Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:58, Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 06:41:14AM +0100, Andy Smith wrote: gcc -DNDEBUG -g -O3 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I. -I/home/andy/tmp/Python-2.2.2/./Include -I/u sr/local/include -I/home/andy/tmp/Python-2.2.2/Include

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not I'm doing this correctly. It seems that any time there's questions about etc-update everyone seems to be hush-hush. I've layed out what my goal is, what I've

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread blade-
Only thing i can say is instead of cp new.cfg old.cfg rm old.cfg u could just mv old.cfg new.cfg Joshua Banks wrote: Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not I'm doing this correctly. It seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Ben Sparks
why not use etc-update? seems to save much hassle and time for me. On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 02:30, Joshua Banks wrote: Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not I'm doing this correctly. It seems that

Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2003-09-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:12:50PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:58, Andy Smith wrote: Does anyone have any more ideas? Check /var/log/emerge.log and post all the packages that were upgraded since the last time you used portage without problems. We can then

Re: [gentoo-user] post-it notes application?

2003-09-17 Thread Owen Gunden
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:32:49AM +0200, Alberto Bert wrote: I would like to have a yellow post-it notes manager like knotes or goat, but I don't use gnome or KDE (WM fan.) Could you suggest me any program like those for wm or x, which don't need to start heavy processes? Try xpad. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 13:49, Joshua Banks wrote: Just fishing here..+ acouple of questions. ** My Goal in this posting: Is to learn how-to correctly manually update the files without the use of ect-update. Well, the correct way

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:30:14PM -0700, Joshua Banks wrote: Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to confirm whether or not I'm doing this correctly. It seems that any time there's questions about etc-update everyone

Re: [gentoo-user] small network

2003-09-17 Thread Jean Magnan de Bornier
Le 09/17/03 Jayson Garrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit notamment: On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 15:12, Phil Jackson wrote: * Jean Magnan de Bornier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all, Hello Jean, I want to make a network with two gentoo machines at home, I don't know what is needed.Could

[gentoo-user] where to find jar program?

2003-09-17 Thread martin
hi! i tried to update the system, but doing a emerge -u system stops at the package sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 with an error... it says it needs a jar program, but does not find it in $PATH... so where do i find this program? how do i find out which package i should merge to get this? qpkg -f works

Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 15:38, Andy Smith wrote: On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:12:50PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:58, Andy Smith wrote: Does anyone have any more ideas? Check /var/log/emerge.log and post all the packages that were upgraded since

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Thanks for the replies everyone. All the suggestions have helped. JBanks --- Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 11:30:14PM -0700, Joshua Banks wrote: Come-on... No fish in the Gentoo pond..tonight I'm not asking for you to hold my hand. I just need someone to

[gentoo-user] Figures about gentoo compilation -- rtc connection

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Rubiolo
Hello to you all, I am relatively new to the list so please point me to the good location if this question has already been asked (according to the list archives I found on http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-user%40gentoo.org/, it hasn't) I am very interested about installing gentoo on my

Re: [gentoo-user] Figures about gentoo compilation -- rtc connection

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick
Hi, You could use GRP which as far as i understand it is pre compiled binaries to get your system up and running then use a emerge -uf world at school to fetch the packages you require and then do a emerge -u world at home and let it compile over night ? this might ease your troubles with the rtc

[gentoo-user] trouble with xerces-2.5.0

2003-09-17 Thread momesana
Hi, everybody. I can't emerge -u world since the emerge process returns an Error while compiling Xerces-2.5.0. I have pasted the errormessage into that email beneath. I also obtained the sources and tried to compile them myself and this also failed. Any suggestion on how to solve this? Thanx

[gentoo-user] Re: Trouble with OpenSSH 3.7.1_p1

2003-09-17 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Any idea? Yep: It's yet another GCC 3.3.1-r2 issue. Downgraded to GCC 3.3.1-r1, remerged OpenSSH 3.7.1_p1 and it works again. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://sebastian-bergmann.de/ http://phpOpenTracker.de/ Das Buch zu PHP 5:

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Ok... So do I goto the list when I'm unsure about differences in files that I'm unsure of. Some of them are common sense type differences but others I'm unsure of like dispatch-conf.conf The new file doesn't have the header at the beginning and there are all sorts of changes that are beyond

Re: [gentoo-user] where to find jar program?

