Re: [gentoo-user] [OFF TOPIC] PGP Messages Email clients
Gustavo Campos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyone knows if gmail (and the other clients) can mask the PGP singnatures from mail? For me at least it's pretty much enough for it to just show me that the message is indeed signed, I don'n care about the public key stuff and all xD gnus lets you hide the PGP information, it also lets you see it if you want to. pgpiTdqYWptXc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:54:52 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I wasn't even aware of the ask option, It is explained in the emerge man page. I think I realize now, that even thoughthe program name is emeerge, I didn't realize you folks call the job of installing a program, merging As is this. You really need to read man emerge and man portage to understand what you are doing. -- Neil Bothwick If a parsley farmer is sued, can they garnish his wages? signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
On Sun, 16. Mar, Stroller spammed my inbox with Well, I've heard otherwise. Use jffs2 or the CF card will wear out prematurely... I've heard lots about using flashdrives for filesystems, but I've never read on a mailing list anything actually definitive on the subject. I find many posts to be confused. Yeah, it's the same here. I read an article in the german computer magazine c't, and they said that they have tried to break USB sticks with repeated writes, but have never succeeded (I think they ran 1 writes, but I could be wrong). So why not just buy a cheap USB stick for 10 € (or whatever), mount it sync and write a little script which writes to a file, deletes it and begins again. Have it record the number of times the file was written and check the consistency after every write (md5sum perhaps?). Leave it running for a (long?) time and then you will probably encounter errors (if there are...). Actually, this sounds interesting^^ Regards, Jan pgpEoKgGQZYYR.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] wireless not working
Hello,
Here is the scenario:
-wireless card: Intel PRO/WIRELESS 3945ABG
-lsmod | grep 3945
iwl3945 144628 0
mac80211 108932 1 iwl3945
-iwlist
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:17:9A:F4:CE:B5
ESSID:a
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=33/100 Signal level=-89 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0085815e4183
Cell 02 - Address: 00:1D:7E:E3:8C:DD
ESSID:baladei-wifi
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=97/100 Signal level=-28 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key:on
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=000b865b4049
(I WANT TO CONNECT TO CELL2-baladei-wifi)
-cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
update_config=0
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid=baladei-wifi
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP WEP
psk=my-password
priority=5
}
-cat /etc/conf.d/net
modules_wlan0=(dhcpcd iwconfig)
wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
config_wlan0=(dhcp)
dhcpcd_wlan0=-t 5 -A
pre-up(){
ifconfig wlan0 up
}
-and the error:
/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
* Starting wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* WEP key is not set for baladei-wifi - not connecting
* WEP key is not set for linksys - not connecting
* Couldn't associate with any access points on wlan0
* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 [ !! ]
I need to connect to my linksys WRT54GL which is set to wpa-personal / wpa
algorithm: TKIP, no WEP.
Please advise since I'm getting very confused.
Thank you in advance.
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Re: [gentoo-user] hugin error message
On Saturday 15 March 2008, David Harel wrote: Don't you think the error message should have been more specific about which library causes the conflict? Is it hugin error message? Yes, the message is not very illuminating. You'd think the app that emitted it would mention where it comes from and which libs it was referring it sigh The revdep-rebuild and ldd output also doesn't say much other than mono is involved, which I don't know a whole lot about. My next tactic would be to run hugin under strace, and see which library calls came just before the error. This however can be a long and tedious process. Hopefully someone else more familiar with mono will come along soon -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
On Sunday 16 March 2008, Jan Seeger wrote: Yeah, it's the same here. I read an article in the german computer magazine c't, and they said that they have tried to break USB sticks with repeated writes, but have never succeeded (I think they ran 1 writes, but I could be wrong). That test is probably insufficient. Somebody actually did this test on lkml some time ago, and found that the better devices were rated to 100,000 writes to the same cell and the el-cheapo jobs were somewhere around 10,000. IOW, the manufacturer of a cheapie says it should cope with 10,000 writes *at least*, so in practice you could expect more. I'd start to believe a test that does 1,000,000 writes to the same cell before drawing any conclusions. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots,
In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries and
similar programs that are used by other programs. One program needs
libfoo 1.x,another needs libfoo 2.x. Slots enable you to have both
installed and both programs are happy.
