Re: [gentoo-user] ERROR: media-video/mplayer-9999::bircoph failed (depend phase)

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> It seems mplayer is still being updated.  It works so I haven't switched.
>  Sat Feb  8 10:50:49 2020 >>> media-video/mplayer-1.3.0-r5
>  Mon Feb 24 22:35:44 2020 >>> media-video/mplayer-1.3.0-r6

revbumps (-rN "updates") are not real "updates", actually. Mostly, it's just 
ebuild changes (made by maintainer, but not the software authors).


-- 
Best regards,
mva

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[gentoo-user] Re: Welcome to gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

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

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

echo '>sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.15' >> /etc/portage/package.mask/kernels

Re: [gentoo-user] PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET inconsistent?

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

The package you're referring to have only support of python2 interpreters 
(python2_7 (CPython) and pypy (not the pypy3)).

It seems, by default (if neither of PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET is set), portage 
tries to do the "magic" (well, in my opinion, it opposes to the Gentoo 
Philosophy, and it should throw the same error even with "defaults") and 
automatically chooses the 2_7 single target for it.

But when you explicitly specify the targets in make.conf, it obeys and don't 
do that magic anymore, so condition of "exactly one of supported 
single_targets (pypy, pyhton2.7)" is not meeting anymore".

That's why you getting the error.

В письме от суббота, 7 июля 2018 г. 21:31:48 MSK пользователь Andreas Fink 
написал:
> Hello,
> I have a question considering PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET because it seems to
> behave inconsistently on my system and I cannot find any documentation
> about it, that would guide me in the right direction how to fix it.
> Running emerge --info I see the following (I'm on ~amd64):
> ... PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5"
> ...
> 
> This output is the default for ~amd64, neither PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET nor
> PYTHON_TARGETS has been set explicitly.
> If I do an emerge -av asciidoc, I see the following output:
> ebuild   R] app-text/asciidoc-8.6.10::gentoo  USE="-examples -graphviz
> -highlight {-test}" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -pypy"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -pypy"
> 
> Setting PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET and PYTHON_TARGETS in /etc/portage/make.conf
> explicitly to: PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_5"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_5"
> 
> Now emerge --info doesn't show any difference. It's still the same output.
> Doing an emerge -av asciidoc I get now this output:
> !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "asciidoc" has unmet requirements.
> - app-text/asciidoc-8.6.10::gentoo USE="-examples -graphviz -highlight
> -test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="-pypy -python2_7"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -pypy"
> 
>   The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
> exactly-one-of ( python_single_target_pypy
> python_single_target_python2_7 )
> 
> 
> This seems for me to be really inconsistent, considering the fact that we
> usually request users to provide an emerge --info, which wouldn't show any
> difference.
> Why am I able to merge in the first case the package, but in the second case
> I get an error? I really cannot understand where the
> python_single_target_python2_7 is set in the first case.
> Anyone who has more insight into that case?
> 
> Cheers
> Andreas

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge and binary packages

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

I think autofs will fit that type of solution
And why just don't put if in fstab and forget about it?

Re: [gentoo-user] Any utility to forcibly freeze or swap out a specific pid?

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> kill -s SIGSTOP 
> kill -s SIGCONT 

Although, such a "freezing" doesn't free any RAM :-/

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses / tinfo problem

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> I can't remember why I HAD TO add the tinfo USE flag to ncurses.

AFAIRC, android-related things required that, for example.

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: github (and gitlab, etc etc): track down a particular commit

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> Which official released released versions V1.0, V2.0 etc contain a
> particular commit C1ABCDE?

> Unfortunately I know of no direct way of answering either question with
> the web UI of github

Talking about github - you can open the commit page (say, https://github.com/
torvalds/linux/commit/fa41b900c30b45fab03783724932dc30cd46a6be )
And look at the bottom of long description field. There will be a label that 
shows which tag(s) contains this commit.

Re: [gentoo-user] Brother Printer AMD64

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

Well, depends on your printer and exact driver you prefer to use.

I've just set up my HL-L5100DN as "Generic PostScript Printer Foomatic/
Postscript" and it works like a charm. Is it any reason for you to use 
proprietary drivers?

В письме от понедельник, 12 марта 2018 г. 19:54:18 +07 пользователь 
siefke_lis...@web.de написал:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a short question. Is it true that Brother Printer Drivers need
> a multilib System?
> 
> https://github.com/stefan-langenmaier/brother-overlay
> 
> I found this overlay and it seem so that gcc without multilib not work.
> 
> Is there a way to build the printer system as 32 bit, or does the whole
> system have to be built accordingly?
> 
> Thank you & Nice Day
> Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] Status of a GIT repository

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

В письме от среда, 20 декабря 2017 г. 17:04:33 +07 пользователь Helmut 
Jarausch написал:
> Hi,
> I have no experience with GIT.
> 
> I'd like to determine if a GIT repository in Gentoo is up-to-date.
> Normally, a GIT folder has a '.git' subfolder. Using 'git status' in
> such a GIT folder works fine.
> 
> But the subfolders in /usr/portage/distfiles/git3-src don't contain a
> '.git' subfolder.
> A plain 'git status' in such a subfolder doesn't work - I get "fatal:
> This operation must be run in a work tree".
> 
> Is there a means to determine the status of a Gentoo-GIT-folder?
> 
> Background: I'd like to check if anything has changed in the GIT
> repository before I run an 'emerge -u' for that.
> 
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut

1) there is no "Gentoo-GIT-folder". The things in $DISTDIR/git3-src is called 
"bare" repositories (i.e. it is that ".git" folder itself, without "unpacked" 
work tree, like you have in $PORTDIR)
2) Although, all the ways to check it would be too hard for your purpose.
3) but there is nice tool for your purpose: it's called `app-portage/smart-
live-rebuild`.
So, just emerge it, and then just run `emerge @smart-live-rebuild` (it 
provides special virtual set) periodically. It will perform all the checks for 
you.

