[gentoo-user] problem emerging libsoup 2.29.91

2010-03-15 Thread covici
-2.29.91:20100315-081624.log' What the heck do I do with this? Thanks in advance for all the great help I have gotten from this list. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: MASKED Tilde with no `arch' what does it mean

2010-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:34:41 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Seriously, Do you know why emacs-24 is masked like that? What little I know of Ulrich Mueller is that he is quite a stalwart fellow and not much would get by him. I guess its just that its the cvs version eh? Yes, CVS ebuilds are

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 March 2010 02:44:56 fire-eyes wrote: Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently. I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have with it is the Irish server in the pool - it wouldn't be enough to go for a cuppa while it's running; I'd have to

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:10:52 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have with it is the Irish server in the pool - it wouldn't be enough to go for a cuppa while it's running; I'd have to come back tomorrow if I let it continue at its own pace*.

[gentoo-user] nfs mount on client end.

2010-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
In my home lan setup its an opensolaris (zfs fs) NFS server that is supposed to be set to show NFS vers=3 on offer. Somehow on the client end... my gentoo desktop, its getting mounted with vers=4 as evidenced by the output of `mount' opensolairs_NFS_SERVER:/pub on /pub type nfs

[gentoo-user] umount nfs share

2010-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I'm trying t umount an nfs mounted share but am told the resource is busy. umount -f fails too. So first I turned off all the xterms I had running which should have killed any shell operating there. Still says resouce is busy. So trying to see what is doing it with `lsof' However, when I run

[gentoo-user] Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Steve
I have recently started looking at server resilience and availability in the context of a hardware failure or hardware upgrade. I've come to the conclusion that it would be very desirable if terrabyte-scale data did not need to be restored from backup. This isn't a commercial server - so I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting up gpg-agent script

2010-03-15 Thread Mick
On 14 March 2010 21:30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:23:40 +, Mick wrote: I am trying this script in /etc/env.d/90gpg-agent: if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info kill -0 `cut -d: -f 2 $HOME/.gpg-agent-info` 2/dev/null; then

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:10:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Monday 15 March 2010 02:44:56 fire-eyes wrote: Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently. I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have

[gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Steve gentoo_...@shic.co.uk writes: I have recently started looking at server resilience and availability in the context of a hardware failure or hardware upgrade. I've come to the conclusion that it would be very desirable if terrabyte-scale data did not need to be restored from backup.

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 March 2010 14:15:08 David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! I run mine from the root crontab. My boxes aren't allowed to run all night, so I call a script that runs the updating process when I fire them up in the morning. No sweat. I also have it

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 15 March 2010 12:28:49 Neil Bothwick wrote: Is that heanet.ie? Yes. I always get decent speeds from there. Just shows what oddities show up from time to time in complex networks. My speed is far better from eastern Europe (Ukraine, Latvia, ...) than from just across the Irish

[gentoo-user] wine cannot compile with jpeg flag

2010-03-15 Thread Xi Shen
hi, i have enabled 'jpeg' flag in my /etc/make.conf, but i still cannot compile wine with jpeg support, and i really need this feature. the output of emerge -pv wine shows '(-jpeg)'. i think it is masked by profile. i then created '/etc/portage/profile/package.use.force', and putted

[gentoo-user] Re: wine cannot compile with jpeg flag

2010-03-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 03/15/2010 05:06 PM, Xi Shen wrote: hi, i have enabled 'jpeg' flag in my /etc/make.conf, but i still cannot compile wine with jpeg support, and i really need this feature. the output of emerge -pv wine shows '(-jpeg)'. i think it is masked by profile. i then created

Re: [gentoo-user] wine cannot compile with jpeg flag

2010-03-15 Thread Arttu V.
On 3/15/10, Xi Shen davidshe...@googlemail.com wrote: i have enabled 'jpeg' flag in my /etc/make.conf, but i still cannot compile wine with jpeg support, and i really need this feature. the output of emerge -pv wine shows '(-jpeg)'. i think it is masked by profile. i then created

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Kyle Bader
+1 on zfs w/ solaris for storage, just don't go cheap and get desktop disks. -- Kyle

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why is that surprising? My laptop does not have an always-on internet connection, nevermind it sits silently and off for most of the day. I sync by hand when I have time, roughly twice each

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org wrote: On Monday 15 March 2010 02:44:56 fire-eyes wrote: Are you using the EU pool? I am, and I have that problem frequently. I don't have /that/ problem at all. The only problem I have with it is the Irish server in

Re: [gentoo-user] wine cannot compile with jpeg flag

2010-03-15 Thread Xi Shen
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 11:35 PM, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: Create /etc/portage/profile/package.use.mask and type in 'app-emulation/wine -jpeg' (note the minus) to locally unmask the jpeg flag for wine. I don't know how good idea that is, though, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Steve
On 15/03/2010 15:49, Kyle Bader wrote: +1 on zfs w/ solaris for storage, just don't go cheap and get desktop disks. I have to admit, I do like the idea of ZFS, though not quite enough to justify maintaining Solaris in addition to my other infrastructure. I was thinking about something rather

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why is that surprising? Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Mar 2010, at 17:08, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why is that surprising?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Stroller
On 15 Mar 2010, at 16:26, Steve wrote: ... From ages ago, I remember iSCSI being bandied about. Did that ever go anywhere (i.e. is this easy to do from Gentoo?) I believe it is quite widely used - it is mentioned often on the linux- poweredge list. I would imagine the Linux kernel allows

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Steve
On 15/03/2010 18:21, Stroller wrote: It's hard to be more specific without knowing your usage. Yes... I was deliberately vague to see what options came up... but I can be more specific. The budget is miniscule - and the performance demands (bandwidth and latency) are completely non-challenging.

