Re: [gentoo-user] kde-meta minus toys, games, etc
On 6/2/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Apologies if this has been asked before. I uninstalled my monolithic KDE and am ready to install the split KDE ebuilds. I want to install everything except toys, games and educational packages. Since the DO_NOT_COMPILE is not meant to be used anymore, how would you suggest I go about it? -- Regards, Mick Install kdebase-meta, kdeutils-meta, kdeadmin-meta, etc. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Google Picasa for Linux!
On 5/26/06, JimD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is official. http://picasa.google.com/linux/ It installs and runs well with Gentoo. Gentoo on the x86 arch you mean. It's a shame they released a binary only version, especially one using a Wine wrapper around the original Windows application. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gziiping files in /usr/share/doc/packet
On 4/28/06, Yrjö Hatakka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I turn this retarded behaviour off ? -- ykä at home There are a few bugs open on bugzilla for this. I personally hate it, so I made a small patch for portage to disable it. If you want to disable it for the future, edit /usr/lib/portage/bin/dodoc, and remove the gzip line. Every time you update portage, you'll need to modify that file. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy
On 4/5/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, At work there's a rather restrictive gateway in place for connecting LAN desktops to the Internet. How would you go about finding its IP address? Assume that I am booting with Knoppix for this purpose. -- Regards, Mick I'm curious as to why you need the proxy info in the first place. It sounds like you can connect out just fine, so why bother with configuring a proxy? If you are allowed to send icmp and udp traffic out of the network, a traceroute should show you what hops are on your network. If routing forces all traffic through this proxy, it'll probably be one of these hops. Or, they could be doing policy routing where only tcp port 80/443 traffic goes through the proxy, and all other traffic goes out some other route. In that case, you'll need to use a tcp traceroute program configured to probe on port 80, so it is forced through the proxy. Anyways, it sounds like that company has a few issues with their security policy if it's so easily circumvented. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Find IP of proxy
On 4/6/06, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/04/06, Mike Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm curious as to why you need the proxy info in the first place. It sounds like you can connect out just fine, so why bother with configuring a proxy? No I can't connect to the Internet. Also I believe that icmp traffic is blocked. No pings are returned. On the Windows side, do you have to authenticate to the proxy, or does it just connect through it? If you are allowed to send icmp and udp traffic out of the network, a traceroute should show you what hops are on your network. If routing forces all traffic through this proxy, it'll probably be one of these hops. Or, they could be doing policy routing where only tcp port 80/443 traffic goes through the proxy, and all other traffic goes out some other route. In that case, you'll need to use a tcp traceroute program configured to probe on port 80, so it is forced through the proxy. How do I do that? emerge -vp tcptraceroute :P -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Versiera Internet Management and Monitoring System
On 4/5/06, Frank Pikelner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NetCraft Communications Incorporated today announced the immediate snip spam I can't believe Netcraft thinks that spamming mailing lists will get people interested in their product. If anything, I think it would have the opposite effect. I for one am now quite annoyed with them, where I was merely ambivalent before. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process
On 3/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That sounds pretty good to me. So if I do a stage 3 install as per the current Gentoo docs plus 'emerge -e system' I will end up with the same thing that I did with a stage 1 install? I remember thinking that I was getting a deeper level of optimization by starting with stage 1. I can't remember the details anymore though. - Grant Yes, effectively it's the same thing. In both cases (Stage1 or Stage3 + emerge -e system) you've built every package yourself. Starting with Stage3 gives you a usable system right at the start, while with Stage1 you need to spend a fairly large amount of time getting the system ready. Also, if you start with Stage3, you may not even need to rebuild the installed packages, as if it's been a little while since the Stage3 image was created, there will be new versions of everything, so you'd be rebuilding when you do a 'emerge -u system' anyways. HTH, Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Current state of the Gentoo installation process
On 3/20/06, Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I installed Gentoo on my four systems a while ago and I've just acquired a couple of new-to-me P3-500's. I'd like to install Gentoo on these new systems but I'm a little confused by the changes made to the installation process recently. I've never done anything but a stage 1 installation, but I remember reading that those instructions were removed from the installation documentation, and now I see a GUI and a command line installer on the latest LiveCD. What is currently the best installation method if I'm in the stage 1 mindset? - Grant Stage3 offers everything that a Stage1 does, it's just faster. Especially on those 500 Mhz systems, I'd use the Stage3. If you really must build every package by hand, use the Stage3 install, and then do a 'emerge -e system'. This will cause it to rebuild every package. On those systems though, unless you're using distcc or a cross-compiler on a faster system, stick with the Stage3 install so you don't spend 24+ hours bootstrapping. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge lilo fails
On 3/6/06, Erwin Lang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone! i tried to emerge lilo (`emerge -bva lilo') - but it aborts with the following error-message: open_wr: /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5) open_wr: /dev/loop5 (symlink to /dev/loop/5) In the past, emerging LILO would choke while trying to mount/unmount your /boot partition. It looks like it's doing the same with the loop devices. Try unmounting all your loop devices, and then remerging LILO. HTH, Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge
On 2/28/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a different interpretation. I assume you know about FEATURES=parallel-fetch? It's probably not the best idea to recommend ~arch versions of portage. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] ways to update portage
On 2/13/06, Daniel da Veiga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have this server at work, it has been running ok for a long time,
but I'd like to install some new apps to it, but I have a strongly
configured firewall (no rsync) and emerge-webrsync seems to fail every
time.
