Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs

2009-08-21 Thread Song Zhiwei
2009/8/21 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: On 08/21/2009 08:20 AM, Song Zhiwei wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install gentoo to an embedded system and I'd like to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs. How can I do it? I tried to add mount command into the file /etc/conf.d/rc-extra, but it didnot

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs

2009-08-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 21 August 2009 09:00:58 Song Zhiwei wrote: 2009/8/21 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de: On 08/21/2009 08:20 AM, Song Zhiwei wrote: Hi all, I am trying to install gentoo to an embedded system and I'd like to mount /var to RAM as tmpfs. How can I do it? I tried to add mount

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0 after upgrading to python-2.6.2-r1

2009-08-21 Thread Roger Cahn
this is what I wrote in my initial post (I just misspelled it -python-upgrade -) OK. Have a nice day. Roger

Re: [gentoo-user] Network message encryption

2009-08-21 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Monday 17 August 2009 16:53:43 Xianwen Chen wrote: Hi Dale, On 8/17/09, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: According to the USE flags, it appears that Kopete supports encryption. I have no clue how good it is or if this is exactly what you are looking for but you may want to look into

[gentoo-user] May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread James Homuth
I just got Gnome set up completely on a 5-year-old laptop with 512 MB of RAM running on a P4, and am sort of halfway in the middle of playing with it. In the process, I'm discovering I still need to install a few things. Just one problem. I emerge said things, and the system flatlines until such

Re: [gentoo-user] May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, James Homuthja...@the-jdh.com wrote: I just got Gnome set up completely on a 5-year-old laptop with 512 MB of RAM running on a P4, and am sort of halfway in the middle of playing with it. In the process, I'm discovering I still need to install a few things.

[gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 08/21/2009 07:54 PM, James Homuth wrote: I just got Gnome set up completely on a 5-year-old laptop with 512 MB of RAM running on a P4, and am sort of halfway in the middle of playing with it. In the process, I'm discovering I still need to install a few things. Just one problem. I emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread Arttu V.
On 8/21/09, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: However, also very important is I/O nice. Setting an ionice value of idle will result in portage not blocking your other applications whey they need to do disk I/O: PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND=ionice -c 3 -p \${PID} Yes, as it is a laptop,

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-21 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:52:31 -0700 Keith Dart ke...@dartworks.biz wrote: === On Fri, 08/21, Beau Henderson wrote: === Not if your @stable. === But firefox 3.5 is not marked stable. Then there is some mixup here. Something must have been funny. My system is stable and it did ask for

Re: [gentoo-user] epiphany and firefox want incompatible versions of xulrunner

2009-08-21 Thread Arttu V.
On 8/22/09, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: But firefox 3.5 is not marked stable. Then there is some mixup here. Something must have been funny. My system is stable and it did ask for firefox 3.5 (as I showed in my original post). However, the problem has disappeared with today's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread meino . cramer
PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 Is best. However, also very important is I/O nice. Setting an ionice value of idle will result in portage not blocking your other applications whey they need to do disk I/O: PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND=ionice -c 3 -p \${PID} This needs a kernel newer than

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 Is best. However, also very important is I/O nice. Setting an ionice value of idle will result in portage not blocking your other applications whey they need to do disk I/O: PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND=ionice -c 3 -p \${PID} This needs a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: May be OT: recommended niceness settings for Portage while using Gnome?

2009-08-21 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 6:58 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, where can I set PORTAGE_NICENESS and PORTAGE_IONICE_COMMAND ? Kind regards, mcc In /etc/make.conf