[gentoo-user] getting firmware for orinoco pcmcia card

2010-03-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
I am installing gentoo on an old machine without wireless builtin. I have a hermes/orinoco pcmcia card that works fine. Indeed the wireless works fine, but is not right. When booting there is a very long delay at the net.eth1 and the system wants the agere_sta_fw.bin firmware. If you wait it

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 19:20:02 +0100, Stroller wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On 15 Mar 2010, at 17:08, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at

Re: [gentoo-user] getting firmware for orinoco pcmcia card

2010-03-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am installing gentoo on an old machine without wireless builtin. I have a hermes/orinoco pcmcia card that works fine. Indeed the wireless works fine, but is not right. When booting there is a very long delay at the

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:08:06PM +, David W Noon wrote: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:00:02 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 02:15:08PM +, David W Noon wrote: You run your emerge --sync jobs by hand?!!! Why is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strategy for using SAN/NAS for storage with Gentoo...

2010-03-15 Thread Andrea Conti
Hi, The budget is miniscule - and the performance demands (bandwidth and latency) are completely non-challenging. This IMHO pretty much rules out any kind of server-class hardware, which tends to be both costly and power-hungry. If you're thinking about buying used stuff, be sure to factor in

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:20:03 +0100, Willie Wong wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 05:08:06PM +, David W Noon wrote: [snip] Because emerge jobs produce copious amounts of output that is difficult to read as it scrolls past. I much prefer

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 20:46:11 +, David W Noon wrote: I do know `man less`, `man more`, etc., and output redirection to file. Heck, I'm even old enough to know Ctl+S and Ctl+Q, as I used to program PDP-11s back in the 1970s. But none of those addresses the fundamental issue of sitting there

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:10:41 +, David W Noon wrote: Also, for builds, there is such a thing as elogs (which allows you to save all messages to /var/log/portage for ease of reading at your leisure. I have mine go to /var/log/portage/log. But these only log the activities within a

Re: [gentoo-user] umount nfs share

2010-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:18:10 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm trying t umount an nfs mounted share but am told the resource is busy. umount -f fails too. What about umount -l? -- Neil Bothwick Angular Momentum Makes The World Go 'Round signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Problem with script calling OOCalc on amd64

2010-03-15 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have run into a problem which I cannot explain. I am trying to run this script in a amd64 installation: xterm -fg green -bg black -e 'gpg Personal/data.ods.gpg oocalc \ Personal/data.ods; shred --remove -z -v DATA/data.ods' On a x86 system, oocalc launches, I use the file and when

Re: [gentoo-user] Starting up gpg-agent script

2010-03-15 Thread Mick
On Monday 15 March 2010 13:32:51 you wrote: On 14 March 2010 21:30, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:23:40 +, Mick wrote: I am trying this script in /etc/env.d/90gpg-agent: if test -f $HOME/.gpg-agent-info kill -0 `cut

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread David W Noon
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:20:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?: On Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:10:41 +, David W Noon wrote: Also, for builds, there is such a thing as elogs (which allows you to save all messages to /var/log/portage for ease of

Re: [gentoo-user] getting firmware for orinoco pcmcia card

2010-03-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:11:02 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I am installing gentoo on an old machine without wireless builtin. I have a hermes/orinoco pcmcia card that works fine. Indeed the

Re: [gentoo-user] what's wrong with rsync 3.0.6?

2010-03-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 01:00:21AM +, David W Noon wrote On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:20:02 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote As do the log files in $PORT_LOGDIR, they contain exactly the same output you would see in the terminal. Not quite. The sequence in which the ebuilds were run is lost when

Re: [gentoo-user] umount nfs share

2010-03-15 Thread Kacper Kopczyński
Dnia 2010-03-15, o godz. 08:18:10 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com napisał(a): I'm trying t umount an nfs mounted share but am told the resource is busy. umount -f fails too. So first I turned off all the xterms I had running which should have killed any shell operating there. Still says

Re: [gentoo-user] wine cannot compile with jpeg flag

2010-03-15 Thread Kaddeh
Looks like the jpeg use flag is ok to use according to bug #283089 [ http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283089] It looks like it is waiting for the thumbs-up from everyone to be taken out. I have been running with the jpeg use flag unmasked for a while and haven't seen any issues. Cheers Kad