Re: [gentoo-user] What about this eix output?

2008-01-18 Thread Thomas Kahle
Shaochun Wang wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 08:50:27PM -0600, forgottenwizard wrote: On 19:50 Thu 17 Jan , Kevin wrote: according to the man page, there is a mirror restriction on it. What is mirror restriction ? Mirror Restriction means that the package is not available on the Gentoo

[gentoo-user] q: how to make gentoo site sync for greek users

2008-01-18 Thread Δημήτριος Ροπόκης
plan to make a site sync to gentoo, but with easy download greek translations, my problem is I want to make it like gentoo.org, Greek users do not participate easy in open source, I am not programmer, but I can make linux work in most pc's, so now I am looking for a way to make an Greek Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I find the ebuild for new beagle version 0.3.2?

2008-01-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:34:51 +0800, Shaochun Wang wrote: As the title. Bugzilla, of course :) http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201093 -- Neil Bothwick The gene pool could use a little chlorine. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Java emerge problem

2008-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, while doing an emerge --update --deep world I get the error message !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been !!! pulled into the dependency graph: dev-java/java-config:2 ('ebuild', '/', 'dev-java/java-config-2.0.33-r1', 'merge') pulled in by ('binary', '/',

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
,--[ On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:19:49AM +, Stroller wrote: [...] I'm fairly confident that there were originally a couple of partitions on the drive, and the one I want to look at will be NTFS, of course. I know that a CD iso I can mount using `mount file.iso /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o

[gentoo-user] SANDBOX - state of the art?

2008-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.20_alpha2-r1 installed but still when I install a kernel module I need to disable the sandbox by using FEATURES='-sandbox' I am running kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 and gcc-4.2.2 as standard C-compiler. Am I missing something or is the bug not fixed, yet? Many

[gentoo-user] Re: SANDBOX - state of the art?

2008-01-18 Thread Michael Schmarck
Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.20_alpha2-r1 installed but still when I install a kernel module I need to disable the sandbox by using FEATURES='-sandbox' I am running kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3 and gcc-4.2.2 as standard C-compiler. Am I missing

[gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync /usr/portage/packages as well. Both, /etc/rsyncd.conf on the server and /etc/portage/rsync_excludes only exclude distfiles. There is no server problem, since an rsync on the command line does fetch packages, too Many thanks for a hint,

Re: [gentoo-user] What about this eix output?

2008-01-18 Thread Shaochun Wang
Thank you for all. Now I think I understand it completely. The following in the ebuild file sets the mirror restriction: RESTRICT=strip mirror -- Shaochun Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 11:17:32 +0100 (CET) Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync /usr/portage/packages as well. Both, /etc/rsyncd.conf on the server and /etc/portage/rsync_excludes only exclude distfiles. There is no server

Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync /usr/portage/packages as well. This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have _all_ distfiles available locall, you have to setup a mirror. AFAIK this is also documented

Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
,--[ On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:17:32AM +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: | Hi, | | I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync | /usr/portage/packages | as well. | Both, /etc/rsyncd.conf on the server and | /etc/portage/rsync_excludes | | only exclude distfiles. | | There is no server

Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync /usr/portage/packages as well. This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have _all_ distfiles available locall, you have to setup a

Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 18 Jan, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync /usr/portage/packages as well. This is not was emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] DNAT not working

2008-01-18 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros) writes: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan McKinnon) writes: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan McKinnon) writes: Most likely he doesn't have the

Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread Dale
Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync /usr/portage/packages as well. This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have _all_ distfiles

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Stroller == Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Stroller Would that work? I've never used VMs - are their drive images exactly Stroller blocky as my `dd` command would produce? Stroller (`dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a Stroller portable USB

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 January 2008, Thufir wrote: On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:00:51 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Let's turn this around: if Gentoo were to attract a larger user base I posit that this would attract more developers. How do you draw that conclusion? How would attracting users who are

Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb Helmut Jarausch: On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync /usr/portage/packages as well. This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to

Re: [gentoo-user] how to teach emerge -sync to sync packages?

2008-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 January 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 18 Jan, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb ext Helmut Jarausch: Hi, I haven't found out how to teach emerge to rsync /usr/portage/packages as well. This is not was emerge -sync is for. If you want to have

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread A. Khattri
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using sitebar as my online bookmark keeper for quite a while but seem to have trouble merging in new bookmarks from multiple machines ... what is supposed to be a merge turns into a replace operation or so it seems .. but not always.

