Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-boot on an openrc system

Hi Peter, long story short: AFAICT it's a deprecated or moved configuration entry inside the file /etc/machine-info and should be safe to just delete, maybe even with the whole file machine-info itself. On my machine with openrc and systemd-boot I don't even have /etc/machine-info at all and thin

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] suggest SSD partitioning

Hi, my thoughts: If you use an EFI/UEFI you will need a so called ESP, i.e. a FAT32 partition. FAT32 is ugly from a linux user's perspective (e.g. it doesn't support symlinks as far as I know and being regularly told by other users), but I'm putting /boot on that partition for at least seven year

Re: [gentoo-user] Dovecot config

Hi Wol, my credentials for dovecot have the following syntax, i.e. four additional colons after the password: ':' I use only virtual users, so I can't tell if mixing works, too. For the dovecot setup I can recommend this guide: https://prefetch.eu/blog/2020/email-server/#mda-dovecot Two gene

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Inquiry about gentoo kernel configuration

Am Sonntag, den 11.07.2021 um 21:17:50 Uhr +0800 schrieb Dongliang Mu : > [...] > Thanks. There is only a file - *.ebuild file in this package. From the > package, I did not find out what .config file it uses. It seems this > script uses the config file of current system. Hi, look here: https://

Re: [gentoo-user] libbpf? BTF? blinking urxvt/fish?

Hi caveman, you should really train your search skills :-P (1) Just searching for "libbpf" and then for "bpf BTF" gives plenty webpages and links. In short: BPF: Berkeley packet filter, e.g.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Packet_Filter libbpf: a library to use it, e.g.: https://github.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with LyX and xetex-2021

Hi Stefano, I couldn't reproduce your error with xelatex at all. I took your example/MWE and just executed "xelatex test.tex" and it generated me a single page PDF. A quick and dirty idea: Move ~/.texlive (e.g. to ~/.texlive-bak) and let texlive regenerate files there. In my worldfile I have app

Re: [gentoo-user] QEMU -nographic Option with OVMF

Am Montag, den 24.05.2021 um 11:52:22 Uhr +0100 schrieb Michael : > On Monday, 24 May 2021 02:01:15 BST Oliver Dixon wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I decided to bite the bullet yesterday and switch from clunky, and generally > > untoward, VirtualBox to QEMU/KVM for developing kernel modules. I have a > >

Re: [gentoo-user] I am thinking of buying Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8GB with 7 or 10 inch touch screen display in June 2021

Am Sonntag, den 09.05.2021 um 11:13:47 Uhr -0400 schrieb Kusoneko : > On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 04:29:12PM +0800, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming > wrote: > > Finally, does your Linux distribution support Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 8 > > GB? Can I do 4K Ultra HD video editing on the Raspberry Pi 4 Mode

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using extract_url with mutt?

Hi Walter, Am Dienstag, den 27.04.2021 schrieb Walter Dnes : > Thanks. I simply want a list of URLs that I can select to open in > Pale Moon. If I can copy URLs into the paste buffer, even better. It's > been a long while since I last used an overlay. What are the steps to > setting up "urls

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using extract_url with mutt?

Hi Walter, in case your problem isn't already solved net-mail/urlscan[1] might be an alternative. Currently I maintain it in my overlay[2]. I just use it with xdg-open or KDE's URL-click-behaviour, but according to the urlscan readme you can "Run a command with the selected URL as the argument or

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname service on lxc

Hi Alarig, Am Samstag, den 09.01.2021 um 10:52:12 Uhr +0100 schrieb Alarig Le Lay : > Hi, > > OpenRC doesn’t take the hostname service service on LXC even if the > symlink exists: please take a look into /etc/rc.conf (key word rc_sys) and into the initscript /etc/init.d/hostname inside the depe

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Hardened profile and SELinux support active?

Hi Ihor, myself I use only hardened profiles without SELinux on my machines, and AFAICT it mostly boils down *this* way to some default toolchain flags for C/C++ and a nearly-default kernel (sys-kernel/gentoo-soures package)[a]. I dropped a note about your question on the IRC channel #gentoo-har

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with firefox/libvpx

Am Samstag, 8. Februar 2020, 05:26:20 CET schrieb John Covici: > Hi. Well, I have run into a problem on the world update I am about to > do? Firefox requires libvpx-1.7.0 and handbrake wants 8.x. Now > there is a use flag systemlibvpx which is enabled, I am assuming if I > disable that the grea

Re: [gentoo-user] Any chance to "unpack" or install a ppa-package on Gentoo-Linux ?

