[gentoo-user] MediaTomb - sorting images by exif rating
Hello there! I am using Mediatomb with my telly which is so far the best DLNA server I've tried. I use the telly to present images from my DSLR camera and I'd like to be able to list only images that have rating over 4. By rating, I mean EXIF tag 0x4746 (Exif.Image.Rating). Does anybody know how to force MediaTomb to create such virtual folders? Thanks for your responses! Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] MediaTomb - sorting images by exif rating
Thanks for your answer, Michael. I have already read the web page you posted, but my problem is that libextractor extracts various EXIF metadata from jpeg files EXCEPT for exif rating. So I wonder whether there is any workaround/any way to do this in some different way? Or maybe some way to teach libextractor to extract those data? I tried to find some configuration for libextractor/exiv2 but unforutnately without any success. Peter 2011/10/2 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 5:50 AM, czernitko czerni...@gmail.com wrote: Hello there! I am using Mediatomb with my telly which is so far the best DLNA server I've tried. I use the telly to present images from my DSLR camera and I'd like to be able to list only images that have rating over 4. By rating, I mean EXIF tag 0x4746 (Exif.Image.Rating). Does anybody know how to force MediaTomb to create such virtual folders? MediaTomb builds the virtual folder set via JavaScript. Take a peek under /usr/share/mediatomb/js , and at http://mediatomb.cc/pages/scripting -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] mediatomb and rhythmbox
On 16.03.2015 20:23, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: --- can someone help here? maybe this: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=540714
[gentoo-user] Mediatomb media server - users permissions for /media/videoX
Hi there, I'm in the process of ripping my DVD collection to mp4 and have just installed net-misc/mediatomb. I am EXTREMELY impressed with this service, which has very quickly demonstrated a marvellous ability to stream video to my PS3. On my server I have two largish hard-drives which are used for miscellaneous storage - backups, drivers service packs for my work, customer backups and all these video files which will soon be rapidly increasing in quantity. Because of the miscellaneous nature of this data, I have mounted these two disks at /mnt/space and /mnt/morespace Following a discussion a while back I will probably move them to /media/video[123] or /media/ spaceX when I get around to reorganising. Permissions on these volumes are such that any user on the system (me, hypothetically trusted friends or family in the future) should have full access to all the miscellaneous junk on them. I need to play back videos and delete the old versions when I decide a film needs to be ripped in higher quality. I'm a little unclear as to how these permissions have been applied - shouldn't it be based either on the permissions of the mount-point directory, or added as an -o users,umask=000 in /etc/fstab ? $ grep space /etc/fstab LABEL=space /mnt/space xfs noatime 0 3 LABEL=MoreSpace /mnt/morespace xfs noatime 0 3 $ sudo umount /mnt/morespace/ $ ls -lh /mnt/ total 0 drwxrwx--- 2 root cdrom 72 May 28 2007 dvdrom drwxrwx--- 2 root users 48 Sep 21 23:24 foo drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 48 May 19 2007 morespace drwxrwx--- 8 root users 116 Sep 11 11:53 space $ sudo mount -a $ ls -lh /mnt/ total 4.0K drwxrwx--- 2 root cdrom 72 May 28 2007 dvdrom drwxrwx--- 2 root users 48 Sep 21 23:24 foo drwxrwx--- 5 root users 4.0K Sep 15 20:46 morespace drwxrwx--- 8 root users 116 Sep 11 11:53 space $ Anyway, the problem that I encountered was that Mediatomb was unable to read these drives because Gentoo init.d script (very sensibly, IMO) runs the server as its own user, which clearly did not have permission to read these disks. I like this idea, because I tend to trust the users on my system (this may be foolish!) yet fear a hijacked daemon maliciously deleting my collection of Carry On films. You can see here how I've worked around the problem for the moment: $ grep -ie user -ie group /etc/conf.d/mediatomb # Run MediaTomb as this user. MEDIATOMB_USER=mediatomb # Run MediaTomb as this group. #MEDIATOMB_GROUP=mediatomb MEDIATOMB_GROUP=users $ However I'm posting to solicit suggestions on the best permissions practices for this purpose. mediatomb shouldn't need write access to these files or folders at all - there's no option on the UPnP client, for instance, to delete files from the server. Should I make the drives owned by users and in the mediatomb group, with read-only access for the latter? Any other suggestions? Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mediatomb media server - users permissions for /media/videoX
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:05:58AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: I'm a little unclear as to how these permissions have been applied - shouldn't it be based either on the permissions of the mount-point directory, or added as an -o users,umask=000 in /etc/fstab ? umask only applies to file systems with no intrinsic permission settings, e.g. VFAT. The permissions for file systems with permission bits are set in the file system itself. Which is why before and after mounting the mount point may have different permission listings. In otherwords, chmod/chown/chgrp applied to the mount point with nothing mounted will change the mount point's listing when nothing is mounted, and chmod/chown/chgrp applied to the mount point after mounting will change the permissions of the actual file system. However I'm posting to solicit suggestions on the best permissions practices for this purpose. mediatomb shouldn't need write access to these files or folders at all - there's no option on the UPnP client, for instance, to delete files from the server. Should I make the drives owned by users and in the mediatomb group, with read-only access for the latter? Any other suggestions? What's so secret in your media folders that you can't just give read access to mediatomb? Why don't you have it like you have now with regards tot he owner and group and just give read permission to other? owner root group users umask 002 (i.e. you will have rwxrwxr-x or rw-rw-r-- ?) To do any fancier (say, files owned by root, read-write access for all users and read access only for mediatomb and no access for everyone else) you will probably need a real ACL with which I can offer no suggestions. W -- When coal was first discovered, there was a large black market. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 662 days, 12:48
[gentoo-user] Re: mysql
On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns | * Stopping PowerDNS (default) ... mediatomb | * Stopping MediaTomb ... [ ok ] mysql | * Stopping ... mysql | * Stopping mysqld (0) [ ok ] mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] I'm not familiar with running rc-service directly. If you add the --debug flag like this: #/etc/init.d/mysql start --debug maybe it will give you better error messages.
