Re: [gentoo-user] x11-apps/xinit-1.3.4-r2 is broken

2017-10-20 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-10-19 16:00, Rich Freeman wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:15 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, In case anyone else trips over this, as I did today in my routine update, see https://bugs.gentoo.org/634706. I followed comment 2. The symptom is that sddm can

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-02 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-10-29 14:16, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 10/29/2017 07:46 AM, Remy Blank wrote: I attached a patch to the bug, but considering how old the bug is, and from the tone of the discussion there, I have little hope that it gets applied. If you would like to see this fixed, it may

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-03 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-11-03 18:21, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-11-03 02:53, Kai Peter wrote: 2. the shell script have to do some checks, e.g. the last run - I did wrote a small 'include' script for that Isn't your 'small include script' just another implementati

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-05 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-11-04 18:42, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2017-11-04 01:39, Kai Peter wrote: > If you want to run a monthly job on a host that is not always on, do > you have to pretend it's an hourly job and check in the script > itself? This is a special case to me

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-05 Thread Kai Peter
There are other schedulers out there that succeed where cron fails (eg Control-M, chronos, quartz), but those are all large, bulky, designed for big complex installs/requirements and probably not suited for simple things you'd deploy out of a base in portage Long time ag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: FYI: Daily / weekly / monthly cron jobs run twice on DST - non-DST transition

2017-11-05 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-11-05 18:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 05 Nov 2017 17:56:56 +0100, Kai Peter wrote: OT: Seems that since the last update of my MUA the formatting of my mails is broken - at least at reply's. There are extra line breaks. G - if you not do everythi

[gentoo-user] Update of glibc-2.23 to 2.25

2017-11-10 Thread Kai Peter
From the "cron" thread: On 2017-11-05 18:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 05 Nov 2017 17:56:56 +0100, Kai Peter wrote: OT: Seems that since the last update of my MUA the formatting of my mails is broken - at least at reply's. There are extra line breaks. G - if you not d

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do systemd scripts get installed with USE="-systemd"?

2017-11-12 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-11-12 12:47, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 10:55:04 +, Akater wrote: It looks like systemd scripts often (always?) get installed, regardless of USE flag settings. Because they are tiny so impact of them is negligible. On the other hand, if you don't have them and wan

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

2017-12-06 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-12-06 16:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: And just to round off a mostly pointless discussion with little real merit, the really stupid thing about portage is why oh why are ports and distfiles in /usr? I'm really surprised that someone recognized this or may be does question this. Fortunatel

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

2017-12-07 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-12-06 13:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:12:21 GMT Mick wrote: On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 2 December 2017 12:30:57 GMT Mick wrote: > > I'm getting this error after I changed my profile as per > > '2017-11-30-new-17- > > > > profi

Re: [gentoo-user] grub-0.97-r16 and profile 17.0 change

2017-12-07 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-12-07 15:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday, 7 December 2017 12:04:08 GMT Kai Peter wrote: On 2017-12-06 13:28, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday, 3 December 2017 15:12:21 GMT Mick wrote: >> On 03-12-2017 ,10:57:33, Peter Humphrey wrote: --->8 > Sys-boot/grub-0.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-11 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-12-11 13:39, Mick wrote: On Monday, 11 December 2017 11:59:03 GMT Jorge Almeida wrote: On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > Just my two cents. I will not answer any reply to my little contribution > to > this thread; Good. I can't remember any intervention f

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-13 Thread Kai Peter
On 2017-12-13 20:37, Alan Mackenzie wrote: What have I done to deserve this abusive style of repartee? I have never You did post your opinion which doesn't fit with others. I use Gentoo, partly because here I have a deal of choice. Isn't it better to say you have partly a choice? ;-) -- S

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage verification fails on games-action

2018-06-07 Thread Kai Peter
On 2018-06-07 23:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:38:52 +0100, Mick wrote: Your pointer for RSYNC* proved useful. At some point in the past I must have decided rsync was taking an awful long time sync'ing the games directories. Since I don't emerge or play games I had added this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: default CONFIG_PROTECT behavior

2018-06-19 Thread Kai Peter
On 2018-06-19 17:15, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2018-06-18 11:34, Rich Freeman wrote: Oh, the other tool you'll want to use is etckeeper to manage /etc in a git repo and auto-commit changes/etc with package manager hooks. That is a cross-distro tool, and will save your butt if you mess something

Re: [gentoo-user] Multilib blues continues

2018-07-05 Thread Kai Peter
On 2018-07-05 09:09, Zoltán Kócsi wrote: The */* x86_ ... in the use file and asking emerge to re-build the libraries is pretty cool for building both 64 and 32 bit libs. But it has it's problems, it seems. The library libcap fails to compile with some spectacular errors: --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-22 Thread Kai Peter
On 2018-07-22 04:11, Ian Zimmerman wrote: On 2018-07-21 23:04, Grant Edwards wrote: Manually installing things in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin will often cause problems because Portage assumes that it controls those directories. So don't do that: you should manually install things in /usr/local. Or,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Heads up: Gentoo fouls up mail transport agent.

