Re: [gentoo-user] ssh connections time out
On Thursday 29 November 2007, Billy Holmes wrote: Mick wrote: I just ran some quick tcptraceroute tests and can see that my random port number has the same or less latency than port 80, or port 22 connections . . . try two things: 1) put your sshd on port 443 if you can. see if you can connect with no latency. or 2) perform this as root on BOTH boxes: # echo 0 /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_window_scaling that will disable the large tcp window negotiation. some broken firewalls/packet filters cause connections with this enabled to fail or become unfriendly. http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2007/01/msg00652.html Thanks! I'll try both and see what gives. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.
Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc but it didn't work. Please help me. Wen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.
Chen Xianwen wrote: Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc but it didn't work. Please help me. bzcat instead of zcat? yoyo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.
Hi yoyo, Yeah! Bzcat works! Thank you! Wen On 29/11/2007, YoYo Siska [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chen Xianwen wrote: Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc but it didn't work. Please help me. bzcat instead of zcat? yoyo -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.
Hi Michael, Yes, bzcat works for bz2 compression file. Thank you! Regards, Wen On 29/11/2007, Michael Schreckenbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 schrieb Chen Xianwen: Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc but it didn't work. Please help me. use bzcat instead. use zcat for *.gz bzcat for *.bz2 Wen Regards, Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc didn't work.
Am Donnerstag, 29. November 2007 schrieb Chen Xianwen: Hello all, I'm a noob. I tried zcat /usr/share/doc/conky-1.4.0-r1/conkyrc.sample.bz2 ~/.conkyrc but it didn't work. Please help me. use bzcat instead. use zcat for *.gz bzcat for *.bz2 Wen Regards, Michael -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Java problem (with pylucene)
On 28 Nov, Billy Holmes wrote: Helmut Jarausch wrote: ImportError: /usr/lib/jvm/sun-jdk-1.6/jre/lib/i386/libjava.so: symbol JVM_GetClassSignature, version SUNWprivate_1.1 not defined in file libjvm.so with link time reference does it really need 1.6? 1.5 and 1.6 aren't always compatible, but from the sound of it, jcc is doing some kind of python/java hybrid? You could always do a strace on it, and see what's loading libjava, and see if it's trying to dlsym on sunwprivate after it loads libjvm.. but you need to figure out WHICH libjvm it's actually loading. Thanks, the sledge hammer 'strace' did help indeed. It turned out, that pylucene needs an additional library /usr/lib/jvm/sun-jdk-1.6/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so Thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side
First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have special care with updates. Ricardo, i find really encouraging the fact that your lab uses Gentoo for their servers. Nevertheless it would be great if you could tell us a little about your lab's experience with updates, which seems to be the only issue when using Gentoo on a server. Another thing i noticed is that some of you recommend to have a secondary server to perform tests, i totally agree with this. Unfortunately i do not think that having such thing will be possible since the server will be charged to a client and i do not think they will agree to buy a second server (even if its the right thing to do, which i believe so), in such case, would you still recommend Gentoo?. Again, thanks to everybody for the information. 2007/11/29, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert Spahr wrote: I have been running these gentoo servers since 2003, with very few problems. Although I am conservative in doing my updates. I've run gentoo on several servers from dual intels running dns, squid, routing, to web servers, to quad opterons running as terminal servers. The secret to all of that is what Robert said.. update conservatively. The update from apache 1.x to 2.x broke some things (good idea to follow the update faqs, or as I did, rebuild the config files by hand), as did when the gentoo apache package managers decided to change the config file layout to better match other distros. Also, beware of some of the library updates. They can break other things that revdep-rebuild will have to fix. It's a good idea to look up via google or whatever to figure out what's being updated and why (read the changelog). It will take a bit to get used to, but after awhile you'll just eyeball it and know which packages are non-issues, and which should be looked closely. It's also a good idea to have a staging server where you can test the updates and trash it if you need to (virtualization will help with this a lot). Also, some updates don't fully manifest themselves till you restart all the processes or restart the machine. Processes that were running before a library update still have an internal image of the previous version's library. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have special care with updates. Ricardo, i find really encouraging the fact that your lab uses Gentoo for their servers. Nevertheless it would be great if you could tell us a little about your lab's experience with updates, which seems to be the only issue when using Gentoo on a server. Another thing i noticed is that some of you recommend to have a secondary server to perform tests, i totally agree with this. Unfortunately i do not think that having such thing will be possible since the server will be charged to a client and i do not think they will agree to buy a second server (even if its the right thing to do, which i believe so), in such case, would you still recommend Gentoo?. Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-) Those things can be life savers! -- Wayn0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side
