according to gkrellm.
It seems that the ebuild runs a process other than make, ignoring make.conf.
Does anyone here know what that might be, and why it disregards my
preferences?
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oling only sensible for really heavy users such as gamers?
>
> Thanks for the upcoming answers!
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area where data is being stored, to increase density
> and therefore hugely increase capacity. Your next spinning drive could
> well be 30-50T or more! 0_0
Oo-er!
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On Wednesday, 15 May 2024 08:42:14 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> On 02/05/2024 11:46, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > When I started using Linux, the received wisdom was to keep a separate
> > /boot, and leave it unmounted during normal operation. The idea was that
> > a su
> Anyone with the same problem/weirdness?
Nope. Have you tried 'grep -r var/lib/bin /etc' ?
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n fill it up and not really do any harm.
I do that too. It also helps with backups and new installations.
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On Monday, 29 April 2024 16:11:31 BST Dale wrote:
> Only bad side of IPv6, it's a lot of typing for all that. o_O
There's a worse aspect: you have to undersand what you're doing. Or you can
just tell your firewall not to allow any IPv6 packets in or out at all.
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On Sunday, 21 April 2024 23:30:54 BST Wol wrote:
> On 19/04/2024 17:02, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >
> > Just reporting back.
> >
> > I built a new system - using NetworkManager (after all I've said about
> > it!) - now that it's so much quicker using binpkgs.
>
ling various tools, and finally, adding the new wlan0
interface to shorewall.
The machine can now boot with either wired or wireless network, or both.
Thank you, all who helped.
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On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 16:29:09 BST Eli Schwartz wrote:
[Big snip]
Never mind. I've solved the problem by removing sci-misc/boinc and its 40-odd
dependencies. The machine was only barely capable of running it anyway.
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(Rearranged in chronological order...)
On Tuesday, 16 April 2024 15:08:33 BST Waldo Lemmer wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, 15:43 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
--->8
> > I'm still mystified by these Gentoo binary
On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
[Big snip]
I'm still mystified by these Gentoo binary packages. I assume that they're
generated using the default USE flags in the profile version (whence the need
to
specify it in gentoobinhost.conf).
So why is portage
n this case) and
system profile selected in the Choosing the right profile section."
I think it should refer to a family of profiles, or perhaps a series. Something
to refer specifically to, in this case, 23.0.
It might have saved me some sawdust under the finger-nails. :)
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On Monday, 15 April 2024 12:19:02 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've decided to follow the instructions in [1] on one of my machines, which
> runs too hot for my comfort on long emerges, but I need some advice, please:
> where the wiki gives this [2], I'm
/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Base#Optional:_Adding_a_binary_package_host
2. sync-uri =
https://distfiles.gentoo.org/releases//binpackages//x86-64/
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On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:39:12 BST Michael wrote:
> On Friday, 12 April 2024 16:05:46 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Friday, 12 April 2024 14:35:02 BST Michael wrote:
> > > There are GUI front-ends for the above to suit various desktop and user
> > > preferenc
thanks!
> There are GUI front-ends for the above to suit various desktop and user
> preferences, some more polished than others.
Hm. I haven't found one for iwd yet...
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On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:56:28 BST Wojciech Kuzyszyn wrote:
> On Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:23:31 +0100
>
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I want to move my Intel i5 NUC box to a place where Ethernet is not
> > available, nor like to become
On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:18:51 BST Michael wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:15:52 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:08:35 BST Michael wrote:
> > > On Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:49:18 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > --->8
> >
>
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 15:56:28 BST Wojciech Kuzyszyn wrote:
> I have never managed to get WiFi working with iwlwifi, but iwd works
> great for me. Give it a try!
I will - thanks!
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On Thursday, 11 April 2024 16:08:35 BST Michael wrote:
> On Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:49:18 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
--->8
> > I decided to establish a firm, clean system to fall back to after messing
> > about with the various wifi packages, so I built a fresh system building
On Tuesday, 9 April 2024 14:44:05 BST Paul Sopka wrote:
> On 09.04.24 15:23, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I want to move my Intel i5 NUC box to a place where Ethernet is not
> > available, nor like to become so. That means I have to get WiFi working,
get me a bit further?
Meanwhile, I'll keep on exploring with the results of sys-apps/hw-probe.
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ng
> without the binhost. :)
There is one caveat, though: all the binary packages have been compiled with
default USE flags. If you've changed any on your system, you'll still have to
install those packages the standard way. I have 24 such USE settings on this
machine.