Re: [gentoo-user] MediaTomb - sorting images by exif rating
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:58 AM, czernitko czerni...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your answer, Michael. I have already read the web page you posted, but my problem is that libextractor extracts various EXIF metadata from jpeg files EXCEPT for exif rating. So I wonder whether there is any workaround/any way to do this in some different way? Or maybe some way to teach libextractor to extract those data? I tried to find some configuration for libextractor/exiv2 but unforutnately without any success. I don't have a good answer for that. You might try the ask-and-lurk pattern in #mediatomb on Freenode. Note that you're running Gentoo, and could patch the source (in case you pique the curiosity of an interested mt dev). -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Mediatomb media server - users permissions for /media/videoX
Hi Willie, Many thanks for your informative reply. On 30 Sep 2008, at 15:18, Willie Wong wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 03:05:58AM +0100, Penguin Lover Stroller squawked: I'm a little unclear as to how these permissions have been applied - shouldn't it be based either on the permissions of the mount-point directory, or added as an -o users,umask=000 in /etc/fstab ? umask only applies to file systems with no intrinsic permission settings, e.g. VFAT. The permissions for file systems with permission bits are set in the file system itself ... chmod/chown/chgrp applied to the mount point after mounting will change the permissions of the actual file system. Of course! It would not have occurred to me to ask this question were I mounting a drive at a normal place in the Unix directory tree (by which I mean /bin, /boot, /etc, /home, /lib, /sbin, /usr, /var and directories below them). However I'm posting to solicit suggestions on the best permissions practices for this purpose. mediatomb shouldn't need write access to these files or folders at all - there's no option on the UPnP client, for instance, to delete files from the server. Should I make the drives owned by users and in the mediatomb group, with read-only access for the latter? Any other suggestions? What's so secret in your media folders that you can't just give read access to mediatomb? Why don't you have it like you have now with regards tot he owner and group and just give read permission to other? owner root group users umask 002 (i.e. you will have rwxrwxr-x or rw-rw-r-- ?) Of course! That's perfect. And I can easily keep customer data and other stuff on the drive at umask 007. To do any fancier (say, files owned by root, read-write access for all users and read access only for mediatomb and no access for everyone else) you will probably need a real ACL with which I can offer no suggestions. No, that's not necessary at all. I must've been having a brain-fart even to have asked. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql
Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 19:37:34, walt a écrit : On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns | * Stopping PowerDNS (default) ... mediatomb | * Stopping MediaTomb ... [ ok ] mysql | * Stopping ... mysql | * Stopping mysqld (0) [ ok ] mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] I'm not familiar with running rc-service directly. If you add the --debug flag like this: #/etc/init.d/mysql start --debug maybe it will give you better error messages. I have just done three (3) rc-service mysql restart --verbose, and everything goes right, nothing bug... strange ! -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Miracast from Gentoo PC to TV
On Wednesday 18 Nov 2015 20:27:41 Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 5:12:10 PM Mick wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Any idea what ebuild I need to connect to a Samsung TV, which uses > > Miracast. > > Do you want to use the TV as a monitor or just stream media to it? If the > latter, you can use net-misc/mediatomb if the TV supports upnp/dlna. I > think the only solution for miracast right now is openwfd [1] and it looks > like it's not in the tree yet. > > [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/openwfd/ Thanks Fernando, I would want to use both, but mediatomb would probably be used more often. I saw openwfd. Anyone has experience using it, or is it early days yet? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center
Ok, you were right guys! I installed MediaTomb per your recommendations, and it works like a charm! Installation and configuration was easy as a pie thanks to Gentoo's portage and MediaTomb's web UI. Moreover its DLNA is compatible with my telly! Yay! :) Streaming of video, conversion of unsupported formats and everything just works in five minutes of work! And it is much better than Twonky Media Server which is the only officially supported software by Panasonic. Thanks for all your time guys! Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] Miracast from Gentoo PC to TV
On Wednesday, November 18, 2015 5:12:10 PM Mick wrote: > Hi All, > > Any idea what ebuild I need to connect to a Samsung TV, which uses Miracast. > > Do you want to use the TV as a monitor or just stream media to it? If the latter, you can use net-misc/mediatomb if the TV supports upnp/dlna. I think the only solution for miracast right now is openwfd [1] and it looks like it's not in the tree yet. [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/openwfd/ -- Fernando Rodriguez
Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: On 20 August 2011, at 10:40, czernitko wrote: … I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It is connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local computers using some Data Center feature. From what I've heard, it is something little bit different than common NFS/Samba sharing. It should be natively supported by Win7 and there may be some applications for WinXP. Unfortunately no applications were shipped on CD with the telly. I wonder whether there is some way to connect my home Gentoo server to the telly? Is there any linux application/specific Samba configuration/...? Have anyone tried anything similar? I've just checked the telly's specifications page [1] and, as per Mick's reply, it does appear to be DNLA you're thinking of. DNLA is rubbish - it's a standard so wide that it's no use as a standard any more. Manufacturers can choose such small subsets of features to implement, and have such freedom in *how* they implement features, that no two devices need ever work together - they can still all call themselves DNLA compliant. So don't rely on DNLA - there are sure to be plenty of good video formats unsupported by your TV - but you might also check out MediaTomb, an alternative DNLA server. Stroller. [1] http://panasonic.net/avc/viera/eu2011/product/e_lcd.html I'll second the MediaTomb recommendation. It's got a significant learning curve to get set up, but they've got a large community wiki with examples and advice, and their IRC channel is helpful if you run into bugs. (Amusing side note...MediaTomb is what got me into Gentoo way back when...I wanted to use a distro a bit better set up as a development environment, as I was tracking down crasher bugs in media codecs that were killing my mt server. As it happened, libavcodec was crashing when it encountered a corrupted bitstream) -- :wq
