Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild: How to deal with external repositories properly (best practise)?

2020-08-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 7:51 PM tastytea wrote: > > This seems to affect only api.github.com, packages in ::guru use > https://github.com//archive/.tar.gz instead, which is not > affected (just checked with net-wireless/rtl8192eu-0_pre20200123). Ah, didn't notice that. This is the more common app

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild: How to deal with external repositories properly (best practise)?

2020-08-04 Thread tastytea
On 2020-08-04 19:36-0400 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 6:57 PM Alexey Mishustin > wrote: > > > > вс, 2 авг. 2020 г. в 13:52, Ramon Fischer > > : > > > > > > I decided to use "EGIT_COMMIT" to let the ebuild pulling a > > > certain commit. > > > > And even that would not give th

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild: How to deal with external repositories properly (best practise)?

2020-08-04 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 6:57 PM Alexey Mishustin wrote: > > вс, 2 авг. 2020 г. в 13:52, Ramon Fischer : > > > > I decided to use "EGIT_COMMIT" to let the ebuild pulling a certain commit. > > And even that would not give the sense of security... > > Just read in gentoo-dev [1]: > ...unannounced serv

Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Ebuild: How to deal with external repositories properly (best practise)?

2020-08-04 Thread Alexey Mishustin
вс, 2 авг. 2020 г. в 13:52, Ramon Fischer : > > I decided to use "EGIT_COMMIT" to let the ebuild pulling a certain commit. And even that would not give the sense of security... Just read in gentoo-dev [1]: ...unannounced serverside change by GitHub, which broke download of tarballs by git-tree-ha

Re: [gentoo-user] hplip network scanning port

2020-08-04 Thread antlists
On 01/08/2020 03:03, Adam Carter wrote: I used to be able to scan on my gentoo box from an HP officejet pro on the network. This is now failing and i can see that the gentoo box is attempting to connect to TCP/6566 on the HP, but the HP is not listening on that port. Test command is; hp-scan

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-08-04 Thread Wols Lists
On 04/08/20 08:42, Wols Lists wrote: > Both LVM and btrfs offer snapshotting, so you take a snapshot before > doing an in-place rsync, giving you one full backup per snapshot, but > the drive is actually only storing the changes between snapshots. > Probably run the backup much faster too. Just st

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour

2020-08-04 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday, 3 August 2020 23:01:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Monday, 3 August 2020 20:15:45 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:01 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > On Monday, 3 August 2020 14:18:22 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > > > > Sounds like you want --usepkgonly y --binpkg-res

Re: [gentoo-user] External hard drive and idle activity

2020-08-04 Thread Wols Lists
On 04/08/20 04:17, Dale wrote: > This drive is formatted with ext4. It doesn't have LVM or anything just > straight ext4. Given it is external, I didn't see the point of having > LVM on it and adding another layer to deal with when there is no > benefits to it. LVM has a big advantage if not mu