Re: [gentoo-user] keepassxc 2.6.0 strange rendering

2020-07-10 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020, at 11:40, Tamer Higazi wrote: > I wanted to try keepassxc 2.6.0, but the output looks really nonsense > and the output looks entirely "broken". I mostly fixed the problem on my system with the following steps: 1. I installed the Breeze theme (kde-frameworks/breeze-icons) 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

2020-07-03 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, at 06:35, Valmor F. de Almeida wrote: > Is there a problem ignoring the warning below? My understanding here is > that dev-python/docutils-0.16 wants a python2_7 target built that is not > in the scheduled merge (only python3_7 is). Hopefully this dependency > conflict will

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drive setup at login and locking on logout.

2020-07-03 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, at 04:23, Dale wrote: > Now that I have a spare drive, I want to encrypt it and have a mount point > for it, /home/dale/documents for example. What I'd like to do, when I login > in, it asks me for the encryption password and then mounts it. When I log > out, it reverses. I

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, May 30, 2020, at 14:54, james wrote: > # qlist -ICv dev-qt/ > dev-qt/designer-5.14.2 > dev-qt/linguist-5.14.2 > dev-qt/linguist-tools-5.14.2 > dev-qt/qt-creator-4.8.2 > dev-qt/qt-docs-5.14.2_p202003291239 > dev-qt/qt3d-5.14.2 > dev-qt/qtchooser-66 > dev-qt/qtconcurrent-5.14.2 > dev-qt/qtcor

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-29 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, May 29, 2020, at 01:04, james wrote: > (dev-qt/qtcore-5.15.0:5/5.15.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > USE="icu -debug -old-kernel (-systemd) -test" ABI_X86="(64)" conflicts with > ~dev-qt/qtcore-5.14.2:5/5.14.2= required by > (dev-qt/qtnetwork-5.14.2:5/5.14::gentoo, installed)

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-28 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, May 28, 2020, at 22:11, james wrote: > So what application/strategy gets me past errors like this: > > "Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50e01) with this library > (version 0x50e02)" Which application are you printing from? I guess it's a Qt application. In that case, please

Re: [gentoo-user] jack vs jack2 USE-flag-wise?

2020-05-15 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, May 15, 2020, at 13:51, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > I want to set 'jack' as a default USE flag - bu my system is a > multicore/multithreaded on...so I need not jack aka > > media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit > > but I think I need this one: > > * media-sound/jack2 > Des

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

2020-05-04 Thread Francesco Turco
On Mon, May 4, 2020, at 20:11, Michael Jones wrote: > I can't find any documentation on the use of "LANG" or "LANGUAGE" in > /etc/portage/make.conf. > > I'm looking here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/make.conf#LINGUAS > > Is there another source that describes these variables and ho

Re: [gentoo-user] EINVAL

2020-04-28 Thread Francesco Turco
> Unable to unshare: EINVAL (for FEATURES="ipc-sandbox network-sandbox > pid-sandbox") Is the CONFIG_UTS_NS kernel option enabled? See the following forums threads for details: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-260.html https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1094424.html -- https://ftur

Re: [gentoo-user] complete switch from openssl to libressl on gentoo

2020-04-17 Thread Francesco Turco
> However, is there a good reason for opting for libressl instead of the > ubiquitous openssl? I haven't tried libressl yet, but the main reason I'm interested in trying it is due to the fact it doesn't have a "bindist" USE flag. In fact some packages require openssl to be built with the "-bind

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about handling filenames with "illegal" characters...

2020-04-16 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, at 17:15, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Normally I would replace the asd* with the according > > find . -name 'asd*' -print0 | > > but I got in trpuble, because "do_something" > now misunderstood the whole thing. What about the following command? find . -name 'asd*' -print0 |

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop-no-multilib profile - possible?