[gentoo-user] mysql
Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns | * Stopping PowerDNS (default) ... mediatomb | * Stopping MediaTomb ... [ ok ] mysql | * Stopping ... mysql | * Stopping mysqld (0) [ ok ] mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] mysql | * ERROR: mysql failed to start 18:15:44 r...@einstein:~ # ps -A|grep mys 2333 ?00:00:00 mysqld 18:15:56 r...@einstein:~ # killall mysqld 18:17:37 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql zap mysql | * Manually resetting mysql to stopped state 18:17:44 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql start mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] mysql | * ERROR: mysql failed to start 18:17:53 r...@einstein:~ # ps -A|grep mys 2628 ?00:00:00 mysqld Of course, it crashs also on boot process, whereas at least two services (pdns and mediatomb) need it ! == Here is the end of emerge --info mysql for the server hosted, which is the most problematic : dev-db/mysql-5.1.46 was built with the following: USE=community debug latin1 (multilib) perl -big-tables -cluster -embedded -extraengine -max-idx-128 - minimal -pbxt -profiling (-selinux) -ssl -static -test -xtradb CFLAGS=-march=native -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -DHAVE_ERRNO_AS_DEFINE=1 -fno-strict-aliasing CXXFLAGS=-march=native -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -DHAVE_ERRNO_AS_DEFINE=1 -fno-exceptions - fno-strict-aliasing -felide-constructors -fno-rtti -fno-implicit-templates -fno-strict-aliasing == I think I have read carefully the doc concerning mysql : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/fr/mysql-howto.xml. What can I do ? Thanks -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] mysql
St??phane Guedon wrote: Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns | * Stopping PowerDNS (default) ... mediatomb | * Stopping MediaTomb ... [ ok ] mysql | * Stopping ... mysql | * Stopping mysqld (0) [ ok ] mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] mysql | * ERROR: mysql failed to start 18:15:44 r...@einstein:~ # ps -A|grep mys 2333 ?00:00:00 mysqld 18:15:56 r...@einstein:~ # killall mysqld 18:17:37 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql zap mysql | * Manually resetting mysql to stopped state 18:17:44 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql start mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] mysql | * ERROR: mysql failed to start 18:17:53 r...@einstein:~ # ps -A|grep mys 2628 ?00:00:00 mysqld Of course, it crashs also on boot process, whereas at least two services (pdns and mediatomb) need it ! == Here is the end of emerge --info mysql for the server hosted, which is the most problematic : dev-db/mysql-5.1.46 was built with the following: USE=community debug latin1 (multilib) perl -big-tables -cluster -embedded -extraengine -max-idx-128 - minimal -pbxt -profiling (-selinux) -ssl -static -test -xtradb CFLAGS=-march=native -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -DHAVE_ERRNO_AS_DEFINE=1 -fno-strict-aliasing CXXFLAGS=-march=native -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -DHAVE_ERRNO_AS_DEFINE=1 -fno-exceptions - fno-strict-aliasing -felide-constructors -fno-rtti -fno-implicit-templates -fno-strict-aliasing == I think I have read carefully the doc concerning mysql : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/fr/mysql-howto.xml. What can I do ? Thanks Hello, What do the logs in /var/log/mysql/ read? Thats where I'd look for the clue. Also check your config file. Ragards, Matt
Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center
Thanks for all your answers guys! And sorry for not responding for three days, I was away on holiday. From what you say I will give DLNA a try (no other choice, I simply want to watch movies stored on my pc). I found some list of DLNA software on http://www.rbgrn.net/content/21-how-to-choose-dlna-media-server-windows-mac-os-x-or-linuxbut I will give a try to ushare and MediaTomb first. I'll go through the list and try each piece of software and see which one works best with my telly x gentoo combination. I'll let you know as soon as I have more info! Cheers, Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] dlna Gentoo
On 28 Jan 2010, at 16:34, James wrote: ... Supposedly you can control the embedded web browser, via the DLNA protocol. I don't really understand this sentence. My experience is limited to the use of MediaTomb to stream .mp3 audio .mp4 video files from a Linux server to my PS3 for playback, and I believe this is related to the hodgepodge of technologies which are loosely assembled under the DLNA and uPNP brands. However, in that case you use a standard web-browser to configure some options on the server, and which directories to include. Being a Linux- based server, MediaTomb does not have any special browser requirements. I don't understand how you would control either a web-browser, or a web-server, using DLNA. My understanding of DNLA from reading the wikipedia article (which may have been posted in this thread) is that it's not a protocol as such, but more of a work together certification, although a loose one. If your DNLA amplifier has a little embedded web-server, then its web- pages must (as I read that) be viewable in the simple web-browser installed on a Windows CE client. This is something of a simplification, as AIUI there can be loads of other incompatibilities when trying to actually stream the music between devices in the home. But I would reckon that browser compatibility is the least of your problems. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql
