Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Emerge --sync fails on excluded stuff

2018-10-22 Thread Dale
Walter Dnes wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:21:02PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > >> You can also add "sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no" to the gentoo >> entry in /etc/portage/repos.conf - I use this when syncing from a local >> mirror. > That looks easier, but... /etc/portage/repos.conf is

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Emerge --sync fails on excluded stuff

2018-10-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 11:21:02PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote > You can also add "sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no" to the gentoo > entry in /etc/portage/repos.conf - I use this when syncing from a local > mirror. That looks easier, but... /etc/portage/repos.conf is a directory on my system.

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Emerge --sync fails on excluded stuff

2018-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 13:36:55 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > After some Google searching, I re-emerged portage with "-rsync-verify" > flag in package.use and it works OK now. You can also add "sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no" to the gentoo entry in /etc/portage/repos.conf - I use this when sync

[gentoo-user] Irritating ~5s pause whilst booting with grub

2018-10-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Gentoo, This isn't a critical problem, but it's a little irritating. When my machine boots, it first displays the BIOS invitation to type F2, then starts grub. Grub spends about 5 seconds with a blank screen, and an underline cursor dotting about randomly in the top left hand area of the

[gentoo-user] [SOLVED] Emerge --sync fails on excluded stuff

2018-10-22 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 06:11:24PM +0200, Kai Peter wrote After some Google searching, I re-emerged portage with "-rsync-verify" flag in package.use and it works OK now. -- Walter Dnes I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync fails on excluded stuff

2018-10-22 Thread Kai Peter
On 2018-10-22 16:26, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a 10 year old Core2 as an emergency backup machine. Let's just say it's not as fast as modern machines. To speed up "emerge --sync". I put a bunch of unneeded stuff in an "rsync_excludes" file (attached). Now "emerge --sync" has started failing,

[gentoo-user] Emerge --sync fails on excluded stuff

2018-10-22 Thread Walter Dnes
I have a 10 year old Core2 as an emergency backup machine. Let's just say it's not as fast as modern machines. To speed up "emerge --sync". I put a bunch of unneeded stuff in an "rsync_excludes" file (attached). Now "emerge --sync" has started failing, because it obviously can't verify the miss

Re: [gentoo-user] problem updating KDE breeze : solved

2018-10-22 Thread Philip Webb
181022 Franz Fellner wrote: > Nice that you could solve it ! > There is already a report on bugs.gentoo.org > which unfortunately can't be found with a search for "breeze" > as it's state is "RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST" : https://bugs.gentoo.org/660896 > The reporter never came back to confirm > that re

Re: [gentoo-user] problem updating KDE breeze : solved

2018-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 22 Oct 2018 10:03:42 +0300, Franz Fellner wrote: > There is already a report on bugs.gentoo.org which unfortunately can't > be found with a search for "breeze" as it's state is "RESOLVED > TEST-REQUEST". https://bugs.gentoo.org/660896 > The reporter never came back to confirm that reemergi

Re: [gentoo-user] problem updating KDE breeze : solved

2018-10-22 Thread Franz Fellner
Nice that you could solve it! There is already a report on bugs.gentoo.org which unfortunately can't be found with a search for "breeze" as it's state is "RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST". https://bugs.gentoo.org/660896 The reporter never came back to confirm that reemerging kdeclarative solved the issue.