2003-09-17 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Martin, You need a java package and java-config installed, and you need to execute java-config to set the system java virtual machine. Regards, Jose PS: By the way, I've seen this question a dozen times, shouldn't this be included in a FAQ or something? martin wrote: hi! i

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with xerces-2.5.0

2003-09-17 Thread sf
momesana wrote: Hi, everybody. I can't emerge -u world since the emerge process returns an Error while compiling Xerces-2.5.0. I have pasted the errormessage into that email beneath. I also obtained the sources and tried to compile them myself and this also failed. Any suggestion on how to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 15:52, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 15:38, Andy Smith wrote: Hmm. So it's quite likely that gcc is the culprit here. Yet that newly installed gcc does seem to work; I can compile things. gcc-3.3.1-r2 has some bugs. Check on bugzilla.

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..[Solved]

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Feel pretty silly now :p etc-update Was staring me in the face the whole time begging me to use it...CORRECTLY...that is.. :D JBanks __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] portage broken

2003-09-17 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 05:44:46PM +0900, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 15:52, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 15:38, Andy Smith wrote: Hmm. So it's quite likely that gcc is the culprit here. Yet that newly installed gcc does seem to work; I can

[gentoo-user] Updating /etc/dispatch-conf.conf ??

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
When I'm merging diff's between; 1) /etc/dispatch-conf.conf (and) /etc/._cfg_dispatch-conf.conf /etc/._cfg_dispatch-conf.conf has no HEADER. Anal question. But should I attatch the header of the old file onto the new one when merging the diff's? Don't all files need to have a header

[gentoo-user] caller number and fax monitoring?

2003-09-17 Thread a_k_b
does anyone know about a tool for monitoring my isdn (normal voice calls) and/or isdn fax? at the moment i run an answering machine and a fax with my fritz!pci (isdn card) and it works quite well. i receive and send faxes and also the answering machine works well. but my problem is to notify

Re: [gentoo-user] small network

2003-09-17 Thread Norbert Kamenicky
Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: I want to make a network with two gentoo machines at home, I don't know what is needed.Could someone point me to some HOWTO? OK I will be more specific: I just want to transfer files from my pc to my laptop, or make backups of one on the other. I have tried

[gentoo-user] Current XSESSION entry for KDE?

2003-09-17 Thread Karl-Heinz Zimmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, currently updating my complete Gentoo installation on the LapTop I wonder if it still correct to have XSESSION=kde-3.1 in my /etc/rc.conf. Must I change this into kde-3.2 now or is 3.2 not there already? Karl-Heinz - -- Karl-Heinz Zimmer,

Re: [gentoo-user] Only one KDE app?

2003-09-17 Thread Andreas Lundin
On Saturday 06 September 2003 05.28, Norberto Bensa wrote: Is there a way to install only one KDE app? I need kweather, and only kweather from kdetoys. Yes, you can use the DO_NOT_COMPILE environment variable. Look at http://docs.kde.org for the contents of the kdetoys package and then do:

Re: [gentoo-user] small network

2003-09-17 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Jean, Remember that you HAVE to use a crossover cable, as someone mentioned previuosly. If you make a direct connection from network card to network card without a hub, a normal network cable won't do the trick. Regards Jose Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: Le 09/17/03 Jayson Garrell

Re: [gentoo-user] small network

2003-09-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Sep 2003, at 7:43 am, Jean Magnan de Bornier wrote: OK I will be more specific: I just want to transfer files from my pc to my laptop, or make backups of one on the other. I have tried to do that with a cable (rj45 as it's called in France) connecting them, but then I could figure out what

Re: [gentoo-user] OT networking question

2003-09-17 Thread Stroller
On 6 Sep 2003, at 1:52 am, Spider wrote: begin quote On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 18:39:16 -0400 (EDT) Marshal Newrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 5 Sep 2003, Ernie Schroder wrote: As far as measuring bandwidth, there's a program called 'bing' (which is not in portage) which will determine the

[gentoo-user] emerge sync failed ?!