On Sunday 11 July 2010 19:58:43 Stéphane Guedon wrote: Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 19:37:34, walt a écrit : On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns | * Stopping PowerDNS (default) ... mediatomb | * Stopping MediaTomb ... [ ok ] mysql | * Stopping ... mysql | * Stopping mysqld (0) [ ok ] mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] I'm not familiar with running rc-service directly. If you add the --debug flag like this: #/etc/init.d/mysql start --debug maybe it will give you better error messages. I have just done three (3) rc-service mysql restart --verbose, and everything goes right, nothing bug... strange ! Did you notice that according to your logs, mysql did in fact start and shut itself done 2 hour 23 minutes later? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql
Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 20:00:16, Alan McKinnon a écrit : On Sunday 11 July 2010 19:58:43 Stéphane Guedon wrote: Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 19:37:34, walt a écrit : On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns | * Stopping PowerDNS (default) ... mediatomb | * Stopping MediaTomb ... [ ok ] mysql | * Stopping ... mysql | * Stopping mysqld (0) [ ok ] mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] I'm not familiar with running rc-service directly. If you add the --debug flag like this: #/etc/init.d/mysql start --debug maybe it will give you better error messages. I have just done three (3) rc-service mysql restart --verbose, and everything goes right, nothing bug... strange ! Did you notice that according to your logs, mysql did in fact start and shut itself done 2 hour 23 minutes later? That's really strange, but I have said this log haven't change since days ! I think logs are not correctly configured. But according to /etc/mysql/my.cnf, there's only mysqld.err. Should I change something ? -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media
Hi there, I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive on which videos, mp3s stuff will be stored. On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a second drive at /mnt/morespace) I have a notion to move to a hierarchy under /media/ - something like / media/space or /media/videos or /media/disk1, /media/disk2, /media/ disk3, ... I can't remember WHY I came iup with this idea, however. Googling, I can find more than one message to this list in which I assert this intention and state refer to a discussion on this list which led to it. However I can't find that previous discussion itself. http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/168375-mediatomb-media-server-users-permissions-media-videox.html http://www.nabble.com/Autofs-or-ivman--td14647701.html The only thing that springs to mind is that /mnt was originally used by system administrators to temporarily mount removable media. I think the FHS comes into it. But right now this isn't terribly convincing, particularly as I currently expect to be using one BIG volume, so there should be no need for more than drive mounted in this way. Can anyone persuade me or provide other reasons for using /media? Thanks in advance, Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dlna amp; Gentoo
On 29 Jan 2010, at 15:14, James wrote: Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace.net.au writes: ... Exactly what I'm afraid. If I have to roll my own, I guess I'll just by the version( Yamaha RX-V1900) without ethernet and load up a Gentoo PC with sound cards that splice from the mixer to all of the components and amplifiers. I think you want to have a word with this guy: http://www.vimeo.com/1878837 I'm unclear what the tuner gives you that you can't get with a PCI tuner card in a Gentoo box, MediaTomb and some work. The video shows streaming of Internet radio. As I understand the purpose of a conventional hi-fi tuner, it's to receive over-the-air conventional radio, and it seems to be this streaming of Internet radio that is an extra feature of this advertised tuner (although I only glanced at the Yamaha's specification, as I'm not qualified to understand it). However with a tuner card one could additionally receive digital radio via DVB-T or DVB-S. All this could be managed via web-interface on a DIY Gentoo box. Alternatively Silverstone offer computer cases with big dials buttons on the front. Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center
On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 7:57 AM, czernitko czerni...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all your answers guys! And sorry for not responding for three days, I was away on holiday. From what you say I will give DLNA a try (no other choice, I simply want to watch movies stored on my pc). I found some list of DLNA software on http://www.rbgrn.net/content/21-how-to-choose-dlna-media-server-windows-mac-os-x-or-linux but I will give a try to ushare and MediaTomb first. I'll go through the list and try each piece of software and see which one works best with my telly x gentoo combination. I'll let you know as soon as I have more info! If you need help with MT, I can offer some assistance as I have time. -- :wq
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql
On Sunday 11 July 2010 20:33:17 Stéphane Guedon wrote: Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 20:00:16, Alan McKinnon a écrit : On Sunday 11 July 2010 19:58:43 Stéphane Guedon wrote: Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 19:37:34, walt a écrit : On 07/11/2010 09:29 AM, Stéphane Guedon wrote: Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns | * Stopping PowerDNS (default) ... mediatomb | * Stopping MediaTomb ... [ ok ] mysql | * Stopping ... mysql | * Stopping mysqld (0) [ ok ] mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] I'm not familiar with running rc-service directly. If you add the --debug flag like this: #/etc/init.d/mysql start --debug maybe it will give you better error messages. I have just done three (3) rc-service mysql restart --verbose, and everything goes right, nothing bug... strange ! Did you notice that according to your logs, mysql did in fact start and shut itself done 2 hour 23 minutes later? That's really strange, but I have said this log haven't change since days ! I think logs are not correctly configured. But according to /etc/mysql/my.cnf, there's only mysqld.err. Should I change something ? I mean to point out that according to your logs, mysql did in fact appear to start. Then it stopped. Ignoring the hour in the timestamps in case it's timezone differences, this means that according to your logs mysql ran for something like 23 minutes. This does not mean it does not start as you claim. It means something is killing it. You need to go find what that is. I can't help you with that, you are the only one in front of your computer. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] mysql
