On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> I'm using rdiff-backup to do incremental backups of my local machine
> to an external HDD, as well as using it to make backups of a remote
> server over SSH onto my local machine.
Using rdiff-backup as well here on all my machines, stuffing t
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
wrote:
> Why not copy them over and create a symlink for "legacy"-reasons? I'd
> guess that every stable version of portage will support it, because
> that change (to the stage 3) wouldn't make sense otherwise.
I did that a long time ago, a
Just saw the eselect news item saying make.conf and make.profile are
moving to /etc/portage next week. Unfortunately, there's no link to a
page w/ more info in the news item. Does anyone know what version of
portage knows to look for them in this location? I don't want to move
mine prematurely :)
On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:32 AM, "Roland Häder" wrote:
>> Weird, I'm on 2.8.0-r1 and didn't have to do any hoop jumping to get
>> there (~amd64).
> Yes, it is really weird thing. :/ I use x86 (i686, my laptop does only
> support 32 bit; it is a Thinkpad R51).
Did you check b.g.o to see if anyone
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 5:42 PM, "Roland Häder" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I finally got libxml2 compiled, first I had to do this:
>
> # emerge expat
> # emerge python
> # cd /usr/portage/dev-lang/python/
> # emerge python-2.7.3-r2.ebuild
> # cd -
>
> This makes sure that libexpat is there. Now the packa
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I assume you don't run dracut
> either.
correct
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I have this symlink on a new ~amd64 install without a separate /usr
and the latest udev and have no issues at all. I don't use a initramfs
or anything on this install either. fwiw
On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
> I realize that new udev without dracut wants /usr part of ro
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Alex Schuster wrote:
>> How would you do that? I'm currently using ~amd64 and can't yet use
>> sets for some reason.
>
> Then you probably need portage 2.2 for this. Which will never ever become
> stable it seems, but I'm using it just fine for three years now.
Y
> AFAIK, Gentoo does not have a script or an option to back up the
> world file and other associated files.
This is why I keep an empty world file and use /etc/portage/sets/
exclusively. I'm backing up /etc/portage anyway (package.use and
friends), so it just makes sense to have 'world' in there ;
now that's excellent news. thanks!
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> You can simply delete ALSA_CARDS from make.conf.
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My SB Live! 5.1 sang its last note finally, so I'm reverting to the
onboard Intel chip. I got my kernel configured already, but when I
went to edit make.conf, I became confused on which of the following is
correct:
ALSA_CARDS="snd-hda-intel"
or
ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel"
I googled it and, of course, f
awesome, thanks!
Now I don't have to worry about graphite killing R or ppl anymore ;)
On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 08:28, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Doug Hunley writes:
>
>> Am I understanding the docs correctly in that I can use
>> /etc/portage/package.env to set per-package CF
Am I understanding the docs correctly in that I can use
/etc/portage/package.env to set per-package CFLAGS?
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 04:47, Helmut Jarausch
wrote:
> I am at glibc-2.15-r1 on AMD64 with no problems so far,
ditto here
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 19:25, Paul Hartman
wrote:
> Do you have another machine with SATA ports that you can hook them up
> to temporarily and alter those troublesome bytes?
I wish ;(
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 08:47, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Doug Hunley wrote:
>> The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo
>> to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while
>> now and I recent
The subject line pretty much says it all. I've been happily using lilo
to boot from my internal 4-disk sata array (md, raid 1) for a while
now and I recently bought an external sata enclosure. I cabled it up
to my machine, added 4 disks I had sitting around, and on boot, lilo
throws a 'duplicate vo
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 22:50, Joshua Murphy wrote:
> Two things come to mind, given some recent trouble I've had on the
> radeon side of the coin here, and with an intel system or two in the
> past. The DRM related drivers seem to be prone to misbehaving when
> they're not configured as modules.
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 22:50, Joshua Murphy wrote:
> radeon side of the coin here, and with an intel system or two in the
> past. The DRM related drivers seem to be prone to misbehaving when
> they're not configured as modules. I haven't managed to sort out why,
> so you may see if a change there
Me again ;)
I just ran 'startx' on my machine for the first time in a dog's age
and had to switch the rendering engine to XRender from OpenGL to get a
usable desktop (couldn't see the desktop. was a bunch of black
squares). I'm not sure what changed, and the online wiki/forum pages
I just spent t
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 16:00, Doug Hunley wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 14:47, Alex Schuster wrote:
>> Looking for ppl on bugs.gentoo org, finding bug #412117 [*], rebuilding
>> ppl and cloog-ppl without -floop* CFLAGS, then again with floop* CFLAGS.
>
> damn, I sear
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 14:47, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Looking for ppl on bugs.gentoo org, finding bug #412117 [*], rebuilding
> ppl and cloog-ppl without -floop* CFLAGS, then again with floop* CFLAGS.
damn, I searched, didn't see this. thanks
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On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:39, Michael Mol wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Doug Hunley wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:20, Michael Mol wrote:
>>> Are you using ccache?
