Re: [gentoo-user] e17 overlay bug

2008-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 10:38:48 Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Good Day; I've found that the recent EINA library release for e17 has broken just about everything. Gentoo's overlay system should be simple enough to modify however after reading the fine manual I am no closer to

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86-video-intel-2.5.0 emerge error

2008-11-04 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:11 PM, Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try upgrade xorg-server too . If this doesnt fix your problem, i would suggest filling a bug on gentoo bugzilla :) Even better would be to opt for emerge -DNu package (unless you already did so). Liviu --

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package

2008-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:23:11 +0100, András Csányi wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] gnome-base/gail-1.22.3 USE=-debug -doc 659 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4 USE=X jpeg jpeg2k tiff vim-syntax -cups -debug -doc -xinerama 0 kB [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel BUG

2008-11-04 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:33:09 -0200 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so. Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a hard drive. With tail -F /var/log/messages running I saw EXT3 mentioned a few days

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 overlay bug

2008-11-04 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
Good Day all; Sorry to sound like a luddite; Where would I create my own user overlay? (so I may go about fiddling with the settings?) Regards, Hazen. On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:36 AM, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've found that the recent EINA library release for

Re: [gentoo-user] Is gentoo-portage and gentoo-wiki offline?

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I generally try to update the docs with recent packages every six months or so though I am guilty of letting them sit a bit longer. However Gentoo has no official Bind documentation. The official Gentoo Virtual Mail how-to offers about half the functionality, explanation, and

Re: [gentoo-user] fcron driving me crazy

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
- Hide quoted text - On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8 Oct 2008, at 04:10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... every fcron is starting updatedb. I dont need this service on a daily basis. I am starting updatedb by hand if I need a fresh db. But I need a full

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems installing KDE 3.5.9 --SOLVED--

2008-11-04 Thread alain . didierjean
- Mail Original - De: alain didierjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] À: gentoo-user gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Envoyé: Dimanche 2 Novembre 2008 11:26:29 GMT +01:00 Amsterdam / Berlin / Berne / Rome / Stockholm / Vienne Objet: [gentoo-user] Problems installing KDE 3.5.9 Some packages from KDE

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 11:08 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My first install of Gentoo, and I'm pleased by how far I've progressed on my own, not being a programmer or computer person, but I'm a bit wary of proceeding further without advice. I was trying to emerge some several

Re: [gentoo-user] framebuffer hangs in 2.6.26

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
The current kernel that I am running is 2.6.26.5-rt9-gentoo2. Sporadically this freezes, usually happening during the end of emerging an ebuild or when stopping gpm. Usually, the fb only freezes for a few seconds, but sometimes I have to AltSysRqO the machine (it's unresponsive to

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 overlay bug

2008-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:36:54 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: I've found that the recent EINA library release for e17 has broken just about everything. Gentoo's overlay system should be simple enough to modify however after reading the fine manual I am no closer to

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good knowledge of it, I didn't change the default. You probably want this enabled. I think

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-04 Thread Philip Webb
081103 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: After reading some of the comments here, I re-synced, unmerged Ooo, and emerged openoffice and hunspell. I already had the myspell-en build. The result: a clean compile, but useless. Now it quits silently a second or so into any startup, with or without a

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 overlay bug

2008-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 15:42:21 Hazen Valliant-Saunders wrote: Good Day all; Sorry to sound like a luddite; Where would I create my own user overlay? (so I may go about fiddling with the settings?) It's in the handbook somewhere :-) But I can't be bothered finding it, so I'll type it.

[gentoo-user] 2.6.27 kernel can't find its map file?

2008-11-04 Thread John covici
Hi. I tried to switch to kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 last night and aside from several annoying problems, the one I would like to enquire about is that it complained that it could not find its map file(!) Here are the messages I received: Nov 3 22:33:35 ccs kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map Nov

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 3 broken?

2008-11-04 Thread Dmitry S. Makovey
On November 4, 2008, Philip Webb wrote: I'm back to MSOffice. I hate it but it works. Sorry, might be coming late to this discussion and offering something that was already offered, but how about openoffice-bin ? It works for me 100% of the time on several workstations without a glitch (both

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.27 kernel can't find its map file?

