Re: [gentoo-user] Raid1 (continued) mdadm
On Friday 15 April 2011 20:46:47 Mark Shields wrote: On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.netwrote: Am 15.04.2011 16:56, schrieb James: Hello, New day, and a fresh approach to fixing the raid one install. Following this doc (no lvm no intramfs): http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86+raid+lvm2-quickinstall.xml The disk were all resync'd (end of last thread). Since this is a simple 3 partition 2 disk mirror (identical drives formatting) and I want to mirror all three (/boot, /, swap) I used these commands: mdadm --create /dev/md127 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=0.90 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 mdadm --create /dev/md125 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=0.90 /dev/sda3 /dev/sdb3 mdadm --create /dev/md126 --level=1 --raid-devices=2 --metadata=0.90 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdb2 If my theory holds, it should be sufficient if /boot has metadata=0.90 because that's what grub has to access. So do I need to issue these commands? If so, are they correct? A little unclear on mknod livecd ~ # mknod /dev/md127 b 9 1 livecd ~ # mknod /dev/md125 b 9 3 or livecd ~ # mknod /dev/md127 b 9 127 livecd ~ # mknod /dev/md125 b 9 125 livecd ~ # mknod /dev/md126 b 9 126 ??? I doubt you need mknod. Udev should handle this. Maybe you should try it without and see whether udev really creates them. If so, you might still add them to the static /dev. Use something like this: mount --bind / /mnt mknod /mnt/dev/md127 b 9 1 This circumvents udev and writes directly to root. Of course, you have to replace / with whatever is the mount point of your root partition when you boot from a live-CD. Regards, Florian Philipp You need mknod during the creation process when booted from a minimal install disc; when you finish building the system and boot it the first time, udev handles it from there. I didn't need mknod when I did this last time. udev picked it up correctly from the start. And yes, you're right; only boot needs the --metadata=0.90. -- Joost
[gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?
Hi, Gentoo. I try to emerge, say, gtk+. It fails building the cairo lib. The build log indicates: /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory . Looking into lib64, most libraries have versions .a, .la, .so*. What is .la? file libevtlog.la says libtool library file. What does this mean? Is it the 64 bit version, or something? Why is libX11 lacking the .la version? More to the point, what do I have to do to build it? I've already tried setting the static-libs use flag in /etc/portage/package.use, to no avail. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
Am 18.04.2011 06:53, schrieb Joshua Murphy: On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 9:44 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, How's this for sheer persistence and grit? $ genlop -c Currently merging 321 out of 368 * www-client/chromium-10.0.648.204 current merge time: 11 hours, 41 minutes and 9 seconds. ETA: any time now. This is my Atom N270 LAN server box. I got a very old Compaq rig with quad 200Mhz CPUs and 128Mbs of ram. I have always wondered how long it would take to compile OOo on that thing. 12 hours to compile a browser does take patience. I hope you don't have a power failure right at the end. o_O How long does it take to open it when it gets done? Seconds? Minutes? Dale :-) :-) Assuming a reasonable 1GB ram on the box (pretty well standard to low with an Atom), and considering what my netbook does (the same single core 1.6GHz with HT turned on for responsiveness in my case), about 2-3 seconds... but then I'm on a little SSD too. I should admit my netbook's running Debian at the moment, though. Didn't want to abuse the SSD too much with writes, and it's tedious to install things through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server development system lately) My strategy for getting Gentoo on a netbook with an SSD is to use NFS for PORTAGE_TMPDIR. Works nicely and makes less work than building everything remote. The only problem is that the setuid bit seems to get lost. That's not too much of an issue, though. There are only a handful of setuid binaries on a system and you can compare the list of them with a normal desktop machine. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:52:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: it's tedious to install things through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server development system lately) My strategy for getting Gentoo on a netbook with an SSD is to use NFS for PORTAGE_TMPDIR. Works nicely and makes less work than building everything remote. Doesn't using NFS slow compilation right down. I have a script on the build host that enters the chroot and runs emerge -uD --changed-use world, right after cron does emerge --sync, so the packages are automatically available. Ass --usepkg to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS on the netbook and everything is transparent and no work at all (apart from a couple of packages that won't build in the chroot). -- Neil Bothwick Beware of cover disks bearing upgrades. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 07:35:56 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I try to emerge, say, gtk+. It fails building the cairo lib. The build log indicates: /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory Run: emerge lafilefixer lafilefixer --justfixit Later portage versions handle this automatically. -- Neil Bothwick Beware! The end is... aaarrgh! signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