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h /run/stopping-boinc
> }
> stop_post(){
> rm -f /run/stopping-boinc
> }
>
> or something like that. (I haven't tested, but the idea is sound.)
> Then, if that file exists, boinc is stopping.
Nice, neat solution. Works a charm, too.
Thanks again, Michael.
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gs - though I could be wrong, of course. They're
university boffins, after all... :)
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ux way of
organising programs, and it's far too long since I did anything even remotely
similar.
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ping /bin/ps output, and I've tried checking for existence of a
BOINC pid file, but those both tell me that BOINC is "running" while it's in
the process of shutting down.
Is there somewhere in /proc where this shutting-down status is held?
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ut lots of preparation and hoop-
jumping.
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On Monday, 25 March 2024 23:14:50 GMT Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 25 March 2024 21:48:24 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Monday, 25 March 2024 16:52:19 GMT Michael wrote:
> > > The default OpenRC installation now assumes a merged-usr fs structure -
> > > the
change to merged-usr? Should I run the eponymous script?
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Hello list,
It would be good if a stage-3 tarball were available with profile 23.x built
in. Sooner or later someone will want to build a new system with such a
profile.
Is this in the offing?
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y've done a thorough job - and not, I assume, just the one whose
name appears on the news item.
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On Saturday, 23 March 2024 20:45:03 GMT Dale wrote:
--->8
> I saw where Peter mentioned in another thread gcc failing with no error
> message for him. This could be related.
Nope. I was all fingers and thumbs at the time, now all straightened out.
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I was doing that, but from the news item. My problem was that I
wasn't reading straight.
(I think I had a form of covid last month, and it's left a few loose ends -
mostly in my brain!)
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On Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:08:56 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 March 2024 14:59:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Has anyone tried the profile upgrade that was notified today? I tried it
> > just now on a small rescue system
On Saturday, 23 March 2024 14:59:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Has anyone tried the profile upgrade that was notified today? I tried it
> just now on a small rescue system and it failed on installing the first
> binary package, complaining that my disk layou
is not.
Is this the cause of the problem?
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l 6.6.13, or thereabouts.
It works well here, Alan, up to kernel version 6.7.9, but one of the 15 or so
new kernel parameters (since 6.7.8) seems to cause it to fail.
I've attached the reject file, /usr/src/linux-6.8.0-gentoo/drivers/tty/vt/
vt.c.rej.
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On Sunday, 10 March 2024 07:17:27 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> So there are at least 2 people who've found out that Firefox can and
> *MUST* be built with USE="-clang".
Ah. I'll change my USE flag straight away.
Thanks Walter.
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On Saturday, 9 March 2024 19:37:40 GMT Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 09, 2024 at 02:45:02PM +0000, Peter Humphr
> The real question is what else, besides clang and its libraries, are you
> building that requires clang?
Firefox.
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=clang unless you have a very good reason not to.
Does the compiler-rt ebuild override USE in make.conf?
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r it would be a lot slower to boot but you could
> test that yourself.
My experience is that the BIOS will discard any boot devices that are not
present at the time of booting. I don't know whether that's typical or just
what I've found.
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do this in a Konsole and I tried changing the fonts. The little
> things still point to places there is nothing or other wrong places.
The ^ points to the ~ character above it, and the ^ points to 1.1.7, the
version of egl-wayland, so the version you want to merge won't satisfy
nvidia-drivers.
Does that help?
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On Friday, 16 February 2024 12:30:48 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday, February 16, 2024 6:19:25 AM CET Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 14 February 2024 11:35:18 GMT J. Roeleveld wrote:
> > > I've been using postfix for longer than I can remember.
> > > The co
ins
> configured?
> If the latter, did you set "virtual_alias_domains = hash:/etc/postfix/
> virtual_domains"
> Include all virtual domains the file and converted the file to a .db ?
Just the one "mydomain"
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Isn't the same as $myhostname?
> mynetworks = 192.168.0.0/24, 127.0.0.0/8
I'll try setting mynetworks and see what happens.
Thanks, Arve.
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there?
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tolerant - one fault
at a time. As Wol says, that's fine until your one fault has appeared and not
been noticed. Then another fault appears - and the reactor shuts down!
Carpeting comes next...
Oh, frabjous day!
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e isn't to blame
at all, in which case I'd better not sleep on the job.
Thanks for the pointers.
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On Sunday, 28 January 2024 16:39:56 GMT I wrote:
> Hits on the web suggest downgrading linux-firmware, which I've now done and
> will await results. The latest upgrade was to version 20240115-r1, four days
> ago.
s/Hits/Hints/
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microcode a201009
This is an AMD Ryzen M9 5900X.
