Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to test package install?

Am Freitag, 16. Februar 2018, 00:21:37 CET schrieb Ian Zimmerman: > On 2018-02-15 23:39, Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > > > I'm trying to test my package by running "ebuild /path/to/pkg.ebuild > > > install". Naturally (for me) I do this as an unprivileged user, not > > > as root. It fails because

[gentoo-user] Re: Is ABI a portage variable?

On 2018-02-16 11:14, Mike Gilbert wrote: > ABI is a profile variable. On an amd64 system it is defined in > profiles/arch/amd64/make.defaults. > > The ABI variable is used by functions in multilib.eclass, > toolchain-funcs.eclass, and the econf function to determine the > correct libdir (lib,

[gentoo-user] Re: Can't restart or stop openvpn: it is "already started, but inactive"

On 2018-02-16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:41:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> There must be something short of a reboot that will allow me to >> restart a failed openvpn client? >> >> # rc-service openvpn.wr7 stop >> * Stopping openvpn.wr7 ... >>

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub

Probably need to pass a uuid to the real root kernel param On Fri, Feb 16, 2018, 11:34 AM zless wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to have the Gentoo Live CD ISO as a recovery media in grub. > > I tried all the options I could think off in a custom grub menu entry like > this:

[gentoo-user] Boot Gentoo live iso from grub

Hello all, I'm trying to have the Gentoo Live CD ISO as a recovery media in grub. I tried all the options I could think off in a custom grub menu entry like this: menuentry "Gentoo ISO" { set cmdline="root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc dokeymap looptype=squashfs loop=/image.squashfs cdroot

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't restart or stop openvpn: it is "already started, but inactive"

On Fri, 16 Feb 2018 17:41:43 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > There must be something short of a reboot that will allow me to > restart a failed openvpn client? > > # rc-service openvpn.wr7 stop > * Stopping openvpn.wr7 ... > * > VPNPID='/var/run/openvpn.wr7.pid'

[gentoo-user] Can't restart or stop openvpn: it is "already started, but inactive"

I've got a couple different openvpn client configurations set up, and if the fail to connect, the client apparently dies and then there's no way to stop or restart it. There is no openvpn process running. There is no PID file. Yet rc-server insists that it's "already started". Why is it saying

Re: [gentoo-user] Is ABI a portage variable?

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 7:10 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > I am trying to package software whose build process (autotools based) > depends on a variable "ABI" to determine (on x86 and amd64 arch at least) > whether to build as 64 bit or 32 bit. If it is not set externally,