Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Mike Myers
I understand what you say, but I'm not sure I got my point across very well. Let's say I have a server that has various things installed like apache with the 2.0 branch, mysql with the 4.0 branch, and PHP with the 4.xbranch. If I do an emerge -u world on a machine with these, at some random poin

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Dale
Mike Myers wrote: > I understand what you say, but I'm not sure I got my point across very > well. Let's say I have a server that has various things installed > like apache with the 2.0 branch, mysql with the 4.0 branch, and PHP > with the 4.x branch. If I do an emerge -u world on a machine with

Re: [gentoo-user] No sound in flash

2006-12-25 Thread Jigme Datse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Felipe Ribeiro wrote: > Hi, > > When i try to open a flash video on firefox, the sound doesnt work and > i get this error message repeated many times as output > > ALSA lib pcm_plug.c:1189:(_snd_pcm_plug_open) Unknown field hint > ALSA lib pcm.c:2109

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Andrey Gerasimenko
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 11:46:23 +0300, Mike Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I understand what you say, but I'm not sure I got my point across very well. Let's say I have a server that has various things installed like apache with the 2.0 branch, mysql with the 4.0 branch, and PHP with the 4.xbr

Re: [gentoo-user] which mirror does emerge --sync chose? and why?

2006-12-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 December 2006 21:57, Sven Köhler wrote: > Hi, > > "emerge --sync" should sync with rsync.gentoo.org, to which many IP > adresses (5 at the moment). > > Here's what host says: > # host rsync.gentoo.org > rsync.gentoo.org has address 129.79.6.73 > rsync.gentoo.org has address 134.68.220.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 24 December 2006 23:04, "Mike Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] OT, but short': > On 12/23/06, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is anyone out there using Residential SBC/Yahoo DSL with dynamic DNS? > > I want to know if the ISP blocks incoming requ

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 24 December 2006 19:37, Enrico Weigelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong dependencies to postgresql': First of all, thanks for responding, I was afraid we had lost another savvy bugzilla user to the lack of (or discontent with) response from the developers. > *

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 02:46, "Mike Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': > I understand what you say, but I'm not sure I got my point across very > well. Let's say I have a server that has various things installed like > apache with the 2.0 branch

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 04:48, "Andrey Gerasimenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': > You want to update world and, at the same time, not to update anything. > I can understand that if your goal is not to "update world", as Portage > thinks when you s

[gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
Hi, Where is it most appropriate to set ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment variables on Gentoo in order to use a proxy server with wget *when it is used by emerge from a cron job*? I want to make an "emerge --fetchonly" cron job which downloads through a squid server. Actually the ftp_proxy var

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Mike Williams
On Monday 25 December 2006 12:24, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Where is it most appropriate to set ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment > variables on Gentoo in order to use a proxy server with wget *when it is > used by emerge from a cron job*? > > I want to make an "emerge --fetchonly" cron job which do

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
Mike Williams wrote: > On Monday 25 December 2006 12:24, Daniel Iliev wrote: > >> Where is it most appropriate to set ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment >> variables on Gentoo in order to use a proxy server with wget *when it is >> used by emerge from a cron job*? >> >> I want to make an "emer

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch resizing of photos

2006-12-25 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 December 2006 21:05, Canek Peláez wrote: > On 12/24/06, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I have a load of photos which I would like to resize running some sort of > > ImageMagick batch command; e.g. > > If you manage your photos with F-Spot, there is a cool utility t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-25 Thread David Relson
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:00:31 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > G'day, > > > > I habitually run emacs shell sessions. When I forget the --color > > options, for example for the ls and emerge commands, the shell > > session displays the ascii escape se

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 25 December 2006 14:23, Daniel Iliev wrote: > That will do the job for emerge. What if I want to schedule some other > downloading with cron? Can't you just use a bash script that sets the variables and then runs the download (wget)? Something like $ cat download.sh #!/bin/bash expo