There are a few slotted packages where a user decides which version
they want, but this is done is the same way as specifying the version
for non-slotted packages, by specifying the version in the emerge
command.
Just to expand on that a little (the info IS all in the various man
pages, but it's not really laid out in a tutorial style so that people
seeing it for the first time can wrap their brains around it):
As Neil says, SLOTs let you have two or more versions of the same thing
so they co-exist. Usually, SLOTS are named after the major version
number of the package, but not always. Take these two examples, using
eix (with extra stuff like dates and USE flags snipped out):
[I] x11-libs/qt
Available versions:
(3) 3.3.4-r8 3.3.8-r4
(4) 4.3.2-r1 (~)4.3.3 (~)4.3.4 [M](~)4.4.0_beta1
Installed versions: 3.3.8-r4(3)
4.3.4(4)
This says in the Available section that there are two SLOTs for qt - 3
and 4 - and there are several versions available in both branches. On
my box, I have qt-3.3.8-r4 installed in the qt:3 SLOT and qt-4.3.2.-r1
in the qt:4 SLOT. So far so good. Now look at kde:
* kde-base/kde-meta
Available versions:
(3.5) 3.5.8 (~)3.5.9
(kde-4) {M}(~)4.0.1 {M}(~)4.0.2
This one is different, the SLOTs are called 3.5 and kde-4, and I
don't have the full kde range installed for either. I find that eix's
output is the easiest way to determine which SLOTs are defined, the
colourized output lays it out quite nicely.
Portage handles SLOT updates by only considering the latest SLOT (unless
you say otherwise). If I issue 'emerge kde-meta' on my box, portage
wants to install kde-4.0.2 because that is the latest version (portage
always wants to upgrade to the latest possible version even without
SLOTs being involved). To update an earlier SLOT I have to use a minor
syntax tweak:
emerge kde-meta:3.5
The : is the signal to look for a SLOT. Portage will update to the
highest version in the 3.5 SLOT which happens to be 3.5.9 for me.
(Aside: all we need do now is hope and pray that no package ever gets
a : in it's name ... )
Quite obviously, in my case the following two commands are identical:
emerge kde-meta
emerge kde-meta:kde-4
In summary, the SLOT syntax is just a sensible extension of how portage
deals with ranges of versions. Compare these and it all makes sense:
emerge foo
emerge foo-1.0.0
emerge =foo-2.3.4
emerge foo:1
emerge foo:2
Hope all this helps and it now makes a little more sense :-)
--
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem
Alan McKinnon wrote: SNIP Portage handles SLOT updates by only considering the latest SLOT (unless you say otherwise). If I issue 'emerge kde-meta' on my box, portage wants to install kde-4.0.2 because that is the latest version (portage always wants to upgrade to the latest possible version even without SLOTs being involved). To update an earlier SLOT I have to use a minor syntax tweak: emerge kde-meta:3.5 The : is the signal to look for a SLOT. Portage will update to the highest version in the 3.5 SLOT which happens to be 3.5.9 for me. (Aside: all we need do now is hope and pray that no package ever gets a : in it's name ... ) Quite obviously, in my case the following two commands are identical: emerge kde-meta emerge kde-meta:kde-4 In summary, the SLOT syntax is just a sensible extension of how portage deals with ranges of versions. Compare these and it all makes sense: emerge foo emerge foo-1.0.0 emerge =foo-2.3.4 emerge foo:1 emerge foo:2 Hope all this helps and it now makes a little more sense :-) I learned something today. I didn't know about the *:* for slots. That's pretty cool. ;-) I hope I don't forget what I learned today. :-( Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: On Saturday 15 March 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: | Hmmm. There are many thousand ebuilds in the tree. Many more in | 3rd party overlays. Your idea fixes 1 problem in 1 ebuild. Just for the sake of amusment and to give a sense of perspective. By my count (ls -lshaR /usr/portage | grep ebuild | wc -l) I get 24,708 ebuilds (and that's from a sync at -5) Cool. Since some packages have multiple ebuilds, to get an approximate number of unique packages in portage, I did something like this $ find /usr/portage | grep 'metadata\.xml' | wc -l 12618 Still an excellent number...and this is only for the official tree! It's been a while since I ran that one myself. 12618 packages! Didnt realise it was so many. And just the sunrise overlay has 943. That's probably more packages than even Debian has ... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries
On Sunday 16 March 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: 12618 packages! Didnt realise it was so many. And just the sunrise overlay has 943. That's probably more packages than even Debian has ... Well, while I love Gentoo and would never change it with anything else, Debian is (still) the undiscussed champion in terms of number of available packages. $ wget -nv http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages 12:32:32 URL:http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages [3585331/3585331] - allpackages [1] $ grep '^dt' allpackages | wc -l 22753 For unstable, the number is even higher: $ rm allpackages $ wget -nv http://packages.debian.org/unstable/allpackages 12:34:12 URL:http://packages.debian.org/unstable/allpackages [4924226/4924226] - allpackages [1] $ grep '^dt' allpackages | wc -l 27602 But we'll get there as well! :-) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Fw: [gentoo-user] wireless not working
Update on this matter.
