Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread ny6p01
On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 08:29:26PM +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: PS: If you know how to get rid of any background image, could you say how? Remove or comment out any splashimage directives from the config file. *** Re grub2: as long as grub0 works, I really don't care if grub2 is

Re: [gentoo-user] Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-15 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:58:20 -0500 Alecks Gates fuzzylunk...@gmail.com wrote: Midori is quite minimal and has flash support last I checked. It's very lightweight on the features, which can be good and bad :). Personally I get tired of new chromium and v8 builds every week. I use

[gentoo-user] Recent networking problems

2012-02-15 Thread Peter Weilbacher
Hi all, since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a laptop. It all started with a big sync world update that gave me new udev-171-r5, wicd-1.7.1_pre20120127, tuxonice-sources-3.0.17, openrc-0.9.8.2, among other things (I'm mostly running stable). Symptoms are

Re: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages

2012-02-15 Thread Dale
m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/14/2012 08:37 PM, Dale wrote: On my older x86 machine, I get this when trying to update: WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: x11-base/xorg-server:0 (x11-base/xorg-server-1.11.2-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Failing to compile hydrogen

2012-02-15 Thread Jonas de Buhr
Am 15/02/2012 04:59, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: »Q«boxc...@gmx.net [12-02-14 18:12]: On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:58:49 +0100 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: How can I circumvent the problem? I can't vouch for it, but there's a patch attached to the bug.

[gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
Found this blogpost serendipitously: http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/ so, are we brothers? :-) Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Failing to compile hydrogen

2012-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:22:38 +0100, Jonas de Buhr wrote: How can I include this patch into the normal build process of gentoo ? create a local overlay, copy the hydrogen dir, copy the patch, edit the ebuild to include the patch, compile. sounds a lot more comlicated than it actually is

Re: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages

2012-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:01:04 -0600, Dale wrote: Hmmm, right now I just masked the upgrade. Maybe it will get fixed soon. Don't hold you breath. Your card is no longer supported, that's why you have to use an old driver, and the old drivers just don't work with the later Xorg. I sort of

Re: [gentoo-user] older machine and video packages

2012-02-15 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:01:04 -0600, Dale wrote: Hmmm, right now I just masked the upgrade. Maybe it will get fixed soon. Don't hold you breath. Your card is no longer supported, that's why you have to use an old driver, and the old drivers just don't work with the

[gentoo-user] Hardened Gentoo VM template?

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
Does anyone know of a freely available VM template for gentoo-hardened that I could download? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-14 6:19 PM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: If you're interested, I can detail a history for you, and explain why GRUB 1 was discontinued and why the whole thing was restructured in detail. I can't right now, as I am about to get on a conference call, but I can certainly do so

[gentoo-user] zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel D Jones
Doing a world upgrade gives me: root@kushiel / # emerge -uDvatN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy sys- apps/pciutils[-zlib]. !!! One of the following packages is

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 07:19:47 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: What I would prefer is a detailed yet simple 'How-To' aimed at the average user rather than the hacker (in other words, don't assume I can read code/scripts and understand all or even some of what is happening) or write my own scripts,

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-02-14 6:19 PM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: If you're interested, I can detail a history for you, and explain why GRUB 1 was discontinued and why the whole thing was restructured in detail.  I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
Great post. Thanks for sharing it for me to read under the stars at 4AM. On 2/15/12, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: Found this blogpost serendipitously: http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/ so, are we brothers? :-) Rgds,

[gentoo-user] Re: zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread walt
On 02/15/2012 04:23 AM, Daniel D Jones wrote: Doing a world upgrade gives me: root@kushiel / # emerge -uDvatN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy sys-

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/15/2012 07:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: What I would prefer is a detailed yet simple 'How-To' aimed at the average user rather than the hacker (in other words, don't assume I can read code/scripts and understand all or even some of what is happening) or write my own scripts, etc... Also,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/15/2012 05:58 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Found this blogpost serendipitously: http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/ so, are we brothers? :-) But, but... you don't _need_ an initrd to have root on LVM! You just need LVM built-in and GRUB

[gentoo-user] Restrict site access by SSL Client Cert?