2018-07-22 Thread Kai Peter
On 2018-07-22 12:24, Ralph Seichter wrote: On 22.07.2018 09:27, Kai Peter wrote: A bit more easier is to create an 'empty' virtual ebuild which at least does nothing but tells portage the dependency is fulfilled. Not a good choice, IMO. Portage has its own mechanism for t

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-20 Thread Kai Peter
The last time I got a board that didn't have two ports is about 20 years ago, and I never bought one for 400. They all just have 2, needed or not, even cheap ones. However, checking out the consumer market (Europe) shows that 1 out of 10 mobo's has 2 ports usually. I always add(ed) a separa

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-20 Thread Kai Peter
On 2016-12-20 05:23, Andrej Rode wrote: Why Or can you explain how unrecognisable names make things easier? Yeah they make life easier. Not in any case. Otherwise it is a name only. From your talk you never had a problem with eth<0,10> switching names after boot. Everyone who had them appre

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-20 Thread Kai Peter
On 2016-12-20 17:21, Heiko Baums wrote: Am 20.12.2016 um 05:23 schrieb Andrej Rode: Yeah they make life easier. From your talk you never had a problem with eth<0,10> switching names after boot. Everyone who had them appreciates predictable network interfaces. Everyone who had them could lear

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-20 Thread Kai Peter
On 2016-12-20 18:57, Rich Freeman wrote: No, your opinion doesn't affect me because the only thing you've been contributing is noise. That's a true word ... If anything it works the other way around. There seem to be a lot more Gentoo devs who run systemd who are actively contributing openr

Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

2016-12-28 Thread Kai Peter
On 2016-12-27 21:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: Put this script in /etc/portage/postsync.d and make it executable #!/bin/sh if [ $( eselect news count new ) != "0" ]; then eselect news list | mail y...@wherever.you.are fi Nice hint, really. I did a similar thing in my emerge wrapper script,

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-30 Thread Kai Peter
- 8 core CPU: nice Makes me drool a bit here. I want a 8 core CPU. The only downside, Have had such CPU (AMD FX8350) and wasn't satisfied really. It wasn't powerful as *I* expected. I didn't get it cool and quiet as I wanted to in my desktop. Even not with water cooling. IMO more RAM is be

Re: [gentoo-user] New box

2016-12-30 Thread Kai Peter
On 2016-12-30 03:23, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: I'm putting a new system, it will be running mainly, VirtualBox, Asterisk, Hylafax etc. (nothing graphic intensive). - IN WIN BL631 Low Profile Micro ATX Case w/ 300W Power Supply, - AMD FX-8350 Processor 4.0GHz w/ 16MB Cache - Gigabyte GA-78LMT

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync fails on excluded stuff

2018-10-22 Thread Kai Peter
On 2018-10-22 16:26, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a 10 year old Core2 as an emergency backup machine. Let's just say it's not as fast as modern machines. To speed up "emerge --sync". I put a bunch of unneeded stuff in an "rsync_excludes" file (attached). Now "emerge --sync" has started failing,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-23 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-01-23 18:26, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2019 14:09:45 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > How about this one? > > echo '198.088.0.01 > 198.088.062.01' | sed 's/\.0\([0-9][0-9]*\)/.\1/g' > 198.88.0.1 > 198.88.62.1 Also no. $ echo 198.088.0.001 | sed 's/\.0\([0-9][0-9]*\)/.\1

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-25 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-01-24 17:40, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 1/24/19 4:00 AM, Gerrit Kühn wrote: --- [me@you ~]# ip=01.02.00.0004; for d in $(echo "${ip}"|tr '.' '\n'); do myip="${myip}"$(printf "%i" "${d}")"." ; done; echo ${myip%.} 1.2.0.4 That turns "010" into "8". Using a real programming language wit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-26 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-01-25 18:31, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 1/25/19 11:32 AM, Kai Peter wrote: Really interesting _how_ people think. Find the error: You're not even trying: $ echo 0.0.0.0 | sed 's/\.0/\./g' | sed 's/^0//g' | \ sed 's/\.0/\./g' | sed 's/\

Re: [gentoo-user] Pick your hypothesis:

2019-01-27 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-01-24 21:59, Michael Jones wrote: You really can't run Gentoo safely for very long without paying close attention to what you are doing - with both installs and upgrades. I don't know that this is true. I've had the same set of use flags configured on all of my Gentoo computers for 5-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Coming up with a password that is very strong.