2020-02-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, at 22:21, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > I will never ever run 32bit software again and would really like to have > a desktop-no-multilib profile, in sync with the regular desktop but simply > without the multilib goop. My server is running precisely as I want with > plain no-mult

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nds/rpcbind-1.2.5 build failure

2020-01-11 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, at 11:22, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Soo, why don't I have it??? Did you enable the "rpc" USE flag for sys-fs/quota? -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nds/rpcbind-1.2.5 build failure

2020-01-11 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, at 09:16, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > From net-nds/rpcbind-1.2.5/temp/build.log: > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"rpcbind\" [...] -c -o > src/security.o src/security.c > src/security.c:27:10: fatal error: rpcsvc/rquota.h: No such file or > directory > #include >

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying files from one encfs directory to another encfs directory

2019-12-21 Thread Francesco Turco
> this seems to work (its still running). > But for what reasons do cp & friends fail? I have no idea, unfortunately... -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying files from one encfs directory to another encfs directory

2019-12-21 Thread Francesco Turco
> When I try to copy files (cp or via two tars piped together) from > one directory to the other I get "permission denied" -- with > both directories I am owner and read/write permissions. For directories, the +x permission is also needed. > How can I copy a large quantity of files between the d

Re: [gentoo-user] force re-cythonizing in an ebuild

2019-11-19 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, at 01:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:35:18 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > find -xdev / -name '*.pyx' | xarge emerge --oneshot --ask You probably meant "xargs" instead of "xarge". -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] where is /usr/portage?

2019-11-11 Thread Francesco Turco
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019, at 14:00, Dale wrote: > root@fireball / # cat /etc/make.conf | grep var > PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage/ > source /var/lib/layman/make.conf > DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles/" > PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" > PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/tree" I'm sure you already

Re: [gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019, at 12:09, n952162 wrote: > --new-use isn't on my man page It's spelled --newuse, or simply -N. -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019, at 11:18, n952162 wrote: > even if the package was just emerged? What are you trying to do exactly? Please post the emerge commands you are running, along with their output. -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, at 09:21, Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks ! -- in 16 years using Gentoo, I've never come across eclasses. > I see they are listed in /usr/portage/eclass . > Is there a doc which describes what they are & what they do ? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eclass https://devmanual.gent

Re: [gentoo-user] escape from i3lock

2019-07-10 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, at 19:04, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Here is my next "low information" question, haha. > > I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays > no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or > image. To unlock it you have to type your

Re: [gentoo-user] Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

2019-07-05 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, at 08:05, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure manually > that can handle LUKS partitions?  No uefi, but GPT would be nice. I have a LUKS-encrypted system, GPT partitions, no UEFI, systemd, dracut, btrfs. I

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/dtc-1.5.0 install failure

2019-05-29 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, May 29, 2019, at 13:30, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Part of portage_tmpdir/portage/sys-apps/dtc-1.5.0/temp/build.log: > ... > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -L. > -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -O2 -pipe -fPIC -Wall -Wpointer-arith > -Wcast-qual -Wnested-externs -

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-08 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018, at 14:23, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > from some images I want to create a pdf. I successfully use img2pdf: https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/img2pdf It's also in the main Gentoo repository. -- https://fturco.gitlab.io/

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

2018-12-03 Thread Francesco Turco
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, at 17:27, Pouru Lasse wrote: > I've got a bunch of scratched disc-based games (PS2, Xbox 360) that I'd > like to check for errors. Is there any program for Linux that does this? > I found and tried dvdisaster, but it only works for CDs, not > DVDs. Everything else seems to be W

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice and openldap

2018-07-24 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17.15.29 CEST Andrew Lowe wrote: > Anyone got any insight? Upstream bug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71538 -- https://fturco.gitlab.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiboot USB - GRUB2 loop device

2018-07-14 Thread Francesco Turco
On Saturday, 14 July 2018 04.14.07 CEST Alex Luehm wrote: > I've recently taken it upon myself to create a multiboot USB with isos > that I tend to frequently use. So far I've been successful in adding > Clonezilla and the Archlinux live ISOs. I've attempted to add the Gentoo > install ISO in a sim

