Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead
of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter (media-
libs/freetype)
The pl
Apparently, though unproven, at 06:25 on Friday 20 August 2010, Alan Warren
did opine thusly:
> Hello,
>
> I've just sync'd my machine, and realized I'm pulling in a few packages
> from the devnull overlay that I would rather not. freetype / fontconfig /
> cairo for example and it's causing
> so
Hi,
today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed for
nxssh, I've got the message
!!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection
Does anybody have an idea what that means?
Thanks for a hint,
Helmut.
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:20:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
> So, all that said, what the heck are we supposed to change here?
Nothing, unless you're using the bindist USE flag, in which case you
should replace it by auto-hinter. All that's happened is that control of
that feature has passed from one USE fla
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> No, it isn't. You may be being confused by the unnecessary inclusion of
> brackets (parentheses if you're American);
If you're British too:
Defined usage:
() parentheses
[] brackets
{} braces
General usage:
() brackets
[] sq
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:25:12 -0500, Alan Warren wrote:
> I'm surprised packages in overlays take precedence over portage.
> Is
> there any way to get a single package from an overlay without taking
> "everything" ?
An overlay has to take precedence, otherwise putting a fixed ebuild in
your local
On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:49:23 +, CJoeB wrote:
> More than anything, I am acknowledging this response. My understanding
> is that Wicd requires wpa-supplicant. I don't know that I'm ready to
> try to tackle the setup of wpa-supplicant - it's supposed to be harder
> (it looks harder from what I
On 08/20/10 09:35:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed for
> nxssh, I've got the message
> !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection
>
> Does anybody have an idea what that means?
>
> Thanks for a hint,
>
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 02:20:09 -0500, Dale wrote:
So, all that said, what the heck are we supposed to change here?
Nothing, unless you're using the bindist USE flag, in which case you
should replace it by auto-hinter. All that's happened is that control of
that fea
Apparently, though unproven, at 10:03 on Friday 20 August 2010, Neil Bothwick
did opine thusly:
> On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:38:10 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > No, it isn't. You may be being confused by the unnecessary inclusion of
> > brackets (parentheses if you're American);
>
> If you're Bri
Hi all!
Thanks to your beautiful support, I solved my issue!
Again, as usual, I've to send my compliments to this mailing list: every
time I've a problem here there is someone that tries to help me (and usually
solves my problems)!
Moreover, simply reading the ML I always learn new commands that re
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:38 on Friday 20 August 2010, Peter Humphrey
did opine thusly:
> On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
> > auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead
>
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:01:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> "Arrogant jerk on second floor with a beard and no head hair" is
> definitely more intuitive to my new staff, but for anyone here longer
> than a week it is far simpler to just use the name of the thing instead
> of some description, and r
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:28 on Thursday 19 August 2010, Neil
Bothwick did opine thusly:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:55:02 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > Besides, if I don't give them some form of responsibility they will
> > never become responsible.
>
> Unfortunately, the converse is no
> Wicd require wpa_supplicant because that's what it uses, not you. Wicd
> does all the hard work, you just give it the password etc. and let it get
> on with things.
What is hard with wpa_supplicant? It is just three lines:
wpa_passphrase [passphrase] > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa_supplicant
Hi there, why this command don't work in zsh:
/>>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727
* Execute the following command to setup the initial policy configuration:
*
* emerge --config =sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727
*
* For more information, please visit the follow
On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>
>> So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
>> auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter instead
>> of the (recommended) TrueType bytecode interpreter
Excellent. thank you. Both responses are very helpful.
Alan
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 3:06 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:25:12 -0500, Alan Warren wrote:
>
> > I'm surprised packages in overlays take precedence over portage.
>
> > Is
> > there any way to get a single package f
On 08/20/2010 12:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
Hi,
today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed for
nxssh, I've got the message
!!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection
The class HTTPSConnection is defined in httplib.py, which is part of python
its
I finally got back to updating my netbook,
in which I installed Gentoo a few months ago.
I came across the packages 'acl' & 'attr',
which are not installed in my regular desktop machine
& for which 'equery d' showed nothing actually dependent
('emerge -cpv' doesn't work with the earlier Portage in
On 08/19/2010 08:44 AM, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 18.08.2010 21:30, schrieb Elmar Hinz:
>> 1.) Is there a Map: modules to configration parameters?
>>
>> "lspci -k" lists me all modules of the running genkernel.
>> Unfortunately the configuration parameters of the kernel have
>> different names.
>
Zhu Sha Zang writes:
> Hi there, why this command don't work in zsh:
[...]
> [r...@sakurazukamori /usr/src/linux]$ emerge --config
> =sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727
> 9:44
> zsh: sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727 not found
Interesting. Looks like zsh treats a '=' character specially.
On Friday 20 August 2010 09:03:46 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Defined usage:
> () parentheses
> [] brackets
> {} braces
"Defined"? Defined where?
In English*, a parenthesis is a separate expression** marked off from the
rest of the sentence with brackets. Round ones, that is. A parenthesis
is
100820 Philip Webb wrote:
>> The next step seems to be to unpack the whole Stage 3 tarball
>> in the netbook's / dir & see what happens. After that, a full reinstall.
Further examination of what's in Stage 3
+ review of my detailed notes from installation last year suggest
that the correct atte
On 20 août 2010, at 16:50, Alex Schuster wrote:
> weird% echo =find
> /usr/bin/find
>
> Your command works, when the = is escaped by a \, or when the stuff is
> quoted.
