Re: [gentoo-user] Re: update gentoo without network [SOLVED]

Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:39:50 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > >> Just tested, it works: >> >> 1. cp -a /var/db/pkg from system A to removable media >> 2. chroot ; emerge-webrsync ; emerge --fetchonly -uDvN world >> 3. cp -a /usr/portage from removable media to system A >> 4.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 12:22 AM, wrote: > > I'm an absolute windows noop. I only use it for graphics work. I even > didn't know that such a kind of file sharing is possible with it. :-) > No worries - I think that is a great place to be. However, it is useful to understand

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

Am Tue, 19 Jan 2016 19:39:26 + (UTC) schrieb Grant Edwards : > On 2016-01-19, Mick wrote: > > > As far as I understand it RDP is different to VNC, in the sense that > > instead of sending every pixel down the line it only sends > >

[gentoo-user] Why we no Heroku?

I wanted to start fiddling with Heroku , so naturally the first thing I tried was |$ eix heroku | …but alas there was nothing. So I poked around their site to see how one might install their client manually and the instructions

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails

Alec Ten Harmsel: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:05:49PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Alec: Ten Harmsel: > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:01:19PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > > > I'm getting > > > > > > > > Makefile:1318: recipe for target 'xinput.c' failed > > > > > > > > when

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails

Alec: Ten Harmsel: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:01:19PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > I'm getting > > > > Makefile:1318: recipe for target 'xinput.c' failed > > > > when emerging x11-libs/libxcb-1.11.1, logs etc.: > > > > http://turkos.aspodata.se/tmp/gentoo/ > > I can't read build.log

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Grant wrote: > > I'm sorry, I meant can I lock down access to my web stuff so that a > particular user can only come from a particular device (or from any > device containing a key). > It looks like this hasn't been widely implemented, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Why we no Heroku?

On 20/01/2016 00:44, Daniel Quinn wrote: > I wanted to start fiddling with Heroku , so > naturally the first thing I tried was > > |$ eix heroku | > > …but alas there was nothing. So I poked around their site to see how one > might install their client manually and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo

Alec McKinnon: > On 19/01/2016 18:51, k...@aspodata.se wrote: ... > > I have had no pain useing an old plain /dev. What's the pain ? > take a machine running a desktop. Plug in a usb printer. Where's your node? To find that out I'd investigate /sys/bus/usb, either directly or via usb-devices or

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:05:49PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Alec: Ten Harmsel: > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:01:19PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > > I'm getting > > > > > > Makefile:1318: recipe for target 'xinput.c' failed > > > > > > when emerging x11-libs/libxcb-1.11.1, logs

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

On 2016-01-19, Mick wrote: > As far as I understand it RDP is different to VNC, in the sense that > instead of sending every pixel down the line it only sends > compressed semantic information *about* a desktop component > (e.g. the start button, a control signal,

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: > I use pulseaudio without ALSA, for what it's worth. I also don't use VLC > or mplayer. > That's interesting. I didn't know one could use pulseaudio with ALSA left out. I set the global USE flag to '-alsa' in

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 08:01:19PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > I'm getting > > Makefile:1318: recipe for target 'xinput.c' failed > > when emerging x11-libs/libxcb-1.11.1, logs etc.: > > http://turkos.aspodata.se/tmp/gentoo/ I can't read build.log - 403 permission denied. > I get

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 09:57:18PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:10 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel > wrote: > > > I use pulseaudio without ALSA, for what it's worth. I also don't use VLC > > or mplayer. > > > > That's interesting. I didn't know one

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo

On 19/01/2016 18:51, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > James: >> aspodata.se> writes: > I found a workaround in the sys-fs/static-dev package. >> >> Interesting read :: bgo #107875 > > I'm new to gentoo, is there some special semantic to the "bgo #" ? > Let's be clear: static-dev is NOT a

[gentoo-user] emerge libxcb fails

I'm getting Makefile:1318: recipe for target 'xinput.c' failed when emerging x11-libs/libxcb-1.11.1, logs etc.: http://turkos.aspodata.se/tmp/gentoo/ I get similar errors with: emerge =libxcb-1.10 emerge =libxcb-1.9.1 Have anyone seen anything similar, maybe there something missing here

