Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:26, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: sed -r -e 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' You know, that looks familiar... are you trying to get a package name from the list of eix-installed? :-) No - its non-gentoo. In this case it

Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 16:40, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:26, Adam Carter adamcart...@gmail.com wrote: sed -r -e 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' You know, that looks familiar... are you trying to get a

Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
On 11/22/2011 10:40 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote: Here's an alternative: sed -r -e 's/-[0-9].*//' Nust a note: sed has no option -r and 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' is a garbled command. A corrected version would be 's/\(.*\)-[0-9].*/\1/' So the main question is: why do you use a non-existing

Re: [gentoo-user] sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: sed -r -e 's/-[0-9].*//' Nust a note: sed has no option -r and 's/(.*)-[0-9].*/\1/' is a garbled command. A corrected version would be 's/\(.*\)-[0-9].*/\1/' So the main question is: why do you use a non-existing option? # sed --help Usage:

[gentoo-user] Re: sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 22/11/11, Joerg Schilling wrote: You seem to miss the fact that you are using gsed instead of sed. using -r makes scripts non-portable. You seem to miss the fact that the OP didn't asked for a portable script and didn't even talked about any system specification. So, it's _welcome_ to

Re: [gentoo-user] Vim stops installing when it runs installman.sh

2011-11-22 Thread James Broadhead
On 21 November 2011 18:51, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: James Broadhead wrote: Finally: You probably don't need the MAKEOPTS flag at all - try updating vim without it. ( `emerge -u vim` ) That about covers it ;) And don't forget the -1 or --oneshot option either. You are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread James Broadhead
On 22 November 2011 10:45, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: The 22/11/11, Joerg Schilling wrote: You seem to miss the fact that you are using gsed instead of sed. using -r makes scripts non-portable. You seem to miss the fact that the OP didn't asked for a portable script and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sed/awk question

2011-11-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 19:26, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 November 2011 10:45, Nicolas Sebrecht nsebre...@piing.fr wrote: The 22/11/11, Joerg Schilling wrote: You seem to miss the fact that you are using gsed instead of sed. using -r makes scripts non-portable.

[gentoo-user] Get maintainer's email for bug report?

2011-11-22 Thread Mark Knecht
Is there a CLI way of extracting the email addresses of any maintainers listed in metadata.xml? - Mark

Re: [gentoo-user] Get maintainer's email for bug report?

2011-11-22 Thread justin
On 22/11/11 17:45, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a CLI way of extracting the email addresses of any maintainers listed in metadata.xml? - Mark Use epkginfo from app-portage/gentoolkit jsutin signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Get maintainer's email for bug report?

2011-11-22 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a CLI way of extracting the email addresses of any maintainers listed in metadata.xml? equery m packagename | grep Maintainer

Re: [gentoo-user] Get maintainer's email for bug report?

2011-11-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:53 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a CLI way of extracting the email addresses of any maintainers listed in metadata.xml? equery m packagename | grep Maintainer

Re: [gentoo-user] Get maintainer's email for bug report?

2011-11-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 8:49 AM, justin j...@gentoo.org wrote: On 22/11/11 17:45, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there a CLI way of extracting the email addresses of any maintainers listed in metadata.xml? - Mark Use epkginfo from app-portage/gentoolkit jsutin Thanks Justin. Cheers, Mark

[gentoo-user] howto disable automatic net.eth0 configuration

2011-11-22 Thread Justin Findlay
I have a laptop computer with an ethernet port, and during bootup dhcpcd gets invoked (twice) to configure a network connection on 'eth0'. I have set rc_hotplug=* !net.eth0 in /etc/rc.conf and RC_HOTPLUG=yes RC_COLDPLUG=yes RC_PLUG_SERVICES=!net.eth0 in /etc/conf.d/rc (why do these files

Re: [gentoo-user] howto disable automatic net.eth0 configuration

2011-11-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 10:46:43 -0700, Justin Findlay wrote: I have a laptop computer with an ethernet port, and during bootup dhcpcd gets invoked (twice) to configure a network connection on 'eth0'. I have set rc_hotplug=* !net.eth0 Try rc_hotplug=!net.eth0 *. It may be matching eth0 on the

[gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in directory virtual, yet found nothing likely looking. Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in directory virtual, yet found nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in directory virtual, yet found nothing likely

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Hi Alan, Am 22.11.2011 20:20, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in directory virtual, yet found nothing likely looking.

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 14:43:10 -0500 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Albert W. Hopkins
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 19:20 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in directory virtual, yet found nothing likely

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread kashani
On 11/22/2011 11:20 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages, particularly in directory virtual, yet found nothing likely looking. Would

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:14:15 +0100 Felix Kuperjans fe...@desaster-games.com wrote: Would somebody please give me some hints which packages I should be looking at, and perhaps any use flags I might need. VirtualBox is quite easy for beginners, but requires external kernel modules and

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Good evening, Felix! On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:14:15PM +0100, Felix Kuperjans wrote: Hi Alan, Am 22.11.2011 20:20, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread William Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-11-22 at 14:43 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with virtual machines on my Gentoo. I've scanned /usr/portage for likely looking packages,

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:29:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: What I like about VBox is that you get all the useful bits in the open-source version. Except USB support. -- Neil Bothwick What do you get if you cross an agnostic, an insomniac and adyslexic? Someone who lies awake at night

Re: [gentoo-user] A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Am 22.11.2011 23:12, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Good evening, Felix! Good evening, Alan! On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 09:14:15PM +0100, Felix Kuperjans wrote: Hi Alan, Am 22.11.2011 20:20, schrieb Alan Mackenzie: Hi, Gentoo. A friend of mine recently suggested I should install and play with

[gentoo-user] sys-boot/grub USE=static

2011-11-22 Thread Pandu Poluan
I'm just wondering, what are the benefits drawbacks of turning on static USE flag for sys-boot/grub? Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~  • LOPSA Member #15248  • Blog : http://pepoluan.tumblr.com  • Linked-In : http://id.linkedin.com/in/pepoluan

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM and LABELS in fstab

2011-11-22 Thread Dale
Another LVM question. If I want to remove a drive and tell pvmove to move the data off it, can the drive have files being written to it while this is done? I'm wanting to use my old spare drive to move some things around but right now LVM has it. I think it is OK but just want to make sure.