Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

On Thursday 26 May 2016 09:10:12 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > You'll spend a while getting used to git, there's no way around it. You > just have to pick a project and force yourself to use git all day. All > of the commands have the wrong names: > > * Want to check out a repository? There's `git

Re: [gentoo-user] Git for gentoo users?

On 05/26/2016 04:15 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > No, those are all the correct names that git uses. Possibly years of > using cvs/svn has trained your brain to think in a particular way. > > Git does not work that way. It's as different from svn as you can get > for 2 reasons... It all makes

Re: [gentoo-user] Git for gentoo users?

On 26/05/2016 20:01, James wrote: > > >> On 05/26/2016 04:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Aye, there's the rub. Git is a closed book to me at the moment. > > Hello, > > I started a new thread for (2) reason. > 1. The original thread does not show up in my gmane, as it was > down for a few

[gentoo-user] Git for gentoo users?

> On 05/26/2016 04:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Aye, there's the rub. Git is a closed book to me at the moment. Hello, I started a new thread for (2) reason. 1. The original thread does not show up in my gmane, as it was down for a few days. 2. I think 'subject drift' warrants a new

Re: [gentoo-user] udev detection weirdness

> On Thu, 26 May 2016, at 7:14 am, Daniel Frey wrote: > > … I couldn't figure out why and installed grub2 and used UUIDs as a > temporary fix. > > … It appears to be udev. Somewhere along in its stupid detection it > decides to process USB devices before sata ports, thusly

[gentoo-user] Re: speech recognition?

On 16/05/16 00:34, lee wrote: Hi, is there a speech recognition software or the like which is capable to listen in on a phone call in order to put on screen as text what the other person is saying? I'd like to connect that to a softphone so that someone who suffers from very bad hearing can

[gentoo-user] Re: udev detection weirdness

On 26/05/16 23:39, James wrote: Daniel Frey gmail.com> writes: It appears to be udev. Somewhere along in its stupid detection it decides to process USB devices before sata ports, thusly randomly renaming the boot drive to something else in the process. It took me forever to figure this

[gentoo-user] Re: udev detection weirdness

Daniel Frey gmail.com> writes: > It appears to be udev. Somewhere along in its stupid detection it > decides to process USB devices before sata ports, thusly randomly > renaming the boot drive to something else in the process. > It took me forever to figure this out, I eventually had a

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

On 05/26/2016 04:32 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Aye, there's the rub. Git is a closed book to me at the moment. Having to > learn how to use it would at least triple my time to get up to speed. Time, > I have plenty of (DV, as they say in religious circles), but my brain > doesn't go nearly

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

On 05/26/2016 05:03 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 26 May 2016 09:32:26 I wrote: > >> Thanks for the encouragement. I'll muse awhile. > > Already I have an elementary question: what editors are recommended for this > kind of work? Other than vim and emacs, that is, either of which

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

On Thu, 26 May 2016 09:32:26 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > These days it's a lot easier to get practice because you don't have to > > deal with CVS. If you clone our git repo as your $PORTDIR, then you > > can make your changes and `repoman commit` just like the rest of us. > > If you're okay

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

On Thursday 26 May 2016 09:32:26 I wrote: > Thanks for the encouragement. I'll muse awhile. Already I have an elementary question: what editors are recommended for this kind of work? Other than vim and emacs, that is, either of which would involve yet another acute learning process. -- Rgds

Re: [gentoo-user] Death of KDE-4?

On Wednesday 25 May 2016 17:41:58 I wrote: > I think the error was at my end. My method is to run emerge --sync with a > little box on the LAN as portage rsync server, which syncs overnight on a > cron job. Sometimes the sync goes in two passes: file copies and file > deletions. When that

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

On Wednesday 25 May 2016 18:19:38 Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 05/25/2016 06:09 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Well, considering the importance of gummiboot to some of us, I might be > > willing to take it on - if I just knew a bit more about package > > maintenance. As I've said many times in

Re: [gentoo-user] Fwd: [gentoo-dev] Package up for grabs: sys-boot/gummiboot

On Thu, 26 May 2016 10:48:48 +1000, Sam Jorna wrote: > I'll also mention the Proxy Maintainers project[0] here. Yes this is > intended to facilitate people taking maintainership of a package, but my > point is that there is a project dedicated to facilitating contributors > without push access

[gentoo-user] udev detection weirdness

Some time ago (more than a year ago) one of my computers failed to boot after an update (note - not a kernel update. A @world update.) I couldn't figure out why and installed grub2 and used UUIDs as a temporary fix. I got a new SSD for that machine today, so I went and moved everything over, then