Re: [gentoo-user] How to fully mask gnome-3.18 upgrade

> On Wed, 2 March 2016, at 6:58 am, Nicol TAO wrote: > > I want to ask how to mask the upgrades of gnome-3.18. I really want to > find gnome 3.16 profile as kde4 and kde5 case, but none. • https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Knowledge_Base:Masking_a_package •

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

FYI for anyone concerned about this latest issue "DROWN" - its only a problem if SSLv2 is enabled. SSLv2 has been broken for a long time, so should be disabled. However, if it is exposed then an attacker can retrieve the private key, and in doing so will be able to also decrypt secure TLS 1.2+

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

Peter Humphrey prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > which as I said is scientific computing using GPUs as well as the CPU. Here is another great site to look for opensource science codes to run on your gpu(s). http://gpuopen.com/professional-compute/ hth, James

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

Peter Humphrey prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: >said is scientific computing using GPUs as well as the CPU. Ah well take a look at this 'bad boy(gpu)' article:: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/amd-gpuopen-fuels-seismic-supercomputing-14049.html hth, James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:11 PM, James wrote: > Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > > Excuse me, but I did not criticize anyone. I know. It was really meant to temper my remarks, since email is easy to misconstrue. It wasn't really directed at you, and you did get at

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

On 02/03/16 13:50, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, It's approaching time to invest in a new system, and I'd like the panel's views on which make of graphics card to choose: AMD, nVidia or Radeon. I don't want to start a flame war, but which of those would give me the best performance in GPU

[gentoo-user] Re: useflag hell.

Am Sun, 28 Feb 2016 21:01:48 +0200 schrieb Alan McKinnon : > On 28/02/2016 20:14, Alan Grimes wrote: > > I've been running number theory code for a few weeks, so haven't > > been updating my machine too often... > > > > I for the last day or so I'm in a run my

[gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > >> They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely > >> braid-dead thing for upstream to do, because it causes exactly this > >> kind of breakage. > > > > H. I've been working on my ebuild and end-o-mentoring quizes:: so in > > that vein,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 6:54 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: > Upstream really dropped the ball on this. When I'm updating packages > I certainly don't carefully review all their ABIs and SONAMEs. > Without some kind of automatic QA tool it would be a pretty big > undertaking. I might

[gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On Wed, 2 Mar 2016 10:49:59 -0500 Rich Freeman wrote: > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128 I had wget with USE="gnutls" already, so I took the plunge yesterday and followed PolynomialC's instructions at the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Not just the computing power, though: Gentoo support will be important over > the life of the system. If the life of this current box is any guide, that > could stretch to 10 years. Well, maybe. > So, I can't speak

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 11:06 AM, James wrote: > Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > >> They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely >> braid-dead thing for upstream to do, because it causes exactly this >> kind of breakage. > > H. I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

On Wednesday 02 March 2016 15:33:27 James wrote: > Peter Humphrey prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > > It's approaching time to invest in a new system, and I'd like the > > panel's views on which make of graphics card to choose: AMD, nVidia or > > Radeon. Does anyone here have an opinion to offer? > >

[gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

Rich Freeman gentoo.org> writes: > >> Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary > >> rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors. > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128 > They changed ABI without changing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 02/03/2016 17:49, Rich Freeman wrote: >> https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128 >> >> They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On 02/03/2016 17:49, Rich Freeman wrote: > https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7886940.html > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576128 > > They changed ABI without changing SONAME, which is an absolutely > braid-dead thing for upstream to do, because it causes exactly this > kind of

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 02/03/16 16:41, walt wrote: >> >> Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary >> rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors. >> >> Example: libcurl was broken and caused the rebuilds of

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Choice of graphics card

Peter Humphrey prh.myzen.co.uk> writes: > > Hello list, > > It's approaching time to invest in a new system, and I'd like the panel's > views on which make of graphics card to choose: AMD, nVidia or Radeon. > Does anyone here have an opinion to offer? Perhaps you can define some more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

* Nikos Chantziaras [160302 10:16]: > On 02/03/16 16:41, walt wrote: > > Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary > > rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors. > > > > Example: libcurl was broken and caused the rebuilds of virtualbox and > > git to

[gentoo-user] Re: openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

On 02/03/16 16:41, walt wrote: Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors. Example: libcurl was broken and caused the rebuilds of virtualbox and git to fail until I forced a rebuild of curl. Any installed package that is

[gentoo-user] openssl upgrade may miss some needed rebuilds

Today's upgrade of openssl to 1.0.2g-r1 may cause some necessary rebuilds to fail due to missing symbol errors. Example: libcurl was broken and caused the rebuilds of virtualbox and git to fail until I forced a rebuild of curl. Any installed package that is actually linked against openssl will

[gentoo-user] [OT] Choice of graphics card

Hello list, It's approaching time to invest in a new system, and I'd like the panel's views on which make of graphics card to choose: AMD, nVidia or Radeon. I don't want to start a flame war, but which of those would give me the best performance in GPU calculations? I have some BOINC projects