-issued the command:
wpa_supplicant -iwlan0 -Dwext -d -c
/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
-then
dhcpcd wlan0
Then everything is ok and my wireless works.
My question is why when I issue /etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start it says about the
WEP and doesn't connect?
Thank you.[/code]
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From: Dani Crisan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:41:28 AM
Subject: [gentoo-user] wireless not working
Hello,
Here is the scenario:
-wireless card: Intel PRO/WIRELESS 3945ABG
-lsmod | grep 3945
iwl3945 144628 0
mac80211 108932 1
iwl3945
-iwlist
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:17:9A:F4:CE:B5
ESSID:a
Mode:Master
Channel:6
Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)
Quality=33/100 Signal level=-89 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key:off
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=0085815e4183
Cell 02 - Address: 00:1D:7E:E3:8C:DD
ESSID:baladei-wifi
Mode:Master
Channel:11
Frequency:2.462 GHz (Channel 11)
Quality=97/100 Signal level=-28 dBm Noise level=-127 dBm
Encryption key:on
IE: WPA Version 1
Group Cipher : CCMP
Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s
24 Mb/s; 36
Mb/s; 54 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
12 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s
Extra:tsf=000b865b4049
(I WANT TO CONNECT TO CELL2-baladei-wifi)
-cat /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
update_config=0
fast_reauth=1
network={
ssid=baladei-wifi
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP WEP
psk=my-password
priority=5
}
-cat /etc/conf.d/net
modules_wlan0=(dhcpcd iwconfig)
wpa_supplicant_wlan0=-Dwext -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
config_wlan0=(dhcp)
dhcpcd_wlan0=-t 5 -A
pre-up(){
ifconfig wlan0 up
}
-and the error:
/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
* Starting
wlan0
* Configuring wireless network for wlan0
* WEP key is not set for baladei-wifi - not connecting
* WEP key is not set for linksys - not connecting
* Couldn't associate with any access points on wlan0
* Failed to configure wireless for wlan0 [ !! ]
I need to connect to my linksys WRT54GL which is set to wpa-personal / wpa
algorithm: TKIP, no WEP.
Please advise since I'm getting very confused.