2003-09-17 Thread raptor
how to solve this !? # emerge sync starting rsync with rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage... rsync: failed to connect to rsync.gentoo.org: Invalid argument rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(97)

[gentoo-user] Fluxbox Vs. Openbox

2003-09-17 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey all, I've been a fluxbox fan for an awfully long time now. For me it's always been the perfect blend of speed, simplictiy and prettiness. I notice now that there's another blackbox-esque window manager: OpenBox. Can someone with experience with both tell me what the major differences

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox Vs. Openbox

2003-09-17 Thread Klaus S. Madsen
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:37:49PM +1200, Tom Eastman wrote: I notice now that there's another blackbox-esque window manager: OpenBox. Can someone with experience with both tell me what the major differences are? What do people prefer, fluxbox or openbox? OpenBox doesn't have tabbed

[gentoo-user] portage write access?

2003-09-17 Thread Martin Klaffenboeck
Hello, I found that some ebuilds are very wrong. I.E. the omniORB-4.0.0.ebuild, the important mistake is, that there is the '|| die' missing after 'emake'. So people think, OmniORB gets installed, but actually it doesn't get installed. I would like to have write access for this ebuild to

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-Firebird

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
You have to add it to the menu using the Menu editor. On Tue, 16 Sep 2003 19:57:17 -0700 Kevin Miller, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I emerged Mozilla-Firebird today. The problem is that I cannot seem to find it. It is not listed in the KDE menu. Did I have to emerge Mozilla first? Any

[gentoo-user] mail server migration...

2003-09-17 Thread raptor
thanx alot ... i didn't know I have to drink vine,etc.. at the end of the procedure, but U say so, then I have to do the recipie :) as explained, otherwise something can go wrong ... There have to be some .ebuild for this.. :), so we can update it often.. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] OT: Linux profession certificate

2003-09-17 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi all folks, Linux Professional Institute is an authority issuing examination certificate on achievement of Linux standard. Are there other authorities in this respect? How about their ranking on World recognition and level. Thanks B.R. Stephen Liu To Get Your Own iCareHK.com Email

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
Well, I do it by using my editor (jstar) to show both files - new on top, old on bottom. I then go through and see what is new and then modify one of the files. For example, with make.conf I keep my old and move stuff from the new one to the old. However, with the last baselayout

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your system will break. Also, when you modify your make.conf file you don't want it overwritten mindlessly. If you notice etc-update will remove all your changes. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:42:59 -0400 Ben Sparks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: why

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
--- brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I do it by using my editor (jstar) to show both files - new on top, old on bottom. I then go through and see what is new and then modify one of the files. For example, with make.conf I keep my old and move stuff from the new one to the

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread nmeyers
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:00:59AM -0400, brett holcomb wrote: Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your system will break. Also, when you modify your make.conf file you don't want it overwritten mindlessly. If you notice etc-update will remove all your changes.

[gentoo-user] emerge from LiveCD

2003-09-17 Thread Bob Barry
I got the Gentoo 1.4 disks via snail mail, and installed as nearly by the book as I could. I only have dialup ppp, so installing much of the system from CD saves both time and telkom cost. The emerge system works beautifully if I start the ppp. But the instructions say that you should be

RE: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your system will break. Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab;

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
Unless it's a file that I edit and change I let etc-update handle it. I'm not familiar with this file but if you haven't messed with it or a program you use hasn't change it then give it to etc-update. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 01:09:51 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok... So

Re: [gentoo-user] private rsync mirror ?