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi everyone, I know that you can restrict access to a certain site using either Basic HTTP Auth or Digest Auth, but I was wondering - can you do the same with an SSL Client Certificate? I'd like to prevent access to an ancient web based database to only users that have a Client Cert that I

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 9:37 AM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/15/2012 07:19 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: What I would prefer is a detailed yet simple 'How-To' aimed at the average user rather than the hacker (in other words, don't assume I can read code/scripts and understand all or even some of

Re: [gentoo-user] grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:47:54 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: Understood, and thanks Mike, I really look forward to reading whatever you can provide. I realize that I'm gonna have to take this plunge eventually, and would rather not wait until I'm forced to... That was my feeling a year or so ago. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Restrict site access by SSL Client Cert?

2012-02-15 Thread Michael Mol
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi everyone, I know that you can restrict access to a certain site using either Basic HTTP Auth or Digest Auth, but I was wondering - can you do the same with an SSL Client Certificate? I'd like to prevent access to

Re: [gentoo-user] Recent networking problems

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 3:32 AM, Peter Weilbacher newss...@weilbacher.org wrote: Hi all, since about two weeks I have been fighting with networking problems on a laptop. It all started with a big sync world update that gave me new udev-171-r5, wicd-1.7.1_pre20120127, tuxonice-sources-3.0.17,

[gentoo-user] How do I deamonize every service?

2012-02-15 Thread LK
On 2012, Feb 14, Tuesday, 13:30, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: -b, --background Background immediately. This is useful for startup scripts which don't disable link messages for carrier status. So to use that option, edit /etc/conf.d/net and use:

Re: [gentoo-user] Restrict site access by SSL Client Cert?

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi everyone, I know that you can restrict access to a certain site using either Basic HTTP Auth or Digest Auth, but I was wondering - can you do the same with an SSL Client Certificate? Yes, you can. The specifics of

[gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread LK
Hi, 12 In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. How do i change that?

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I deamonize every service?

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, LK linuxrocksrul...@googlemail.com wrote: On 2012, Feb 14, Tuesday,  13:30, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:  -b, --background             Background immediately.  This is useful for startup             scripts which don't disable link messages for carrier            

[gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: There are scripts to automatically generate a configuration but grub-mkconfig is no more compulsory than genkernel - but both can make life easier when setting up multiple, different systems. Neil et al, Where is the BEST (gentoo) grub2

[gentoo-user] Re: In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 15/02/12 17:49, LK wrote: Hi, 12 In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Disable the Bootup logo option in your kernel: Device Drivers - Graphics support - Bootup logo Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. That is

[gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Nvidia-drivers fails with package collisions * Detected file collision(s): * * /usr/lib32/libnvidia-compiler.so * /usr/lib32/libcuda.so * /usr/lib32/libcuda.so.1 * /usr/lib64/libnvidia-compiler.so * /usr/lib64/libcuda.so * /usr/lib64/libcuda.so.1 But the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:57:27 + (UTC), James wrote: Where is the BEST (gentoo) grub2 documentation? I'm not saying it's the best, but the one I used to switch over is http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 -- Neil Bothwick Bugs are Sons of Glitches signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Nvidia-drivers fails with package collisions  * Detected file collision(s):  *  *      /usr/lib32/libnvidia-compiler.so  *      /usr/lib32/libcuda.so  *      /usr/lib32/libcuda.so.1  *      

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/15/2012 09:52 AM, LK wrote: Are there any firmware-related messages in your dmesg? Oh yes: http://pastebin.com/b95y3GaH Look at the area from 1.576863 to 62.228490, includes the 60s freeze from switching to clocksource tsc. Does the problem lay in my AMD gpu (hd6xxx) ? It is

Re: [gentoo-user] Restrict site access by SSL Client Cert?

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 10:46 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Tanstaafltansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: Hi everyone, I know that you can restrict access to a certain site using either Basic HTTP Auth or Digest Auth, but I was wondering - can you do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
mike, I'd DEFINITELY LOVE to read grub's history, even if it's a short summary or something. TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, but anyone could recommend me a open source/linux/unix/free software history book? Something that mentioned the FSF foundation, the GPL creation, the XFree86 - X.org evolution, linux

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Nvidia-drivers fails with package collisions  * Detected file collision(s):  *  *      /usr/lib32/libnvidia-compiler.so  *      

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 13:59, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 15/02/12 17:49, LK wrote: Hi, 12 In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Disable the Bootup logo option in your kernel: Device Drivers - Graphics support - Bootup logo Then in

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I deamonize every service?

