[gentoo-user] ruby and package.use

2021-02-09 Thread Adam Carter
It seems like ruby regularly wants to stuff ruby_targets_rebyNN entries into package.use on my machines - is this normal? Now that ruby3 is out it wants to add a bunch of ruby_targets_ruby30 entries to the ruby_targets_ruby27 crud that's already there.

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied)

2021-02-09 Thread cal
On 2/9/21 5:04 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 2/8/21 9:59 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: On 2/8/21 9:44 PM, cal wrote: [snip] When I'm directly in front of the PC and I have a log-in screen and type user ID + passwords I was under impression that "startxfce4" would run automatically

Re: [gentoo-user] xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 1 (Permission denied)

2021-02-09 Thread thelma
On 2/8/21 9:59 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 2/8/21 9:44 PM, cal wrote: > [snip] >>> >>> When I'm directly in front of the PC and I have a log-in screen and type >>> user ID + passwords >>> I was under impression that "startxfce4" would run automatically when from >>> .xinitrc >>>

[gentoo-user] apache 2.4 - .htaccess IP's limit

2021-02-09 Thread thelma
Does apache 2.4 have a limit of how many individual entries like: " Require not ip xxx.xxx.xxx.xx" I can have in Apache .htaccess file? I have over 500-subnets and I've notices some IP's are being blocked even though they are not on the list.

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

2021-02-09 Thread Dan Egli
On 2/9/2021 3:20 AM, Michael wrote: Actually tried that. Got LPD installed, sent a test page. Test page appeared in the Windows Queue, then disappeared without any acknowledgement from the printer. This would need some troubleshooting/configuring on the Windows end. It's a long time ago I

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 08:43:13 GMT n952162 wrote: > Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new > kernel, as in: > > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > > I currently have this situation: > > $ uname -a > Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 3:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:25:01 +0100, n952162 wrote: gentoo policy is that administrators need to keep their systems up-to-date.  The promise is, if they do so, the dependency system will be reliable. The kernel version is apparently an exception to this. 

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 14:25:01 +0100, n952162 wrote: > gentoo policy is that administrators need to keep their systems > up-to-date.  The promise is, if they do so, the dependency system will > be reliable. > > The kernel version is apparently an exception to this.  The updating > mechanism does

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 11:01:04 +0100, n952162 wrote: > Ah, maybe I have a theory what's going on ... maybe there's no news that > it's time to upgrade the kernel, because it's not meant that the kernel > necessarily needs to be upgraded ... except that it seems that the > virtualbox-modules package

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 2:56 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:25:01 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/9/21 12:57 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 13:25:01 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2/9/21 12:57 PM, Michael wrote: > > On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: > >> On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: > >>> n952162 wrote: > Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new > >

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 12:57 PM, Michael wrote: On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new kernel, as in: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade I currently have

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

2021-02-09 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 9/2/21 8:29 pm, Wols Lists wrote: On 09/02/21 11:29, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 8/2/21 11:36 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've tried a few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For instance,

Re: [gentoo-user] lightdm - keeps looping

2021-02-09 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 02:23:26 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 2/8/21 7:01 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > On 2/8/21 6:59 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> The slim is no longer maintain, so I tried "lightdm" but when I try to > >> login, it keeps looping, I'm back into

[gentoo-user] how to maintain and successfully compile inn

2021-02-09 Thread John Covici
Hi. I see that inn is no longer in the tree and I have a local ebuild for inn2.6.3, but it won't work because of the following line PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 ) The error I get is: * ERROR: net-nntp/inn-2.6.3::local_ebuilds failed (depend phase): * No supported implementation in

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 10:01:04 GMT n952162 wrote: > On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: > > n952162 wrote: > >> Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new > >> > >> kernel, as in: > >>https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > >> > >> I currently have this

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

2021-02-09 Thread Wols Lists
On 09/02/21 11:29, Andrew Lowe wrote: > On 8/2/21 11:36 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've >> tried a >> few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For >> instance, today I tried installing a

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

2021-02-09 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 8/2/21 11:36 pm, Peter Humphrey wrote: Hello list, I have a Pi 400, on which I'd like to install Gentoo if I can. I've tried a few approaches so far, but each one has fallen foul of some obstacle. For instance, today I tried installing a small Gentoo system into a chroot, to do the compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on rpi

2021-02-09 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 05:14:25 GMT William Kenworthy wrote: > Use a standard Gentoo aarch64 (arm64 ) package. Add a pi kernel, the > /lib/modules directory and the /boot directory from a raspian tarball. > > I did this on a pi 3B running in 64bit mode. Once I had a bootable > system it was

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing printers via Cups

2021-02-09 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 9 February 2021 00:59:01 GMT Dan Egli wrote: > On 2/8/2021 5:01 PM, Michael wrote: > > On Monday, 8 February 2021 19:08:11 GMT Dan Egli wrote: > >> On 2/8/2021 2:14 AM, Wols Lists wrote: > >>> This is typical. In my linux setup, the printer is always busy. Stuff > >>> still prints

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
On 2/9/21 10:05 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new kernel, as in:   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade I currently have this situation: $ uname -a Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 10:05, Dale wrote: > I'm trying to remember what that binary kernel thing is called. I just > skimmed the messages so it could be something else or not even in the > tree yet. I believe you're thinking of sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin (also available without -bin, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > > Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new > kernel, as in: > >   https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade > > I currently have this situation: > > $ uname -a > Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020 x86_64 > GNU/Linux >

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Andrew Udvare
> On 2021-02-09, at 03:43, n952162 wrote: > > If an update requires additional steps, shouldn't that have appeared in the > news? No because how it's done is totally dependent on your needs. There's no one correct way to do it. Even in common cases, some may choose to use certain kinds of

[gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread n952162
Are extra administrative steps necessary when --sync brings in a new kernel, as in: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Kernel/Upgrade I currently have this situation: $ uname -a Linux host *4.19.72-gentoo* #7 SMP Tue Jun 9 19:51:52 CEST 2020 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ eselect kernel list Available