2003-09-17 Thread Ross
You could just run FTP on your server, and update the distfiles on it (by rsync or FTP) whenever necessary, and set all the other machines to use it as a mirror (making it the first entry in the GENTOO_MIRRORS line in make.conf). Not really the answer you're looking for though. Can't blame me

Re: [gentoo-user] portage write access?

2003-09-17 Thread Marius Mauch
On 09/17/03 Martin Klaffenboeck wrote: Hello, I found that some ebuilds are very wrong. I.E. the omniORB-4.0.0.ebuild, the important mistake is, that there is the '|| die' missing after 'emake'. So people think, OmniORB gets installed, but actually it doesn't get installed. hmm,

[gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. Now I know I'm new to this, but this seems a little ridiculous. The only files that I'm familiar with are the ones that I touched

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating /etc/dispatch-conf.conf ??

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
No not all have headers. They are used for tracking versions. On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 02:46:19 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm merging diff's between; 1) /etc/dispatch-conf.conf (and) /etc/._cfg_dispatch-conf.conf /etc/._cfg_dispatch-conf.conf has no HEADER.

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
You're welcome! On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 05:02:21 -0700 (PDT) Joshua Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- brett holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I do it by using my editor (jstar) to show both files - new on top, old on bottom. I then go through and After all they are almost always updated

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will mess it up. Every update that etc-update has wanted to do has wanted to replace my /dev/... with /dev/BOOT and take out my stuff and that would sure hose the system. Other than running it through an editor manually I don't know of

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
My rule of thumb - if I haven't touched it myself then I turn etc-update loose. Usually it's hosts, make.conf, fstab and files that you have to edit and setup that I do manually. Most of the files below you can let etc-update have it's way. I don't know about dispatch-conf. On Wed, 17 Sep

RE: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Gwendolyn van der Linden
Joshua Banks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. Now I know I'm new to this, but this seems a little ridiculous. I agree. The only files that

Re: [gentoo-user] portage write access?

2003-09-17 Thread Martin Klaffenboeck
Am 2003.09.17 14:26 schrieb(en) Marius Mauch: On 09/17/03 Martin Klaffenboeck wrote: Hello, I found that some ebuilds are very wrong. I.E. the omniORB-4.0.0.ebuild, the important mistake is, that there is the '|| die' missing after 'emake'. So people think, OmniORB gets installed, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-Firebird

2003-09-17 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 12:20 am, Norberto Bensa wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: Kevin PLEASE do not start a new thread by replying to an old one and eh? Is my kmail messing up threads again? I thought that was straightened out. My apologies to Kevin. I show Kevin's

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Ross
*agrees with brett* if I haven't modified the file, I leave all the work up to etc-update :) it isn't much effort looking out for the 4 or 5 files you need to worry about. Ross. On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:33, brett holcomb wrote: If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will

Re: [gentoo-user] private rsync mirror ?

2003-09-17 Thread raptor
Is it possible in some way to just syncing /usr/portage/ directory except /distfiles.. I mean if I know which files are unique for every machine I can make them as : rsync --exc= and set one cron job on the main machine to watch gentoo-mirrors and then on all others just rsync with this

[gentoo-user] Wireless Mice

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
I've acquired a MS wireless mouse (it was free G) and wondered if anyone had used a wireless mouse successfully on Gentoo. This mouse has a base station that plugs into the ps/2 or usb port and the mouse communicates with it. Thanks. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread brett holcomb
Except for base-layout updates which seem to include /etc/hosts G but even then it was only a few! On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:37:12 +0200 Ross [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *agrees with brett* if I haven't modified the file, I leave all the work up to etc-update :) it isn't much effort looking out

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Mice

2003-09-17 Thread Ross
Surely it's handled at a hardware level, and treated as a normal mouse? Gentoo shouldn't even need to know it's wireless. Ross. On Wednesday 17 September 2003 14:40, brett holcomb wrote: I've acquired a MS wireless mouse (it was free G) and wondered if anyone had used a wireless mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Davide Brini
On 14:27, mercoledì 17 settembre 2003, Joshua Banks wrote: 1) /etc/dispatch-conf.conf /etc/._cfg_dispatch-conf.conf Don't know, I don't use it. 2) /etc/issue /etc/._cfg_issue I kept mine, but if you replace it with the suggested one it won't hurt too much. This file contains the