>>
>> nope. no ccache, no distcc
>
> What are you using for CFLAGS?
~
On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 13:20, Michael Mol wrote:
> Are you using ccache?
nope. no ccache, no distcc
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I'm currently running ~amd64 and when I ran a world update,
dev-libs/ppl-0.12 was pulled down, compiled and installed. At that
point, gcc stops compiling. It doesn't matter what I try to compile,
whether it's the dev-libs/cloog-ppl rebuild that dev-libs/ppl-0.12.
says to do, a recompile of gcc, or
On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 19:20, David W Noon wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:26:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re:
> [gentoo-user] InitRAMFS - boot expert sought:
>
>> On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:01:24 +0100
>> David W Noon wrote:
> [snip]
>> > With the pending changes to udev scripts, you could w
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:23, wrote:
> Hi. I upgraded genkernel and openrc to see what would happen with the
> initrd mounting /usr -- since I use an initrd anyway.
>
> Well, it mounts OK, but when it comes time to do the e2fsck, that fails
> because its mounted. Is there a way to get the init
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:57:27 + (UTC), James wrote:
>
>> Where is the BEST (gentoo) grub2 documentation?
>
> I'm not saying it's the best, but the one I used to switch over is
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2
One thing I don't see add
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 20:16, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Well, I have no experience with their service (although I always planned
> to use them), but maybe you can try these guys [1]. They don't have file
> size limits and support everything working over ssh (including sshfs) as
> well as duplicity
I'll give that a try, thanks!
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 19:08, Dale wrote:
> Doug Hunley wrote:
>>
>> Whenever I launch kde (from startx) I get a message saying that 'sb
>> Live! 5.1 [SB0060] (rev.7, serial:0x80611102)' is disabled and it is
>> falling back
Whenever I launch kde (from startx) I get a message saying that 'sb
Live! 5.1 [SB0060] (rev.7, serial:0x80611102)' is disabled and it is
falling back to 'sb Live! 5.1 [SB0060]' . and then the 'kde
startup' sound plays and sound works perfectly. If I open
systemsettings and click 'multimedia' an
On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 15:48, Jarry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to ask if anybody here has already some experience
> with Btrfs? Is it usable (although not officialy stable)?
>
> I'd like to swich ext3 for something more modern, and none
> of JFS/ZFS/Reiser/ext4 has all the features I'm looking for
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 22:32, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> Why do you want to unmerge net-tools, anyway?
'equery depends' shows that nothing needs it, and why keep an entire
package around when I have another package installed that does what
the first package is supposed to do? ;)
I decided to switch to iproute2 and it went fine, until I removed
net-tools. At that point, I got errors about /bin/hostname being
missing. I did a quick search and found
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-443540-start-0.html where the dev
says baselayout > 1.12 doesn't *need* the hostname comman
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 10:22, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 09:18:36 -0400, Indi wrote:
>
>> There've been times I'd have liked a simple
>> inventory of all files relating to a package after unmerging it,
>> like "warning -- the following files are associated with [pkg]
>> but will no
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:42, walt wrote:
> I'd ask on the nouveau mailing list, e.g.
> gmane.comp.freedesktop.xorg.nouveau.
> The nouveau project is still, well, new, so bug reports are a part of using
> their drivers.
Yeah, I figured I'd hit up here first before getting there and getting
lost
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 09:45, Bill Longman wrote:
> And you are to be complimented on your picture-perfect example of How to
> Ask a Question. ESR would be proud.
thanks, I try ;)
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 10:09, Doug Hunley wrote:
> I recently switched from the proprietary driver to the nouveau driver
> and everything appeared to go well except that during boot I see:
forgot to mention that I did uninstall the proprietary driver, removed
it from /lib/module
On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 15:04, Doug Hunley wrote:
> cgroup_clean:
> #!/bin/sh
> if [ -d /sys/fs/cgroup ] ; then
> cdir=/sys/fs/cgroup
> else
> cdir=/dev/cgroup
> fi
>
> rmdir /dev/cgroup/$*
>
change that to: rmdir $cdir/$*
Thanks a ton for the wiki page! I 'smartened' up the scripts a bit to deal
with the various locations and kernel versions:
cgroup_clean:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -d /sys/fs/cgroup ] ; then
cdir=/sys/fs/cgroup
else
cdir=/dev/cgroup
fi
rmdir /dev/cgroup/$*
cgroup_start:
#!/bin/sh
if [ -d /sys/fs/cgroup
I re-emerged Aide today and saw the note about Aide making incorrect
assumptions and to run a couple of commands in PostgreSQL to correct
the database. Since I'd not had PostgreSQL installed previously, I
hadn't realized that Aide could use it as a backend, so I started
looking for info on how to d
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 16:10, Grant wrote:
>>> Is there any way to find out which packages I unmerged today with
>>> depclean? I thought they would show up in /var/log/portage but
>>> apparently not. I'm getting a wireless card DMA error since unmerging
>>> them.