Is there another way to update portage tree? For my first update I
downloaded the snapshot and decompressed it directly to the filesystem
(but that requires a reboot and its kinda brute force). Is there a
way to download the snapshot and make emerge or even emerge-webrsync
to use the downloaded file instead of trying to download a new one?
Thanks for any sugestion.
If you put the snapshot + md5sum in the directory
$PORTAGE_TMPDIR/emerge-webrsync it will use those without downloading
a new snapshot.
Or, you can manually do the sync yourself. Extract the
portage-snapshot into a directory, and then use the following command:
rsync -av --progress --stats --delete --delete-after \
--exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/packages' \
--exclude='/local' . ${PORTDIR%%/}
Either define PORTDIR, or replace that with the location of your
portage tree (/usr/portage by default).
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to determine if a partition is formated
On 2/10/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fdisk -l Even easier: waldo# file -s /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb1: SGI XFS filesystem data (blksz 4096, inosz 256, v2 dirs) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11
On 1/31/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (dependency required by media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1 [ebuild]) Upgrade to gimp-2.2.9, which has support for Modular X. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?
On 1/20/06, Linux Java [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wanna to know KDE and Gnome which is more popular. I used Gnome for years (5 or 6 maybe?), but have recently switched to kde-3.4 and then now kde-3.5. For me, I wanted to try something different, and it is a nice change. I may swap back eventually, or even go back to Afterstep or Enlightenment, but for now kde-3.5 works for me. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge files sometimes just abort without error
On 1/19/06, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed lately that when I do an emerge -Davu world (for example), that some of the ebuilds just abort part way through compilation. No error. No anything. I'm just sitting there at a command prompt like nothing happened. What gives? I've been seeing the same thing occasionally for the last 2-3 weeks I'd say. I'm still trying to track it down, so I haven't filed a bug report yet. About the only ~arch software on my box is modular X and it's deps, although I think it may have started before I did that upgrade. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo on xeon with 64 bits extention
On 1/12/06, Catalin Neagoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Anyone knows if there is gentoo for xeon with 64 bits extention? 'cause I've seen that there are only amd_64,ppc64 and sparc64 gentoo versions. Am I wrong? Thank you. -- Catalin Even though it's called amd64, it's for all x86_64 machines. I believe at one time it was actually called x86_64, but then because amd was the only one with an x86 compatible CPU, it was renamed to amd64. So yes, use the amd64 profile even though it's an em64t machine. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Autoconfiguring default route
On 8/19/05, José Pablo Ezequiel Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can figure out how to configure my default route with the new configuration format (as stupid as that may sound). I have this: route_eth0=(default via 192.168.1.101) Change that to routes_eth0 and it should work. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel building tools
On 5/25/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is it OK to use 'make oldmenuconfig' to ensure that the options I had selected in a 2.6.x kernel also are selected for the newer 2.6. kernel? Isn't 'make oldmenuconfig' deprecated for 2.6 or does it still work? Also I perviously used xconfig (make xconfig) in lieu of make menuconfig, but I cannot seem to find anything other than menuconfig. Surely there is a nicer gui to use to build kernels and track options selected in various kernel builds than the ole standby 'make menuconfig'. ideas? James I typically just use make oldconfig, as the number of changes from one version to the next aren't that great normally. Doing a make oldconfig will prompt you for each new feature, so once you have your baseline kernel set, make oldconfig is real quick. When moving between different -rX versions, it often won't prompt at all. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] / approaching 100%
On Apr 11, 2005 3:43 PM, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a remote Gentoo machine where the root / partition is rapidly approaching 100% accoding to df. How can I fairly quickly determine where the disk space is getting used? du -hs /* This will give you an easy to read listing of all the subdirectories off of your root with the amount of disk used by each. If you add -c to the options, it'll print a total at the end. thanks, Mark Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