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 16:57:43 schrieb John covici: I tried to switch to kernel 2.6.27-gentoo-r2 last night and aside from several annoying problems, the one I would like to enquire about is that it complained that it could not find its map file(!)  Here are the messages I received:

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel BUG

2008-11-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 04 November 2008, David Relson wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:33:09 -0200 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so. Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a hard drive. With tail -F

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't play audio cds!

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 8:16 PM, Michael Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: checked the log file, but I couldn't find anything. I couldn't mount my CD (in the past this wasn't necessary for audio CDs, but I thought I'd As far as I know, the Linux kernel cannot mount Audio CDs. The one

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 overlay bug

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Mike Frysinger - he's a busy man :-) He heads up the gentoo toolchain team, is a lead kernel dev on the blackfin architecture, recently was (maybe still is) on the gentoo council. And maintains an e17 overlay. Oh boy. I would donate money to him if I wasn't a poor student and if the dollar

Re: [gentoo-user] limit maximum memory size of any process

2008-11-04 Thread Matthias Bethke
Hi Zhang, on Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:30:55PM +0800, you wrote: I interpret the above as use a maximum of 300,000 KiB of memory, of which 300 may be resident (i.e. in physical memory) and 299,700 swapped out. That doesn't sound good, although I'm not sure I'm reading it correctly. Sorry,

[gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-04 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi, I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy of directories populated with FLAC files to a new set of directories using mp3 instead? The FLAC directory contains something like 2 files so I need the converted structure to replicate the original. Most likely the tool

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 19:04:04 schrieb Mark Knecht: I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy of directories populated with FLAC files to a new set of directories using mp3 instead? The FLAC directory contains something like 2 files so I need the

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 19:56:41 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: By the way, certain parts of Portage are very scarcely document, are they not? For examples, the FEATURES only have quick explanations in make.conf.example, as far as I know (and I did search for more complete

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2008 16:16:30 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: collision-protect seems nice, but I don't know about its drawbacks (if any), and since it seems not to be default and I don't have good knowledge of

Re: [gentoo-user] First Portage Hick-up, Chokes on Java

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 6:26 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2008 19:56:41 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: By the way, certain parts of Portage are very scarcely document, are they not? For examples, the FEATURES only have quick explanations in

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed in udev (again)?

2008-11-04 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2008 08:50:18 Mick wrote: Can't mount my camera. This is what Konqueror comes up with: Ahem. You have a camera with an ext3 filesystem on it? What kind of super camera do you have that understands ext3? Those things

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel BUG

2008-11-04 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
join the lkml (linux kernel mailing list) and let them know about it? On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:43 AM, David Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so. Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a hard drive. With

Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed in udev (again)?

2008-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 21:01:19 Mick wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Tuesday 04 November 2008 08:50:18 Mick wrote: Can't mount my camera. This is what Konqueror comes up with: Ahem. You have a camera with an ext3 filesystem on it? What kind of super

[gentoo-user] e17 overlay bug

2008-11-04 Thread Hazen Valliant-Saunders
Good Day; I've found that the recent EINA library release for e17 has broken just about everything. Gentoo's overlay system should be simple enough to modify however after reading the fine manual I am no closer to understanding the appropriate course of action to create eina as a dependency in

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel BUG

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so. Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a hard drive. With tail -F /var/log/messages running I saw EXT3 mentioned a few days ago and started suspecting a hard drive problem. Last night it happened

Re: [gentoo-user] e17 overlay bug

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I've found that the recent EINA library release for e17 has broken just about everything. Gentoo's overlay system should be simple enough to modify however after reading the fine manual I am no closer to understanding the appropriate course of action to create eina as a dependency in the

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade problem

2008-11-04 Thread David Relson
G'day, Due to problems experienced with 2.6.25-gentoo-r7, I've built 2.6.27-gentoo-r2. I started with the 2.6.25-r7 .config file, ran make oldconfig, then genkernel all. The new 2.6.27 kernel appears to load modules OK, then hangs. The old 2.6.25-r7 kernel displays Activating mdev after it

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 01 November 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. Is the compression a tuxonice only feature, or has

[gentoo-user] Subversion broken

2008-11-04 Thread Erik Hahn
Suddenly (at least I don't know since when it doesn't work) I get this error whenever I use svn: svn: Failed to find label 'NULL' for URL '/svnroot/arcon/trunk/overlay' svn: Failed to find label 'NULL' for URL '/svnroot/arcon/trunk/overlay' Subversion (1.5.4) is build with USE:-apache2

[gentoo-user] i810 has been replaced by intel?