Hits on the web suggest downgrading linux-firmware, which I've now done and
will await results. The latest upgrade was to version 20240115-r1, four days
ago.
Has anyone else experienced this?
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reverted to my
own way. For one thing, at boot time, the list of bootable kernels was far too
verbose to be useful. For another, the method involved too much error-prone
typing; not at all the unixy way.
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patch.
Ever the star, Alan!
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the emerge command. Or perhaps just the -getbinpkg will do; I haven't tried
it.
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that checking process before ignoring the upstream packages.
At the moment, the only way I can see to change portage's behaviour like that
is to keep editing FEATURES in make.conf.
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On Wednesday, 17 January 2024 18:54:46 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> I'm not sure why "/EFI/REFIND/REFIND_X64.EFI" are all caps letters, in /boot
> dir it is: "/EFI/refind/refind_x64.efi"
Because it's a FAT partition?
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nd restart the next day
> they would still be on the virtual desktop that I left them on. Now they
> all show up on Desk 1 and resetting my config didn't fix that.
See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=471977
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m easily now ...
Could have been the same. It was M100, the first version of their maths
foundation course, in 1976.
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l.
> >
> > Not so. As I said last time: 'if I set -distcc and -j12 -l12, I get 12
> > threads
> > in parallel'.
>
> Have you checked you're not limiting jobs in /etc/distcc/hosts? ie no '/2'
> after the IP address?
$ cat /etc/distcc/hosts
localhost/12
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ng for the entire edifice to come crashing down around our ears.
:)
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On Saturday, 6 January 2024 19:31:59 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 06/01/2024 17:52, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> In other cases, there may be a hundred separate tasks, make fires off a
> >> hundred tasks shared amongst all the resource it can find, and sits back
> >> and
On Saturday, 6 January 2024 16:26:49 GMT Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> Am 5. Januar 2024 23:51:39 UTC schrieb Peter Humphrey
:
> >Hello list,
> >
> >I've just had some strange output from genlop on my 16-thread i5 box, thus:
> >
> ># genlop -t libreoffice | /bin/gre
cially
> if you have assumed a bell curve (almost always wrong) or an exponential
> decay (which is generally, NOT ALWAYS, a good choice).
I doubt it does any of that.
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en in reality one depended on the other, and things messed up.
I haven't either - seen it recently.
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On Saturday, 6 January 2024 11:44:20 GMT Michael wrote:
> On Wednesday, 29 November 2023 12:06:15 GMT Peter Humphreey wrote:
> > On Wednesday, 29 November 2023 10:26:36 GMT Michael wrote:
> > > Here's my hypothesis explaining your own observation with libreoffice.
> > >
' /etc/portage/make.conf
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs --load-average=12
MAKEOPTS="-j12 -l12"
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106 MB/s
>8388608 : 107 MB/s
> 16777216 : 110 MB/s
> 33554432 : 119 MB/s
> 67108864 : 134 MB/s
Interesting. I think I'll stick to my usual 64MB block size.
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lutely insist on keeping the newest installed version if
> several slots are available?
No, it's how it's supposed to work. Portage removed one version of wine
because the virtual was still satisfied. It wouldn't remove the last remaining
version: you need to uninstall the virtual first.
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, but so far I haven't
noticed any difference. I haven't run any proper tests though.
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that output from 'make install' is new.
I now need to get the kernel name to include the version and the local
version; then I'll be able to show a menu of options at boot time, as on my
other machines.
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ses it so
> prominently.
I haven't either, as I said, but this is a new venture so I went to the
official
guides, wanting to Do The Right Thing. That's where the contradiction exists.
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On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 18:47:43 GMT Wols Lists wrote:
> On 06/12/2023 14:56, Peter Humphreey wrote:
> > The idea is that you may want to install another system later, which may
> > want to install its own code in /efi. By all means shrink it if you think
> > that's
.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd/systemd-boot#Pre_Deployment_Considerations
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On Wednesday, 6 December 2023 14:27:21 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> On 12/6/23 04:31, Michael wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 23:53:23 GMT Peter Humphreey wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 19:35:11 GMT Michael wrote:
> >>> Your boot parti
tion filesystem,
> accessible via /boot/efi.
I've been operating that way for some years, but I have reason to believe that
things have changed. I'll start a new thread tomorrow.