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread nmeyers
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:33:46AM -0400, brett holcomb wrote: If you blindly say update it then etc-update sure will mess it up. Every update that etc-update has wanted to do has wanted to replace my /dev/... with /dev/BOOT and take out my stuff and that would sure hose the system. Other

RE: [gentoo-user] Wireless Mice

2003-09-17 Thread Brenden Walker
I use a logitech wireless, and yes.. It's just like any other mouse as far as the OS is concerned -Original Message- From: Ross [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Mice Surely it's

[gentoo-user] distcc requires xfree ???

2003-09-17 Thread Gustav_Schaffter
So I thought I should try out distcc on three hardware-challenged and absolutely identical computers. emerge -p distcc shows a requirement of xfree (???) I have -X in my USE flag. Now, I have tried to understand more or less what distcc is, and I believe it is what I think it is; a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage write access?

2003-09-17 Thread Marius Mauch
On 09/17/03 Martin Klaffenboeck wrote: Am 2003.09.17 14:26 schrieb(en) Marius Mauch: On 09/17/03 Martin Klaffenboeck wrote: I know, I can send bug reports and so on, but I think, there aren't enaugh people with write access to the portage, There are currently ~150-200 people with

Re: [gentoo-user] clearing out distfiles?

2003-09-17 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Tom Wesley -- Attached is a copy of distclean, found on the forums... If I try to run this script, I get the following error: = itchy scripts # ./distclean-0.1.py -p DISTDIR = /usr/portage/distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] Fluxbox Vs. Openbox

2003-09-17 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:37:49 +1200 Tom Eastman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do people prefer, fluxbox or openbox? OpenBox doesn't have tabbed windows, but I pretty much never use that feature anyway. What does OpenBox offer me that fluxbox doesn't? Openbox. for one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble with xerces-2.5.0

2003-09-17 Thread momesana
First of all, thanx for the link. It helped to solve the problem, even if the sollution was kind of rude. I solved the problem with a very very dirty method! I simply got the jdk-1.4.2 from sun, installed it and copied it to /opt/blackdown-jdk.1.4.1 ... (I had copied the actuall blackdown dir

Re: [gentoo-user] Current XSESSION entry for KDE?

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
To find out what KDE release your using simply right click on the K-Startapplication Iconthen Panel MenuHelpAbout KDE JBanks --- Karl-Heinz Zimmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, currently updating my complete Gentoo installation on the

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireless Mice

2003-09-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
brett holcomb wrote: I've acquired a MS wireless mouse (it was free G) and wondered if anyone had used a wireless mouse successfully on Gentoo. This mouse has a base station that plugs into the ps/2 or usb port and the mouse communicates with it. I have a generic wireless USB mouse that I got

Re: [gentoo-user] clearing out distfiles?

2003-09-17 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: -- quoting Tom Wesley -- Attached is a copy of distclean, found on the forums... If I try to run this script, I get the following error: = itchy scripts # ./distclean-0.1.py -p

RE: [gentoo-user] emerge from LiveCD

2003-09-17 Thread Lee Hughes
You got further than I did...I tried to install the GRP from CD only but kept getting errors about not having a network connection...seems like the GRP instructions stop about 1/2 way through. Can you give me any tips on how to install the basic GRP from CD only? -Original Message- From:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble with OpenSSH 3.7.1_p1

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick
Hi, Did u try disable'ing pam ? it seems to be br0ken ... when i said usePAM no it worked P - Original Message - From: Sebastian Bergmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 9:45 AM Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Trouble with OpenSSH 3.7.1_p1 |

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Joshua Banks
Yes, I replied long ago saying that I now see how to use etc-update correctly. Thanks though. Maybe now you see why I started the other thread about etc-update. I've actually been able to look through the various files that need updating and feel like I need to be a programmer to understand