Hi, no, as we are not able to guess what a ppq package even is. If you know what you have there search for something like "unpack package from $Software linux", if you don't then try to guess it by running file from sys-apps/file and search then. Good luck and may be the search foo be with you!

Re: [gentoo-user] Ssh problem

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Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync source

I filed a bug report https://bugs.gentoo.org/679040. Yes, currently you need to update your git config manually everytime you change your git remote.

Re: [gentoo-user] TensorFlow

I can't help with that linker problem, but at least I can say that tensorflow-1.13.0_rc1 built here without errors (and seems to run aswell). But watch out, you need bazel-0.20.0 (see bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/ 677280 for details). -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is it that hard to add a package, or am I doing wrong?

Hi everyone, Am Donnerstag, 20. Dezember 2018, 12:28:17 CET schrieb Nuno Silva: > On 2018-12-20, YUE Daian wrote: > > On 2018-12-20 03:50, Nils Freydank wrote: > > [...] > >> Additionally bugzilla is seen as too impractical to use for new packages > >> that ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Is it that hard to add a package, or am I doing wrong?

Hi Danny, first I want to thank you for submitting your ebuild, and I'm quite sorry to see another contributor who doesn't get responses for a long while. This is no evil intention, just a lack of manpower and the lack of someone maintaining your "new" package. (This was what jstein meant with h

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: latest longterm kernel.org patches are unsigned

bug, and if so, where do I report it? > > This breaks my lovingly duct-taped kernel update infrastructure ... -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Angelos

dropping it from the public overlays list. Greetings, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin - edit (empty screen)

t > * Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 10:23:03 -0400 > */ 3.4.0 from _2011_ is not even in the tree anymore (if it was). I don't know what happens on upgrades, but if this header is correct then your setup is still on a state nearly seven years old. Maybe check for that with ls? -- GPG fingerp

Re: [gentoo-user] phpmyadmin - edit (empty screen)

ng like a "draft" to /usr, and then app-admin/ webapp-config actually manages the files inside your webroot. For details how to use it take a look to our wiki page: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Webapp-config > […] HTH, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB A

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

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Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

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Re: [gentoo-user] Waiting for a KMail bug fix

e no problem if something breaks, as this usually happens at compile time.. -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [okey..] [OT] Best *SIMPLE* firewall?

found it more annoying then helpful.) PS: What about the "suspected spam" in your subject? Is that a bug in the ML software or does that one come from you? -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Being Facebook member: How to anon?

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Re: [gentoo-user] remove gnome/systemd

ulled in by OpenRC ;-) BTW, I personally like elogind (a standalone "cut off" of systemd-logind) and can suggest it as a surrogate for consolekit2. Support by the upstream is incredible fast. Have fun :) Nils > thanks, > > raffaele -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

" to my Xorg string; in my case that’s a line in sddm config. That one does not reflect my actual DPI (simplified sqrt(1920^2+1080^2)/12.5 = 176), but was after trial and error the best result I got. Hope that helps, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 47

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downgrading glibc

e to paste it in your name) ;-) (I guess you can avoid that in this case as another dev said that bug is fixed upstream now.) BTW, mythtv has no maintainer, might you be interested in a proxied maintainership? Greetings, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 47

Re: [gentoo-user] downgrading glibc

ck you system: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-845000.html or b) create a chroot with a blank system (new stage 3), emerge your package, create a binpkg, install that on the host and hope it works. Good luck! :-) -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54

Re: [gentoo-user] To install a testing version of a package on a stable OS installation.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Copy'n'Paste...but not for all?

clipboards under X. I’m not into the details anymore, so I’ll just drop link that looks useful (and mentions autocutsel as in x11-misc/autocutsel) to solve this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=22682 -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B'

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust??

is insecure in rust’s pm? -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust??

