Re: [gentoo-user] keepassxc 2.6.0 strange rendering

2020-07-10 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Jul 10, 2020, at 11:40, Tamer Higazi wrote: > I wanted to try keepassxc 2.6.0, but the output looks really nonsense > and the output looks entirely "broken". I mostly fixed the problem on my system with the following steps: 1. I installed the Breeze theme (kde-frameworks/breeze-icons) 2.

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict

2020-07-03 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, at 06:35, Valmor F. de Almeida wrote: > Is there a problem ignoring the warning below? My understanding here is > that dev-python/docutils-0.16 wants a python2_7 target built that is not > in the scheduled merge (only python3_7 is). Hopefully this dependency > conflict will

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypted drive setup at login and locking on logout.

2020-07-03 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020, at 04:23, Dale wrote: > Now that I have a spare drive, I want to encrypt it and have a mount point > for it, /home/dale/documents for example. What I'd like to do, when I login > in, it asks me for the encryption password and then mounts it. When I log > out, it reverses.

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-30 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, May 30, 2020, at 14:54, james wrote: > # qlist -ICv dev-qt/ > dev-qt/designer-5.14.2 > dev-qt/linguist-5.14.2 > dev-qt/linguist-tools-5.14.2 > dev-qt/qt-creator-4.8.2 > dev-qt/qt-docs-5.14.2_p202003291239 > dev-qt/qt3d-5.14.2 > dev-qt/qtchooser-66 > dev-qt/qtconcurrent-5.14.2 >

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-29 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, May 29, 2020, at 01:04, james wrote: > (dev-qt/qtcore-5.15.0:5/5.15.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > USE="icu -debug -old-kernel (-systemd) -test" ABI_X86="(64)" conflicts with > ~dev-qt/qtcore-5.14.2:5/5.14.2= required by > (dev-qt/qtnetwork-5.14.2:5/5.14::gentoo,

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-28 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, May 28, 2020, at 22:11, james wrote: > So what application/strategy gets me past errors like this: > > "Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50e01) with this library > (version 0x50e02)" Which application are you printing from? I guess it's a Qt application. In that case,

Re: [gentoo-user] jack vs jack2 USE-flag-wise?

2020-05-15 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, May 15, 2020, at 13:51, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > I want to set 'jack' as a default USE flag - bu my system is a > multicore/multithreaded on...so I need not jack aka > > media-sound/jack-audio-connection-kit > > but I think I need this one: > > * media-sound/jack2 >

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of unwanted languages (Was: Re: gimp help not available, even with USE doc)

2020-05-04 Thread Francesco Turco
On Mon, May 4, 2020, at 20:11, Michael Jones wrote: > I can't find any documentation on the use of "LANG" or "LANGUAGE" in > /etc/portage/make.conf. > > I'm looking here: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki//etc/portage/make.conf#LINGUAS > > Is there another source that describes these variables and

Re: [gentoo-user] EINVAL

2020-04-28 Thread Francesco Turco
> Unable to unshare: EINVAL (for FEATURES="ipc-sandbox network-sandbox > pid-sandbox") Is the CONFIG_UTS_NS kernel option enabled? See the following forums threads for details: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-260.html https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1094424.html --

Re: [gentoo-user] complete switch from openssl to libressl on gentoo

2020-04-17 Thread Francesco Turco
> However, is there a good reason for opting for libressl instead of the > ubiquitous openssl? I haven't tried libressl yet, but the main reason I'm interested in trying it is due to the fact it doesn't have a "bindist" USE flag. In fact some packages require openssl to be built with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about handling filenames with "illegal" characters...

2020-04-16 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020, at 17:15, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Normally I would replace the asd* with the according > > find . -name 'asd*' -print0 | > > but I got in trpuble, because "do_something" > now misunderstood the whole thing. What about the following command? find . -name 'asd*' -print0

Re: [gentoo-user] Desktop-no-multilib profile - possible?

