Re: [gentoo-user] [OT} CPU question

2015-07-15 Thread microcai
2015-07-14 0:04 GMT+08:00 : > > Hi, > > I am on the way to decide for a tablet PC (7") to use it as a platform > for installing Linux (preferred: Gentoo!) on it and compile software > for it for usage of decoding shortwave audio transmissions (i.e. morse > code, sstv, etc.) for example. > > I mean

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtualbox-5.0.0 [wow!]

2015-07-15 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 6:53:43 PM walt wrote: > Even while slogging through my painful and ongoing update of perl and > friends, I managed to install Virtualbox-5.0.0 and its guest-additions. > (Apparently these two packages don't depend on perl at build-time.) > > I fired up my vbox gentoo gue

Re: [gentoo-user] [~amd64] Does the EGL useflag break mesa-progs-8.2.0?

2015-07-15 Thread wraeth
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 01:53:50PM -0700, walt wrote: > Normally I would just file a bug report, but lately portage has been > behaving so strangely I feel obligated to ask here first. Maybe you > won't see what I see. Just try emerging mesa-progs-8.2.0 with the EGL > useflag set. > Attempting t

[gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread James
Grant Edwards gmail.com> writes: > It turns out that one of the first things you do during a coup in a > small central/south american county is take over or disable the > radio-telphone base stations. [Back then the base stations were much > higher power and covered much larger areas than a cel

[gentoo-user] [~amd64] Does the EGL useflag break mesa-progs-8.2.0?

2015-07-15 Thread walt
Normally I would just file a bug report, but lately portage has been behaving so strangely I feel obligated to ask here first. Maybe you won't see what I see. Just try emerging mesa-progs-8.2.0 with the EGL useflag set.

[gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2015-07-15, wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: > In my impetuous youth, The first time I got to work under an old > AT&T unix license, we had several heated debates with nerds from DC > and Jersey. turns out I was right; you could kill an "phone switch" > with a single shot (and old at&t 3Bx

Re: [gentoo-user] xen doesn't work

2015-07-15 Thread hydra
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:46 PM, hw wrote: > > > Am 14.07.2015 um 20:56 schrieb hydra: > > Actually PV guests are not that hard at all. >> > > Well, how do you do that? Soon I want to do some Gentoo installations on > this server. Can I just start with HVM and switch over to PV once the > ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread wireless
On 07/13/2015 10:10 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: With regards to the other replies: I think physical destruction is unnecessary, and I don't really want to go through the trouble. If it's "trouble" rather than "fun", then you're doing it wrong. :) Brilliant statement:: Others favor a high-power

Re: [gentoo-user] Securely deletion of an HDD

2015-07-15 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 6:21 PM, R0b0t1 wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 12, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > >I think that assumes that the two get averaged together in some way > >and cannot be separated. If you could determine the orientation of > >individual magnetic domains it is possible that

Re: [gentoo-user] xen: How to enable a non-existant USE flag? (xen doesn't work)

2015-07-15 Thread wraeth
On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 12:33:26PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > ebuilds are only shell scripts, not magic spells. > Such blasphemy! -- wraeth GnuPG Key: B2D9F759 signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] xen: How to enable a non-existant USE flag? (xen doesn't work)

2015-07-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 12:42:00 +0200, hw wrote: > > Of course, there may be a very good reason why this flag is masked on > > no-multilib profiles, in which case you will not only see why but get > > to keep the resulting shrapnel. > > I would say it is wrong to disable this flag in the first pla

Re: [gentoo-user] xen doesn't work

2015-07-15 Thread hw
Am 14.07.2015 um 20:56 schrieb hydra: Actually PV guests are not that hard at all. Well, how do you do that? Soon I want to do some Gentoo installations on this server. Can I just start with HVM and switch over to PV once the installation is done? However, you don't have hvm/qemu enab

Re: [gentoo-user] xen: How to enable a non-existant USE flag? (xen doesn't work)

2015-07-15 Thread hw
Am 14.07.2015 um 22:47 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:12:09 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You override profiles in /etc/portage/profile. In this case add cat/pkg - hvm to package.use.mask. man portage for more information ha, I had tried (among other things) package.use.unm

Re: [gentoo-user] SOLVED xen hvm USE flag disabled (xen: How to enable a non-existant USE flag? (xen doesn't work))

2015-07-15 Thread hw
Am 14.07.2015 um 19:31 schrieb Fernando Rodriguez: On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 11:55:46 AM hw wrote: Hi, now I found this: moonflo ~ # find /usr/portage/profiles/ -type f -print0 | xargs -0 -P24 grep xen-tools [...] /usr/portage/profiles/ChangeLog-2007: Add hvm USE flag for Xen HVM support

Re: [gentoo-user] xen: How to enable a non-existant USE flag? (xen doesn't work)

2015-07-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:44:36 -0400, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > app-emulation/xen-tools -hvm > > > > Note the -, you are negating the mask. the syntax if perfectly > > logical if you think about it with the right kind of logic. > > It is perfectly logical, it just don't follow the same conve