Am 18.04.2011 10:12, schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:52:56 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: it's tedious to install things through an intermediary system all the time. The fullsize laptop, when it gets its rebuild over the next week (it's been a windows 2k3 server development system lately) My strategy for getting Gentoo on a netbook with an SSD is to use NFS for PORTAGE_TMPDIR. Works nicely and makes less work than building everything remote. Doesn't using NFS slow compilation right down. I have a script on the build host that enters the chroot and runs emerge -uD --changed-use world, right after cron does emerge --sync, so the packages are automatically available. Ass --usepkg to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS on the netbook and everything is transparent and no work at all (apart from a couple of packages that won't build in the chroot). I haven't noticed any slowdown. I use a 100 MBit/s connection. That's nearly 12 MiB/s. The SSD has a write-speed of maybe 4-8 MiB/s. Actual throughput (monitored with iftop) was usually lower that 40 Mbit/s. Maybe latency was a bit higher and NFSv4 could have helped with that but I think it was negligible compared to the compiling performance of the Atom processor. Sure, a build host would have been better but it also meant more work. I also thought about using ATAoE, iSCSI or something alike to mount the SSD from a more powerful computer (using a live-system to avoid obvious problems when mounting the FS twice). Again - too much fuss. I usually just do security updates and then a full update every six months or so. Regards, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Monday 18 April 2011 02:44:19 Dale wrote: How long does it take to open it when it gets done? Seconds? Minutes? I was going to check, but now I can't starrtx on that box. Because of the http-replicator problem I mentioned in another thread I decided to throw the book at it and ran emerge -e world - natively, not using the build host. It took something like three 24-hour days, and not only has it not fixed the problem, it seems to have introduced another one. I'm beginning to wonder about the disk, which has already had to be replaced under guarantee. Oh, and I forgot to say, Joshua, that this box has 2GB RAM. I think I'm going to cop out and try Ubuntu server or something. Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the LAN, and the box in question is supposed to be the LAN server, after all. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the LAN, and the box in question is supposed to be the LAN server, after all. Why do you need http-replicator for that. Use an NFS share and set DISTDIR to its mount point on each Gentoo box. It's far less complicated. -- Neil Bothwick If I agreed with you, we'd both be wrong. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Monday 18 April 2011 13:44:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the LAN, and the box in question is supposed to be the LAN server, after all. Why do you need http-replicator for that. Use an NFS share and set DISTDIR to its mount point on each Gentoo box. It's far less complicated. Perhaps I'm being dense today, but I don't follow you. I was assuming the Atom box would hold the distfiles and the Gentoo boxes obtain them from it, one way or another. How are you assuming I'll fetch the files from Out There? I've tried relying on a Squid proxy, but often it doesn't keep the files I want - even after I've raised the file size limit to something like 80MB. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
Am 18.04.2011 16:35, schrieb Peter Humphrey: On Monday 18 April 2011 13:44:45 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 12:22:51 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: Has anyone here managed to get http-replicator running on a non-Gentoo box? It would be good to keep a distfiles repository somewhere on the LAN, and the box in question is supposed to be the LAN server, after all. Why do you need http-replicator for that. Use an NFS share and set DISTDIR to its mount point on each Gentoo box. It's far less complicated. Perhaps I'm being dense today, but I don't follow you. I was assuming the Atom box would hold the distfiles and the Gentoo boxes obtain them from it, one way or another. How are you assuming I'll fetch the files from Out There? I've tried relying on a Squid proxy, but often it doesn't keep the files I want - even after I've raised the file size limit to something like 80MB. In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public Gentoo mirrors but because all clients share the same directory, files that some client has already downloaded are also available for every other client. Therefore they will not be downloaded twice. The only possible problem with this approach is that two clients might attempt to download the same file at the same time. Just make sure to start your updates at different times to avoid this. Hope this makes it a bit clearer, Florian Philipp signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public Gentoo mirrors but because all clients share the same directory, files that some client has already downloaded are also available for every other client. Therefore they will not be downloaded twice. The only possible problem with this approach is that two clients might attempt to download the same file at the same time. Just make sure to start your updates at different times to avoid this. Yes, that's how I understood it, but I was looking ahead to a time when the server might not be running Gentoo, in which case I wanted a mechanism to obtain the distfiles to put on the server. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Monday 18 April 2011 16:48:08 Peter Humphrey wrote: On Monday 18 April 2011 15:51:32 Florian Philipp wrote: In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public Gentoo mirrors but because all clients share the same directory, files that some client has already downloaded are also available for every other client. Therefore they will not be downloaded twice. The only possible problem with this approach is that two clients might attempt to download the same file at the same time. Just make sure to start your updates at different times to avoid this. Yes, that's how I understood it, but I was looking ahead to a time when the server might not be running Gentoo, in which case I wanted a mechanism to obtain the distfiles to put on the server. Never mind. The penny's finally dropped. Thanks to both. -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?