Le dimanche 11 juillet 2010 20:07:11, roun...@hotmail.ru a écrit : St??phane Guedon wrote: Hello Could someone help me concerning mysql. My servers (both laptop hosted mysql and server hosted) are buggy. Every time I restart them through the init script, it crash ! : 18:15:06 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql restart pdns | * Stopping PowerDNS (default) ... mediatomb | * Stopping MediaTomb ... [ ok ] mysql | * Stopping ... mysql | * Stopping mysqld (0) [ ok ] mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] mysql | * ERROR: mysql failed to start 18:15:44 r...@einstein:~ # ps -A|grep mys 2333 ?00:00:00 mysqld 18:15:56 r...@einstein:~ # killall mysqld 18:17:37 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql zap mysql | * Manually resetting mysql to stopped state 18:17:44 r...@einstein:~ # rc-service mysql start mysql | * Starting ... mysql | * Starting (/etc/mysql/my.cnf) mysql | * MySQL NOT started (0) [ !! ] mysql | * ERROR: mysql failed to start 18:17:53 r...@einstein:~ # ps -A|grep mys 2628 ?00:00:00 mysqld Of course, it crashs also on boot process, whereas at least two services (pdns and mediatomb) need it ! == Here is the end of emerge --info mysql for the server hosted, which is the most problematic : dev-db/mysql-5.1.46 was built with the following: USE=community debug latin1 (multilib) perl -big-tables -cluster -embedded -extraengine -max-idx-128 - minimal -pbxt -profiling (-selinux) -ssl -static -test -xtradb CFLAGS=-march=native -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -DHAVE_ERRNO_AS_DEFINE=1 -fno-strict-aliasing CXXFLAGS=-march=native -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -DHAVE_ERRNO_AS_DEFINE=1 -fno-exceptions - fno-strict-aliasing -felide-constructors -fno-rtti -fno-implicit-templates -fno-strict-aliasing == I think I have read carefully the doc concerning mysql : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/fr/mysql-howto.xml. What can I do ? Thanks Hello, What do the logs in /var/log/mysql/ read? Thats where I'd look for the clue. Also check your config file. 19:12:09 r...@einstein:/var/log/mysql # ls -l total 36 -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 0 Jul 11 15:05 mysql.err -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 0 Jul 11 15:05 mysql.log -rw-rw 1 mysql mysql 36816 Apr 21 10:52 mysqld.err 19:14:11 r...@einstein:/var/log/mysql # tail mysqld.err 100323 8:30:20 [Note] Event Scheduler: Loaded 0 events 100323 8:30:20 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: ready for connections. Version: '5.1.44-log' socket: '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 Gentoo Linux mysql-5.1.44-r1 100421 10:52:15 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Normal shutdown 100421 10:52:17 [Note] Event Scheduler: Purging the queue. 0 events 100421 10:52:20 InnoDB: Starting shutdown... 100421 10:52:39 InnoDB: Shutdown completed; log sequence number 0 8395213 100421 10:52:40 [Note] /usr/sbin/mysqld: Shutdown complete This file is like this since DAYS ! I don't know why ! I use the usual config file given by the emerge process... Ragards, Matt -- Stéphane Guedon page web : http://www.22decembre.eu/ carte de visite : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.vcf clé publique gpg : http://www.22decembre.eu/downloads/Stephane-Guedon.asc signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting a big drive for stuff - /mnt or /media
Stroller wrote: Hi there, I'm in the process of commissioning a box which has a large hard drive on which videos, mp3s stuff will be stored. On all my other machines, such drives are mounted at /mnt/space (and a second drive at /mnt/morespace) I have a notion to move to a hierarchy under /media/ - something like /media/space or /media/videos or /media/disk1, /media/disk2, /media/disk3, ... I can't remember WHY I came iup with this idea, however. Googling, I can find more than one message to this list in which I assert this intention and state refer to a discussion on this list which led to it. However I can't find that previous discussion itself. http://www.linux-archive.org/gentoo-user/168375-mediatomb-media-server-users-permissions-media-videox.html http://www.nabble.com/Autofs-or-ivman--td14647701.html The only thing that springs to mind is that /mnt was originally used by system administrators to temporarily mount removable media. I think the FHS comes into it. But right now this isn't terribly convincing, particularly as I currently expect to be using one BIG volume, so there should be no need for more than drive mounted in this way. Can anyone persuade me or provide other reasons for using /media? Thanks in advance, Stroller. You can create a mount point and mount the drive where ever you want. I created the mount point /data on my system and mounted a drive to it. I store my wallpapers, some rarely used documents, owners manuals and things like that there. Point is, Linux doesn't care where you put it, just put it where you want it and can find it. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] mysql USE flag error
I am not sure I understand this message about the mysql USE flag: = # emerge -upDv 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 =x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.0:4[mysql]. !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - x11-libs/qt-sql-4.5.2 (Change USE: +mysql) (dependency required by app-office/akonadi-server-1.2.1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by kde-base/kdepimlibs-4.3.1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by kde-base/krfb-4.3.1 [ebuild]) (dependency required by world [argument]) # euse -i mysql global use flags (searching: mysql) [-] mysql - Adds mySQL Database support local use flags (searching: mysql) [-] mysql (app-admin/ulogd): Build MYSQL output plugin to save packets in a mysql database. [-] mysql (net-misc/mediatomb): Use dev-db/mysql as backend rather than SQLite3. If this USE flag is disabled, dev-db/sqlite is used in its stead. $ eix -l x11-libs/qt-sql [snip...] Installed versions: 4.5.2(4)(12:30:57 10/10/09)(iconv qt3support sqlite -debug -firebird -mysql -odbc -pch -postgres) = Of the packages mentioned as dependencies requiring mysql I only have installed kde-base/krfb, but not the version shown above kde-base/krfb-4.3.1 - see below: = # emerge -Cpv kde-base/krfb These are the packages that would be unmerged: kde-base/krfb selected: 3.5.10 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. = Can you please explain why this mysql USE flag message shows up? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Re: get_iplayer rocks!