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Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2023, 21:07:00 CET schrieb the...@sys-concept.com:
> On 12/5/23 12:35, Michael wrote:
> > On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 18:11:14 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> >> On 12/5/23 10:16, Cara Salter wrote:
> >>> On 12/5/23 12:05, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> It has
Am Dienstag, 5. Dezember 2023, 20:35:11 CET schrieb Michael:
> On Tuesday, 5 December 2023 18:11:14 GMT the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > On 12/5/23 10:16, Cara Salter wrote:
> > > On 12/5/23 12:05, the...@sys-concept.com wrote:
> > >> It has been some time since I installed Gentoo.
> > >> After
of /boot:
> ls /boot/
> EFI
>
> When I unmount "boot" content of /boot:
> ls /boot/
> System.map-6.1.57-gentoo config-6.1.57-gentoo grub vmlinuz-6.1.57-gentoo
Please read the first post of:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1165115.html
Kind regards,
Peter
more than 30 processes - there is nothing set to prevent that, or is
> there?
Yes, according to that web site I found, distcc will limit the number, and it
does seem to do so. What puzzles me is that I can't get LO to start any other
number of make jobs than 4.
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for the number of jobs to see what it gets up to.
That would help, yes.
The contribution of distcc isn't clear to me yet, as I said before. Sometimes
it's the bee's knees; other times it might just as well not be there. I don't
like mysteries... :)
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ing for it and found how to do it.
It usually works well, in this case starting 18 packages before starting LO
itself. grep -rw doesn't find '4' anywere relevant under /etc/portage/ . Other
times it just doesn't help at all.
What am I missing?
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als set up. I checked with Zen and they were OK, and since
then the problem has not reappeared.
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On Tuesday, 21 November 2023 08:24:31 GMT Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 03:24:20 +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Default location for binary packages is /var/cache/binpkgs/
> >
> > Oh? When did that change?
>
> It may not have on your syst
On Monday, 20 November 2023 17:12:04 GMT Vitaliy Perekhovy wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 20, 2023 at 05:07:45PM +0000, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > Now that I have my NFS set up (with help - thanks) the next problem is
> > that, having new packages built by my w
/ .
The man page says that any new package will cause a remerge, so what has
tripped me up this time?
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On Sunday, 19 November 2023 15:59:37 GMT Remy Blank wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote on 19.11.2023 16:12:
> > Yes, indeed. In fact I don't know why this has only just bitten me; I've
> > been doing the same thing for years without problem.
> >
> > That search turns up s
On Sunday, 19 November 2023 00:30:24 GMT William Kenworthy wrote:
> On 18/11/23 15:29, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Friday, 17 November 2023 16:44:29 GMT I wrote:
> >> I'll try that - thanks.
> >
> > Damn fool - it was a firewall problem on the server. For some r
On Friday, 17 November 2023 16:44:29 GMT I wrote:
> I'll try that - thanks.
Damn fool - it was a firewall problem on the server. For some reason, the NFS
destination port has changed.
Sorry for the noise.
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On Thursday, 16 November 2023 20:38:45 GMT Marco Rebhan wrote:
> On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:29:19 CET Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > My little server needs help with compiling, so I NFS-export /var (which
> > has
> > its own partition) to a
On Wednesday, 15 November 2023 17:04:27 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 6:29 PM Peter Humphrey
>
> wrote:
> > Hello list,
> >
> > My little server needs help with compiling, so I NFS-export /var (which
> > has
> > its own partition) to
to export /var in this way? I can't see anything else wrong.
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so be set for individual
packages (and not globally; e.g. for some time this was true for use-flag
"wayland").
You will get all these now automatically with your combined profile.
Peter
to the desktop rather the other way
> round. Any gotcha's I am missing?
Yes, you are missing that the best solution is: Make a new profile which
contains both profiles. See more here:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-8694188.html#8694188
(And you have to start with a hardened stage3)
Man
t;>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
Thu Oct 19 13:21:58 2023 >>> app-office/libreoffice-7.5.5.2
1. dev-cpp/abseil-cpp (20230125.2(0/20230125){xpak:2}): Abseil Common
Libraries (C++), LTS Branch
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upposed to put our boot entries: far
too complex for Gentoo, so I just deleted that directory.
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andom-seed
The random seed was put there by systemd-boot.
I think I have most eventualities covered. (Hah!)
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ers in the text, so that the ranking of
headings and subheadings is lost.
I've tried to raise a bugzilla entry on this but was rebuffed.
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On Sunday, 15 October 2023 03:43:00 BST William Kenworthy wrote:
> On 14/10/23 21:28, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > On Saturday, 14 October 2023 12:26:29 BST I wrote:
> >> Perhaps I should switch to getmail...
> >
> > On the other hand, I'd prefer to stick with fetchma
than trying alternative mail
> clients, please post back.
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