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>
>>
>> app-po
On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 13:11, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Where does one find find lafilefixer?
emerge dev-util/lafilefixer
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Obsessively opposed to the typical.
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 17:19, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 16 November 2009 21:26:02 Doug Hunley wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:24, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
>> > Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1?
>>
>> I haven't ha
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 03:24, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Does anyone here successfully use amarok-2.2.0 with mysql-5.0.84-r1?
I haven't had any issues w/ amarok 2.2.0 and mysql 5.0.84-r1 (once I
figured out how to get amarok to _not_ use the embedded mysql)
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On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 13:18, Mick wrote:
> 2009/10/27 Doug Hunley :
>> Um, I have this in package.use:
>> akonadi-server:app-office/akonadi-server sqlite -mysql
>> kde-meta:kde-base/kde-meta -mysql
>> qt-sql:x11-libs/qt-sql postgres -mysql
>>
>> and do _no
Um, I have this in package.use:
akonadi-server:app-office/akonadi-server sqlite -mysql
kde-meta:kde-base/kde-meta -mysql
qt-sql:x11-libs/qt-sql postgres -mysql
and do _not_ have MySQL installed. I have noticed zero functionality
loss in my KDE4 desktop. FWIW.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 22:19, wr
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:40, James wrote:
>> I have /usr/sbin/update-pciids as part of the package here...
>
>
> My bad. It was not in the old version (stable) but it is
> in the latest version.
>
According to the ebuild, it will even create a cronjob in /etc/cron.monthly ;)
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On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:10, James wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It seems the gentoo version of pciutils does not include the
> script to update the pci device ids:
I have /usr/sbin/update-pciids as part of the package here...
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On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 23:15, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
>> Is there a sane way through this update?
>
> Just remove eselect-news. From looking at eselect's ebuild I deduce that its
> functionality is taken over by eselect itself.
I had the same thing a while back. The above is correct. Remove
ese
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 05:55, Helmut Jarausch
> Strangely not,
> ls -ld /var/spool/fcron
> gives
> drwsrws--- 2 stunnel fcron 4096 Oct 1 11:31 /var/spool/fcron
>
> So, who is 'stunnel'. The corr. entry in /etc/passwd is
> stunnel:x:104:1007:added by portage for stunnel:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 13:45, Stroller wrote:
> Unless I am thinking mistakenly of another app (and I don't think so)
> usability of media-video/h264enc is below abysmal.
I guess it's a case of 'to each his own' then as I use it here w/o any
issues. And I was turned onto it from several other pe
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 11:40, Helmut Jarausch
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using fcron for quite some time, but
> now it behaves strange.
> I have version 3.0.4-r2 installed.
If you mask that version and downgrade, does the issue persist? Do you
have a nosuid mount option in effect now that you di
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 06:17, Richard Marza
wrote:
> I have a script currently called rip that rips DVDs to H.264 using x264 with
> mencoder
Congrats, you just reinvented media-video/h264enc
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Obsess
On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 17:07, Keith Dart wrote:
>> Just installing it doesn't break portage. But using it does! :)
>
Exactly. When I ran this (and then went for breakfast and coffee):
/usr/bin/eix-sync
/usr/bin/emerge --update --newuse --deep --keep-going --with-bdeps
y/usr/bin/emerge --update --n
I noticed that my 'emerge world' wants to replace python 2.6.2 with
python 3.1 (I run ~x86). Is it safe to do so or will portage (and
everything else) freak out? If it is, in fact, safe are there any
extra (special) steps needed to ensure continued operation of things?
Thanks.
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On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 11:50, Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
> There are few ext3 to ext4 migration notes/guides. Can anybody advice the most
> elaborate safe one?
>
>
This is what I did:
tune2fs -O
sparse_super,filetype,resize_inode,dir_index,ext_attr,has_journal,extents,huge_file,flex_bg,uninit_bg,dir_
Just another bullet point of information for the 'can't upgrade to
4.5.2 cause of qt3support' thread. I solved it here by removing 'qt3'
from USE in make.conf. For whatever reason, I had both 'qt3' and 'qt4'
in the USE flag. Removing 'qt3' allowed 'emerge world' to do its
thing.
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:41, Paul
Hartman wrote:
>
> I think your root is mounted before fstab comes into play... You may
> want to look into the "rootflags" option in your grub kernel
> commandline for passing the mount options for your root partition.
>
That jives with what I'm (slowly) findin
I'm having some weirdness with my '/' mount. Here's the line from /etc/fstab:
douglas ~ # grep 'md3' /etc/fstab
/dev/md3 / ext4 noatime,journal_checksum,defaults 0 1
Yet, the output of mount shows:
douglas ~ # mount
rootfs on / type rootfs (rw)
/dev/root on / type ext4 (rw,noatime,barrie
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