2020-02-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, at 22:21, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > I will never ever run 32bit software again and would really like to have > a desktop-no-multilib profile, in sync with the regular desktop but simply > without the multilib goop. My server is running precisely as I want with > plain

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nds/rpcbind-1.2.5 build failure

2020-01-11 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, at 11:22, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Soo, why don't I have it??? Did you enable the "rpc" USE flag for sys-fs/quota? -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nds/rpcbind-1.2.5 build failure

2020-01-11 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Jan 11, 2020, at 09:16, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > From net-nds/rpcbind-1.2.5/temp/build.log: > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"rpcbind\" [...] -c -o > src/security.o src/security.c > src/security.c:27:10: fatal error: rpcsvc/rquota.h: No such file or > directory > #include >

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying files from one encfs directory to another encfs directory

2019-12-21 Thread Francesco Turco
> this seems to work (its still running). > But for what reasons do cp & friends fail? I have no idea, unfortunately... -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] Copying files from one encfs directory to another encfs directory

2019-12-21 Thread Francesco Turco
> When I try to copy files (cp or via two tars piped together) from > one directory to the other I get "permission denied" -- with > both directories I am owner and read/write permissions. For directories, the +x permission is also needed. > How can I copy a large quantity of files between the

Re: [gentoo-user] force re-cythonizing in an ebuild

2019-11-19 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tue, Nov 19, 2019, at 01:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 14:35:18 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > find -xdev / -name '*.pyx' | xarge emerge --oneshot --ask You probably meant "xargs" instead of "xarge". -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] where is /usr/portage?

2019-11-11 Thread Francesco Turco
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019, at 14:00, Dale wrote: > root@fireball / # cat /etc/make.conf | grep var > PORT_LOGDIR=/var/log/portage/ > source /var/lib/layman/make.conf > DISTDIR="/var/cache/portage/distfiles/" > PKGDIR="/var/cache/portage/packages" > PORTDIR="/var/cache/portage/tree" I'm sure you

Re: [gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019, at 12:09, n952162 wrote: > --new-use isn't on my man page It's spelled --newuse, or simply -N. -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] does emerge always rebuild

2019-11-10 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sun, Nov 10, 2019, at 11:18, n952162 wrote: > even if the package was just emerged? What are you trying to do exactly? Please post the emerge commands you are running, along with their output. -- https://fturco.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem dropping Python 2.7

2019-09-13 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Sep 13, 2019, at 09:21, Philip Webb wrote: > Thanks ! -- in 16 years using Gentoo, I've never come across eclasses. > I see they are listed in /usr/portage/eclass . > Is there a doc which describes what they are & what they do ? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Eclass

Re: [gentoo-user] escape from i3lock

2019-07-10 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Jul 10, 2019, at 19:04, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > Here is my next "low information" question, haha. > > I use i3lock which is like Xscreensaver but much much simpler; it plays > no movies or games, just blanks the screen with a configured color or > image. To unlock it you have to type your

Re: [gentoo-user] Human configurable boot loader, OR useful grub2 documentation

2019-07-05 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, at 08:05, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: > So, is there either a boot loader that a human can configure manually > that can handle LUKS partitions?  No uefi, but GPT would be nice. I have a LUKS-encrypted system, GPT partitions, no UEFI, systemd, dracut, btrfs.

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-apps/dtc-1.5.0 install failure

2019-05-29 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, May 29, 2019, at 13:30, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Part of portage_tmpdir/portage/sys-apps/dtc-1.5.0/temp/build.log: > ... > x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -shared -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -L. > -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -O2 -pipe -fPIC -Wall -Wpointer-arith > -Wcast-qual -Wnested-externs

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-08 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Dec 8, 2018, at 14:23, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > from some images I want to create a pdf. I successfully use img2pdf: https://gitlab.mister-muffin.de/josch/img2pdf It's also in the main Gentoo repository. -- https://fturco.gitlab.io/

Re: [gentoo-user] Software for checking CDs and DVDs for errors?

2018-12-03 Thread Francesco Turco
On Mon, Dec 3, 2018, at 17:27, Pouru Lasse wrote: > I've got a bunch of scratched disc-based games (PS2, Xbox 360) that I'd > like to check for errors. Is there any program for Linux that does this? > I found and tried dvdisaster, but it only works for CDs, not > DVDs. Everything else seems to be

Re: [gentoo-user] LibreOffice and openldap

2018-07-24 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tuesday, 24 July 2018 17.15.29 CEST Andrew Lowe wrote: > Anyone got any insight? Upstream bug: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71538 -- https://fturco.gitlab.com/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Multiboot USB - GRUB2 loop device

2018-07-14 Thread Francesco Turco
On Saturday, 14 July 2018 04.14.07 CEST Alex Luehm wrote: > I've recently taken it upon myself to create a multiboot USB with isos > that I tend to frequently use. So far I've been successful in adding > Clonezilla and the Archlinux live ISOs. I've attempted to add the Gentoo > install ISO in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Using an old kernel .config as the basis for a new .config

2017-12-28 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, Dec 28, 2017, at 20:52, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > There is some way of initialising a new kernel .config from an existing > one, I am sure, but I can't find it. I've looked at the Gentoo wiki, > I've looked at (some of) the kernel's own documentation. The nearest I > can find is make