2012-02-15 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 13:50, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 9:40 AM, LK linuxrocksrul...@googlemail.com wrote: On 2012, Feb 14, Tuesday,  13:30, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:  -b, --background             Background immediately.  This is useful for

Re: [gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread m...@trausch.us
On 02/15/2012 10:49 AM, LK wrote: In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. You can eliminate them by switching VTs after boot, or as Nikos said, you are also able to eliminate them entirely

[gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-15 Thread Grant
Has anyone found a GUI alternative to firefox they like that's in portage?  Something minimal preferably but with flash support? - Grant Thanks for the suggestions everyone. It sounds like chromium and midori are the most popular here but lots of other suggestions I will look into too. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:28 AM, Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com wrote: mike, I'd DEFINITELY LOVE to read grub's history, even if it's a short summary or something. TOTALLY OFF-TOPIC, but anyone could recommend me a open source/linux/unix/free software history book?

Re: [gentoo-user] In TTYs, pinguins remain

2012-02-15 Thread Andrea Conti
In TTYs, the penguins you see on top of the booting process remain. Then in less, i cannot scroll upwards, which sucks using man and like that. You're using a framebuffer driver which is either misconfigured or not supported by your system. Most of the time it's just vesafb interacting badly

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Doug Hunley
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:11, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:57:27 + (UTC), James wrote: Where is the BEST (gentoo) grub2 documentation? I'm not saying it's the best, but the one I used to switch over is http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 One thing I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub vs grub 2

2012-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 12:33:06 -0500, Doug Hunley wrote: I'm not saying it's the best, but the one I used to switch over is http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Grub2 One thing I don't see addressed is having /boot on a RAID1 setup. For Grub Legacy, I do: grub device (hd0) /dev/sda grub

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching to clocksource tsc: takes AGES on boot

2012-02-15 Thread LK
On 120215, at 17:17, m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/15/2012 09:52 AM, LK wrote: Are there any firmware-related messages in your dmesg? Oh yes: http://pastebin.com/b95y3GaH Look at the area from 1.576863 to 62.228490, includes the 60s freeze from switching to clocksource tsc. Does the

[gentoo-user] Group Calendaring with decent Outlook interaction

2012-02-15 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi all, We use Thunderbird+Lightning+Provider for Google Calendar+Google Calendar here in our office, and the calendaring really is becoming more and more problematic for us, mostly with respect to interacting with Meeting Invites from external users of Outlook/Exchange. I'm curious if

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Nvidia-drivers fails with package collisions  * Detected file collision(s):  *  *      /usr/lib32/libnvidia-compiler.so  *      /usr/lib32/libcuda.so  *      

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Nvidia-drivers fails with package collisions  * Detected file collision(s):  *  *      

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: Nvidia-drivers fails

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012

Re: [gentoo-user] Running a USB graphics cards with Linux?

2012-02-15 Thread gk
Am Dienstag, 14. Februar 2012, 23:19:56 schrieb Sebastian Pipping: Hello, I would love to use two external displays with my notebook. I have seen USB graphics cards on the net and was wondering if anyone around here has tried to run such a thing with Linux. If it worked for you I'd be

[gentoo-user] Re: fonts in gitview

2012-02-15 Thread Jörg Schaible
Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that is hardly readable. I am normally working in

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Mark Knecht wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 8:12 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP OK, here I saw the same file list but the emerge didn't fail. The installation told me it was overwriting the files because no one claimed to own them. That's some sort of ebuild problem and I'd agree

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: fonts in gitview

2012-02-15 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 15.02.2012 21:32, schrieb Jörg Schaible: Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi, can anybody tell me, what font is used by gitview in the diff pane and how to configure it? I did not use gitview for some time and cannot say, when this started, but currently I get some kind of strange script font that

[gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
I've never yet managed to build a booting vm with gentoo. Probably my own fault, but I don't want to wrangle and study and diddle around endlessly. Which appears to be what it takes for me anyway. This is a i7 64 bit system using semi newish and common sata disks (WD 500GB [black]), and I don't

[gentoo-user] Re: Group Calendaring with decent Outlook interaction

2012-02-15 Thread walt
On 02/15/2012 10:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi all, We use Thunderbird+Lightning+Provider for Google Calendar+Google Calendar here in our office, and the calendaring really is becoming more and more problematic for us, mostly with respect to interacting with Meeting Invites from external users

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've never yet managed to build a booting vm with gentoo.  Probably my own fault, but I don't want to wrangle and study and diddle around endlessly.  Which appears to be what it takes for me anyway. This is a i7 64 bit

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:00:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: That behavior can be controlled by your FEATURES settings (collision-protect or protect-owned) and optionally modified further in make.conf by COLLISION_IGNORE. Good to know. I guess the default setting must be to overwrite as I've

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Mark Knecht
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:00:57 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: That behavior can be controlled by your FEATURES settings (collision-protect or protect-owned) and optionally modified further in make.conf by COLLISION_IGNORE.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Wednesday, February 15, 2012 08:51:32 walt wrote: On 02/15/2012 04:23 AM, Daniel D Jones wrote: Doing a world upgrade gives me: root@kushiel / # emerge -uDvatN world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge:

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:44:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Good to know. I guess the default setting must be to overwrite as I've not made any of those setting changes. emerge --info will show you the settings in use. Of course, but if you don't know about collision-protect, for

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 17:07:48 -0500 Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I've never yet managed to build a booting vm with gentoo. Probably my own fault, but I don't want to wrangle and study and diddle around endlessly. Which appears to be what it takes for me anyway. This is a i7 64

[gentoo-user] Re: Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-15 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: You described your frustration but never mentioned what it is you want. Is it a download source for a working appliance? Google will find one of those for you. Since both of you agree that I never said what I wanted, I guess I'm guilty. Somehow I

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-15 Thread Allan Gottlieb
On Wed, Feb 15 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:44:18 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: Good to know. I guess the default setting must be to overwrite as I've not made any of those setting changes. emerge --info will show you the settings in use. Of course, but if you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 8:51 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: You described your frustration but never mentioned what it is you want. Is it a download source for a working appliance? Google will find one of those for you. Since both of you

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 15, 2012 9:45 PM, m...@trausch.us m...@trausch.us wrote: On 02/15/2012 05:58 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: Found this blogpost serendipitously: http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/ so, are we brothers? :-) But, but... you don't

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I deamonize every service?

2012-02-15 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 09:50:34AM -0600, Paul Hartman wrote: If you emerge ifplugd it should automatically let network start immediately at boot, and then do the actual connection in the background. It also handles unplug/plugging of the cable without you needing to do anything. I started a

[gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
I am wondering if any of you had experienced the same difficulty as me: A couple of days ago, I upgraded openrc from (whatever version it was previously) to 0.9.8.4. One of the scripts in /etc/init.d was a symlink to /opt/some/package/path (To be precise, /etc/init.d/gatewall -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread Graham Murray
walt w41...@gmail.com writes: In any case, if you need -zlib in one package and zlib in another you can set/unset the needed flag for just one package in /etc/portage/package.use. The real problems come when you find that one package depends on foo[bar] and another on foo[-bar]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zlib use flag

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 1:49 PM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com writes: In any case, if you need -zlib in one package and zlib in another you can set/unset the needed flag for just one package in /etc/portage/package.use. The real problems come when you find that

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-02-15 Thread Willie Matthews
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:24:45 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I am wondering if any of you had experienced the same difficulty as me: A couple of days ago, I upgraded openrc from (whatever version it was previously) to 0.9.8.4. One of the scripts in /etc/init.d was a symlink

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-02-15 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 2:01 PM, Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:24:45 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: I am wondering if any of you had experienced the same difficulty as me: A couple of days ago, I upgraded openrc from (whatever version it

[gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-15 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
After yesterday's sync I found mythtv's overlay not able to build anymore due to missing dependency: media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-headers is no longer present in the tree. A quick search shows that it has now become virtual/linuxtv-dvb-headers [1]. I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are