2019-02-08 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-02-05 22:17, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 04:28:49 +0800, Mark David Dumlao wrote: My own solution is actually very simple. I have a "secret algorithm" that incorporates several secrets with a predictable way to generate a site-specific secret. The end result is a 100% predic

Re: [gentoo-user] Not enough RAM for dev-qt/qtwebengine build

2019-06-13 Thread Kai Peter
It's the first time when I encountered a problem like this on my system and now I'm thinking how to deal with it. Has anyone dealt with this? Is there any solutions other than buying more RAM (I don't need more RAM for my work/entertainment right now)? Thanks in advance. You can use more swap

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Kai Peter
The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I could come up with to do this.  You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one time. -- Sent with eQmail-1.10.1 beta - a fork of djb's famous qmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing new versions of gentoo-sources…

2019-06-20 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-06-20 20:10, Dale wrote: Kai Peter wrote: The bad thing about this, sometimes I have to use exclude gentoo-sources from things such as --depclean.  It's annoying but it's the only way I could come up with to do this.  You can do an 'emerge --noreplace' - one

[gentoo-user] 17.1 profiles and no-multilib layout

2019-06-21 Thread Kai Peter
Hi, I couldn't find an appropriate documentation for this, so it is not clear to me how a __no-multilib__ layout looks like with 17.1 profiles. All for amd64. With 17.0-no-multilib '/lib' is a symlink to '/lib64'. For 17.1-no-multilib I see 4 possibilities: 1. no change 2. both '/lib' and

Re: [gentoo-user] 17.1 profiles and no-multilib layout

2019-06-21 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-06-21 10:44, Mick wrote: On Friday, 21 June 2019 08:56:34 BST Kai Peter wrote: Hi, I couldn't find an appropriate documentation for this, so it is not clear to me how a __no-multilib__ layout looks like with 17.1 profiles. All for amd64. With 17.0-no-multilib '/lib'

[gentoo-user] USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-04 Thread Kai Peter
Hi, now, upstream made the USE flag 'split-usr' global. This puts me a bit in a state of uncertainty :(. What is the reason or goal behind this change? I did read something about the flag itself but it wasn't really clear to me. What does this mean: "Enable behavior to support maintaining

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-05 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-08-04 20:01, Dale wrote: It was discussed on -dev in at least a couple threads I think.  I sort Thanks for that good hint. I did browse through the archives. -- Sent with eQmail-1.10.3 beta - a fork of djb's famous qmail

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: USE flag 'split-usr' is now global

2019-08-08 Thread Kai Peter
On 2019-08-08 09:43, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:24:22 +0100, Mick wrote: > As opposed to splitting binaries across four directories based on > arbitrary decisions made in the last century? :P LOL! You're missing the most important part: across different fs and partition layo

Re: [gentoo-user] Number of open Bugzilla bugs

2020-02-14 Thread Kai Peter
On 2020-02-11 00:06, Rich Freeman wrote: Nevertheless, thank you for discussing it with me You're welcome. You're hardly the first person to disagree with me. :) I'm also not in any particular position of power when it comes to how bugs are handled. You can always make a proposal to au

Re: [gentoo-user] Number of open Bugzilla bugs

2020-02-15 Thread Kai Peter
On 2020-02-15 01:46, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 7:25 PM Marc Joliet wrote: personally, I care about closing bugs that are done with or can't be acted upon. As do I. I honestly think it would be best to close bugs that are just not applicable anymore, e.g., for ebuilds or

Re: [gentoo-user] swaps mounted randomly

2020-03-09 Thread Kai Peter
On 2020-03-05 21:01, n952162 wrote: On 2020-03-05 18:26, Wols Lists wrote: On 04/03/20 10:19, n952162 wrote: Yes, everything mounts when I explicitly say swapon -a. No problems in /var/log/messages. I wonder. Is mount order deterministic at boot? Is it possible that you're trying to activate

[gentoo-user] Machine hangs up with out of memory

2021-04-28 Thread Kai Peter
Hi, I have an issue with a machine where I'm not able to detect the real root cause. It hangs up totally. It seems like it was running out of memory - but why? Hopefully somebody can give me some insight. As far I can see right now, it hangs up a few hours after an `emerge --update --newuse -

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine hangs up with out of memory

2021-04-29 Thread Kai Peter
On 2021-04-29 08:59, J.O. Aho wrote: Your named is taking up 7G or memory, are you sure your configuration is correct? Thanks, good point. There were errors in the logs. I will investigate and monitor it. -- //Aho

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine hangs up with out of memory

2021-04-30 Thread Kai Peter
On 2021-04-30 12:09, Michael wrote: However, the OP problem here seems to be with a leaky BIND? I found this mentioned upstream - but have not check BGO: https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9/-/issues/446 Thanks for reply. rndc runs on other machines daily, but not on this one. Right