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust??

ix. Greetings, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank (proxy maintainer) IRC: holgersson on freenode IRC servers XMPP: nils [at] holgersson [dot] xyz signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world rebuild with gcc-6.3.0 - not completely there yet

s[1] output didn’t change neither to something less hardened. [1] =app-admin/checksec-1.7.5::gentoo Greetings, Nils PS: Testing gcc-7.1.0 on ~amd64/hardened right now. -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem while writing ebuild

/git-r3.eclass). > Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > > Danny [1] find /usr/portage/ -iname "*desc" [2] find /usr/portage/ -iname "*metadata.xml" Nils PS: Great you write ebuilds - keep going on and suggest bugfixes for broken ebuilds later! :) -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] replacement for ftp?

i.e. FTP over SSL/TLS (not to mix up with SFTP, which comes from the SSH family) Greetings, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use github source in ebuild?

/holgersson-overlay/tree/games-fps/urbanterror/ urbanterror-.ebuild HTH, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] busybox fsck vs. fsck.ext4 ... experiences?

[...] > The fsck.*'s are built in I agree: % bb ~ $ which fsck ~ $ fsck -v fsck (busybox 1.26.2, 2017-03-12 11:38:12 CET) -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Wiping the old root without killing the new root

sential stuff rw and don’t like deletion of stuff. > [...] Greetings, Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Latest LLVM wants to pollute my machine with VIM stuff.....

ld is exactly the same size. All in all I consider that way a bit ugly, but for this size I agree it’s really wasted energy [and as the mentioned dev pointed out, discussing this matter takes way more space than the issue itself]. Greetings, -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam downloading extremely

ks in advance. > > > Danny Nils -- GPG fingerprint: '00EF D31F 1B60 D5DB ADB8 31C1 C0EC E696 0E54 475B' Nils Freydank signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] nmap - device name.

=nmap+device+names&t=ffab&ia=qa Hope that helps you :) PS: What exactly does '-sn' (or is it just a typo)? My nmap doesn't complain when I use it, but the manpage only knows about '-sN' here (net-analyzer/nmap-7.40). -- Nils Freydank GnuPG-Key: 0x44594171807206CF @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AA2D 5CC0 0457 297F 6164 3911 4459 4171 8072 06CF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Seamonkey/Firefox library USE flags

hese poor guys need definetly assistance! :) > Thanks. Hope that helps, Nils > [...] -- Nils Freydank GnuPG-Key: 0x44594171807206CF @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AA2D 5CC0 0457 297F 6164 3911 4459 4171 8072 06CF signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer

the suggestion by Betram looks most appealing to me (and I consider even migrating my stuff to this one!). > Thank you for help. > > Silvio -- Nils Freydank GnuPG-Key: 0x44594171807206CF @ hkp://keys.gnupg.net fpr: AA2D 5CC0 0457 297F 6164 3911 4459 4171 8072 06CF s

Re: [gentoo-user] Dirty COW bug

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 13:39:54 CEST wrote Rich Freeman: > On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 12:22 PM, Alexander Kapshuk > [...] > > So, if you're staying in the same kernel series (4.4) you should just > be able to run make oldconfig and that's it. You can take a look but > I'd be shocked if you're eithe

Re: [gentoo-user] Call for opinions and/or use cases regarding games.eclass

ease > answer and speak for your use case. This will serve as a public record > of interest, and might even inspire a few people. :) Great use ask the users - that’s how a community should work :) > Thanks for your time, Thanks for your call here ;) > ~zlg ~nils -- Nils Fre

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] program compiled with libcrypt on Raspberry PI (running Gentoo) hangs when run

Hello! On Sunday, 26. Juni 2016, 18:05:26 CEST wrote Mr. Dan Johansson: > The following code snippet compiles find but when run it just hangs forever I compiled it (after simpel copy’n’paste) and run it at x86 and and Raspberry Pi first gen (B+). Hung nowhere. > > $ cat x.c > #include > #inc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] awk - sed - grep = tying-myself-up-in-knots

Hi Mick! Am Mittwoch, 10. Februar 2016, 17:02:46 CET schrieb Mick: > I've been struggling to parse/split/substitute some names and numbers using > a spreadsheet and think that this task may be easier to achieve using > conventional *nix tools. The problem is I wouldn't know where to start. I was

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Manipulating a mobile external harddisk

Hi, Am Dienstag, 2. Februar 2016, 07:29:16 CET schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: > [...] > Is it advisable to try to longen the active time before the disk > goes idle to prolong the lifetime ? honestly I don't know what is worse - running the HDD permanently or parking the heads too often. I'm not a