Thank you in advance.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:11:21PM +0100, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: Well, while I love Gentoo and would never change it with anything else, Debian is (still) the undiscussed champion in terms of number of available packages. $ wget -nv http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages 12:32:32 URL:http://packages.debian.org/stable/allpackages [3585331/3585331] - allpackages [1] $ grep '^dt' allpackages | wc -l 22753 For unstable, the number is even higher: $ rm allpackages $ wget -nv http://packages.debian.org/unstable/allpackages 12:34:12 URL:http://packages.debian.org/unstable/allpackages [4924226/4924226] - allpackages [1] $ grep '^dt' allpackages | wc -l 27602 That is not really fair, we do not have foo-qt3, foo-qt4, foo-mysql, foo-psql .. We have foo with useflags. So either remove the -dev, -qt3, -qt4, virtual packages, [..] from that list, or calculate the number of use-flag permutations possible for our packages. I guess that gentoo beats debian :) Cheers, Emil -- Emil Beinroth 83059 Kolbermoor | Germany BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go! pgpjjaNhMQWUW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries
On Sunday 16 March 2008, 13:22, Emil Beinroth wrote: 27602 That is not really fair, we do not have foo-qt3, foo-qt4, foo-mysql, foo-psql .. We have foo with useflags. So either remove the -dev, -qt3, -qt4, virtual packages, [..] from that list, or calculate the number of use-flag permutations possible for our packages. You are damn right. I overlooked the fact that a single gentoo ebuild, depending on USE flags, can provide and install the equivalent of many debian packages. So, calculating a number using automated tools becomes quite difficult, since each package needs to be examined and compared with the corresponding offering in the other distro. A (very) rough estimate could be probably done by unifying each foo-* Debian packages into a single entry, which results in something like $ grep '^dt' allpackages | \ sed 's/.*a href[^]*\([^]*\)\/a.*/\1/g' | \ cut -d '-' -f 1 | \ uniq | wc -l 12225 Comments (also about the methodology used to calculate this) are left as an exercise for the reader :-) I guess that gentoo beats debian :) I hope so too! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Skipping static libraries
$ grep '^dt' allpackages | \ sed 's/.*a href[^]*\([^]*\)\/a.*/\1/g' | \ cut -d '-' -f 1 | \ uniq | wc -l 12225 No matter how much I live and code, regular expressions always scare me like hell Comments (also about the methodology used to calculate this) are left as an exercise for the reader :-) I guess that gentoo beats debian :) I hope so too! -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- Gustavo Campos Ciência da Computação / Computer Science - UFMG -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:54:52 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: I wasn't even aware of the ask option, It is explained in the emerge man page. I think I realize now, that even thoughthe program name is emeerge, I didn't realize you folks call the job of installing a program, merging As is this. You really need to read man emerge and man portage to understand what you are doing. I've read it 4 times already, I just donm['t have it memorized. I did check and prove that it doesn't even mention the word slot I didn't realize it would use the * key if you escaped it and fed it in. I don't think it says that. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH3VmNz62J6PPcoOkRAizcAJ0VB9rOVmZvBn9b4J+IH89klzg8QACePQlU 4xRWgoUgzTIEa87VN5og5L8= =WyUG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:31:57 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: As is this. You really need to read man emerge and man portage to understand what you are doing. I've read it 4 times already, I just donm['t have it memorized. I did check and prove that it doesn't even mention the word slot % man emerge | grep -ic slot 5 You don't need to memorise it, just get into the habit of reading the man pages whenever something doesn't make sense to you. -- Neil Bothwick I work with User-Surly Software. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Saturday 15 March 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:13:05 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote:
I haven't been able to find any syntax to actually use slots,
In general, you don't. Slots are mainly used for libraries and
similar programs that are used by other programs. One program needs
libfoo 1.x,another needs libfoo 2.x. Slots enable you to have both
installed and both programs are happy.
There are a few slotted packages where a user decides which version
they want, but this is done is the same way as specifying the version
for non-slotted packages, by specifying the version in the emerge
command.
Just to expand on that a little (the info IS all in the various man
pages, but it's not really laid out in a tutorial style so that people
seeing it for the first time can wrap their brains around it):
As Neil says, SLOTs let you have two or more versions of the same thing
so they co-exist. Usually, SLOTS are named after the major version
number of the package, but not always. Take these two examples, using
eix (with extra stuff like dates and USE flags snipped out):
[I] x11-libs/qt
Available versions:
(3) 3.3.4-r8 3.3.8-r4
(4) 4.3.2-r1 (~)4.3.3 (~)4.3.4 [M](~)4.4.0_beta1
Installed versions: 3.3.8-r4(3)
4.3.4(4)
This says in the Available section that there are two SLOTs for qt - 3
and 4 - and there are several versions available in both branches. On
my box, I have qt-3.3.8-r4 installed in the qt:3 SLOT and qt-4.3.2.-r1
in the qt:4 SLOT. So far so good. Now look at kde:
* kde-base/kde-meta
Available versions:
(3.5) 3.5.8 (~)3.5.9
(kde-4) {M}(~)4.0.1 {M}(~)4.0.2
This one is different, the SLOTs are called 3.5 and kde-4, and I
don't have the full kde range installed for either. I find that eix's
output is the easiest way to determine which SLOTs are defined, the
colourized output lays it out quite nicely.