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

>> If that's the case then it sounds like 2FA doesn't really provide any >> extra assurance. It's another layer but if the machine is hacked then >> it sounds like it becomes a very thin layer. >> >> I'd most like to allow the remote employee to use their own computer, >> but is there any way to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Grant wrote: > > If that's the case then it sounds like 2FA doesn't really provide any > extra assurance. It's another layer but if the machine is hacked then > it sounds like it becomes a very thin layer. > > I'd most like to allow the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tuesday 19 Jan 2016 08:42:07 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 01:57:38 AM lee wrote: > > Rich Freeman writes: > > > On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 7:26 PM, lee wrote: > > >> Rich Freeman writes: > > >>> However, while an

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

>> You can use apache client authentication with SSL certificates only. Of >> course you will need to create a self-signed CA, which you will use to create >> the web server public/private key pair and also sign each client's >> certificate >> and upload it along with your CA certificate to the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

"J. Roeleveld" writes: > On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 01:46:45 AM lee wrote: >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >> > On Monday, January 18, 2016 02:02:27 AM lee wrote: >> >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >> >> > On 17 January 2016 18:35:20 CET, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

Rich Freeman writes: > On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Alec Ten Harmsel > wrote: >> >> All Joost is saying is that most resources can be overcommitted, since >> all the users will not be using all their resources at the same time. >> > > Don't want to

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

Alec Ten Harmsel writes: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 01:46:45AM +0100, lee wrote: >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >> >> > On Monday, January 18, 2016 02:02:27 AM lee wrote: >> >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: >> >> > On 17 January 2016

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

"J. Roeleveld" writes: > [...] > If disk-space is considered too expensive, you could even have every VM use > the same base image. And have them store only the differences of the disk. > eg: > 1) Create a VM > 2) Snapshot the disk (with the VM shutdown) > 3) create a new

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Mick wrote: > > You can use apache client authentication with SSL certificates only. Of > course you will need to create a self-signed CA, which you will use to create > the web server public/private key pair and also sign each client's

Re: [gentoo-user] Why we no Heroku?

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:44:44 +, Daniel Quinn wrote: > I wanted to start fiddling with Heroku , so > naturally the first thing I tried was > > |$ eix heroku | > > …but alas there was nothing. % eix -R heroku * dev-util/heroku-client [1] Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:22 PM, lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > > How does that work? IIUC, when you created a snapshot, any changes you > make to the snapshotted (or how that is called) file system are being > referenced by the snapshot which you

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tuesday 19 Jan 2016 17:46:27 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Grant wrote: > > I'm sorry, I meant can I lock down access to my web stuff so that a > > particular user can only come from a particular device (or from any > > device containing a key). >

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

>> > I'm sorry, I meant can I lock down access to my web stuff so that a >> > particular user can only come from a particular device (or from any >> > device containing a key). >> > You can use apache client authentication with SSL certificates only. Of > course you will need to create a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:56:21PM +0100, lee wrote: > Alec Ten Harmsel writes: > > > > Depends on how the load is. Right now I have a 500GB HDD at work. I use > > VirtualBox and vagrant for testing various software. Every VM in > > VirtualBox gets a 50GB hard disk, and I

Re: [gentoo-user] Why we no Heroku?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 10:44:44PM +, Daniel Quinn wrote: > I wanted to start fiddling with Heroku , so > naturally the first thing I tried was > > |$ eix heroku | > > …but alas there was nothing. So I poked around their site to see how one > might install their client

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 5:08 PM, lee wrote: > > BTW, is it as easy to give a graphics card to a container as it is to > give it a network card? I've never tried it, but I'd think that the container could talk to a graphics card. > What if you have a container for each user who

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 7:18 PM, Grant wrote: > > Is an SSL key stored on a smartcard better than a TOTP password? They > seem roughly equivalent to me. I don't think either would restrict > access by device. > They'd be roughly equivalent, especially if the TOTP is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to get rid of 32bits libraries

Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 18/01/16 12:00, Dale wrote: >> Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:12:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> equery hasuse checks which packages respect the given USE flag, it pays no attention to whether it is actually set. Try emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 11:22:02 PM lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > > [...] > > If disk-space is considered too expensive, you could even have every VM > > use > > the same base image. And have them store only the differences of the disk. > > eg: > > 1) Create a VM

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

On Wednesday, January 20, 2016 01:46:29 AM lee wrote: > "J. Roeleveld" writes: > > On Tuesday, January 19, 2016 01:46:45 AM lee wrote: > >> "J. Roeleveld" writes: > >> > On Monday, January 18, 2016 02:02:27 AM lee wrote: > >> >> "J. Roeleveld"

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get rid of 32bits libraries

On 18/01/16 15:31, Helmut Jarausch wrote: If possible, I'd like to install any packages with abs_x86_32 which are required for dev-util/android-sdk-update-manager and app-text/acroread with a different PREFIX, such as /usr/local . Is that possible? There is exactly zero reason to do that,

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Allow work from home?

> In any case, if you aren't going to own the client hardware, you > basically are going to have to assume it is vulnerable since nobody > maintains their PCs well. That means keyboard sniffing, cookie > stealing, and so on. If you're web-based a hostile browser could just > open another session

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Allow work from home?

On 16/01/16 06:17, Grant wrote: I'm considering allowing some employees to work from home but I'm concerned about the security implications. Currently everybody shows up and logs into their locked down Gentoo system and from there is able to access the company webapps which are restricted to

[gentoo-user] Re: How to get rid of 32bits libraries

On 18/01/16 12:00, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:12:23 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: equery hasuse checks which packages respect the given USE flag, it pays no attention to whether it is actually set. Try emerge -evp world | grep 'ABI_X86=32' Sorry, that should be

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to get rid of 32bits libraries

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 14:23:56 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >>> equery hasuse checks which packages respect the given USE flag, it > >>> pays no attention to whether it is actually set. Try > >>> > >>> emerge -evp world | grep 'ABI_X86=32' > >> Sorry, that should be > >> > >> emerge -evp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 16:06:26 + (UTC), James wrote: > > > Let's be clear: static-dev is NOT a workaround. It is a full proper > > > solution for the case when a dynamic device node solution is not > > > desired. > > Well, I can think of embedded (linux) systems, a lock-down server and >

[gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo

aspodata.se> writes: > > > I found a workaround in the sys-fs/static-dev package. Interesting read :: bgo #107875 > > Let's be clear: static-dev is NOT a workaround. It is a full proper > > solution for the case when a dynamic device node solution is not > > desired. Well, I can think of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo

On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 05:51:11PM +0100, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > James: > > aspodata.se> writes: > > > > > I found a workaround in the sys-fs/static-dev package. > > > > Interesting read :: bgo #107875 > > I'm new to gentoo, is there some special semantic to the "bgo #" ? bgo ==

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo

James: > aspodata.se> writes: > > > > I found a workaround in the sys-fs/static-dev package. > > Interesting read :: bgo #107875 I'm new to gentoo, is there some special semantic to the "bgo #" ? > > > Let's be clear: static-dev is NOT a workaround. It is a full proper > > > solution for the

[gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

Recently, sound has stopped working on one of my Gentoo systems. I have checked the kernel, package and pulseaudio set-ups across all of my systems in an attempt to pin down the problem, but so far to no avail. The sound works fine on the other systems I have. Hopefully, someone on the list will

Re: [gentoo-user] Shutdown through systemctl as a normal user

On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 14:56 -0800, Willie Matthews wrote: > On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:31:39 +0100 > lukash wrote: > > > On Mon, 2016-01-18 at 20:00 +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > > lukash wrote: > > >    > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I'm reading on the

Re: [gentoo-user] sound stopped working [media-sound/pulseaudio-7.1]

I use pulseaudio without ALSA, for what it's worth. I also don't use VLC or mplayer. On Tue, Jan 19, 2016 at 06:33:41PM +0200, Alexander Kapshuk wrote: > Recently, sound has stopped working on one of my Gentoo systems. I have > checked the kernel, package and pulseaudio set-ups across all of my