[gentoo-user] ntpd and hwclock

2003-09-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
I read the forum entry on setting up ntpd (http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=41099) and did everything except modify /etc/conf.d/ntpd. I checked my time with the date command and compared it with http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl. The time as reported by date was not correct,

[gentoo-user] Re: trouble with xerces-2.5.0

2003-09-17 Thread sf
momesana wrote: First of all, thanx for the link. It helped to solve the problem, even if the sollution was kind of rude. I solved the problem with a very very dirty method! I simply got the jdk-1.4.2 from sun, installed it and copied it to /opt/blackdown-jdk.1.4.1 ... (I had copied the actuall

[gentoo-user] Really, really need help with procmail and evolution

2003-09-17 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
I really need some help now, normal if nobody answers to a mail i find it several day's later, but now i'm compleet stuck. I'm using evolution now as mail program/PIM but i want to use my fetchmail/postfix/spam/procmail setup because i like this. The only problem i got is that i don't know where

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc requires xfree ???

2003-09-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 17. September 2003 15:02 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So I thought I should try out distcc on three hardware-challenged and absolutely identical computers. emerge -p distcc shows a requirement of xfree (???) Hmm, I guess emerge -pv distcc will show +gtk at the end of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-Firebird

2003-09-17 Thread Stephen Boulet
Thanks for the tip on kappfinder! I never knew that existed. Anyone know how to get it to find openoffice.org and games in /usr/local/games? On Tuesday 16 September 2003 10:33 pm, gabriel wrote: On September 16, 2003 10:57 pm, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote: I emerged Mozilla-Firebird today. The

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc requires xfree ???

2003-09-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:02:05 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | So I thought I should try out distcc on three hardware-challenged and | absolutely identical computers. | | emerge -p distcc | | shows a requirement of xfree (???) | | I have -X in my USE flag. | | Now, I have tried to understand

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc requires xfree ???

2003-09-17 Thread Gustav_Schaffter
Dirk, Your theory sounds reasonable. I'll try to add -gtk+ to my USE tonight. TIA Biker Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] distcc requires xfree ???

2003-09-17 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Mittwoch, 17. September 2003 16:02 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Your theory sounds reasonable. It's reality, read the ebuild ;-) Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)151 1513 6954 Configuration Manager | Fax: +49 (0)211 47068 111 Cap Gemini Ernst Young|

[gentoo-user] emerge gnome 2.4

2003-09-17 Thread Wayne Oliver
Hi Guys I am trying to emerge gnome 2.4 but it depends on alot of masked packages. So I set my ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 but still no luck. What else do I need to do to emerge gnome 2.4 Any help would be greatly appreciated. Regards Wayne -- This message, including any attachments, may contain

[gentoo-user] nvidia kernel upgrade

2003-09-17 Thread Ernie Schroder
Is anyone else having a problem upgrading nvidia kernel? I've tried with and without an Xserver running. Do I need to emerge -C my older nvidia-kernel first? $ sudo emerge nvidia-kernel Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.4363-r3 to / md5 src_uri

[gentoo-user] /var/cache/edb/world

2003-09-17 Thread Ernie Schroder
because of the problems I'm having with nvidia-kernel, I backed-up /var/cache/edb/world and removed the nvidia-kernel line. Now an emerge -UDp world still wants to upgrade it. What am I missing? -- Regards, Ernie 100% Microsoft and Intel free -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/cache/edb/world

2003-09-17 Thread Martin Larsson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i think nvidia-glx depends on it Ernie Schroder wrote: | because of the problems I'm having with nvidia-kernel, I backed-up | /var/cache/edb/world and removed the nvidia-kernel line. Now an | emerge -UDp world still wants to upgrade it. What am I

Re: [gentoo-user] where to find jar program?