2008-11-04 Thread Markos Chandras
I had set VIDEO_CARDS=i810 on my laptop. Today I tried to re-emerge mesa package and saw that there was no more i810 on video cards but there is intel. Does this mean that I should replace VIDEO_CARD=i810 with intel ? Thanks -- Markos Chandras

[gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others amd64. All are gentoo. The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for x86. I realize it will boot on all my systems. I am hoping that 1. I can use it to install either amd64 or x86 gentoo 2. I can use

[gentoo-user] Re: i810 has been replaced by intel?

2008-11-04 Thread james
Markos Chandras markos.chandras at gmail.com writes: I had set VIDEO_CARDS=i810 on my laptop. Today I tried to re-emerge mesa package and saw that there was no more i810 on video cards but there is intel. Does this mean that I should replace VIDEO_CARD=i810 with intel ? I think this was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i810 has been replaced by intel?

2008-11-04 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 22:36:23 james wrote: Markos Chandras markos.chandras at gmail.com writes: I had set VIDEO_CARDS=i810 on my laptop. Today I tried to re-emerge mesa package and saw that there was no more i810 on video cards but there is intel. Does this mean that I should replace

[gentoo-user] Re: i810 has been replaced by intel?

2008-11-04 Thread »Q«
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:22:19 +0200 Markos Chandras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had set VIDEO_CARDS=i810 on my laptop. Today I tried to re-emerge mesa package and saw that there was no more i810 on video cards but there is intel. Does this mean that I should replace VIDEO_CARD=i810 with intel ?

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Tue, 04 Nov 2008 15:35:26 -0500 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others amd64. All are gentoo. The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for x86. I realize it will boot on all my systems. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i810 has been replaced by intel?

2008-11-04 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:43:11 +0200, Markos Chandras wrote: I think this was recently discussed on the list. Search it out, less than 2 weeks ago Ooops, sorry, i wasnt subscribed back then. Thanks http://archives.gentoo.org/ -- Neil Bothwick Time is an illusion but never so much as

[gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package

2008-11-04 Thread András Csányi
Hi all! I have a little problem with gnome. I wanted to install gnome, but I got this error message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gail-1000 (is blocking x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4) I thought isn't a problem because I'm using Gentoo for 3 years. I uninstall gail and gtk+ and emerge is working fine...

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel BUG

2008-11-04 Thread Zhang Le
On 07:43 Tue 04 Nov , David Relson wrote: ... Questions: Is there a better way to capture the full BUG output??? Once I have the full BUG output, what's the next useful thing to do? Chances are the bug has already been fixed in later version. Before you send the bug report, I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package

2008-11-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/4 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 11:23:11 +0100, András Csányi wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] gnome-base/gail-1.22.3 USE=-debug -doc 659 kB [ebuild N] x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4 USE=X jpeg jpeg2k tiff vim-syntax -cups -debug -doc

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others amd64. All are gentoo. The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for x86. I realize it will boot on all my systems. I am hoping that 1. I can

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade problem

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 20:51:10 schrieb David Relson: Due to problems experienced with 2.6.25-gentoo-r7, I've built 2.6.27-gentoo-r2. I started with the 2.6.25-r7 .config file, ran make oldconfig, then genkernel all. Don't know if that helps, but anyway, here's what I usually do: I

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 22:13:09 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others amd64. All are gentoo. The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for x86.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i810 has been replaced by intel?

2008-11-04 Thread Markos Chandras
On Tuesday 04 November 2008 23:01:23 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:43:11 +0200, Markos Chandras wrote: I think this was recently discussed on the list. Search it out, less than 2 weeks ago Ooops, sorry, i wasnt subscribed back then. Thanks http://archives.gentoo.org/

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package

2008-11-04 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I have a little problem with gnome. I wanted to install gnome, but I got this error message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gail-1000 (is blocking x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4) I thought isn't a problem because I'm using Gentoo for 3 years. I uninstall gail and gtk+ and emerge is working fine... But

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package

2008-11-04 Thread András Csányi
2008/11/4 Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Unmerge gail and install gnome and you should be fine. Gail is now part of gtk+ since gtk+-2.14. For reference http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/gnome-base/gail/ Hi Daniel! Gail isn't installed on my system. Can be the cause of

