Re: [gentoo-user] how to check package/installation integrity

2007-05-14 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 03:51 Tue 15 May , Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > I've seen my system misses some files from the readline package. > /var/db/pkg/... contains an good-looking entry for it. > > How can I run an automatic check for such missing files ? > Have you tried, # equery check 'equer

Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -uDN world" minus one package

2007-04-30 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 17:43 Mon 30 Apr , Jesse Adelman wrote: > > The nitty gritty: > > I have installed: > > media-tv/mythtv-0.20_p13288 > > Portage has an update: > > media-tv/mythtv-0.20.1_p13344 > > But when I put this into package.mask > > >=media-tv/mythtv-0.20.1_p13344 > > It then wants to downgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync behind a firewall

2007-04-19 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 20:02 Thu 19 Apr , Marko Kocić wrote: > I just got answer on IRC #gentoo channel. > > I had to install tsocks package, which let me run through socks proxy > any program. > Setting http_proxy and RSYNC_PROXY didn't do the trick. > 'net-misc/proxychains' is better than tsocks as it can forc

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-15 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 11:24 Mon 16 Apr , Will Briggs wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > > Sent via BlackBerry� from Vodafone z���(��&j)b� bst== > > I wasn't going to respond. But it's my birthday today - 2^5 = 32 baby! > (Using gentoo since 2004.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 12:07 Fri 13 Apr , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What is the average age of the gentoo user here? > Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone youngest among all the previous mailors, 23 --> 24 this may :) -- Does a good farmer neglect a crop he has planted? Does a good teacher overlook even the m

Re: [gentoo-user] Can I share my /boot and swap partitions with other Linux installs?

2007-04-01 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 20:14 Sun 01 Apr , Daevid Vincent wrote: > > Can I install Ubuntu in yet another partition and have it share the /boot > and swap ones I already have, or do I need dedicated ones for that distro > too? > you can and you should. -- Good evening, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I be

Re: [gentoo-user] autoloading mudules

2007-03-27 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 11:45 Tue 27 Mar , sbelov wrote: > > > i have built-in soundcard AC'97 on the server, but i dont want to sound > modules to be loaded at startup: > > moon ~ # lsmod | grep snd > snd_mpu401 3272 0 > snd_mpu401_uart 4000 1 snd_mpu401 > snd_rawmidi12256 1

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I unmask packages for use with catalyst?

2007-03-20 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 14:57 Tue 20 Mar , Michael Sullivan wrote: > I'm trying to make a livecd with catalyst, but I keep running into > things like this: > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-boot/yaboot" have been masked. > > I unmask them in /etc/portage/package.keywords and etc, but they're > still mas

Re: [gentoo-user] digest verification failed for libgsf

2007-03-20 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 19:54 Tue 20 Mar , Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 20 March 2007 19:28:26 Vikas Kumar wrote: > > today after emerge --sync when i did emerge -pvuDN world, i got this > > > > # emerge -pvuDN world > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in

[gentoo-user] digest verification failed for libgsf

2007-03-20 Thread Vikas Kumar
hello everyone, today after emerge --sync when i did emerge -pvuDN world, i got this # emerge -pvuDN world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies \!!! Digest verification failed: !!! /usr/portage/gnome-extra/libgsf/libgsf-1.14.0.ebuild !!! Reason: F

Re: [gentoo-user] portage date

2007-03-09 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 10:43 Fri 09 Mar , Willie Wong wrote: > On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 01:24:04PM +0100, Penguin Lover Arnau Bria squawked: > > But sometimes I look for the date when I did my last sync, cause > > maybe it's enough for what I want, but I don't know how to find it... > $ awk -F: '/Sync completed/

Re: [gentoo-user] swiching from gnome to gnome-light

2007-02-25 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 03:14 Sun 25 Feb , Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 25 February 2007, JC D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about '[gentoo-user] swiching from gnome to gnome-light': > > I am planning of switching from gnome to gnome-light. How can I unmerge > > gnome and in particular remove all packag

Re: [gentoo-user] resolv.conf question

2006-10-27 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 10:51 Fri 27 Oct , Matthew R. Lee wrote: > Every time I boot my resolv.conf reverts to the original file with no name > servers in it. Because I use my laptop in various places I have a series of > resolv.conf files (resolv.conf.xx1, resolv.conf.xx2, etc) When I use a > different networ

Re: [gentoo-user] How to discover what is the package of a given file?

2006-10-25 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 18:58 Wed 25 Oct , Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: >Hi list, > > How to discover what is the package of a given file? Should I use emerge >command? > >Leandro if i've understood your question right then may be, # equery belongs equery comes with gentoolkit. # emerge gento

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 13:44 Sun 17 Sep , Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 17 September 2006 13:10, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: > > Le 17 septembre à 12:36:55 Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit notamment: > > > | Alright, if that is the case I have it installed already. The questions > > | is, why doesn't a related docum

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 14:16 Sun 17 Sep , Vikas Kumar wrote: > On 10:10 Sun 17 Sep , Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila wrote: > > On 09:51 Sun 17 Sep , Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > I have just heard about a TeX/LaTeX extension by the name "beamer" that

Re: [gentoo-user] beamer

2006-09-17 Thread Vikas Kumar
On 10:10 Sun 17 Sep , Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila wrote: > On 09:51 Sun 17 Sep , Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > I have just heard about a TeX/LaTeX extension by the name "beamer" that can > > produce stunning slide shows. I have been told that it beats PowerPoint, > > Impress, KPrese