Re: [gentoo-user] emerge depclean gcc

2010-10-22 Thread fajfusio
Thank you for help. Everything went smoothly. To be on a save side I would like to unemerge old version of gcc with --depclean switch. How can I revert my previous --noreplace operation cleanly besides emerge --unemerge =gcc-4.3.4. Dnia 21-10-2010 o godz. 16:17 Paul Hartman napisał(a):

[gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this is a bit off topic, since it primarily concerns a laptop running OpenSuSe 11.3, but I do need your help and I known there are experts here. This old laptop has a radeon RV350 (mobility Radeon 9600 M10) graphics card. There is an xf86-video-ati driver installed. Now, when booting

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Michael Hampicke
Any caveats with openrc we should be aware of? # genlop -l | grep openrc Thu Apr 24 14:05:53 2008 sys-apps/openrc-0.2.2 I've been running baselayout2/openrc oder 2.5 years now without any problems. Of course this does not mean it will run smoothly on your gentoo box. As I recall

Re: [gentoo-user] Auto-detecting network I'm connected to

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 01:14 on Friday 22 October 2010, Maciej Grela did opine thusly: 2010/10/21 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com: Hi all, One gentoo notebook running wicd, three general classes of network logon used frequently (dhpc always): work - mostly wired,

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread David Relson
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:13:16 +0200 Michael Hampicke wrote: Any caveats with openrc we should be aware of? # genlop -l | grep openrc Thu Apr 24 14:05:53 2008 sys-apps/openrc-0.2.2 I've been running baselayout2/openrc oder 2.5 years now without any problems. Of course this does not

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 07:18:38 -0400, David Relson wrote: As I recall upgrading to b2/openrc involves lots of changed config files (mostly conf.d init init.d), so you have to be a little careful. My recollection was of (1) being scared that I'd get the changes wrong for baselayout2

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk writes: On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:06:25 +0300, Timur Aydin wrote: I am using the ~x86 (testing) version of gentoo linux. After recent updates, my X windows became extremely sluggish and I found out that the problem is related to a new version of mesa (7.8.2

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, this is a bit off topic, since it primarily concerns a laptop running OpenSuSe 11.3, but I do need your help and I known there are experts here. This old laptop has a radeon RV350 (mobility Radeon 9600

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 5:13 AM, Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz wrote: Any caveats with openrc we should be aware of? # genlop -l | grep openrc     Thu Apr 24 14:05:53 2008 sys-apps/openrc-0.2.2 I've been running baselayout2/openrc oder 2.5 years now without any problems. Of course

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Oct 2010, at 12:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that when the devs decide to flip a keyword. I thought this was a matter of debate - Openrc was IIRC the creation of Roy Marples, who was

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc upgrade - rebuild everything?

2010-10-22 Thread Grant
I just upgraded from gcc-4.4.3-r2 to gcc-4.4.4-r2 and I'm wondering if I really need to rebuild everything as it says in the guide: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gcc-upgrading.xml No, you do not need to do this. The document is over-reaching (see below) I ran a mixture of 4.4.3 and 4.4.4

[gentoo-user] Re: baselayout --gt; openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I have a similar recollection. Openrc will be stabilised at some time, so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that when the devs decide to flip a keyword. OK, thanks to all for the input. Yea the thread is 2 years old, but,

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:19:51 +0100, Stroller wrote: ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that when the devs decide to flip a keyword. I thought this was a matter of debate - Openrc was IIRC the creation of Roy

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 22.10.2010 17:06, schrieb Paul Hartman: Same here, no problems since day 1 in fully ~amd64 Gentoo system. Same here (just for the records).

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:19 on Friday 22 October 2010, Stroller did opine thusly: On 22 Oct 2010, at 12:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that when the devs decide to flip a

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 08:54:25PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 17:19:51 +0100, Stroller wrote: ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that when the devs decide to flip a keyword. I thought

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 16:11 on Friday 22 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: [snip] package.mask is the right place, but you should add the specific version. Then the system will only upgrade when a newer (hopefully fixed) version arrives. =media-libs/mesa-7.8.2

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:19 on Friday 22 October 2010, Stroller did opine thusly: On 22 Oct 2010, at 12:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... Openrc will be stabilised at some time, so you may as well do the upgrade when you feel like it rather that when the

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Friday 22 October 2010, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem did opine thusly: I understood the future of Openrc within Gentoo to be in question: http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_ce55de133ca592b638db758c9e457 370.xml An interesting read, until

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:52 on Friday 22 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:19 on Friday 22 October 2010, Stroller did opine thusly: On 22 Oct 2010, at 12:29, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... Openrc will be stabilised at

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:59:18PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 22:37 on Friday 22 October 2010, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem did opine thusly: I understood the future of Openrc within Gentoo to be in question:

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:18 -0500, Dale wrote: That was what I recalled about the openrc discussion too. It is coming but just not sure when. Me, I'm not switching until it starts getting closer to that time. It, like some of the newer versions of portage, appears to be stable and is

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:18 -0500, Dale wrote: That was what I recalled about the openrc discussion too. It is coming but just not sure when. Me, I'm not switching until it starts getting closer to that time. It, like some of the newer versions of portage, appears

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Stroller
On 22 Oct 2010, at 21:32, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Did you and I read the same mail thread? I read all of it - did you? Apparently you have poorer reading comprehension that I do: That Gentoo-dev thread was 3 or 4 months ago, and I haven't read all of it today. I would stand by my advice:

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:50 on Friday 22 October 2010, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem did opine thusly: It's openrc-${PV}+1 - there's no question about that. Until someone actually ponies up and commits something other than openrc to the tree, it's gonna stay on openrc. I

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:13 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:18 -0500, Dale wrote: That was what I recalled about the openrc discussion too. It is coming but just not sure when. Me, I'm not switching until it starts getting

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:26 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Dale did opine thusly: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Oct 2010 15:52:18 -0500, Dale wrote: That was what I recalled about the openrc discussion too. It is coming but just not sure when. Me, I'm not switching until it

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:43 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Stroller did opine thusly: On 22 Oct 2010, at 21:32, Alan McKinnon wrote: ... Did you and I read the same mail thread? I read all of it - did you? Apparently you have poorer reading comprehension that I do: That

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-22 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 16:11 on Friday 22 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: [snip] Perhaps I should be downgrading xorg-server as well. Masking mesa-7.8.2 means (per the ebuilds) you will have to drop back to