Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find > > particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling it > > "predictable". Before the change, it was predicatbly "eth0". Now, > > it's different on every different model

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find >> > particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling it >> > "predictable". Before the change, it was predicat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 03:22:16 -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > > That may be true for PCI devices but not for USB ones. If you unplug a > > USB device and plug it back into the same port, it will get a > > different device number. The naming is more predictable, but it's not > > there yet. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 26/09/14 11:22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 26/09/14 11:47, Samuli Suominen wrote: > On 26/09/14 11:22, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:07 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> > I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find > particularly a

Re: [gentoo-user] Reverse Tethering - How to?

2014-09-26 Thread Guillaume Poulin
2014-09-17 17:53 GMT+08:00 Helmut Jarausch : > On 09/17/2014 11:50:58 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> >> On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:46:12 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> > On 09/17/2014 11:43:28 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> > > On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 11:24:36 AM Helmut Jarausch wrote: >

[gentoo-user] Re: /dev/ttyUSB* group changed from uucp to root?

2014-09-26 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2014-09-25, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> On 2014-09-25, Mike Gilbert wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:28 PM, Grant Edwards >>> wrote: On 2014-09-24, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2014 19:42:56 + (UTC), Grant Edwards

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread David W Noon
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:04:47 +0300, Samuli Suominen (ssuomi...@gentoo.org) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?" (in <54252c2f.1030...@gentoo.org>): [snip] > Later kernels *can mark interfaces predictable in a new form of > metadata*, and udev >= 209 can > pick that info

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/ttyUSB* group changed from uucp to root?

2014-09-26 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: > Which sets the group to 0 (root). The weird thing is that I don't > know where that file came from. Dong an "equery belongs" doesn't show > it belonging to any package. I do have dev-embedded/openocd installed, > but it doesn't own that fi

[gentoo-user] Re: devmanual searching

2014-09-26 Thread James
Jc García gmail.com> writes: > There's 'app-doc/devmanual' that is basically the html files that make > the devmanual but, if you have them in your pc you can convert them to > plain text and grep them, plus you have the manual even if offline. Ok, some years (decades?) ago I use html2txt. It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: devmanual searching

2014-09-26 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 09/26/2014 03:38 PM, James wrote: > Jc García gmail.com> writes: > > >> There's 'app-doc/devmanual' that is basically the html files that make >> the devmanual but, if you have them in your pc you can convert them to >> plain text and grep them, plus you have the manual even if offline. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: devmanual searching

2014-09-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 19:38:27 + (UTC), James wrote: > Ok, some years (decades?) ago I use html2txt. It must have been part > of a deprecated package, as now I do not find it. > > So what's the best method to convert the devmanual installed locally > now, app-doc/devmanual~, to a singular

[gentoo-user] Re: snapper (btrfs)

2014-09-26 Thread James
Neil Bothwick digimed.co.uk> writes: > > I use snapper from portage. Snapper itself works just fine. Good to know > > found that trying to integrate it into portage (before/after snapshots > > on every emerge) is just way too much overhead (it goes fast, but you > > end up with a bazillion

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) alternatives ?

2014-09-26 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 26/09/14 19:47, David W Noon wrote: > On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:04:47 +0300, Samuli Suominen > (ssuomi...@gentoo.org) wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: udev (viable) > alternatives ?" (in <54252c2f.1030...@gentoo.org>): > > [snip] >> Later kernels *can mark interfaces predictable in a new form of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /dev/ttyUSB* group changed from uucp to root?

2014-09-26 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 26/09/14 20:59, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 12:12 PM, Grant Edwards > wrote: >> Which sets the group to 0 (root). The weird thing is that I don't >> know where that file came from. Dong an "equery belongs" doesn't show >> it belonging to any package. I do have dev-embedded/

[gentoo-user] Playing timidity patches via keyboard?

2014-09-26 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I am looking for some sort of software, for which I have no words (neiter I am a native english speaker nor I am a musician...;): There is a program called "Timidity", which is able to play midifiles and produce sound. The sound is taken from "patchsets" (GUS?). Is there any GPLed/OpensSourc

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing timidity patches via keyboard?

2014-09-26 Thread Jc García
2014-09-26 23:42 GMT-06:00 : > Hi, > > I am looking for some sort of software, for which I > have no words (neiter I am a native english speaker > nor I am a musician...;): > There is a program called "Timidity", which is able > to play midifiles and produce sound. The sound is taken > from "patch

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing timidity patches via keyboard?

2014-09-26 Thread meino . cramer
Jc García [14-09-27 07:48]: > 2014-09-26 23:42 GMT-06:00 : > > Hi, > > > > I am looking for some sort of software, for which I > > have no words (neiter I am a native english speaker > > nor I am a musician...;): > > There is a program called "Timidity", which is able > > to play midifiles and pr