Re: [gentoo-user] BINPKG_COMPRESS portage variable

2017-09-01 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Sep 1, 2017, at 11:28, Stroller wrote: > That doesn't sound right. I'd file a report at bugs.gentoo.org Done: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=629538 -- https://www.fturco.net/

[gentoo-user] BINPKG_COMPRESS portage variable

2017-08-31 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I just set BINPKG_COMPRESS="xz" in /etc/portage/make.conf in order to compress binary packages with the xz algorithm. It seems to work, but binary packages filenames still end with .tbz2 instead of .txz. How can I change that? Example: # file

Re: [gentoo-user] bitcoin-qt, openssl and the bindist USE flag

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Saturday, 8 April 2017 20.16.02 CEST, Francesco Turco wrote: The point is I can't find any reference to the bindist USE flag in the bitcoin-qt ebuild: $ grep bindist $(equery which bitcoin-qt) $ # returns nothing I found out that it's probably due to the OPENSSL_DEPEND variable in /var

Re: [gentoo-user] bitcoin-qt, openssl and the bindist USE flag

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Saturday, 8 April 2017 23.57.09 CEST, Alan McKinnon wrote: Why on $DEITY's green earth would you even think of doing that? Dont. Just ... don't. I don;t know what you are trying to accomplish doing that, but it can't end well. I'm not quite sure, but as far as I know (binary) packages with

Re: [gentoo-user] bitcoin-qt, openssl and the bindist USE flag

2017-04-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Saturday, 8 April 2017 21.15.05 CEST, Mick wrote: Did you try setting USE="-bindist" and then emerging the three packages suggested by portage above? net-misc/openssh dev-qt/qtnetwork dev-libs/openssl Thanks for the suggestion. I chose to enable +bindist globally in make.conf but add the

[gentoo-user] bitcoin-qt, openssl and the bindist USE flag

2017-04-08 Thread Francesco Turco
I'm trying to globally enable the "bindist" USE flag on my system, but it seems net-p2p/bitcoin-qt wants -bindist: ### BEGIN ### # USE="bindist" emerge -uDNav @world --with-bdeps=y These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Disable Gentoo branding on KDE?

2017-02-01 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, 2017-02-01 at 16:58 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > Do you have the 'branding' USE flag enabled? > > There is no such flag. On my system: $ euse -i -g branding global use flags (searching: branding) [- cD   ] branding -

[gentoo-user] Installing Gentoo on a VPS with little RAM

2016-12-26 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I have a Vultr VPS instance with Arch Linux but I'd like to replace it with Gentoo Linux. The last time I tried that I couldn't build some packages because the kernel killed gcc after a while. Please notice this VPS instance has only 768 MiB of RAM. What can I try besides removing -pipe

Re: [gentoo-user] eclean ... won't

2016-11-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sun, Nov 20, 2016, at 14:05, Константин wrote: > On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 09:42:40AM -0300, Zhu Sha Zang wrote: > > > Maybe you need to use 'eclean-dist -d'. But, for your safe, use > > 'eclean-dist -dp' first. > > BTW what troubles can I get from 'eclean-dist -d' ? As far as I > understand

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-keyring-daemon processes running as root

2014-06-29 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014, at 11:08, Francesco Turco wrote: As you can see I have many gnome-keyring-daemon processes running as root. I also noted that on my system /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon has the setuid bit set: $ ls -l /usr/bin/gnome-keyring-daemon -rws--x--x 1 root root 940184 Jun 8

[gentoo-user] gnome-keyring-daemon processes running as root

2014-06-15 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I'm a GNOME 3.12 user with a couple of problems that could depend on GNOME keyring running as root instead of a non-privileged user. This is the situation before logging in with GDM: $ ps aux | grep keyring root 458 0.0 0.0 115220 2808 ?Sl 10:53 0:00

Re: [gentoo-user] Use Flags and Updating

2014-05-21 Thread Francesco Turco
What would you recommend? Thanks. I always use emerge -uDNav @world --with-bdeps=y --keep-going=y, as I want to update *all* packages on my system. What's the point in keeping on the system some packages that are deliberately not updated?

Re: [gentoo-user] No motherboard beep since kernel upgrade

2014-03-21 Thread Francesco Turco
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014, at 18:51, null_ptr wrote: Module for my sound card is running and SND_HDA_INPUT_BEEP is activated in kernel config. Am I missing something else? Perhaps you need CONFIG_INPUT_PCSPKR.

