reference pulled in by > > merging gcc with USE="fortran"? Or did you install blas-reference for > > another reason? > > > > > > > > > > > No clue. I just -c'd some stuff and kept running re

[gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Harry Putnam
The times I've tried to get a recent gentoo version running in a vm on windows turned out to be labor taking days to get right. Does anyone know if there is a fairly current gentoo appliance somewhere that I can just install and then update or customize? I'd prefer to run it with vbox but if the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Todd Goodman wrote: * Dale [110622 14:45]: When I did that, it complained that cantor was built with no backend. Did you get the same thing? It said this here: WARN (postinst) You have decided to build cantor with no backend. To have this application functional, please do one of below:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 13:13:03 Dale did opine thusly: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/22/2011 07:58 PM, Dale wrote: [...] Mine never had fortran in it at all. I still don't really know what fortran is. It's a programming language. You know,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I'm on KDE too, and it doesn't need it.  Probably because my make.conf > explicitly says "-fortran" in it. > > > For kicks I decided to give -fortran a try. I find it interesting that with Fortran installed using either the fortran fl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Todd Goodman
* Dale [110622 14:45]: > Dale wrote: > > Todd Goodman wrote: > >> > >> Well, I don't have fortran use enabled > >> > >> mail-proxy ~ # euse -i fortran > >> global use flags (searching: fortran) > >> > >> [- ] fortran - Adds support

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
cated at '/var/log/portage/sci-libs:blas-reference-20070226:20110622-180601.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/blas-reference-20070226/temp/die.env'. * S: '/var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/blas-reference-20070226/work/lapack-lite-3.1.1'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 13:13:03 Dale did opine thusly: > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 06/22/2011 07:58 PM, Dale wrote: > >> [...] > >> Mine never had fortran in it at all. I still don't really know > >> what fortran is. > > > > It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 21:16:30 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: > Am 22.06.2011 20:22, schrieb Dale: > > Sebastian Beßler wrote: > >> It is not a FEATURE its a default option > >> > >> NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by setting > >> > >>EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autoun

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
of 'emerge --info > =sci-libs/blas-reference-20070226', > * the complete build log and the output of 'emerge -pqv > =sci-libs/blas-reference-20070226'. > * The complete build log is located at > '/var/log/portage/sci-libs:blas-reference-20070226:20110622-1806

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 22.06.2011 20:22, schrieb Dale: > Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> It is not a FEATURE its a default option >> >> NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by setting >>EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" in make.conf. > > O, I can't pass this up. That sounds so much like windoz

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Todd Goodman wrote: Well, I don't have fortran use enabled mail-proxy ~ # euse -i fortran global use flags (searching: fortran) [- ] fortran - Adds support for fortran (formerly f77) local use flags (searching: fort

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) autounmask i

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Todd Goodman wrote: Well, I don't have fortran use enabled mail-proxy ~ # euse -i fortran global use flags (searching: fortran) [- ] fortran - Adds support for fortran (formerly f77) local use flags (searching: fortran)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/22/2011 07:58 PM, Dale wrote: [...] Mine never had fortran in it at all. I still don't really know what fortran is. It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that. Except that it's a zombie-relict from the 1950's that refuses to die because pe

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
og and the output of 'emerge -pqv =sci-libs/blas-reference-20070226'. * The complete build log is located at '/var/log/portage/sci-libs:blas-reference-20070226:20110622-180601.log'. * The ebuild environment file is located at '/var/tmp/portage/sci-libs/blas-reference-20

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Todd Goodman
* Nikos Chantziaras [110622 11:53]: > On 06/22/2011 06:35 PM, Dale wrote: > > Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> > >> I suppose you got the idea by now ;-) Do you need dev-lang/R? If not, > >> then "emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R". Do you need the package(s) > >> that this brings up? If not, continue

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:54:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Use a directory for package.use, it makes it far easier to manage. All of /etc/portage/package.* are directories here. I have done that for package.keywords and unmask. In ways it is easier but in ways

[gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/22/2011 07:58 PM, Dale wrote: [...] Mine never had fortran in it at all. I still don't really know what fortran is. It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that. Except that it's a zombie-relict from the 1950's that refuses to die because people still programming in

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: >> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) >> >> autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly se

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:30:18 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly: > Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > >> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >>> It is unset here (well, it's not set, actual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/22/2011 06:35 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I suppose you got the idea by now ;-) Do you need dev-lang/R? If not, then "emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R". Do you need the package(s) that this brings up? If not, continue --depclean those until you reach

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread pk
On 2011-06-22 17:35, Dale wrote: > Well, that leads back to KDE. So, looks like it stays. R is a mathematical language similar to Matlab/Octave... only specialized for statistical computing. I assume if something in KDE is using that it must be optional; check your USE flags. HTH Best regards

[gentoo-user] Zebra 2844 thermal printer requires driver change when upgrading cups

2011-06-22 Thread Grant
I just upgraded to cups-1.4.6-r2 and my Zebra 2844 thermal label printer wouldn't work until I modified the printer in the CUPS admin interface and chose from the latest set of drivers offered for that printer. Just thought I'd mention it in case anyone else finds their printer no longer works aft