Portage handles SLOT updates by only considering the latest SLOT (unless
you say otherwise). If I issue 'emerge kde-meta' on my box, portage
wants to install kde-4.0.2 because that is the latest version (portage
always wants to upgrade to the latest possible version even without
SLOTs being involved). To update an earlier SLOT I have to use a minor
syntax tweak:
emerge kde-meta:3.5
The : is the signal to look for a SLOT. Portage will update to the
highest version in the 3.5 SLOT which happens to be 3.5.9 for me.
(Aside: all we need do now is hope and pray that no package ever gets
a : in it's name ... )
Quite obviously, in my case the following two commands are identical:
emerge kde-meta
emerge kde-meta:kde-4
In summary, the SLOT syntax is just a sensible extension of how portage
deals with ranges of versions. Compare these and it all makes sense:
emerge foo
emerge foo-1.0.0
emerge =foo-2.3.4
emerge foo:1
emerge foo:2
Hope all this helps and it now makes a little more sense :-)
It certainly does! AND I found that there IS one document that tells you
more than a fleeting hint about slots: the eix man page. Someone else sort
of snidely said you should read the emerge man page after giving me (once
again) description of slots without giving me any way to USE them ... as if
I hadn't read that emerge man page again and again, and let me tell you, it
gives nothing whatever on slots. Well, now, after reading this, AND the
eix man page, I think I will know enough to begin to be dangerous :-)
I was getting SO bored of getting descriptions of what a slot is, but never
being given any way to access that grand thing called a SLOT. Now,
finally, someone has handed me a slotted screwdriver!
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
As a followup, I have actually written said script (in perl), and would welcome
any improvement comments. File size of the test file shouldn't matter, since
without wear leveling, the same cells should get written over and over again.
Only thing I need to do now is run it for a long time... Unfortunately, I need
linux for that since we need to mount the drive sync. And I have no live CD in
the house... Ts. What have I come to?
Anyway, here's the script:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Digest::MD5;
use Getopt::Std;
use File::Basename;
use File::Spec;
use File::Copy;
my %opts;
getopts(d:i:,\%opts);
if (! $opts{d} || ! $opts{i}) {
die EOF
-d: Mountpoint of drive to be tested. Should be mounted with sync mount
option.
-i: Input file. Will be copied to mountpoint to test integrity.
Leave running for a long time to test your USB stick.
EOF
}
my $counter = 0;
my $originaldigest;
my $outfilename = File::Spec-catfile($opts{d},(fileparse($opts{i}))[0]);
my $digester = Digest::MD5-new();
open my $handle,$opts{i};
binmode($handle);
$digester-addfile($handle);
close($handle);
$originaldigest = $digester-digest();
while (1) {
print Running test $counter.\n;
copy($opts{i},$outfilename);
open my $outhandle,$outfilename;
binmode($outhandle);
$digester-addfile($outhandle);
if ($digester-digest() ne $originaldigest) {
die Failed write at read $counter.\n;
}
close($outhandle);
unlink($outfilename);
$counter++;
}
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage problem
On Sunday 16 March 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: It certainly does! AND I found that there IS one document that tells you more than a fleeting hint about slots: the eix man page. Someone else sort of snidely said you should read the emerge man page after giving me (once again) description of slots without giving me any way to USE them ... as if I hadn't read that emerge man page again and again, and let me tell you, it gives nothing whatever on slots. Well, now, after reading this, AND the eix man page, I think I will know enough to begin to be dangerous :-) I think it was me that gave you that snide comment blush. Oops... I had a little think about this and what I've concluded is that those of us using gentoo for months/years without a break confront these things little by little as they get introduced. One new change a week is something we can easily absorb without thinking twice and eventually we amass this HUGE collection of facts and we are comfortable with it. So far so good. Someone new to Gentoo comes along, or returns after a few years away. Lots has changed, and we all tell you to RTFM because the answer is so bloody obvious ... sheesh, get a clue dude or similar. What that reduces to though is that the oldies expect the newbies to absorb in a day what took the oldie a few months. Not only is it unfair, it's a totally unreasonable thing to expect. I shall make a mental note for myself for future use. Meanwhile, something good you could do meanwhile is go over to bugs.gentoo.org and submit a new bug under the docs section. Briefly summarize what docs you read and what lack of data you found on SLOTs and ask the documentation maintainers to expand the description of SLOTs. Give it from the viewpoint of someone who doesn't know portage well so they can see where you reasonably went looking and what you expected to find but that was missing -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] kdm 4 won t start kde