It mainly depends on your own feelings. I think that a debian stable is a very good choice for a prod' server, but I really dislike the way Debian manages daemon and prefer the Gentoo approach. Updates are not painless...for sure, but you have to consider your needs first (what tools do you need ? typical web services ? extra lib from different languages ? any time reserved for maintenance or the server cannot be off ?). Then, updating is not a must. Believe me, an up-to-date machine is nice when you want brand new lib/features/softwares. Do your server need to be so.. up-to-date ? Finally, if you take time to estimate what should be updated prior to emerge the whole world, you can plan your updates and organize the way to go back if required and updates are not nightmares. (But have a look at the handbook: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2). You also need tools like dispatch-conf to undo easily your conf files changes. Gal' On Nov 29, 2007 2:10 PM, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First of all, thanks to everybody for sharing your experiences, very helpful information indeed, specially now that i need some guidance. For now, the conclusion i can reach is that Gentoo is perfectly adequate to use on a server with the only downside of the need to have special care with updates. Ricardo, i find really encouraging the fact that your lab uses Gentoo for their servers. Nevertheless it would be great if you could tell us a little about your lab's experience with updates, which seems to be the only issue when using Gentoo on a server. Another thing i noticed is that some of you recommend to have a secondary server to perform tests, i totally agree with this. Unfortunately i do not think that having such thing will be possible since the server will be charged to a client and i do not think they will agree to buy a second server (even if its the right thing to do, which i believe so), in such case, would you still recommend Gentoo?. Again, thanks to everybody for the information. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side
Quoting Wayn0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-) linux virtualization some links: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/ http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/01/26/xen.html linux-vserver looks pretty neat, too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Gnome fonts problem
Hello all, After updating to Gnome 2.20.1 my fonts became very small and unreadabale. When i try to rebuild any fonts i receive error like this below during emerge. Any suggestion how to fix this ? Emerging (1 of 1) media-fonts/dejavu-2.21 to / * dejavu-ttf-2.21.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ...[ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ...[ ok ] * checking dejavu-ttf-2.21.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] Unpacking source... Unpacking dejavu-ttf-2.21.tar.bz2 to /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/dejavu-2.21/work Source unpacked. Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/dejavu-2.21/work/dejavu-ttf-2.21 ... Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]: media-fonts/dejavu-2.21 Install dejavu-2.21 into /var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/dejavu-2.21/image/ category media-fonts * Creating fonts.scale fonts.dir ... FT_Stream_Open: could not `mmap' file `/var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/dejavu-2.21/image//usr/share/fonts/dejavu/.' FT_Stream_Open: error while `read'ing file `/var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/dejavu-2.21/image//usr/share/fonts/dejavu/.' FT_Stream_Open: could not `mmap' file `/var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/dejavu-2.21/image//usr/share/fonts/dejavu/..' FT_Stream_Open: error while `read'ing file `/var/tmp/portage/media-fonts/dejavu-2.21/image//usr/share/fonts/dejavu/..' * Updating global fontcache ... FT_Stream_Open: could not open `/usr/share/fonts/._pubfont.a.gz' FT_Stream_Open: could not open `/usr/share/fonts/%pubfont.a.gz' FT_Stream_Open: could not open `/usr/share/fonts/.AppleDouble/pubfont.a.gz' FT_Stream_Open: could not open `/usr/share/fonts/pubfont.a.gz/rsrc' ... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side
After having used RHEL/CentOS and Debian in the past (for a binary system, I really like Debian), I'm at the point where I get frustrated working on a non-gentoo server. I had used Gentoo in the past, but in the last 6 months my place of employment has been deploying more and more gentoo servers. These started off as mainly development environments, but have since used them as mailservers, postgres servers, dns servers, ldap servers, and a dhcp server. After having used Gentoo at my employment, I converted all 3 of my personal servers from CentOS to Gentoo. While I love the power of portage on my desktop, it's become absolutely incredible from a server perspective. It's the flexibility of compiling everything by hand, but far easier maintenance and ease of use. As others have said, updates are the biggest drawback. For the most part, I stay away from system wide updates. I update: - When I need an update - When there's a security vulnerability fixed in an update For the security vulnerabilities, setup a glsa-check weekly cron (run after an emerge sync): http://gentoo-wiki.com/SECURITY_Getting_GLSAs_by_Email Also, revdep-rebuild is your friend (in gentoolkit). When you emerge something, always use emerge -av to see what is goign to be installed/re-installed. etc-update can cause you some problems if you're not paying attention. There have been times where I've merged a change without looking at it, because I thought I never hand-edited that config file, but in the end I did and just forgot about it (it was an init script). It's generally a good idea to review the changes for all files that it wants to merge. Some sysadmins worry about having a compiler installed on a production system, and there are valid reasons to be concerned, but most of those can be averted with a little extra care. In the end, I think the worry about a compiler is sometimes overblown. Finally, if there isn't a time of day that will be a down time of day traffic-wise, you may be worried about compiling apps will slow down performance on the server. Setting up distcc and having portage use that could be a huge help. Gentoo's a great potential system for a server. It's really flexible, and really customizable. The power or portage is an absolutely incredible tool, but it is slightly different than binary based GNU/Linux distros, and may require a little bit of a learning curve. As others have said, installed it in a virtualized environment so you can test things out could be of great benefit. Derek Bodner [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 11/29/07, Billy Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Wayn0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mirror the setup in a virtual machine ;-) linux virtualization some links: http://virt.kernelnewbies.org/ http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/01/26/xen.html linux-vserver looks pretty neat, too http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux-VServer -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side
Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out) server and i wanted to be sure i know what i am doing before getting on with it. Where i work at, the tradition is to go with FreeBSD (which is, without a doubt, very stable) but since our FreeBSD guru parted i've been juggling the idea of starting to use Gentoo on servers instead of using it only on desktops. I have always found very useful stuff in www.gentoo.org http://www.gentoo.org, however, i have not found a specific server side faq. Does anyone know where i could get such documentation? Any pointers, opinions, faqs, insights, etc will be greatly appreciated best wishes Rafael Don't forget to subscribe to gentoo-announce and gentoo-server mailinglists. And off course is Gentoo suited for server! One of the largest Dutch social networking sites (hyves.nl) uses Gentoo Linux for it's servers, here are the specs: Hyves.nl servers: 450 64-bits Linux servers (Gentoo) 35 miljoen pageviews per day http://forum.nedlinux.nl/viewtopic.php?id=25934
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side
On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:53:57 -0500, Derek Bodner wrote: Some sysadmins worry about having a compiler installed on a production system, and there are valid reasons to be concerned, but most of those can be averted with a little extra care. In the end, I think the worry about a compiler is sometimes overblown. Finally, if there isn't a time of day that will be a down time of day traffic-wise, you may be worried about compiling apps will slow down performance on the server. Setting up distcc and having portage use that could be a huge help. Both of these can be addressed by not compiling on the live server at all. Compile on another box with FEATURES=buildpkg and, after testing, roll out to the live server with emerge --usepkgonly. -- Neil Bothwick The best things in life are free, but the expensive ones are still worth a look. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static IP, gateway and netmask setting
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:56:14 +0100 Etaoin Shrdlu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 28 November 2007, Dan Farrell wrote: How the net init script works (there's really only one, generally net.* is linked to net.lo for update simplicity) That script only calls functions defined elsewhere. The hard (and module-dependent) work is done by the files located in /lib/rcscripts/net. In particular, /lib/rcscripts/net/iproute2.sh and /lib/rcscripts/net/ifconfig.sh define all the various *_up(), *_down(), *_add_address(), etc. functions that are invoked by net.lo. interesting tidbit. /etc/conf.d/net.example holds examples for just about every imaginable configuration, but from my net, iproute2 looks something like: modules=(iproute2); config_eth0=( 192.168.1.87/24 brd 192.168.1.255); routes_eth0=( default via 192.168.1.1 ); config_eth1=( 192.168.1.88/24 brd 192.168.1.255 ); but as you can see, that still doesn't set up a netmask but uses the default. What I see is that you are explicitly specifying the netmask. The /24 in your lines specifies the netmask. Even if you didn't, in your case things would probably still work, because iproute2 would probably use a class C netmask, which is also /24. But nonetheless you are not using the default (whatever this means), but are instead explicitly specifying a netmask. good point. i seem to have overlooked the /24 part of my configuration. I agree that in both cases the default would be /8 for a 10.xxx network, but as you can see the config syntax is different for iproute2 and ifconfig. As I understand it, the syntax is exactly the same. What is different are the commands that are run behind the scenes to configure the interfaces, and these depend on the module you choose (iproute2 or ifconfig). In other words, if you substituted modules=(iproute2) with modules=(ifconfig) in your etc/conf.d/net, everything would still work as expected. The lack of a netmask specification will result in the tool used for the configuration (ifconfig or iproute2) doing whatever is appropriate for it: usually, this would just mean use the default classful netmask, yeah, I guess you're right. I for some reason thought the syntax was different, but upon examining net.example I see that I was mistaken. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on the server side
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:01:19 -0300 Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The issue is, as you should already must have guessed, if its a good idea to deploy Gentoo in a server. For the first time, i have the opportunity to install Gentoo on a properly set (almost pimped out) server and i wanted to be sure i know what i am doing before getting on with it. Where i work at, the tradition is to go with FreeBSD (which is, without a doubt, very stable) but since our FreeBSD guru parted i've been juggling the idea of starting to use Gentoo on servers instead of using it only on desktops. I have always found very useful stuff in www.gentoo.org, however, i have not found a specific server side faq. Does anyone know where i could get such documentation? Any pointers, opinions, faqs, insights, etc will be greatly appreciated best wishes Rafael I wasn't going to chime in until some real deployments have been mentioned. I run a home network that's pretty much gentoo-only. The server provides DNS, DHCP, LAMP, Posfix SMTP, IMAPS (courier), TFTP (bsd), SAMBA, NFS. I am currently pursuing a career in IT and expect to bring up some public servers towards the end of the year. needless to say, they'll be running gentoo too. I don't forsee any problems. I want to echo Ricardo's warning -- update conservatively! He's right -- after a while, you know which packages you can update safely and which are potential problems. Staging environment is crucial for gentoo becasue you'll be running binaries that have never really been tested ... or run ... ever. That having been said, gentoo has a nice habit of providing a really comfortable environment for the deployment of just about anything. And unlike Fedora / Redhat, Debian, and some others I've used, there aren't any surprises when you go to configure anything. That, combined with it's performance and security, make gentoo the only choice for me. It's as stable as I want to make it and I expect it to scale well for my needs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] Hard drive problems