2003-09-17 Thread martin
Zitat von Jose Gonzalez Gomez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Martin, You need a java package and java-config installed, and you need to execute java-config to set the system java virtual machine. Regards, Jose PS: By the way, I've seen this question a dozen

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-Firebird

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
KAppFinder can only add apps it already knows about. OpenOffice.org should be added automatically when it is emerged if you had the kde USE flag set. On Wednesday 17 September 2003 22:56, Stephen Boulet wrote: Thanks for the tip on kappfinder! I never knew that existed. Anyone know how to

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
There's a lot of talk that pops up in gentoo-dev regarding etc-update. For the time being, etc-update (or dispath-conf for a little protection) is about the best you'll get. Having said that, dispatch-conf *does* do automatic header and white-space merging and can also be set to auto-merge

Re: [gentoo-user] portage write access?

2003-09-17 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:36:47 +0200 Martin Klaffenboeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW. 150-200 People worldwide are not very much. And the cvs is overloaded? Yeah, the server is badly overloaded at the moment. We have a new server in transit I've been told, but it isn't

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 21:27, Joshua Banks wrote: LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. You don't need to be a programmer at all - that's much harder. What you

Re: [gentoo-user] Mozilla-Firebird

2003-09-17 Thread Spider
begin quote On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:38:41 -0400 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 12:20 am, Norberto Bensa wrote: Ernie Schroder wrote: Kevin PLEASE do not start a new thread by replying to an old one and eh? Is my kmail messing up

Re: [gentoo-user] Local mailing-list archive

2003-09-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:20:17 +0200 Matthias F. Brandstetter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- quoting Ron -- I am new to Linux and even newer to mailing lists. How do you save the mailing-list emails? Do you move them to a folder in your mail program or do you have a separate

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/cache/edb/world

2003-09-17 Thread Jason Stubbs
There's also a virtual for opengl provided by nvidia-glx so you'll need to sort that out as well. On Wednesday 17 September 2003 23:26, Martin Larsson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i think nvidia-glx depends on it Ernie Schroder wrote: | because of the problems I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Figures about gentoo compilation -- rtc connection

2003-09-17 Thread Vincent Rubiolo
Thank you Jason and Patrick for your advices. I am going to dl the ISOs for the live cds and install GRP at first. Jason : RTC is a french name for dialup connection (sorry, I thought it was a standard, having different meanings in french ang english though, like GSM) Another last question :

Re: [gentoo-user] where to find jar program?

2003-09-17 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Martin, The problem is that you don't only need to have java and java-config installed, the problem is that you need to have a java virtual machine selected with java-config. If you make an emerge with --emptytree you can see that java and java-config is listed in the packages to be

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 14:24:22 +0200 Gwendolyn van der Linden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ rest snipped ] I guess the above is true for several other files. Any file that is hard/dangerous to merge automatically should NOT be in portage, but provided as an example or template instead. In some

RE: [gentoo-user] nvidia kernel upgrade

2003-09-17 Thread Ricardo Nuno
Hi, I had that problem before i upgraded my kernel to gentoo-r7 what is the kernel that your using ? regards, RNuno -Original Message- From: Ernie Schroder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: quarta-feira, 17 de Setembro de 2003 15:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] nvidia

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update versus Manual update opinions..

2003-09-17 Thread Stroller
On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote: brett holcomb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your system will break. Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and making the copying/editing part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update You've got to be kidding me!!

2003-09-17 Thread Ian Tindale
On Wednesday 17 September 2003 3:50 pm, Jason Stubbs wrote: On Wednesday 17 September 2003 21:27, Joshua Banks wrote: LOL.. Do I need to be a computer programmer now to figure out what files I can update safely and which ones I should ignore, keep, throw-out...ect.ect.. You

Re: [gentoo-user] Figures about gentoo compilation -- rtc connection

2003-09-17 Thread Collins Richey
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:56:09 +0200 Vincent Rubiolo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you Jason and Patrick for your advices. I am going to dl the ISOs for the live cds and install GRP at first. Jason : RTC is a french name for dialup connection (sorry, I thought it was a standard, having

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