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: >> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) >> >> autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly se

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I'm on KDE too, and it doesn't need it.  Probably because my make.conf > explicitly says "-fortran" in it. > That's actually the correct statement. When I removed the fortran flag it didn't change anything because (I suppose) the KDE p

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Indi
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 05:37:49PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 11:23:15 Indi did opine thusly: > > > > Ha, so it's true then: using my blackberry as a PDA (sync'd to > > google calendar) and not bothering with that stuff on my computer > > anymore may indeed have saved

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:31:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to off. > is it invisibly on then? I don't have it in make.conf and it's not in > FEATURES: Apparently so, as it doesn't show up in emerge --info here either. > > > I'm a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:54:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Use a directory for package.use, it makes it far easier to > > > manage. All of /etc/portage/package.* are directories here. > > > > I have done that for package.keywords and unmask. In ways it is > > easier but in ways, it is a ni

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:50 AM, Dale wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> I guess I can stop playing scaredicat and remove it. :-) >> >> - Mark >> >> >> > > I think the dev added it back.  So, if you really don't need it, put the > minus sign in front. > > If you use KDE like me, be prepared to put

[gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/22/2011 06:35 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I suppose you got the idea by now ;-) Do you need dev-lang/R? If not, then "emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R". Do you need the package(s) that this brings up? If not, continue --depclean those until you reach something that has no oth

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 16:31:40 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) > > > > autounmask is set by default, you need

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:44:43 Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Sorry for the rant and language, this has beena major > > clusterfuck for me. And where I come from, that kind of > > monumental cock-up in a QA'ed release gets you fired. Or at > > least busted down to maintenanc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 10:40:40 Dale did opine thusly: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:27:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > >>> That's because those are global flags. If you set > >>> package-specific flags in /etc/portage/package.use, > >>> eix-test-obsolete will tell you when entries c

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: I guess I can stop playing scaredicat and remove it. :-) - Mark I think the dev added it back. So, if you really don't need it, put the minus sign in front. If you use KDE like me, be prepared to put the thing back tho. Some KDE packages depend on things that se

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Sorry for the rant and language, this has beena major clusterfuck for me. And where I come from, that kind of monumental cock-up in a QA'ed release gets you fired. Or at least busted down to maintenance coder. Grrr... Pissed off much? Just curious. I couldn't t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:27:11 -0500, Dale wrote: That's because those are global flags. If you set package-specific flags in /etc/portage/package.use, eix-test-obsolete will tell you when entries can be removed. But when something new comes out, I usually wa

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 11:23:15 Indi did opine thusly: > > Sorry for the rant and language, this has beena major > > clusterfuck for me. And where I come from, that kind of > > monumental cock-up in a QA'ed release gets you fired. Or at > > least busted down to maintenance coder. Grrr... >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I suppose you got the idea by now ;-) Do you need dev-lang/R? If not, then "emerge -pv --depclean dev-lang/R". Do you need the package(s) that this brings up? If not, continue --depclean those until you reach something that has no other dependencies; meaning you

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 08:14:06 Dale did opine thusly: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > But now, stupid question incoming: > Now you know how I feel sometimes. lol bwaahahahaha :-) Yes Dale, I surely do know how you feel :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) > > autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to off. So, is it invisibly on then? I do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Mark Knecht wrote: If eix-test-obsolete is outputting wy too much there there's an opportunity there for you to clean things up, if not today then over time. Once you get it right it outputs almost nothing. Note that I run stable and then use ~amd64 in package.keywords rather liberally wher

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 7:25 AM, Mick wrote: > On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 14:29:58 Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> >> > Heads up for folks about to do their updates, check into the USE flag >> > fortran to see if you need to add it to yours before updating

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Indi
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:36:14PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:16:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > A while ago I eventually got my contacts back. I forget the actual > > cause now, but I strongly suspect it involved tinkering with mysql, > > and this may have broken in t

Re: [gentoo-user] vpnc built without oppenssl

2011-06-22 Thread Matthew Finkel
On 06/22/11 10:03, dhk...@optonline.net wrote: > After emerge'ing vpnc it won't run and displays the following message. > > # vpnc > vpnc was built without openssl: Can't do hybrid or cert mode. > > There doesn't seem to be an openssl use variable either. > # cat /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc | g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:27:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > > That's because those are global flags. If you set package-specific > > flags in /etc/portage/package.use, eix-test-obsolete will tell you > > when entries can be removed. > But when something new comes out, I usually want to add it for all the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing) autounmask is set by default, you need to explicitly set it to off. > I'm a sysadmin, I have an inherent distrust of all things software and > automagic-config-changers are sc

Re: [gentoo-user] crontab not executing

2011-06-22 Thread Grant
>> I've switched to this but I can't find the date binary.  Does anyone >> know the full path for date? > > $ which date > /bin/date > > $ qfile date > sys-apps/coreutils (/bin/date) Thank you everyone. I think it's working now. - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] vpnc built without oppenssl