Re: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config

2017-12-28 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017, at 20:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > There is some way of initialising a new kernel .config from an existing > one, I am sure, but I can't find it. I've looked at the Gentoo wiki, > I've looked at (some of) the kernel's own documentation. The nearest I > can find is make oldcon

Re: [gentoo-user] BINPKG_COMPRESS portage variable

2017-09-01 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017, at 11:28, Stroller wrote: > That doesn't sound right. I'd file a report at bugs.gentoo.org Done: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629538 -- https://www.fturco.net/

[gentoo-user] BINPKG_COMPRESS portage variable

2017-08-31 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I just set BINPKG_COMPRESS="xz" in /etc/portage/make.conf in order to compress binary packages with the xz algorithm. It seems to work, but binary packages filenames still end with .tbz2 instead of .txz. How can I change that? Example: # file /var/portage/packages/media-sound/pulseaudio-1

Re: [gentoo-user] bitcoin-qt, openssl and the bindist USE flag

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Saturday, 8 April 2017 20.16.02 CEST, Francesco Turco wrote: The point is I can't find any reference to the bindist USE flag in the bitcoin-qt ebuild: $ grep bindist $(equery which bitcoin-qt) $ # returns nothing I found out that it's probably due to the OPENSSL_DEPEND variabl

Re: [gentoo-user] bitcoin-qt, openssl and the bindist USE flag

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Saturday, 8 April 2017 23.57.09 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: Why on $DEITY's green earth would you even think of doing that? Dont. Just ... don't. I don;t know what you are trying to accomplish doing that, but it can't end well. I'm not quite sure, but as far as I know (binary) packages with

Re: [gentoo-user] bitcoin-qt, openssl and the bindist USE flag

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Saturday, 8 April 2017 21.15.05 CEST, Mick wrote: Did you try setting USE="-bindist" and then emerging the three packages suggested by portage above? net-misc/openssh dev-qt/qtnetwork dev-libs/openssl Thanks for the suggestion. I chose to enable +bindist globally in make.conf but add the

[gentoo-user] bitcoin-qt, openssl and the bindist USE flag

2017-04-08 Thread Francesco Turco
I'm trying to globally enable the "bindist" USE flag on my system, but it seems net-p2p/bitcoin-qt wants -bindist: ### BEGIN ### # USE="bindist" emerge -uDNav @world --with-bdeps=y These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R] dev-li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

2017-02-01 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 16:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Do you have the 'branding' USE flag enabled? > > There is no such flag. On my system: $ euse -i -g branding global use flags (searching: branding) [- cD   ] branding - Ena

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on a VPS with little RAM

2016-12-26 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I have a Vultr VPS instance with Arch Linux but I'd like to replace it with Gentoo Linux. The last time I tried that I couldn't build some packages because the kernel killed gcc after a while. Please notice this VPS instance has only 768 MiB of RAM. What can I try besides removing -pipe fro

Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't

2016-11-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016, at 14:05, Константин wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 09:42:40AM -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > > > Maybe you need to use 'eclean-dist -d'. But, for your safe, use > > 'eclean-dist -dp' first. > > BTW what troubles can I get from 'eclean-dist -d' ? As far as I > understand it,

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-keyring-daemon processes running as root

2014-06-29 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014, at 11:08, Francesco Turco wrote: > As you can see I have many gnome-keyring-daemon processes running as > root. I also noted that on my system /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon has > the setuid bit set: > > $ ls -l /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon > -rws--x--x

[gentoo-user] gnome-keyring-daemon processes running as root

2014-06-15 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I'm a GNOME 3.12 user with a couple of problems that could depend on GNOME keyring running as root instead of a non-privileged user. This is the situation before logging in with GDM: $ ps aux | grep keyring root 458 0.0 0.0 115220 2808 ?Sl 10:53 0:00 /usr/bin/gnome-key

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Francesco Turco
> What would you recommend? Thanks. I always use emerge -uDNav @world --with-bdeps=y --keep-going=y, as I want to update *all* packages on my system. What's the point in keeping on the system some packages that are deliberately not updated?

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

2014-03-21 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote: > Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is activated > in kernel config. Am I missing something else? Perhaps you need CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR.