I don't use zsh, but a little of google's magic[1] shows:
> A command name with a = prepended is replaced with its full pat
On Friday 20 August 2010 14:20:35 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> >> So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
> >> auto-hinter: Local Flag: Use the unpatented auto-hinter ins
On 08/20/2010 07:58 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 20 August 2010 14:20:35 Bill Longman wrote:
>> On 08/19/2010 04:38 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> On Thursday 19 August 2010 21:21:20 Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
So I looked up "auto-hinter" in the flagedit(1) program. It says:
auto-hinte
On 18 August 2010 03:56, CJoeB wrote:
> Haven't tried this yet - just got the e-mail and it's almost 11:00 p.m.
> and time for me to "hit the sack". However, I wanted to point this
> out. This test was copied from dmesg. Unless, I am misreading this, it
> looks like the driver is working. The
On 08/20/10 15:43:20, walt wrote:
> On 08/20/2010 12:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed
> for
> > nxssh, I've got the message
> > !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection
>
> The class HTTPSConnec
* Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Welcome to hell. No, that's possible, as others pointed out. There was
> an initiative to bring true multilib to Gentoo a year or so back (maybe
> more) but it seems it died and no one's working on it.
>
> For your browser this is probably not so problematic. Bu
On 8/20/2010 11:40 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> As to the thingies, I enjoyed discovering that to many people a
> parenthesis is not a glyph or punctuation mark, but instead the contents
> of the language set aside in one way or another. I had always regarded
> parentheses as the round glyphs (),
On 08/20/2010 11:02 AM, Philip Webb wrote:
100820 Philip Webb wrote:
The next step seems to be to unpack the whole Stage 3 tarball
in the netbook's / dir& see what happens. After that, a full reinstall.
Further examination of what's in Stage 3
+ review of my detailed notes from installatio
walt gmail.com> writes:
> < > ATA/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support (DEPRECATED) --->
OK, this fixed the dvd so that now it works...(thanks)
><*> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers --->
I had this already, just deleted the one above. Kernel
rebuilt, now it works with Kaffeine to play video
Am Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:43:40 -0700
schrieb Bill Longman :
[...]
> I find it amazing, though, that even if I copy my old .config, it still
> takes me so much time to make sure all the settings are correct for a
> given machine. Hasn't anyone come up with a handy
> look-through-my-lspci-output-and-c
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:07 on Friday 20 August 2010, Mike Edenfield
did opine thusly:
> On 8/20/2010 11:40 AM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > As to the thingies, I enjoyed discovering that to many people a
> > parenthesis is not a glyph or punctuation mark, but instead the contents
> > of t
On 08/20/2010 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
> Am Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:43:40 -0700
> schrieb Bill Longman :
>
> [...]
>> I find it amazing, though, that even if I copy my old .config, it still
>> takes me so much time to make sure all the settings are correct for a
>> given machine. Hasn't anyone com
On Friday 20 August 2010 05:58:49 kashani wrote:
> On 8/19/2010 12:03 PM, Mick wrote:
> > I use mysqldump to back up a database from a development environment and
> > upload it to a production environment.
> >
> > A couple of days ago I was surprised to see that I was getting errors as
> > soon as
Wow, what's going on here?
Alan McKinnon writes:
> Like Eskimo's with 20+ words for different kinds of snow.
> Say "snow" to any Eskimo, see what happens :-)
Actually, they have only two words for snow: qanik for falling snow and
aput for lying snow.
Wonko
On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bill Longman wrote:
> On 08/20/2010 11:44 AM, Marc Joliet wrote:
>> Am Fri, 20 Aug 2010 07:43:40 -0700
>> schrieb Bill Longman :
>>
>> [...]
>>> I find it amazing, though, that even if I copy my old .config, it still
>>> takes me so much time to make sure all the s
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:32 on Friday 20 August 2010, Alex Schuster
did opine thusly:
> Wow, what's going on here?
>
> Alan McKinnon writes:
> > Like Eskimo's with 20+ words for different kinds of snow.
> > Say "snow" to any Eskimo, see what happens :-)
>
> Actually, they have only tw
On 08/20/2010 11:33 AM, James wrote:
walt gmail.com> writes:
$ls -l /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2010-08-17 04:46 /dev/dvd -> sr0
I get: ls: cannot access /dev/dvd: No such file or directory
I forgot an important detail. Your device drivers have changed, so your
disks will now sho
Hello,
yesterday I was working on an installer skript for Gentoo.
What does it do?
* It does the basic installation until you can reboot and login.
* That includes formatting of the given partitions.
* That includes compiling a genkernel.
* It is developed and tested on Ubuntu.
What does it not
On Friday 20 August 2010, Zhu Sha Zang wrote:
> Hi there, why this command don't work in zsh:
>
> />>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20090727
> * Execute the following command to setup the initial policy configuration:
> *
> * emerge --config =sys-apps/tomoyo-tools-2.2.0_p20
100820 Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> You might be able to grab the 'acl' and 'attr' packages from here:
>http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/
Thanks for that link: I had the idea someone kept tarballs somewhere,
but couldn't find a reference in my usually extensive notes.
Anyway after some sleep, I w
Hi folks,
I'm trying to get my nameserver setting to stick in resolv.conf when I
restart the network or reboot. Layman will not work with my ISP's DNS
server for some crazy reason. Anyway, I have this in /etc/conf.d/net file:
modules="dhcpcd"
config_eth2="dhcp"
dns_servers_eth2="nameserver
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