Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

2013-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/12/2013 01:49, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 07 Dec 2013 11:29:25 Peter Humphrey wrote: >> On Saturday 07 Dec 2013 11:03:00 Mick wrote: >>> Is it the case that now one has to install gnome-base to be able to use >>> gstreamer? >> >> Not here, no. I have gstreamer but no gnome-base on this KDE box

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/12/2013 04:02, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:33:31PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> >>> mingdao@workstation ~ $ grep ruby /etc/portage/make.conf >>> RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20" >>> >>> Can't imagine you didn't know that. Ruby hater? :D >>> >> >> >> You could say that: >> >> $ gre

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble with python

2013-12-10 Thread gottlieb
On Tue, Dec 10 2013, walt wrote: > On 12/10/2013 10:10 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: >> I just tried to run python-updater and received several lines like the >> following >> Traceback (most recent call last): >> File "", line 7, in >> ImportError: No module named portage >> >> It di

Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-10 Thread Daniel Frey
On 12/10/2013 06:01 PM, Philip Webb wrote: > My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up > & the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. > I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. > > The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. > > Does anyone h

Re: [gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-10 Thread Dale
Philip Webb wrote: > My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up > & the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. > I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. > > The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. > > Does anyone have thoughts or suggestion

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 10:33:31PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > mingdao@workstation ~ $ grep ruby /etc/portage/make.conf > > RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20" > > > > Can't imagine you didn't know that. Ruby hater? :D > > > > > You could say that: > > $ grep -ir -C1 ruby /etc/portage > /etc/porta

[gentoo-user] new printer : any thoughts ?

2013-12-10 Thread Philip Webb
My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up & the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB. I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages. The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week. Does anyone have thoughts or suggestions ? -- ==

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with python

2013-12-10 Thread walt
On 12/10/2013 10:10 AM, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > I just tried to run python-updater and received several lines like the > following > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "", line 7, in > ImportError: No module named portage > > It did find 4 files to update > > [ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

2013-12-10 Thread Mick
On Saturday 07 Dec 2013 11:29:25 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 07 Dec 2013 11:03:00 Mick wrote: > > Is it the case that now one has to install gnome-base to be able to use > > gstreamer? > > Not here, no. I have gstreamer but no gnome-base on this KDE box (not > ~amd64). In fact, "eix -I gno

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

2013-12-10 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2013 15:25:32 Walter Dnes wrote: > On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 11:47:41AM +, Mick wrote > > > On Saturday 07 Dec 2013 11:27:50 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > > On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 11:03:00 + > > > > > > Mick wrote: > > > > It used to be the case that setting -gnome globally would be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/12/2013 00:11, Norman Invasion wrote: > On 10 December 2013 15:33, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On 10/12/2013 20:28, Bruce Hill wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: The only thing portage can do is assume you want everything to work under all

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Norman Invasion
On 10 December 2013 15:33, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 10/12/2013 20:28, Bruce Hill wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > >> The only thing portage can do is assume you want everything to work > >> under all installed interpreters. If you want to restrict

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/12/2013 20:28, Bruce Hill wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> The only thing portage can do is assume you want everything to work >> under all installed interpreters. If you want to restrict the list of >> installed interpreters, use the relevant sett

[gentoo-user] Re: How to grant a CAP_NET_RAW capability to user?

2013-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-12-10, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: >> But the example provided only shows how to grant capabilities to a >> user that can then be inherited by files which must also have that >> same capability enabled. That's not quite what I want to do (and it >> doesn't seem to work). > > The restric

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to grant a CAP_NET_RAW capability to user?

2013-12-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 12:56 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-12-10, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: > >>> How do you grant a capability (e.g. CAP_NET_RAW) to a user? > >> From man:capabilities(7): "Capabilities are a per-thread attribute." >> >> I don't think you can grant any capability to a us

[gentoo-user] Re: How to grant a CAP_NET_RAW capability to user?

2013-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-12-10, Grant Edwards wrote: > How do you grant a capability (e.g. CAP_NET_RAW) to a user? After more googling, I found this page which describes exactly what I'm trying to do: https://github.com/constanze/GSoC2010_Gentoo_Capabilities/wiki/pam_cap-on-gentoo Except it doesn't work: after

[gentoo-user] Re: How to grant a CAP_NET_RAW capability to user?

2013-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-12-10, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote: >> How do you grant a capability (e.g. CAP_NET_RAW) to a user? > From man:capabilities(7): "Capabilities are a per-thread attribute." > > I don't think you can grant any capability to a user. I've found some indications that you can. Various referenc

Re: [gentoo-user] How to grant a CAP_NET_RAW capability to user?

2013-12-10 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
>From man:capabilities(7): "Capabilities are a per-thread attribute." I don't think you can grant any capability to a user. A workaround for what you want is to write a little executable that only execvp's bash (or whatever shell you use), grant that executable CAP_NET_RAW, and then set it as defa

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 05:52:36PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > The only thing portage can do is assume you want everything to work > under all installed interpreters. If you want to restrict the list of > installed interpreters, use the relevant settings in make.conf. Python > has PYTHON_TARGE

[gentoo-user] How to grant a CAP_NET_RAW capability to user?

2013-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
How do you grant a capability (e.g. CAP_NET_RAW) to a user? I've been googling and have found countless articles and blog posts explaining what each capability is and how to grant capabilities to an executable file. While granting the capability to an executable does work, that's not what I need

[gentoo-user] trouble with python

2013-12-10 Thread gottlieb
I just tried to run python-updater and received several lines like the following Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 7, in ImportError: No module named portage It did find 4 files to update [ebuild R] dev-python/gconf-python-2.28.1:2 USE="-examples" 0 kB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/10/2013 10:19 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > I understand that portage defaults to installing multiple versions (of > Ruby, Python, and probably other stuff). What I don't understand it > _why_. If none of the ebuilds specify q version, then they > presumably will work with any availble vers

[gentoo-user] [OT] What's happened to BOINC recently?

2013-12-10 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hi list, Recently I've been finding that BOINC has just stopped. It doesn't show up in ps -ax and I can't see anything helpful in its logs. Every time I query its status I get this, which is new: $ /etc/init.d/boinc status /lib64/rc/sh/rc-cgroup.sh: line 80: /sys/fs/cgroup/cpu/tasks: Permission d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 10/12/2013 17:19, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-12-10, Hans de Graaff wrote: >> On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:29:46 +, Grant Edwards wrote: >> >>> My routine more-or-less weekly update suddenly decided that it needed to >>> install 3 versions of Ruby along with ~50 other ruby-related packages. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Something is pulling in gnome-base

2013-12-10 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 11:47:41AM +, Mick wrote > On Saturday 07 Dec 2013 11:27:50 Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Sat, 7 Dec 2013 11:03:00 + > > > > Mick wrote: > > > It used to be the case that setting -gnome globally would be > > > sufficient, without having to manually mask packages. I ha

[gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-12-10, Hans de Graaff wrote: > On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:29:46 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> My routine more-or-less weekly update suddenly decided that it needed to >> install 3 versions of Ruby along with ~50 other ruby-related packages. >> This caused a bit of a problem, since those ve

[gentoo-user] Re: Routine update wants to install 3 version of Ruby + 50 others

2013-12-10 Thread Hans de Graaff
On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:29:46 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > My routine more-or-less weekly update suddenly decided that it needed to > install 3 versions of Ruby along with ~50 other ruby-related packages. > This caused a bit of a problem, since those versions of Ruby can't > coexist: (something t