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Kevin
On Jan 18, 2008 12:17 PM, Marko Kocić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I never used cable modem and don't know how it connects to the PC, so I might be saying something completely wrong here, Regular network cable going directly from cable modem to laptop. but can't you sniff the traffic

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread Yahya Mohammad
What about Google Browser Sync? http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/ If you're the paranoid type, and have your own server with https and webdav, this extension will do the job: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2367 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Stroller wrote: Hi there, Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/ mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a portable USB hard-drive).

[gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Marko Kocić
I'm running gentoo on my dual boot windows laptop. I use dhcp to connect to the the internet through cable modem. Sometimes (in the evenings) it just fails to automatically obtain IP address from dhcp server (timeouts). I tried different settings in /etc/conf.d/net file (timeout and different

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Stroller
On 18 Jan 2008, at 09:04, आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla wrote: ,--[ On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 03:19:49AM +, Stroller wrote: [...] I'm fairly confident that there were originally a couple of partitions on the drive, and the one I want to look at will be NTFS, of course. I know that a CD iso

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread reader
Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Yahya Mohammad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.user To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:09:39 +0400 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Mike
Just a thought... Did you enable High Memory support in your kernel? Processor type and features --- High Memory Support --- (X) 4GB On Jan 18, 2008 4:10 PM, Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 080118 José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Ricardo Saffi Marques
Nothing to do about it... If he's using amd64 that option doesn't even exist. And even if he's on x86, if that option is not enabled, it will boot, but will just not use all the memory phisically available. On 1/18/08, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought... Did you enable High Memory

Re: [gentoo-user] Drafting or simple blue print creation

2008-01-18 Thread b.n.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Searching with `eix -S draw' Dredges up a lot of hits I'm looking for something to help me draw a simple mechanical drawing. Just a wooden rack for a 5th wheel flat top trailer. The only linux type tool I've ever used for something like that was xfig and

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Philip Webb
080118 José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, kernel refuses to boot, hangs at Booting the kernel The first thing is to re-insert the RAM very carefully, then to check that no other connections got

[gentoo-user] Drafting or simple blue print creation

2008-01-18 Thread reader
Searching with `eix -S draw' Dredges up a lot of hits I'm looking for something to help me draw a simple mechanical drawing. Just a wooden rack for a 5th wheel flat top trailer. The only linux type tool I've ever used for something like that was xfig and that was several yrs ago. Is xfig

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread reader
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hehe... no if I only knew what ftp/webDav was ... Hehe... now if I only knew what ftp/webDav was ... ^^^ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Online bookmark keeper with good merge routine

2008-01-18 Thread reader
A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using sitebar as my online bookmark keeper for quite a while but seem to have trouble merging in new bookmarks from multiple machines ... what is supposed to be a merge turns into a replace

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Marko Kocić
I never used cable modem and don't know how it connects to the PC, so I might be saying something completely wrong here, Regular network cable going directly from cable modem to laptop. but can't you sniff the traffic directly from the laptop by capturing packets on the interface connected

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 18 January 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: My first diagnostic step would be to get another machine on the network and sniff dhcp traffic when using Windows and Gentoo to see what the difference is. I can't do that, cause I don't have switch/hub, just a cable modem directly conencted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-18 Thread Lowe Schmidt
The scenario is a bit bizarre I'd say. On Jan 18, 2008, at 7:46 PM, Thufir wrote: On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:04:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Nope. The Ubuntu developers would probably just carry on doing what they doing now - developing on Ubuntu. What makes you think they'd change? They

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Marko Kocić
On Jan 18, 2008 6:50 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: I'm running gentoo on my dual boot windows laptop. I use dhcp to connect to the the internet through cable modem. Sometimes (in the evenings) it just fails to automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 January 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: I'm running gentoo on my dual boot windows laptop. I use dhcp to connect to the the internet through cable modem. Sometimes (in the evenings) it just fails to automatically obtain IP address from dhcp server (timeouts). I tried different settings

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Friday 18 January 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: I never used cable modem and don't know how it connects to the PC, so I might be saying something completely wrong here, Regular network cable going directly from cable modem to laptop. but can't you sniff the traffic directly from the