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
Daniel Iliev wrote: > Mike Williams wrote: > >> On Monday 25 December 2006 12:24, Daniel Iliev wrote: >> >> >>> Where is it most appropriate to set ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment >>> variables on Gentoo in order to use a proxy server with wget *when it is >>> used by emerge from a

[gentoo-user] spamassassin + razor -> learning

2006-12-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've set up spamassassin + razor on one host, which is accessed from some other host via spamc. Is it possible to learn/report-to razor via spamc, too ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.m

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge console colours

2006-12-25 Thread Dale
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Where do they defined? > Not sure if this is what you are looking for or not. Maybe here: /etc/bash/bashrc. The PS1= line is what sets up some of it, prompt part. I think the rest is done here: /etc/DIR_COLORS Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2006 15:23, Daniel Iliev wrote: > Mike Williams wrote: > > On Monday 25 December 2006 12:24, Daniel Iliev wrote: > >> Where is it most appropriate to set ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment > >> variables on Gentoo in order to use a proxy server with wget *when it is > >> used by em

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote: > grep -in proxy /etc/make.conf.example > 144:# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the > appropriate "export > 145:# ftp_proxy=" and "export http_proxy=" lines to > /etc/profile if > > > So it appears "/etc/profile" is the app

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge console colours

2006-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2006 18:51, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Where do they defined? Isn't it /etc/DIR_COLORS? Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 07:23, Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and proxy variable': > That will do the job for emerge. What if I want to schedule some other > downloading with cron? man 5 crontab -- "If there's one thing we've established over the years

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge console colours

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 10:51, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] emerge console colours': > Where do they [colors for emerge] defined? In the portage source, IIRC. They may be configurable in recent versions, but I do not recall any documentation for them. -- "

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2006 20:31, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > grep -in proxy /etc/make.conf.example > > 144:# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the > > appropriate "export > > 145:# ftp_proxy=" and "export http_proxy=" lines to > > /e

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Monday 25 December 2006 15:02, Daniel Iliev wrote: > > >> grep -in proxy /etc/make.conf.example >> 144:# If you need to set a proxy for wget or lukemftp, add the >> appropriate "export >> 145:# ftp_proxy=" and "export http_proxy=" lines to >> /etc/profile if >> >> >> So

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Monday 25 December 2006 19:19, Uwe Thiem wrote: > So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that > script! Yes, that's what I said two posts above :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge console colours

2006-12-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: > Where do they defined? > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Remap_Portage_Colors -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Follow-up on the HDD problems...

2006-12-25 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 23 December 2006 10:23, Chris Walters wrote: >> Some of you may remember the problem I was having with my SATA II HDD in >> Windows XP (but not in Linux). To recap: My drive got switched from >> UDMA mode to PIO mode in Wi

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED]

2006-12-25 Thread Daniel Iliev
Daniel Iliev wrote: > Hi, > > Where is it most appropriate to set ftp_proxy and http_proxy environment > variables on Gentoo in order to use a proxy server with wget *when it is > used by emerge from a cron job*? > > I want to make an "emerge --fetchonly" cron job which downloads through > a squid

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge console colours

2006-12-25 Thread Dale
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 25 December 2006 10:51, Andrew Gaydenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about '[gentoo-user] emerge console colours': > >> Where do they [colors for emerge] defined? >> > > In the portage source, IIRC. They may be configurable in recent versions, > b

[gentoo-user] MPICH2 and errors....

2006-12-25 Thread Marco Calviani
Hi list, i'm compiling a program that uses the MPICH2-provided libraries. However during installation i'm getting the following error: /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../lib64/libmpich.so: undefined reference to `aio_read64' /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/../../../../lib

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Mike Myers
Thanks for the responses everybody! Boyd, if this is just not feasible in Gentoo for whatever reason, then I guess I might switch. I understand the portage system enough to mask the packages I don't want, but then there's the problem of other updates requiring that package. Ultimately, messing

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/24/06, Mike Myers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please tell me there's some solution to this? I haven't seen one mentioned anywhere yet. Even with Gentoo's occasional problems, I like it too much to use any other distro but I'd definitely like to see better version management than what its g