On 21 Dec 2009, at 22:23, walt wrote: On 12/21/2009 03:35 AM, Stroller wrote: OMG! get_iplayer rocks! Very cool, thanks. I can't answer your question, but I'm listening to A Celtic Heartbeat from Radio Wales just 15 minutes after I saw this, so thanks for the tip and happy holidays :o) I'm just really impressed by get_iplayer. It makes it easy to schedule recordings, so that you just create a search for a series name using the --pvr related options and the whole series downloads automagically. I always miss the first episodes of Have I Got News For You when a new series starts, because I never notice that it's on until weeks later, but now never again - the search is stored, so any new shows will be downloaded. If you add tvmode = flashhd,flashvhigh to your .get_iplayer options then the shows are downloaded in hi-def 720p. They're converted to mp4 container (the streams are already in the right codecs) and they play on the PS3. The video quality is really quite good indeed. I've got my get_iplayer output directory set to one that MediaTomb knows about (via inotify), so anything new is just there ready waiting to be watched. I find the command-line options slightly obscure, but aside from that get_iplayer will revolutionise my TV watching - it makes it easier than piracy! I miss out on the best of BBC radio because I'm rarely driving when it's on, and I just don't listen at home. A customer of mine gave me an old iPod mini a while back - is an obsolete model, but its 4gig memory is still enough for hours of shows - so I've bought a £7 radio transmitter on eBay so I can time-shift radio, too. That's gonna be great, too! Stroller.
[gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!
I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql was in there, again. This is despite the fact that the mysql use flag seem to be not active as far as portage is concerned: # euse -i mysql global use flags (searching: mysql) [-] mysql - Adds mySQL Database support local use flags (searching: mysql) [-] mysql (app-admin/ulogd): Build MYSQL output plugin to save packets in a mysql database. [-] mysql (net-misc/mediatomb): Use dev-db/mysql as backend rather than SQLite3. If this USE flag is disabled, dev-db/sqlite is used in its stead. Looking into it further I see that the virtual package is pulling the database in: # equery depends dev-db/mysql [ Searching for packages depending on dev-db/mysql... ] virtual/mysql-5.0 (=dev-db/mysql-5.0*) # equery depends virtual/mysql [ Searching for packages depending on virtual/mysql... ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.84-r1 (=virtual/mysql-5.0) dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-r1 (mysql? virtual/mysql) dev-libs/redland-1.0.10-r1 (mysql? virtual/mysql) dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.00.5 (virtual/mysql) x11-libs/qt-sql-4.6.2 (mysql? virtual/mysql) So, is this telling me the virtual mysql package depends of the real mysql and vice versa? Should I give up and accept that just like a LAMP build, from now on a Linux desktop *must* run mysql and nothing else will do? I've read that sqlite is borked and won't do what semantic-desktop wants, but what about people who for arguments sake want to run postgress or some other database? -- Regards, Mick
Re: [gentoo-user] Software for LCD Data Center
On 20 August 2011, at 10:40, czernitko wrote: … I've recently bought LCD television from Panasonic (TX-L32E30E Viera). It is connected to my home LAN and it should be able to access data on local computers using some Data Center feature. From what I've heard, it is something little bit different than common NFS/Samba sharing. It should be natively supported by Win7 and there may be some applications for WinXP. Unfortunately no applications were shipped on CD with the telly. I wonder whether there is some way to connect my home Gentoo server to the telly? Is there any linux application/specific Samba configuration/...? Have anyone tried anything similar? I've just checked the telly's specifications page [1] and, as per Mick's reply, it does appear to be DNLA you're thinking of. DNLA is rubbish - it's a standard so wide that it's no use as a standard any more. Manufacturers can choose such small subsets of features to implement, and have such freedom in *how* they implement features, that no two devices need ever work together - they can still all call themselves DNLA compliant. So don't rely on DNLA - there are sure to be plenty of good video formats unsupported by your TV - but you might also check out MediaTomb, an alternative DNLA server. Stroller. [1] http://panasonic.net/avc/viera/eu2011/product/e_lcd.html
[gentoo-user] mediatomb and rhythmbox
anyone using mediatomb to serve music etc ?
I do since yesterday ... and host the mp3s generated by mythtv .. they
get found and played fine on my TV set *and* my android smartphone!
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On my gnome-desktop I have the rhythmbox player 3.1 with USE-flags
upnp-av :
[I] media-sound/rhythmbox
Available versions: 3.0.3 3.1^t **[1] {cdr daap dbus html ipod
libnotify +libsecret lirc mtp nsplugin +python test +udev upnp-av
visualizer webkit zeitgeist PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET=python3_2 +python3_3
PYTHON_TARGETS=python3_3 python3_4}
Installed versions: 3.1^t(20:19:05 16.03.2015)(cdr dbus libnotify
libsecret nsplugin python udev upnp-av -daap -html -ipod -lirc -mtp
-test -visualizer -webkit -zeitgeist PYTHON_TARGETS=python3_3 -python3_4)
AFAI understand this should load grilo-plugins?
# eix grilo
[I] media-libs/grilo
Available versions: (0.2) 0.2.10(0.2/1) 0.2.11(0.2/1)
{examples gtk +introspection +network playlist test vala}
Installed versions: 0.2.11(0.2)(17:17:01 08.11.2014)(gtk
introspection network playlist -examples -test -vala)
Homepage:https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Grilo
Description: A framework for easy media discovery and browsing
[I] media-plugins/grilo-plugins
Available versions: (0.2) 0.2.12 0.2.13
{daap +dvd flickr freebox gnome-online-accounts lua pocket
thetvdb tracker upnp-av +vimeo +youtube}
Installed versions: 0.2.13(0.2)(00:21:44 16.02.2015)(dvd
gnome-online-accounts tracker upnp-av vimeo youtube -daap -flickr
-freebox -lua -pocket -thetvdb)
Homepage:https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Grilo
Description: A framework for easy media discovery and browsing
--- Do I need USE=daap ?? I think, no ... ?