hi, i have install kde 3 and 4. when i set kdm 4 to be defaut xdm to launch, they won t start nor kde 3 and 4 sessions. any idea where can i find the log that describe the error? the xsession-error doesn t show anything thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
I have been following this thread intermittantly and have not seen a comment on the following: I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating 1's/0's. Alternatively, the concern is that the FAT/inode table or the like is where the most wear will occur - perhaps concentrate there? (i.e., do a journelled FS like reiserfs with a fast update? Do any USB keys do some kind of write minimisation in the controller? - no change in the data/no write? - seems a logical way to extend the life? BillK On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 19:03 +0100, Jan Seeger wrote: As a followup, I have actually written said script (in perl), and would welcome -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: jffs2 on gentoo
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:43:28 +0900, W.Kenworthy wrote: I believe that writing a file to a single location is not the way to do this: you need to write a byte to the usb key in the same location, but need to ensure it continually changes: perhaps rotating 1's/0's. Alternatively, the concern is that the FAT/inode table or the like is where the most wear will occur - perhaps concentrate there? (i.e., do a journelled FS like reiserfs with a fast update? It used to be that writing a large file to a USB key mounted with the sync option would update the FAT for each block written, so writing a large file several times would soon kill it. I destroyed a 1GB key like this by continually writing modified KNOPPIX images to it. That was a couple of years ago, I've no idea if the kernel still writes FAT like this because I've mounted flash devices with nosync ever since. -- Neil Bothwick Madness takes its toll. Exact change, please. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every emerge command returns [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge --info Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 31, in ? import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string, time, types File /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py, line 7, in ? from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py, line 7, in ? from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH I already tried http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg! Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks, festus pgpNxTcJnQfWy.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I've hosed portage
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 *if* you move /usr/portage to something like reisterfs, you will get better performacem even on slower machines. my PIII/800 can update the cache in ~ 3 minutes now ext3 just doesn't cut it in a busy tree like portage ... the filesystem just isn't quick enough there are some other things you can do like using xfs/jfs for /usr/portage/distfiles and what not, but that' just a start. First thing is first, fix portage, then if you like, contact me off list and I can help you tweak emerge so it runs a little quicker and still be safe :D John J. Foster wrote: | I unmasked portage-2.2_pre4 to see if it would help with the extreme | slowness of portage updating of its cache during a sync. I had also | previously emerged cdb to try to help with that also. Anyway, I'm not | really sure what state my portage is in right now, except that now every | emerge command returns | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge --info | Traceback (most recent call last): | File /usr/bin/emerge, line 31, in ? | import emergehelp, xpak, commands, errno, re, socket, string, time, types | File /usr/lib/portage/pym/emergehelp.py, line 7, in ? | from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE | File /usr/lib/portage/pym/portage_const.py, line 7, in ? | from portage_const import PRIVATE_PATH,PRELINK_BINARY,HASHING_BLOCKSIZE | ImportError: cannot import name PRIVATE_PATH | | I already tried | http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/doc/manually-fixing-portage.xml | but it didn't help. Me thinks I should have done a quickpkg! | | Any help greatly appreciated. | | Thanks, | festus -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH3dGY8hUIAnGfls4RApvUAJ9pK3wWqS5LpwvRtCOfzrItpxxtDgCgjdJm mgZu5SRDPda51qAuZtX58RE= =8DRz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Received: from unknown
Greetings, When I send an email to myself, in the header information it says the following... Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 5901 invoked from network); 16 Mar 2008 23:57:45 - Received: from unknown (HELO jasoncarson.ca) (127.0.0.1) by penguin.jasoncarson.ca with SMTP; 16 Mar 2008 23:57:45 - Received: from 192.168.0.75 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jason) by jasoncarson.ca with HTTP; Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 19:57:45 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Test From: Jason Carson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Where it says Received: from unknown (HELO jasoncarson.ca) (127.0.0.1) What do I have to do so it doesn't say Received: from unknown but instead displays the correct information and IP address instead of 127.0.0.1? I am running qmail 1.03. Thanks -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