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Statux
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 22:58 +, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at Booting the kernel I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other

[gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread José Pedro Saraiva
Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at Booting the kernel I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other issue, perhaps related with my boot options? Any help or ideas are

Re: [gentoo-user] No kernel boot after inserting more ram

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 January 2008, José Pedro Saraiva wrote: Hi all, wise gentoo users! I've recently bought an extra GB of RAM for my laptop. After inserting it, kernel refuses to boot, it hangs at Booting the kernel I'm sure there's nothing wrong with the RAM, so it must be some other issue,

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 January 2008, Marko Kocić wrote: Actually, as long as the interface is up, you can sniff traffic even if it does not have an IP address. Emerge wireshark (somehow...), do (as root) an ip link set eth0 up (or ifconfig eth0 up) and run wireshark. Start capturing packets, run

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: Won't

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file system* image. The ntfs driver (or any sane file

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: Stroller wrote: Hi there, Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/

Re: [gentoo-user] q: how to make gentoo site sync for greek users

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 January 2008, Δημήτριος Ροπόκης wrote: plan to make a site sync to gentoo, but with easy download greek translations, my problem is I want to make it like gentoo.org, Greek users do not participate easy in open source, I am not programmer, but I can make linux work in most

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: SANDBOX - state of the art?

2008-01-18 Thread Mick
On Friday 18 January 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote: Helmut Jarausch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.20_alpha2-r1 installed but still when I install a kernel module I need to disable the sandbox by using FEATURES='-sandbox' I am running kernel 2.6.23-gentoo-r3

Re: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage

2008-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 January 2008, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 17:06:28 Alan McKinnon wrote: Roll on KDE4 when this monolithic nonsense will go away and there will only be -meta ebuilds. Actually it was decided to keep monolithics in KDE 4.0.0. Splits are now the default

[gentoo-user] Can't emerge apache

2008-01-18 Thread Mike Diehl
Hi all, I'm building a new machine and I'm having trouble getting apache to emerge. This is a BRAND NEW BOX, with nothing else done to it, so I expected apache to load just fine. Here is the error message I'm getting. Any help would be appreciated. Mike.

Re: [gentoo-user] DNAT not working

2008-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 January 2008, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: xt_tcpudp is the difference as it seems verified it that was the problem. For whatever reason I forgot to configure module autoloading into the kernel. Perhaps you used an old .config and that option name has changed? alan -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Net / dhcp (miss)behaviour

2008-01-18 Thread Marko Kocić
Actually, as long as the interface is up, you can sniff traffic even if it does not have an IP address. Emerge wireshark (somehow...), do (as root) an ip link set eth0 up (or ifconfig eth0 up) and run wireshark. Start capturing packets, run dhcpcd from the command line (or whatever DHCP

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Yahya Mohammad
Another hack you can try is use to use '--offset' option of 'losetup'. First figure out from which byte, NTFS partition starts in disk image, and then you create a loopback back device for that image and the starting offset using 'losetup' and finally 'mount' the loopback as NTFS partition :)

[gentoo-user] Re: Is GWN dead?

2008-01-18 Thread Thufir
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:04:46 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Nope. The Ubuntu developers would probably just carry on doing what they doing now - developing on Ubuntu. What makes you think they'd change? They would continue to develop it even if *no-one*, outside of the developers, used it?

[gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
Stroller wrote: Hi there, Before installing on a new laptop which came with Vista pre-installed I took an image of the hard-drive using dd. (ie: `dd if=/dev/sda of=/ mnt/sdb1/disk.img`, where /mnt/sdb1 was a portable USB hard-drive). Obviously the intention was that if I b0rked things up

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a *file system* image. The ntfs driver (or any sane file system driver) will not know what to do with a block image

Re: [gentoo-user] loopback mount hard-drive image created with dd?

2008-01-18 Thread Jerry McBride
On Friday 18 January 2008 02:19:21 pm Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:54:58 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008, Jerry McBride wrote: On Friday 18 January 2008 01:01:18 pm Alan McKinnon wrote: Won't work. He already said the .iso is a *disk* image, not a

[gentoo-user] kde 'Lock Sesson' does nothing

2008-01-18 Thread James
Hello, I/ve tried rebuilding all sorts of stuff. Nothing get's this working again, in the kde pull down menu. Any ideas what to rebuild? revdep-rebuild is clean. James -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list