[gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread KH
Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace atom. I forgot -1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run --unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do? kh

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) AllenJB KH wrote: Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread Dale
AllenJB wrote: From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) AllenJB I have done this a few times as well and it

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread KH
Dale schrieb: AllenJB wrote: From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the world file (MAKE A BACKUP FIRST!) AllenJB I have done this a few times

Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Tue, 05 May 2009 10:00:40 +0200, KH gentoo-u...@konstantinhansen.de wrote: Dale schrieb: AllenJB wrote: From Portage 2.2 rc30 onwards you can use --deselect. This ability is not present in any previous version. Until you're using Portage 2.2, the other alternative is to manually edit the

Re: [gentoo-user] 'buntu -- gentoo -- eeepcFIXED

2009-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 4 May 2009 20:32:33 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: Does the dialup work at all. Can you ping any of the gentoo mirrors? Did mirrorselect work? emerge mirrorselect is further down the page under Last configuration touches. Which is a puzzlement. Before failing portage tried

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2009-05-05 Thread Antonio Quartulli
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Re: [gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 09:44:58 KH wrote: Hi, I am searching for the opposite of emerge --noreplace atom. I forgot -1 and now the package is part of the world file. It does not belong there, it is a dependency I wanted to update. I don't want to run --unmerge and -av1 again. What can I do?

[solved][gentoo-user] remove a package from world without unmerging?

2009-05-05 Thread KH
Alan McKinnon schrieb: vi /var/lib/portage/world followed by intelligent use of the / and dd functions in vi :-) rofl

Re: [gentoo-user] Adaptec 2820SA - Slowwwwwwwwww?

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Sobey
On Wed, 29 Apr 2009, Paul Sobey wrote: I have a server running Gentoo X64 2.6.27-gentoo-r8 with an Adaptec 2820SA configured with a simple mirror. This card is a PCI-X card but due to an oversight on my part is plugged into a standard PCI slot on a PCI-E motherboard. Still, I'm getting

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Schuster
David Relson writes: I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome start menu or from a gnome terminal. Now it seems that nothing happens when I start it from the start menu. When I start it from a gnome

[gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Schuster
Hi there! I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even if the playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp is accessible again. Does anyone know why this is? This happens in KDE4, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3 kernel, audio device according to lspci is ATI

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/dsp: Device or resource busy (when Amarok 2 is running)

2009-05-05 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009, Alex Schuster wrote: Hi there! I cannot access /dev/dsp once Amarok 2 has started playback, even if the playback was stopped. I have to close Amarok, then /dev/dsp is accessible again. Does anyone know why this is? This happens in KDE4, 2.6.28-tuxonice-r3 kernel,

[gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Bennee
Hi, I had manually built (via my own local overlay) more recent versions of large chunks of X to get around some slugish performance on my Intel based setup. However I noticed by xf86-video-intel driver got downgraded today due to an updated package.mask with the message: R?mi Cardona

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 5 May 2009 11:50:18 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: I thought I may as well try the x11 overlay so added it to layman but obviously the package mask is still in effect. I assume the manually editing /usr/portage/profile/package.mask will cause problems when the package.mask is updated. Put

Re: [gentoo-user] Using the x11 overlay

2009-05-05 Thread Alex Bennee
2009/5/5 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk: On Tue, 5 May 2009 11:50:18 +0100, Alex Bennee wrote: I thought I may as well try the x11 overlay so added it to layman but obviously the package mask is still in effect. I assume the manually editing /usr/portage/profile/package.mask will cause

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:20:14 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: David Relson writes: I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome start menu or from a gnome terminal. Now it seems that nothing happens when I

[gentoo-user] Synaptic touchpad sensitive after upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, After my upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3 I reconfigured my synaptic touchpad to be controlled with hal. I copied the fdi policy found in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy. My only changes are disabling VertTwoFingerScroll and setting TapButton1 and TapButton2 to 1

[gentoo-user] Re: Munin Monitor

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
Paul Littlefield wrote: On 03/05/09 Allen Brooker wrote: I've given you access to the web view at https://admin.apserver.co.uk/munin Username: paully Password: bigj1gs Nope, this does not let me in :-( Try again now. server2.bigjigs.co.uk is currently resolving to my server, so you can

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Munin Monitor

2009-05-05 Thread AllenJB
Thanks to those who notified me of this erroneous posting. Obviously the passwords have now been changed. I have absolutely no idea why Thunderbird decided to send that mail to the gentoo-user list. Perhaps it's time I changed my preferred email client! AllenJB

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Tue, 5 May 2009 07:41:34 -0400 David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:20:14 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: David Relson writes: I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've got emacs-22.3.1 installed. Normally I can start it from the Gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] sync'ing two computers (not related to emerge)

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
Issue is resolved (solution below) An unstable link is probably triggering your issue. If the link dies and comes back, unison (at least version 2.27.57, what I have here) gets confused and just sits there. What's interesting is that if unison is killed on the initiating machine, the remote

[gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
Hi there, i've been using my host online to compile updates for like the past year or so... My host is currently configured so that its world file is the combination of all my PCs at home's world. So the host has x11 installed and lots of other completely useless stuff for a remote host! I

Re: [gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:27:52 -0400 Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: ... Right now, here's the base of the process to get one PC updated (without my unison world): host emerge --sync host emerge -uDN sum(worlds) [builds binpkgs] sync host's portage with PC's portage PC emerge -uDN -k world

[gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Michael Higgins
Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour with IPSEC? Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ /

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org wrote: Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour with IPSEC? Haven't tried it (i use vpnc to connect to a Cisco VPN) but this page may give

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-05 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org writes: Is there a useful Gentoo document anyone might suggest describing how one *connects to* a VPN device of the 'Microsoft' flavour with IPSEC? I do not know about a Gentoo document, but I have connected a Gentoo system and Windows PC using racoon on

Re: [gentoo-user] Synaptic touchpad sensitive after upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 14:37:06 Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, After my upgrade to Xorg 1.5.3 I reconfigured my synaptic touchpad to be controlled with hal. I copied the fdi policy found in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi to /etc/hal/fdi/policy. My only changes are disabling

Re: [gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Simon
Storage space comes pretty cheap these days, so prehaps it's just easier to get dirt-cheap 80G harddisk and build (and keep) all the packages from sum of the worlds on it in a dedicated chroot or VM? Well, i'm keeping all packages currently, and diskspace is cheap for home computers, but not

[gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Steve
I've a gentoo box sat behind a firewall - it runs a apache and sshd with holes punched through NAT to allow remote access. It runs DHCP and DNS services for my LAN. I would like to run a second instance of apache on a fresh IP address - to simulate a hosted environment supporting https. I

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 22:32:38 schrieb Steve: I've a gentoo box sat behind a firewall - it runs a apache and sshd with holes punched through NAT to allow remote access. It runs DHCP and DNS services for my LAN. I would like to run a second instance of apache on a fresh IP address - to

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Steve
Sascha Hlusiak wrote: The easiest thing would probably be to just use ssh port forwarding because you already have all the pieces running anyway. Wouldn't a simple ssh -L 12345:secondapache:https u...@remotessh and the browsing to https://localhost:12345 do the trick? Or you could use a

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Sascha Hlusiak
Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 23:28:22 schrieb Steve: Sascha Hlusiak wrote: The easiest thing would probably be to just use ssh port forwarding because you already have all the pieces running anyway. Wouldn't a simple ssh -L 12345:secondapache:https u...@remotessh and the browsing to

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 05 May 2009, Sascha Hlusiak wrote: Am Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 23:28:22 schrieb Steve: Sascha Hlusiak wrote: The easiest thing would probably be to just use ssh port forwarding because you already have all the pieces running anyway. Wouldn't a simple ssh -L

[gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-05 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, My 900A with a fresh gentoo install boots into a panic. Says it doesn't like my root=/dev/sda2 option. But that *is* the root partition. fstab: /dev/sda1 /boot ext2noauto,noatime 1 2 /dev/sda2 / ext3noatime0 1 almost exactly like the model

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 20:23, maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi group, My 900A with a fresh gentoo install boots into a panic. Says it doesn't like my root=/dev/sda2 option. But that *is* the root partition. fstab: /dev/sda1   /boot     ext2    noauto,noatime     1 2 /dev/sda2  

Re: [gentoo-user] union merge for binpkg makers

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 5 May 2009 16:32:39 -0400 Simon turne...@gmail.com wrote: Storage space comes pretty cheap these days, so prehaps it's just easier to get dirt-cheap 80G harddisk and build (and keep) all the packages from sum of the worlds on it in a dedicated chroot or VM? Well, i'm keeping all

Re: [gentoo-user] A networking question...

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 05 May 2009 22:28:22 +0100 Steve gentoo_...@shic.co.uk wrote: Sascha Hlusiak wrote: The easiest thing would probably be to just use ssh port forwarding because you already have all the pieces running anyway. Wouldn't a simple ssh -L 12345:secondapache:https u...@remotessh ...

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread David Relson
On Tue, 05 May 2009 15:51:41 +0200 Robert Cernansky wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009 07:41:34 -0400 David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:20:14 +0200 Alex Schuster wrote: David Relson writes: I'm now running xorg-1.5.3 and emacs no longer works! I've

Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc

2009-05-05 Thread maxim wexler
You gotta use a delay (or wait, can't remember exactly) parameter for the kernel to wait while the disc is recognized, dunno exactly, but 2 to 5 seconds should be enough. I have an EEE 701 and Well there's a 10 sec 'timeout' but I can make that infinite by hitting the arrow key. That

Re: [gentoo-user] emacs vs. gnome and xorg-1.5.3

2009-05-05 Thread Robert Cernansky
On Tue, 5 May 2009 23:22:28 -0400 David Relson rel...@osagesoftware.com wrote: David Relson writes: [snip] When I start it from a gnome terminal, emacs reports No fonts match '8x13'. Anybody know how to fix this? 'xlsfonts | grep 8x13' returns nothing. Ok, that confirms that