My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile. Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are VERY long delays in responsiveness. I've run fsck /dev/hda3 but it reports nothing wrong. Does anyone have any suggestions for getting this thing to straighten itself out? - Grant -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive problems
Quoting Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: My laptop's hard drive seems to have been slowly dying for awhile. Now it constantly makes the gurgling/accessing sound and there are BACKUP YOUR DATA NOW then do this: check the dmesg command, and /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog if it's dying, you'll see it in the log/dmesg also install (if you can): sys-apps/smartmontools and tell it to do a scan http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Monitor_your_hard_disk(s)_with_smartmontools -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] amd64 fresh install woes (configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs.???)
On November 27, 2007, Philip Webb wrote: 071127 Dmitry S. Makovey wrote: I decided that the time has come to switch over to 64bit computing and went with fresh LiveDVD install of gentoo. After doing stage3 install and making syncing portage I'm failing updates on gcc and sandbox - both complaining: 'configure: error: cannot run C compiled programs' I recently installed 64-bit Gentoo on a newly-built machine had something very similar happen with Gcc Sandbox. Try recompiling your kernel with support for 'Executable file formats/emulations - [x] IA32'. Thanks! that was it! After 3 days of fiddling I finally got my 64bit system up and running from scratch. Couple of things that suck is the inability to apply same GUI style to 32-bit apps so that they look exatly the same as 64bit (gtk-engines-qt etc.) but that's a minor issue. Most importantly all apps do work so far. You may also later need for some other pkgs 'app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-xlibs' some of its brothers. that got pulled in with mozilla-firefox-bin :) -- Dmitry Makovey Web Systems Administrator Athabasca University (780) 675-6245 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:
$$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-crypt !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//virtual !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-util !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//sys-devel !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//sys-libs !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-libs !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-admin Any thoughts why equery is complaining? As an experiment I ran eix-update to try to clear up the problem, but it didn't have any effect. Regards, David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:
On 23:13 Thu 29 Nov , David Relson wrote: $$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-crypt !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//virtual !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-util !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//sys-devel !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//sys-libs !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-libs !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-admin Any thoughts why equery is complaining? As an experiment I ran eix-update to try to clear up the problem, but it didn't have any effect. Regards, David -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list maybe you help revdep-rebuild -- -- With best regards, ezotrank kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r2, system uptime: 07:58:21 up 8:38, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.04 -- pgpU0idyQRgES.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] graphviz-2.12 fails to compile
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Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends ---- Invalid db entry:
Am Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:13:10 -0500 schrieb David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: $$$ equery depends /etc/init.d/samba [ Searching for packages depending on /etc/init.d/samba... ] !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-misc !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-perl !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-crypt !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//virtual !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-util !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//sys-devel !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//sys-libs !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//dev-libs !!! Invalid db entry: /var/db/pkg//app-admin Any thoughts why equery is complaining? As an experiment I ran eix-update to try to clear up the problem, but it didn't have any effect. Regards, David Relevant snip from the manpage: depends local-opts pkgspec This command displays all dependencies matching pkgspec. local-opts is either or both of: -a, --all-packages search in all available packages (slow) -d, --direct search direct dependencies only (default) -D, --indirect search indirect dependencies (very slow) --depth=n Limit depth of indirect dependency tree to n levels. Setting --depth=0 is the same as not specifing --indirect. So equery depends expects a package name, not a file name. What exactly are you trying to do? -- Marc Joliet -- People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't - Bjarne Stroustrup signature.asc Description: PGP signature