110418 Alan Mackenzie wrote: I try to emerge, say, gtk+. It fails building the cairo lib. The build log indicates: /bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libX11.la: No such file or directory I have root:504 ~ cd /usr/lib64 root:505 lib64 ls libX11* libX11.la libX11.so libX11.so.6 libX11.so.6.3.0 libX11-xcb.la libX11-xcb.so libX11-xcb.so.1 libX11-xcb.so.1.0.0 root:506 lib64 equery belongs /usr/lib64/libX11.la [ Searching for file(s) /usr/lib64/libX11.la in *... ] x11-libs/libX11-1.4.1 (/usr/lib64/libX11.la) -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
[gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.6 (Change USE: +static-libs) (dependency required by sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic] [ebuild]) (dependency required by sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4[crypt] [ebuild]) (dependency required by @selected [set]) (dependency required by @world [argument]) What is this saying? That I need to locate a use flag static-libs and change it for package libgcrypt? Presumably it is libgcrypt which is dissatisfied. I'm having difficulty parsing the mssage. Next question: what should I do about it? Thanks for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.6 (Change USE: +static-libs) One of the packages in your world requires dev-libs/libgcrypt which was built with the static-libs USE flag. So, the line above is telling you to add static-libs to your USE flag for that package. (dependency required by sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic] [ebuild]) (dependency required by sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4[crypt] [ebuild]) (dependency required by @selected [set]) (dependency required by @world [argument]) These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE flag set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse packages will change the dependency requirements. Sometimes it's just something new that the maintainer added since a previous version. What is this saying? That I need to locate a use flag static-libs and change it for package libgcrypt? Presumably it is libgcrypt which is dissatisfied. I'm having difficulty parsing the mssage. Next question: what should I do about it? If you don't already have one, you can set package-specific USE flags in /etc/portage/package.use and in this case you'd add a line: dev-libs/libgcrypt static-libs Thanks for the help! Good luck!
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.6 (Change USE: +static-libs) (dependency required by sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic] [ebuild]) (dependency required by sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4[crypt] [ebuild]) (dependency required by @selected [set]) (dependency required by @world [argument]) What is this saying? That I need to locate a use flag static-libs and change it for package libgcrypt? Presumably it is libgcrypt which is dissatisfied. I'm having difficulty parsing the mssage. Next question: what should I do about it? Thanks for the help! I'm not the best at figuring out portages puke either but I get the same if I try to install cryptsetup as shown here: root@fireball / # emerge -vp cryptsetup These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.6 (Change USE: +static-libs) (dependency required by sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic] [ebuild]) (dependency required by cryptsetup [argument]) root@fireball / # I would try to figure out what is pulling in cryptsetup and see if you can adjust your USE flags. Adding the -t option may help on that. One thing I have learned, read portages error message backwards. It starts spitting it up at one point then works its way back. Most of the time, you don't need the way back part. By the way, I don't have static-libs enabled here either. Hope that helps. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
On 18 April 2011 10:21, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.6 (Change USE: +static-libs) (dependency required by sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic] [ebuild]) (dependency required by sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4[crypt] [ebuild]) (dependency required by @selected [set]) (dependency required by @world [argument]) What is this saying? That I need to locate a use flag static-libs and change it for package libgcrypt? Presumably it is libgcrypt which is dissatisfied. I'm having difficulty parsing the mssage. Next question: what should I do about it? Thanks for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). Hello Alan, You should: nano /etc/make.conf and add the flag: static-libs USE=static-libs Then try again: emerge -uDvaN world Regards, -- Carlos Sura.-
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
110418 Alan Mackenzie wrote: When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.6 (Change USE: +static-libs) (dependency required by sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic] [ebuild]) (dependency required by sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4[crypt] [ebuild]) (dependency required by @selected [set]) (dependency required by @world [argument]) What is this saying? I would do USE=static-libs emerge -Dup libgcrypt if that works, add the flag to /etc/portage/package.use . -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT`-O--O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:20:02 +0200, Carlos Sura wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!: [snip] You should: nano /etc/make.conf and add the flag: static-libs USE=static-libs This is not, in the general case, a good idea. This will enable the static-libs USE flag for *every* package except those that have an explicit -static-libs flag specified. This will populate /usr/lib and /lib with a plethora of *.a files that will never be used. The static-libs USE flag should only be enabled on a case-by-case basis, by specifying the package(s) in /etc/portage/package.use. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Hi, Paul. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:52:17AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.4.6 (Change USE: +static-libs) One of the packages in your world requires dev-libs/libgcrypt which was built with the static-libs USE flag. So, the line above is telling you to add static-libs to your USE flag for that package. OK. (dependency required by sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic] [ebuild]) (dependency required by sys-apps/hal-0.5.14-r4[crypt] [ebuild]) (dependency required by @selected [set]) (dependency required by @world [argument]) These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE flag set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse packages will change the dependency requirements. Sometimes it's just something new that the maintainer added since a previous version. OK. I was getting confused by dependency required, which sounds tautological. What it seems to mean is package required. What is this saying? ?That I need to locate a use flag static-libs and change it for package libgcrypt? ?Presumably it is libgcrypt which is dissatisfied. ?I'm having difficulty parsing the mssage. Next question: what should I do about it? If you don't already have one, you can set package-specific USE flags in /etc/portage/package.use and in this case you'd add a line: dev-libs/libgcrypt static-libs I've done that. It works. :-) Thanks for the help! Good luck! It's worked, at least for that error. I've had several more of the same sort, and one or two blockages since. I've got stuck rebuilding xfce, but that will have to wait till tomorrow. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany)
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:21 on Monday 18 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE flag set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse packages will change the dependency requirements. Sometimes it's just something new that the maintainer added since a previous version. OK. I was getting confused by dependency required, which sounds tautological. What it seems to mean is package required. It really does mean exactly what it says. Look at it again: (dependency required by sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.1.3-r3[-dynamic] [ebuild]) It's saying there is a dependency, and the package that requires it is cryptsetup. Read it like this:: (dependency, required by . ) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:51:32 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: In the setup Neil proposes, every client mounts an NFS share from your server and uses that as its DISTDIR (where it stores the downloaded files). For downloading files, the clients access the normal public Gentoo mirrors but because all clients share the same directory, files that some client has already downloaded are also available for every other client. Therefore they will not be downloaded twice. Exactly. The only possible problem with this approach is that two clients might attempt to download the same file at the same time. Just make sure to start your updates at different times to avoid this. I believe this is no longer an issue as portage now uses file locks over NFS. I don't know if it does the same with CIFS shares, I've never tried it. Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. -- Neil Bothwick I am a Cub Ranger. We dib dib dib for the One. We dob dob dob for the One. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:26:06 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I would do USE=static-libs emerge -Dup libgcrypt if that works, add the flag to /etc/portage/package.use . That will also set the USE flag for any other packages in libgcrypt's dependency tree. Additionally, it will add libgcrypt to @world, which is also unwanted. mkdir -p /etc/portage/package.use echo dev-libs/libgcrypt static-libs /etc/portage/package.use/cryptsetup emerge -uaD world -- Neil Bothwick The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:26:06 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I would do USE=static-libs emerge -Dup libgcrypt if that works, add the flag to /etc/portage/package.use . That will also set the USE flag for any other packages in libgcrypt's dependency tree. Additionally, it will add libgcrypt to @world, which is also unwanted. mkdir -p /etc/portage/package.use echo dev-libs/libgcrypt static-libs /etc/portage/package.use/cryptsetup emerge -uaD world I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do* anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do the later myself. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:17 -0500, Dale wrote: I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do* anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do the later myself. I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't show whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error message, as the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one causing the problem. You'd need to emerge -p world for that, and setting USE flags on the command line for that is even worse. -- Neil Bothwick Experience is directly proportional to the value of equipment destroyed. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:17 -0500, Dale wrote: I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do* anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do the later myself. I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't show whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error message, as the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one causing the problem. You'd need to emerge -p world for that, and setting USE flags on the command line for that is even worse. I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it changes. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything yourself. I think anything in the middle, like Debian, just leads to confusion and uncertainty. I don't know where Fedora and SuSE fit into all this. Jumping into the asbestos drawers... the sterling things about Debian are that it is more oldschool than ubuntu and its good for when you get sick of compiling everything from scratch over and over. For some things, I don't care if I'm accepting someone elses' defaults. I've stuck with Gentoo for several yrs now for my main desktop and would be very unwilling to switch for that usage, however, I prefer Debian for virtual guests on windows. It just installs right off, when you need a full linux OS in a bit of a hurry.