Re: [gentoo-user] MD5SUM

2014-03-12 Thread Francesco Turco
is the published MD5-hash still valid? $ md5sum livedvd-amd64-multilib-20121221.iso e86da868be423283ec167725390faefc livedvd-amd64-multilib-20121221.iso Yes, the published MD5 hash is still valid. Further, how big is the resulting file exactly? $ du -b livedvd-amd64-multilib-20121221.iso

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flickering thunderbird and firefox

2014-03-05 Thread Francesco Turco
On 03/05/2014 08:06 PM, »Q« wrote: Try setting layers.acceleration.disabled to true in about:config. (I'm sorry I don't remember how to get to about:config in Thunderbird; I think there's a button somewhere.) It's Edit Preferences Advanced General Config editor.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Acrobat Reader work for anyone?

2013-11-01 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013, at 15:16, James wrote: Nikos Chantziaras realnc at gmail.com writes: Since quite a while ago (months), acroread stopped working. It won't start up at all. No error messages are shown. It just aborts. No window is showing up. Perhaps a license issue? # Modify

Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed

2012-12-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012, at 23:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: That stuff is controlled by the ebuild, IIRC ebuilds should call function dodoc so they do with docs what you want them to do. The function name may well have changed and been superceded since last I looked. The reason you find nothing

Re: [gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed

2012-12-20 Thread Francesco Turco
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012, at 10:57, Francesco Turco wrote: Then I looked for non-zero size files only, because it makes no sense to compress empty files. The list dropped to 9 files, belonging to 4 different ebuilds or 3 packages: /usr/share/doc/automake-1.12.5/amhello-1.0.tar.gz /usr/share

[gentoo-user] Some files in /usr/share/doc are not compressed

2012-12-19 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. On my system Portage uses the following two variables for compressing files in /usr/share/doc: $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS xz $ portageq envvar PORTAGE_COMPRESS_EXCLUDE_SUFFIXES css gif htm[l]? jp[e]?g js pdf png It seems anyway that some files are not compressed: $ find

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-18 Thread Francesco Turco
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012, at 17:59, walt wrote: I'm drawing on ancient memories here, but I'd try setting RC_DEBUG=yes in /etc/rc.conf Unfortunately there is no RC_DEBUG variable in my /etc/rc.conf file. The following command returns nothing: grep -i debug /etc/rc.conf. Anyway I tried downgrading

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-18 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:49, Dale wrote: If the RC_DEBUG setting is not there, add it. There are lots of settings that are not in there by default but you can add them if you need to. It's strange because all variables in my /etc/rc.conf file are lowercase (for example rc_interactive,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-18 Thread Francesco Turco
On Tue, Dec 18, 2012, at 9:58, Randolph Maaßen wrote: IIRC all possible settings should be documented in man filename.conf On my system: $ man rc.conf No manual entry for rc.conf

[gentoo-user] OpenRC error message at boot

2012-12-17 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I get the following error message at boot time: * Mounting /proc... rm: cannot remove /run/openrc: Read-only file system It's the very first script launched by OpenRC, but I cannot determine which one it is. Anyway I'm quite sure it's a script from the sysinit runlevel. This is because

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-14 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012, at 19:22, Francesco Turco wrote: I'm still not convinced. emerge(1) man page for portage-2.1.11.37 already contains the following command example: emerge --update --newuse --deep @world And: emerge --update @world But not a single example without the at sign

[gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. A couple of weeks ago I filed a bug because in the Installation Handbook I found some references of the world set in emerge commands, as opposed to @world: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445184 The bug was closed as invalid, and I was told that: sets with the @ prefix are a

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge sets syntax (@world vs. world)

2012-12-12 Thread Francesco Turco
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012, at 14:18, Alan McKinnon wrote: You are wrong, the docs and the man pages are correct. The problem is that the word set is used in two different ways, one loosely and the other with reference to an exact construct. portage-2.2 introduced the concept of a defined set

Re: [gentoo-user] eclean and the --time-limit option

2012-12-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012, at 17:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: It sounds like you want wget to use --no-use-server-timestamps. I haven't tried it, but something like FETCHCOMMAND=$FETCHCOMMAND --no-use-server-timestamps in make.conf should do it. If not, get the default settings from emerge --info

[gentoo-user] eclean and the --time-limit option

2012-12-08 Thread Francesco Turco
Hello. I usually use the following commands to clean distfiles and binary packages after an upgrade: # eclean --destructive distfiles # eclean --destructive packages Now I'd like to add the --time-limit=1w option, in order to prevent recent files to be deleted. I think this would be useful for