When I disable and re-enable the grilo-browser-plugin within rhythmbox I
get this in the debug-logs:
(20:20:09) [0x1265cd0] [rb_grilo_plugin_init] rb-grilo-plugin.c:89:
RBGriloPlugin initialising
(20:20:09) [0x1265cd0] [extension_added_cb] rb-shell.c:792: activating
extension Grilo media browser
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-bookmarks'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-raitv'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-magnatune'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-jamendo'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-gravatar'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-podcasts'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-tracker'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-optical-media'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-metadata-store'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-local-metadata'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-dleyna'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-filesystem'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-bliptv'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-lastfm-albumart'
(rhythmbox:27983): Grilo-WARNING **: [registry] grl-registry.c:356:
Plugin is already loaded: 'grl-apple-trailers'
(rhythmbox:27983): Rhythmbox-WARNING **: Failed to load Grilo plugins:
All configured plugin paths are invalid
--- can someone help here?
Stefan
Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!
On Thursday 04 March 2010 17:37:23 Mick wrote: I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql was in there, again. This is despite the fact that the mysql use flag seem to be not active as far as portage is concerned: # euse -i mysql global use flags (searching: mysql) [-] mysql - Adds mySQL Database support local use flags (searching: mysql) [-] mysql (app-admin/ulogd): Build MYSQL output plugin to save packets in a mysql database. [-] mysql (net-misc/mediatomb): Use dev-db/mysql as backend rather than SQLite3. If this USE flag is disabled, dev-db/sqlite is used in its stead. Looking into it further I see that the virtual package is pulling the database in: # equery depends dev-db/mysql [ Searching for packages depending on dev-db/mysql... ] virtual/mysql-5.0 (=dev-db/mysql-5.0*) # equery depends virtual/mysql [ Searching for packages depending on virtual/mysql... ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.84-r1 (=virtual/mysql-5.0) dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-r1 (mysql? virtual/mysql) dev-libs/redland-1.0.10-r1 (mysql? virtual/mysql) dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.00.5 (virtual/mysql) x11-libs/qt-sql-4.6.2 (mysql? virtual/mysql) So, is this telling me the virtual mysql package depends of the real mysql and vice versa? Should I give up and accept that just like a LAMP build, from now on a Linux desktop *must* run mysql and nothing else will do? I've read that sqlite is borked and won't do what semantic-desktop wants, but what about people who for arguments sake want to run postgress or some other database? The tool you want to answer this question is emerge -t There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a package that must have it. If a user wants postgres, he should install and run postgres. How would this affect the presence or absence of mysql? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...
On 15/03/2010 18:21, Stroller wrote: It's hard to be more specific without knowing your usage. Yes... I was deliberately vague to see what options came up... but I can be more specific. The budget is miniscule - and the performance demands (bandwidth and latency) are completely non-challenging. It's in this context that I'm looking for reliability and availability... and I'd like to have unix permissions working properly. Security is a moderate concern - the physical network is secured - but there is a broadband connection which exposes various services. For storage of a mere terabyte you can buy a networked storage enclosure which will accommodate two drives. These are cheap, do mirroring, will accommodate standard 1TB, 1.5TB, 2TB drives, but are probably not too fast. A cheap NAS enclosure is a definite possibility - there'd be no performance issue - though this leaves three key questions: 1) Will it support unix file-permissions and can I be (fairly sure) it will be secure if someone hacks my Wi-Fi? 2) Will I be able to put the (majority of the) gentoo filesystem on it - or will I need to have a fully booted system to connect? 3) Can I use two entirely separate devices and mirror to both? (I expect the failure of the enclosure to be at least as likely as the failure of a drive.) If you build your own server you can use software or hardware RAID. Hmmm... building my own server - I've done that in the past, but my plan is to minimize DIY with a view to minimizing the number of components that might fail. Ideally, I'd have four devices - one with a CPU and memory (the server)... booting from Flash or CD or whatever (+a replacement in the cupboard); two separate boxes with drives in them (mirrored storage); one (wired) Ethernet hub and broadband gateway. I'd connect to the network from a separate desktop/laptop to interact with it - either locally or remotely. I wouldn't get too het up about Samba / CIFS vs NFS. Samba / CIFS can be faster than NFS, even in an all-Linux environment. Other times it's not. This seems pretty much random, depending upon whom is doing the benchmarking. On an intellectual level, at least, I find neither wholly satisfying - it would be really nice to have a Linux-native network filesystem that does authentication / permissions properly. But both do work. Well the 'server' will be running Samba - and it's the back-end storage for that I'm trying to resolve. CIFS definitely looks problematic - since Unix permissions for server data are one valuable separation between publicly accessible services and my private data. NFS might be OK (it doesn't feel great) - though I *really* don't want to move from one server to two when I'm aiming for reliability. I looked at ZFS, but decided that Solaris, from a look at the HCL, was too picky over hardware. I think ZFS is great, I no longer think it's the future. My selection of cheap hardware is far wider under Linux, I can install Gentoo and just `emerge mediatomb` and stream movies to my PS3. I like ZFS, conceptually, though I don't like Solaris. I'm aware that Apple have toyed with adopting ZFS and that it is available for BSD... A *really* neat solution would be a (pair of) cheap NAS devices running an appliance distribution of BSD with ZFS - exporting a NFS mount... possibly over a VPN? Hmmm - I'm trying to avoid complexity, too. Hmmm.