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package

2008-11-04 Thread András Csányi
2008/11/4 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Maybe you don't have to install gail at all? What depends on gail? I heard that recent versions of gtk+ integrate gail functionality. So for each package that depends on gail, you could see if a more recent version of that package does

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package

2008-11-04 Thread András Csányi
2008/11/4 András Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I these packages hasn't ~x86 keyword I can install only firefox-2.x. Sorry! If these packages... -- - - -- Csanyi Andras -- http://sayusi.hu -- Sayusi Ando -- Bízzál Istenben és tartsd szárazon a puskaport!.-- Cromwell

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package

2008-11-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/4 András Csányi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all! I have a little problem with gnome. I wanted to install gnome, but I got this error message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gail-1000 (is blocking x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4) I thought isn't a problem because I'm using Gentoo for 3 years. I

[gentoo-user] Kernel BUG

2008-11-04 Thread David Relson
For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so. Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a hard drive. With tail -F /var/log/messages running I saw EXT3 mentioned a few days ago and started suspecting a hard drive problem. Last night it happened again.

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade problem

2008-11-04 Thread David Relson
Hello Dirk, Thanks for taking the time to reply. The combination of gentoo-sources and genkernel has been working quite well for the 2 yrs I've been running Gentoo. It's convenient to have grub.conf auto-magically updated and that's not been an issue. When upgrading from one kernel revision to

[gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only contains a limited number of packages and... I do not have an internet connection at home since its very expensive for us. Is their any possible way

Re: [gentoo-user] FLAC to mp3 converters?

2008-11-04 Thread young sun
I don`t know how to convert flac to mp3,I used to convert flac to ogg with oggenc. 2008/11/5 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 19:04:04 schrieb Mark Knecht: I'm wondering if anyone has a good way to convert a large hierarcy of directories populated with FLAC

Re: [gentoo-user] Screwed up swap while trying to get hibernate working; help

2008-11-04 Thread Iain Buchanan
Mick wrote: On Saturday 01 November 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote: actually it can also free up some ram, and your image is compressed using lzf which can achieve a claimed 30 - 50% but generally you should have enough free swap to cover the size of used RAM. Is the compression a tuxonice only

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread M. Sitorus
maybe this link will help : http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-79884-highlight-networkless+scripts.html as for portage tree, you could update your portage tree using emerge-webrsync. Just download the portage tree snapshots tarball, then put it on /tmp/emerge-webrsync/ On 11/5/08, Lorenzu

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:13:09PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 04 November 2008, Allan Gottlieb wrote: I have several machines with core2-duo chips. Some run x86, others amd64. All are gentoo. The http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd has a version for x86.

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I was able to complete the Gentoo installation and boot into my system successfully. I only downloaded the Live CD, But the live CD only contains a limited number of packages and... I do not have an

RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm , some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages which I need. lIke Gcj , fluxbox , mpg321 ... Even though it has only few packages installed it consumes a lot of disk space... that another problem im having.

[gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi, Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? Because after the intial installation the gentoo system only contains few packages and it takes up about 2.5 GB ... Where other distro's like slackware would take up 2.5 GB for every thing with out KDE or Gnome .

Re: [gentoo-user] Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system

2008-11-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 09:20:44 Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal wrote: Hi, Does portage keep a copy of the file which it installs in the system? Because after the intial installation the gentoo system only contains few packages and it takes up about 2.5 GB ... Where other distro's like

Re: [gentoo-user] systemrescuecd: using x86 for amd64

2008-11-04 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/11/5 Momesso Andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So it is possible to chroot from a 32 to a 64 bit enviroment? And is it safe? AFAIK chroot from 32 to 64 bit is not possible. -- Regards, Daniel

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I Used the Live CD ... It does contain few packages like X11,xfce4, gdm , some network utils,vim . But I need to get other packages which I need. lIke Gcj , fluxbox , mpg321 ... Even though it has only few

RE: [gentoo-user] Installing software without an internet connection

2008-11-04 Thread Lorenzu Hewa, Gayan Neomal
Hi, Thnks for the tip I shall try this and let y'll know the results ... I used to run an offline gentoo setup. You can use emerge -upvf package-name(s) to get a list of files you need to obtain. Pipe the output of that to some file, do