Re: [gentoo-user] MD5SUM

2014-03-12 Thread Francesco Turco
> is the published MD5-hash still valid? $ md5sum livedvd-amd64-multilib-20121221.iso e86da868be423283ec167725390faefc livedvd-amd64-multilib-20121221.iso Yes, the published MD5 hash is still valid. > Further, how big is the resulting file exactly? $ du -b livedvd-amd64-multilib-20121221.iso

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-03-05 Thread Francesco Turco
On 03/05/2014 08:06 PM, »Q« wrote: Try setting layers.acceleration.disabled to true in about:config. (I'm sorry I don't remember how to get to about:config in Thunderbird; I think there's a button somewhere.) It's Edit > Preferences > Advanced > General > Config editor.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-11-01 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013, at 15:16, James wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras gmail.com> writes: > > Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't > > start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window > > is showing up. > Perhaps a license issue? > > # Modify /et

Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed

2012-12-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012, at 10:57, Francesco Turco wrote: > Then I looked for non-zero size files only, because it makes no sense to > compress empty files. The list dropped to 9 files, belonging to 4 > different ebuilds or 3 packages: > > > /usr/share/doc/automake-1.12.5/amhello-1

Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed

2012-12-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012, at 23:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: > That stuff is controlled by the ebuild, IIRC ebuilds should call > function dodoc so they do with docs what you want them to do. The > function name may well have changed and been superceded since last I > looked. > > The reason you find nothi

[gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed

2012-12-19 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. On my system Portage uses the following two variables for compressing files in /usr/share/doc: > $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS > xz > $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES > css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png It seems anyway that some files are not compressed: > $ fin

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-18 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:58, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > IIRC all possible settings should be documented in "man .conf" On my system: $ man rc.conf No manual entry for rc.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-18 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:49, Dale wrote: > If the RC_DEBUG setting is not there, add it. There are lots of > settings that are not in there by default but you can add them if you > need to. It's strange because all variables in my /etc/rc.conf file are lowercase (for example rc_interactive, rc_

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-18 Thread Francesco Turco
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 17:59, walt wrote: > I'm drawing on ancient memories here, but I'd try setting RC_DEBUG=yes > in /etc/rc.conf Unfortunately there is no RC_DEBUG variable in my /etc/rc.conf file. The following command returns nothing: grep -i debug /etc/rc.conf. Anyway I tried downgrading

[gentoo-user] OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-17 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I get the following error message at boot time: > * Mounting /proc... > rm: cannot remove /run/openrc: Read-only file system It's the very first script launched by OpenRC, but I cannot determine which one it is. Anyway I'm quite sure it's a script from the sysinit runlevel. This is becaus

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-14 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012, at 19:22, Francesco Turco wrote: > I'm still not convinced. emerge(1) man page for portage-2.1.11.37 > already contains the following command example: > > emerge --update --newuse --deep @world > > And: > > emerge --update @world > > B

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012, at 14:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: > You are wrong, the docs and the man pages are correct. > > The problem is that the word "set" is used in two different ways, one > loosely and the other with reference to an exact construct. > > portage-2.2 introduced the concept of "a define

[gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. A couple of weeks ago I filed a bug because in the Installation Handbook I found some references of the "world" set in emerge commands, as opposed to "@world": https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445184 The bug was closed as invalid, and I was told that: > sets with the @ prefix are a

Re: [gentoo-user] eclean and the --time-limit option

2012-12-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012, at 17:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It sounds like you want wget to use --no-use-server-timestamps. I haven't > tried it, but something like > > FETCHCOMMAND="$FETCHCOMMAND --no-use-server-timestamps" > > in make.conf should do it. If not, get the default settings from > emerge

[gentoo-user] eclean and the --time-limit option

2012-12-08 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I usually use the following commands to clean distfiles and binary packages after an upgrade: # eclean --destructive distfiles # eclean --destructive packages Now I'd like to add the --time-limit=1w option, in order to prevent recent files to be deleted. I think this would be useful for h