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:03:13 + (GMT), dhk...@optonline.net wrote: > After emerge'ing vpnc it won't run and displays the following message.# > vpncvpnc was built without openssl:  Can't do hybrid or cert mode.There > doesn't seem to be an openssl use variable either. There is % emerge -p vpnc

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:16:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: > A while ago I eventually got my contacts back. I forget the actual > cause now, but I strongly suspect it involved tinkering with mysql, > and this may have broken in turn my calendar. > > I'm going to do one last test before consigning k

Re: [gentoo-user] vpnc built without oppenssl

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 15:03:13 dhk...@optonline.net wrote: > After emerge'ing vpnc it won't run and displays the following message.# > vpncvpnc was built without openssl: Can't do hybrid or cert mode.There > doesn't seem to be an openssl use variable either.# cat > /usr/portage/profiles/use.des

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 14:29:58 Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Dale wrote: > > > > Heads up for folks about to do their updates, check into the USE flag > > fortran to see if you need to add it to yours before updating a bunch of > > stuff. > > > > Dale > > This is my

[gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/22/2011 04:33 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/22/2011 02:18 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/22/2011 06:55 AM, Dale wrote: I just did my updates and ran into this: [...] * Please install currently selected gcc version with USE=fortran. * If you intend to use

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 13:41:57 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:22:00 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: > > > Portage has always displayed the latter right? That makes sense > > > - you can see what the emerge command would do as entered and > > > compare it to the error to s

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:33 AM, Dale wrote: > Well, it appeared to only affect gcc here. As it should? c2stable ~ # equery hasuse fortran * Searching for USE flag fortran ... [IP-] [ ] sys-devel/gcc-4.4.5:4.4 c2stable ~ #

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:27 AM, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:18:49 -0500, Dale wrote: >> >> >>> >>> To think people wonder why my USE line is so big.  I keep having to add >>> stuff when portage pukes but portage never tells me when one has fell >>> off the rese

[gentoo-user] vpnc built without oppenssl

2011-06-22 Thread dhkuhl
After emerge'ing vpnc it won't run and displays the following message.# vpncvpnc was built without openssl:  Can't do hybrid or cert mode.There doesn't seem to be an openssl use variable either.# cat /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc | grep -i opensslHow can I get this to work?Thanksdhk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/22/2011 02:18 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/22/2011 06:55 AM, Dale wrote: I just did my updates and ran into this: * Maintainer: s...@gentoo.org * USE: amd64 consolekit elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib policykit userland_GNU * FEATURES: preserv

Re: [gentoo-user] Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Dale wrote: > > Heads up for folks about to do their updates, check into the USE flag > fortran to see if you need to add it to yours before updating a bunch of > stuff. > > Dale This is my one strange, mystery global use flag. It's been turned on in make.conf on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:18:49 -0500, Dale wrote: To think people wonder why my USE line is so big. I keep having to add stuff when portage pukes but portage never tells me when one has fell off the reservation and needs to be removed.< sighs> Over the years, it adds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Indi
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 06:18:49AM -0500, Dale wrote: > > To think people wonder why my USE line is so big. I keep having to add > stuff when portage pukes but portage never tells me when one has fell > off the reservation and needs to be removed. < sighs > Over the years, > it adds up. > I

[gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/22/2011 02:18 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/22/2011 06:55 AM, Dale wrote: I just did my updates and ran into this: * Maintainer: s...@gentoo.org * USE: amd64 consolekit elibc_glibc kernel_linux multilib policykit userland_GNU * FEATURES: preserve-libs sandbox * Please i

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: But now, stupid question incoming: Now you know how I feel sometimes. lol Dale :-) :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Do we have to build gcc with fortran now?

2011-06-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:18:49 -0500, Dale wrote: > To think people wonder why my USE line is so big. I keep having to add > stuff when portage pukes but portage never tells me when one has fell > off the reservation and needs to be removed. < sighs > Over the years, > it adds up. That's becau

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:22:00 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly: > > Portage has always displayed the latter right? That makes sense > > - you can see what the emerge command would do as entered and > > compare it to the error to see what the problem is. In this > > case it's a tweak to packag

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 13:16:05 you wrote: > On Wednesday 22 June 2011 13:05:31 Mick did opine thusly: > > Anyway, I noticed that a KDE machine which is using MySQL as a > > backend for Akonadi is not showing any contacts in its address > > book. All other boxen use sqlite3 instead and they do

Re: [gentoo-user] portage getting mixed up with USE?

2011-06-22 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2011/6/22 Alan McKinnon : > > Ah, hang on a sec. It's not quite what I thought. > > The original emerge command done again, plus just fltk on it's own: > > > # USE="dillo" emerge -pv claws-mail > ... > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild  N     ] net-libs/libetpan-1.0  USE="berkdb gnutls sa

Re: [gentoo-user] kdepim-4.6.0 woes

2011-06-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 13:05:31 Mick did opine thusly: > On Wednesday 22 Jun 2011 08:26:54 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 June 2011 21:16:14 Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > > > Am Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011, 01:40:47 schrieb Alan McKinnon: > > > > Today, kmail hung while accessing my Exchan

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