[gentoo-user] [OT router advice] a router capable of detailed logs
This is way OT, but this list is such a great resource I suspect the advice gotten here will be more to the point. ( I have posted to a network hardware group as well) I've bumped my home lan router to a gigabit from the old 10/100 (NETGEAR FVS318). I made the move for the gigabit lan ports mainly. That is, I was happy with other aspects of the old router. I ended up with a cisco RVS4000 v2. The cisco solved the gigabit problem with 4 lan ports and even a gigabit on the Internet port... (which is probably not really doing any thing on a cable connection). And it wasn't hideously expensive ($112.91). I could have solved the problem with gigabit switches behind the router for lan usage, just as well, and may go to that yet, and move back to the old NETGEAR router. But somehow I expected the cisco to be something that was `excitingly' new and fun to play with. I'm disappointed in the cisco so far as logging is concerned. The logs give only bare information like this: Mar 10 10:24:21 - [Firewall Log-PORT SCAN] TCP Packet - 60.173.11.56 -- 98.217.231.32 Mar 10 10:24:21 - [Firewall Log-PORT SCAN] TCP Packet - 60.173.11.56 -- 98.217.231.32 [...] No mention of which port is involved. Not only on port scans but ports are never reported. And of course if you wanted to pursue any of it by way of google, you'd need the port number. The Old Netgear sent logs like this (wrapped for mail): Sat, 2007-07-28 12:00:11 - TCP packet - Source: 161.170.244.20 - Destination: 70.131.83.195 - [Invalid sequence number received with Reset, dropping packet Src 443 Dst 1385 from WAN] ---- ---=--- - I went for the cisco instead of a newer `gigabit' NETGEAR after seeing several bad reviews about them. And I just assumed the cisco would have as good or better other features. Another little problem is that the Cicso had reached its end of life and was reported as such by cisco, well before I bought it. But of course, retailers (not cisco) don't bother to give that kind of info, but the result is that a kind of blackball list that was part of the deal is no longer kept up to date. So, cutting to the chase; can anyone recommend from actual use, a home lan router that has gigabit lan ports and very configurable/ informative logging options? ps - I'm not interested in running an old linux or openbsd, machine as router. Having a silent cool router the size and weight of a medium book is too appealing.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: I'm up, at long last!
On 2011-04-19, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes: I think there's really only two ways to install Linux: you either go the Ubuntu route, where everything's done for you and you accept somebody else's defaults, or you go with Gentoo, where you do everything yourself. I think anything in the middle, like Debian, just leads to confusion and uncertainty. I don't know where Fedora and SuSE fit into all this. Jumping into the asbestos drawers... the sterling things about Debian are that it is more oldschool than ubuntu and its good for when you get sick of compiling everything from scratch over and over. For some things, I don't care if I'm accepting someone elses' defaults. I've stuck with Gentoo for several yrs now for my main desktop and would be very unwilling to switch for that usage, however, I prefer Debian for virtual guests on windows. It just installs right off, when you need a full linux OS in a bit of a hurry. I still think Debian installed too many things I don't use. When I need a Linux VM in a hurry, I'd go Arch. Some people worry about its unsigned packages, but as long as I stick to well-known mirrors, I should be okay. The beauty of Arch is that its installation is very granular; I can truly pick components I want to have, and leave out those I won't ever use. But if I *do* have the time, I'll always take the Gentoo-route :) -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
Re: [gentoo-user] Howzat!
on 04/19/2011 12:56 AM Neil Bothwick wrote the following: Incidentally, my cron script that runs emerge --sync follows it with emerge-uDNf world, so the files are already in $DISTDIR when I want to update. Can you post the script?