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel Config Manager

2006-12-25 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/23/06, Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If he has that enabled in the kernel. That can be a good thing to have around though. Especially if you accidentally erase your old config. It is also very useful for being able to check the configuration of the kernel you are _actually_ running,

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Mike Myers
Oh, nice! Thanks for that info! BTW, I was only referring to the profiles since it was the closest thing to 'releases' that Gentoo has. Whatever tool used to do it would be arbitrary as long as it worked. Although, wouldn't it be easier to just mask major updates in the profile? Like say >=ap

[gentoo-user] managing a sandisk sansa

2006-12-25 Thread James
hello, The kids got a sandisk sansa so I was looking for an easy graphical system where they could use the family gentoo box to download music and access any other feature, via a gui. I use KDE but a gnome app would be OK too. After googling for a while all I see are snippets where folks say the

Re: [gentoo-user] PDF Editor

2006-12-25 Thread ps
> Pavel, > > I have tried that ebuild (with patch) and got linking error shown below. > > > Andrew > __ > > ../xpdf/xpdf/libxpdf.a(GlobalParams.o): In function > `GlobalParams::GlobalParams(char*)': > GlobalParams.cc:(.text+0x4277): undefined reference to `paperinit' > Glob

Re: [gentoo-user] Batch resizing of photos

2006-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:25:39 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > if you don't want to keep the original images, then it's simpler: > > for i in *.jpeg; do > convert -resize WxH ${i} ${i}.resized > mv ${i}.resized ${i} # caution: overwrites original file > done If the convert command fails, the

Re: [gentoo-user] [Somewhat OT] Backup software for CDs.

2006-12-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 15:34:40 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > OK, so skip /proc, /sys and /dev then? I need to do some reading I > > guess, if it ever gets it downloaded that is. > > Yes, you can skip them. /tmp as well, but you have to create the empty > directory after restoration. Same for /d

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 25 December 2006 14:09, "Mike Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': > I understand the portage system enough to mask > the packages I don't want, but then there's the problem of other updates > requiring that package. Well, either (a) the new

Re: [gentoo-user] managing a sandisk sansa

2006-12-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 December 2006 20:54, James wrote: > hello, > > The kids got a sandisk sansa so I was looking for an easy graphical system > where they could use the family gentoo box to download music and > access any other feature, via a gui. I use KDE but a gnome app would > be OK too. > > After goo

[gentoo-user] Re: Batch resizing of photos

2006-12-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2006-12-25, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --Sig_QmXi9jAOe7nHzs/ZHwPB5to > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 13:25:39 +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > >> if you don't want to keep the original images, then it

[gentoo-user] Re: emacs shell color question

2006-12-25 Thread reader
David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:00:31 -0600 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> David Relson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > G'day, >> > >> > I habitually run emacs shell sessions. When I forget the --color >> > options, for example for the ls and emerge command

Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?

2006-12-25 Thread Mike Myers
On 12/25/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 25 December 2006 14:09, "Mike Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] anti-portage wreckage?': > I understand the portage system enough to mask > the packages I don't want, but then there's the problem of

[gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-25 Thread Bruce Burden
Hi gang, I have a laptop, originally with Windows. I partitioned the windows space, and installed Gentoo. Fine and well. Then I replaced the original hard drive with a new one, and moved the windoze/Gentoo drive to a USB enclosure. I changed the drive specs from "hd

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] gentoo and proxy variable

2006-12-25 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 25 December 2006 21:18, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Monday 25 December 2006 19:19, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > So make the cronjob itself a shell script and set the variable in that > > script! > > Yes, that's what I said two posts above :-) Only, I sent mine 4 hours before you. At times, it takes quite

Re: [gentoo-user] VFS: Cannot open root device "hda6" or unknown-block(3,6)

2006-12-25 Thread Dale
Bruce Burden wrote: > > > title Gentoo Linux 2.6.15 > root (hd1,5) > kernel /boot/linux-2.6.15-gentoo-r1 root=/dev/hda6 > > Thank you, > Bruce > Shouldn't you have changed the root= line