Re: [gentoo-user] net-wireless/blueman-2.1_alpha2 blocked by net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth - is it necessary?

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> Is it really necessary to block one package when another installed?

Most of the time, the reason to make packages to block each other is 
collisions (if they they contain files (like binaries or libraries) with same 
install paths).

Although, I can't guarantee that it was the case here.

I've noticed that Gnome Team makes some decisions, that doesn't looks logical 
for a few times already.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: #gentoo experiences

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

В письме от понедельник, 20 ноября 2017 г. 0:38:36 +07 пользователь Grant 
Edwards написал:
> On 2017-11-19, Michael Palimaka  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I'm collecting information about people's experiences in #gentoo.
> 
> Just curious: what is "#gentoo"?
> 
> Something to do with Twitter?

IRC

Re: [gentoo-user] UFO: 'No. You make ME a sandwich.'

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> check-if-root:
>   @if test `id -u` = 0 && ! grep -q 'lxc\|docker' /proc/self/cgroup; then 
> \
>   echo; \
>   echo 'No. You make ME a sandwich.'; \
>   echo; \
>   exit 1; \
>   fi

That code means "if current user is root and it is not a docker/lxc container 
then fail".

Libreoffice maintainers just warns you that you shouldn't run build process 
under root (so, add "userpriv sandbox usersandbox" and so on to the FEATURES).

and the sandwitch is just reference to the https://www.xkcd.com/149/

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma5: Missing shutdown, restart and suspend button

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> One guess is that it could be OpenRC because I actually selected the systemd
> profile for kde.

It is.

Re: [gentoo-user] Why I can't I build systemd without ipv6?

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

Well, actually, you was alread adviced about some working methods of solving 
your issue (both right and wrong ones, but it is anyway your decision to take 
ones to use), so I'll just clarify the simple thing:

You can suffer on such problems in relation to IPv6 **ONLY** in the case when 
your ISP **DO** have IPv6 support (say, announce IPv6 preffix to you via SLAAC 
or DHCPv6), but having **BROKEN** IPv6 routing.

(well, it can also be the case that they had no VLAN per customer and you're 
getting foreign SLAAC/DHCPv6 announces from some of your neighbours, but I'd 
prefer to not think such a worse things about ISP I don't know yet :D)

So, ideally, you **SHOULD NOT** disable IPv6 on your side, but shame your ISP 
support line (for either broken IPv6 routing or not having VLAN per customer, 
depends on the real case) instead.



P.S. don't consider "capsed" words as crying, please. Just consider it as 
"extra bold" mark.

Re: [gentoo-user] Change Readline mode for all users?

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> I find that my pager and editor are set in /etc/env.d/99pager and
> /etc/env.d/99editor respectively, but creating a
> /etc/env.d/99bashlineediting file containing "set -o vi" doesn't seem to
> work.

1) env-update

env.d is just the place where all the packages places their crap so env-update 
can take care of it and rebuild all the things properly (so, no need to allow 
to edit system config directly (and accidentally brake them)

2) what you want is a bad idea.

I bet portage (which internally uses bash a lot) won't be happy with that

Re: [gentoo-user] Why bash script, that works in "Debian", does not work on "Gentoo" install CD?

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> read 'Enter device (like /dev/sd(a1,b1,...): ' device

AFAIK, this is not valid syntax for `read` in any shell (even on Debian. I 
just checked)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Clickless screenshot...how?

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

this is fully depends on your WM.

First of all, you can just bind scrot on any key combination your WM allow to.

Second of all, say, KDE's Spectacle can be used to take screenshot by timeout. 
So, you set timeout, press "take screenshot", it hides it's window, you open 
your popup menu, wait for timeout, and get a screenshot containing your popup 
menu without pressing any hotkeys ;)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Don't miss the 1 500 000 000 Unix second!

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> when time_t reaches 2 billion.

He meant 2k38 problem, when time_t will overflow int32 :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust??

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> >=dev-lang/rust-1.15.1 to >=dev-lang/rust-1.15.1-bin.
... to >=dev-lang/rust-bin-1.15.1

// fixed ;)


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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust??

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> I just installed firefox-bin and did not feel any difference.
> 
> I will try to compile firefox just for curiosity.

Well. Only flags that can give you any difference is bindist (logos and so on), 
pgo (hard-way optimization), custom-*, and system-* ones.

So, taking default "fx-bin" vs "fx" doesn't give you much difference.

Although, I myself distrust any "*-bin" packages, and I'd never run them 
outside of `firejail` with blacklisted access to anywhere on the filesystem.

Although, I running even built-from-source firefox under firejail anyway (to 
prevent java, js, drm and other crap to do anything on my system. even in home 
dir.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox depends on rust??

[Vadim A. Misbakh-Soloviov]

> Does anyone knows why? Any idea?
The reason is in that fact, that many of it's components are in rust.
And since it was possible to dodge it until now, maintainers considered it is 
not a way since now.

And, by the way, it is not that many time to build rust, as you think:
> Thu Jun 22 12:34:00 2017 >>> dev-lang/rust-1.16.0
>   merge time: 1 hour, 48 minutes.
Than was on 1.9GHz with hardly limited portage (MAKEOPTS="-j5 -l2", 
NICENESS=18, ionice -c3, and cgroupped on cpu shares and ram).

So, ~20 mins would be enough on non-limited portage and full power of that i7.

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