Re: [gentoo-user] mysql is being pulled in again!
On 4 March 2010 15:57, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 04 March 2010 17:37:23 Mick wrote: I am trying to understand what is pulling in mysql again. This morning a load of qt packages were being updated and I noticed a bunch of perl and virtual packages in there too. Rest assured dev-db/mysql was in there, again. This is despite the fact that the mysql use flag seem to be not active as far as portage is concerned: # euse -i mysql global use flags (searching: mysql) [- ] mysql - Adds mySQL Database support local use flags (searching: mysql) [- ] mysql (app-admin/ulogd): Build MYSQL output plugin to save packets in a mysql database. [- ] mysql (net-misc/mediatomb): Use dev-db/mysql as backend rather than SQLite3. If this USE flag is disabled, dev-db/sqlite is used in its stead. Looking into it further I see that the virtual package is pulling the database in: # equery depends dev-db/mysql [ Searching for packages depending on dev-db/mysql... ] virtual/mysql-5.0 (=dev-db/mysql-5.0*) # equery depends virtual/mysql [ Searching for packages depending on virtual/mysql... ] dev-db/mysql-5.0.84-r1 (=virtual/mysql-5.0) dev-libs/cyrus-sasl-2.1.23-r1 (mysql? virtual/mysql) dev-libs/redland-1.0.10-r1 (mysql? virtual/mysql) dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.00.5 (virtual/mysql) x11-libs/qt-sql-4.6.2 (mysql? virtual/mysql) So, is this telling me the virtual mysql package depends of the real mysql and vice versa? Should I give up and accept that just like a LAMP build, from now on a Linux desktop *must* run mysql and nothing else will do? I've read that sqlite is borked and won't do what semantic-desktop wants, but what about people who for arguments sake want to run postgress or some other database? The tool you want to answer this question is emerge -t Right, but I started this mammoth emerge before I spent enough time looking at its contents I'm afraid. :-( I could of course uninstall them and try again, but there's steam coming out the back of this old box and I would rather not have to rinse and repeat. This is what was pulled in today and most of the perl stuff seemed like new installs: Thu Mar 4 09:20:24 2010 dev-libs/libffi-3.0.9 Thu Mar 4 09:20:49 2010 dev-db/mysql-init-scripts-1.2 Thu Mar 4 09:26:49 2010 net-dns/bind-tools-9.4.3_p5 Thu Mar 4 09:33:38 2010 dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.43 Thu Mar 4 09:34:57 2010 perl-core/Storable-2.20 Thu Mar 4 09:35:22 2010 dev-perl/yaml-0.68 Thu Mar 4 09:35:56 2010 perl-core/Test-Harness-3.17 Thu Mar 4 09:36:32 2010 perl-core/Package-Constants-0.02 Thu Mar 4 09:37:07 2010 perl-core/Sys-Syslog-0.27 Thu Mar 4 09:37:26 2010 virtual/perl-Storable-2.20 Thu Mar 4 09:37:41 2010 virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.17 Thu Mar 4 09:37:57 2010 virtual/perl-Package-Constants-0.02 Thu Mar 4 09:38:15 2010 virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog-0.27 Thu Mar 4 09:38:46 2010 dev-perl/PlRPC-0.2020-r1 Thu Mar 4 09:39:19 2010 perl-core/IO-Zlib-1.09 Thu Mar 4 09:39:35 2010 virtual/perl-IO-Zlib-1.09 Thu Mar 4 09:40:09 2010 perl-core/Archive-Tar-1.54 Thu Mar 4 09:40:27 2010 virtual/perl-Archive-Tar-1.54 Thu Mar 4 09:41:03 2010 perl-core/Module-Build-0.34.0201 Thu Mar 4 09:41:19 2010 virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.34.0201 Thu Mar 4 09:41:52 2010 perl-core/ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.26.03 Thu Mar 4 09:42:08 2010 virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.26.03 Thu Mar 4 09:42:48 2010 perl-core/File-Spec-3.30 Thu Mar 4 09:43:21 2010 perl-core/ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.20.0401 Thu Mar 4 09:43:37 2010 virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.20.0401 Thu Mar 4 09:43:53 2010 virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.30 Thu Mar 4 09:44:48 2010 dev-perl/DBI-1.609 Thu Mar 4 09:47:31 2010 dev-util/boost-build-1.41.0 Thu Mar 4 09:55:19 2010 media-gfx/exiv2-0.19 Thu Mar 4 11:49:55 2010 dev-libs/boost-1.41.0-r3 Thu Mar 4 12:29:27 2010 dev-db/mysql-5.0.84-r1 Thu Mar 4 12:29:44 2010 virtual/mysql-5.0 Thu Mar 4 12:30:32 2010 dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.00.5 Thu Mar 4 13:08:28 2010 x11-libs/qt-core-4.6.2-r1 Thu Mar 4 13:12:49 2010 x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.6.2 Thu Mar 4 13:28:44 2010 x11-libs/qt-script-4.6.2 Thu Mar 4 13:32:06 2010 x11-libs/qt-sql-4.6.2 Thu Mar 4 13:33:58 2010 x11-libs/qt-test-4.6.2 Thu Mar 4 14:01:18 2010 x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns-4.6.2 Thu Mar 4 15:45:26 2010 x11-libs/qt-gui-4.6.2 Thu Mar 4 16:11:12 2010 x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.6.2 Thu Mar 4 16:17:31 2010 x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.6.2 Thu Mar 4 16:21:11 2010 x11-libs/qt-svg-4.6.2 There will be a reason why mysql is being pulled in, most likely a package that must have it. If a package must have it, wouldn't the USE flag mysql switch to + ? If a user
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...
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