Re: [gentoo-user] Getting maximum space out of a hard drive

2022-08-26 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
wise will depend on your PCIe slot and the drives you're going to attach. I don't see any reason to do hardware raid these days, just a HBA and software raid (zfs or other solutions) should be fine. Everything just my 2¢ here, of course... cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

2022-08-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
tion of content, e.g., netflix relies on big storage boxes using zfs. This is quite reminiscent of the already suggested NAS solution (and filesystems like zfs come with features like compression, snapshots and incremental send/receive to faciliate backups). cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

2022-08-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Am Mon, 15 Aug 2022 12:50:37 +0200 schrieb Gerrit Kühn : > Being a happy restic user myself, I'd like to mention that compression is > available meanwhile > (https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/047_tuning_backup_parameters.html#compression). > However, the feature is rather new, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

2022-08-15 Thread Gerrit Kühn
(https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/047_tuning_backup_parameters.html#compression). However, the feature is rather new, I did not use it so far. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python, my nemesis

2021-09-21 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
nitely less work for me than doing a reinstall. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
nted to try updating before really starting over. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
s didn't work). But I think I fixed most issues now (see my previous posts). Thank you for taking time to look into this. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
should get more sleep, I guess. :) Thanks for pointing this out! cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
showing any other issues ahead. I'll go for it (and keep my fingers crossed ;-). Thank you for your support. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
der /var/, then untar the latest stage 3 > tarball and update @system and @world. Just extracting stage3 over everything that is already there? > Overall it should be a *much* > faster approach to allow you to bring your installation up to date. Well, yeah, your mileage may vary. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:31:59 +0200 Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > This looks like portage is blocked by itself... so how to solve this > one? Well, I simply installed the new virtual packages manually and used "--nodeps" on portage itself afterwards... and here we are. Looks

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
ypy3) -python3_6 -python3_8" --- This looks like portage is blocked by itself... so how to solve this one? cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
this was the suggested way to go, see https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2021-05-05-python3-9.html But also when trying "emerge -1vUD @world" (be it with or without the package.use settings), I get stuck in conflicts (mostly on perl and setuptools). perl issues would probably resolve once I have EAPI8 support, i.e. get new portage. cu Gerrit

[gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
sys-apps/portage[python_targets_python3_7(-),-python_single_target_pypy3(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_8(-)] required by (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.5.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 (-pypy3) -python3_6 -python3_8" [...] --- Plus many similar ones on packages like setuptools, gemato etc. I don't see how to get out of this vicious circle, any hints? cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] root on nfs and multiple ip addresses

2021-03-19 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
ould not happen. Just a wild guess: does the client update its time (by running ntpclient or similar) during boot so it might think different about the age of its dhcp lease than the server? cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - localmail

2020-11-26 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
st put root=yourn...@youremail.com in your ssmtpd.conf? cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp - localmail

2020-11-26 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
t do you try to achieve? You can set email destination for cron with MAILTO= in your crontab, if sending mails from cron is your problem. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and kickstart files

2020-11-22 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
nstall cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Disabling ssh password login on all accounts?

2020-08-11 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
quot;No" the following ones: ChallengeResponseAuthentication UsePAM cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PCI SAS CARDS

2020-07-22 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Am Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:01:47 +0200 schrieb "J. Roeleveld" : > I would recommend upgrading to a more recent mainboard or just using > SATA. Yeah, sure, but the OP wrote: "I suspect it's a silly question but I'd like to find one." cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PCI SAS CARDS

2020-07-22 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Am Wed, 22 Jul 2020 10:43:39 +0200 schrieb Gerrit Kühn : > > Are there any SAS drive controller cards that go in a PCI slot (Not PCI > > express).  I suspect it's a silly question but I'd like to find one. > I don't know any. Looking around, I just found two (old) PCI-X bas

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: PCI SAS CARDS

2020-07-22 Thread Gerrit Kühn
d help you, though. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Joining PDF files together.

2020-07-09 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
pdfjam will probably produce better results. However, (x)sane usually produces very large pdf files. So you may receive better end results creating separate png files with sane and then join these (using ImageMagick as shown above). cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-07-01 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
think 5.x and 6.x worked fine (if memory serves me well). As gcc comes slotted, it is not too hard to have them all installed in parallel. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-18 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
still 3.x in the vanilla-sources. I've been using (manually backported) 3.2 vanilla kernels with recent Gentoo at least up to somewhen 2018. HTH cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating Blue-ray video discs

2020-05-29 Thread Gerrit Kühn
eate a image or whatever to burn to a blu-ray media. Would this help? <https://github.com/justdan96/tsMuxer> cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] $$ORIGIN in NEEDED.ELF.2

2020-05-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
On Wed, 20 May 2020 10:55:58 +0200 Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > NEEDED.ELF.2: $: bad substitution I found and patched an "$$ORIGIN" statement in the original cmake project. However, according to https://bugs.gentoo.org/542796 my impression is that this should have been handled by

[gentoo-user] $$ORIGIN in NEEDED.ELF.2

2020-05-20 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
where to look? cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] libXp-1.0.3 emerge issue

2020-05-19 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
On Tue, 19 May 2020 08:20:41 +0200 Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > I looked into other X lib ebuilds like libXext-1.3.4.ebuild. This is > installing 32bit libs into the correct directory, but it looks not > different to me. I updated my ebuild to using EAPI=7 and xorg-3 > (instead of the ori

Re: [gentoo-user] libXp-1.0.3 emerge issue

2020-05-19 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
On Mon, 18 May 2020 18:48:56 +0200 Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > USE="-static-libs" ABI_X86="32%* (64%*) (-x32)" > > I'm not familiar with the ABI flags (is there any documentation on > that, Google doesn't come up with anything useful for me right now?). > What

Re: [gentoo-user] libXp-1.0.3 emerge issue

2020-05-18 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
au printproto" However, this must be something 32bit specific. Running --- pkg-config --exists --print-errors "x11 >= 1.6 xext xextproto xau printproto" --- on the commandline works just fine. cu Gerrit

[gentoo-user] libXp-1.0.3 emerge issue

2020-05-18 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
quot; --- Any ideas how to fix this properly (apart from having upstream to not require libXp in the first place)? cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo dead?

2020-05-06 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
;-) cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Gerrit Kuehn
RL again; the site is that > bad) and the directory doesn't even contain a REDME...) I was wondering, too. However, I just unpacked the .tar archive I downloaded to /opt/zoom and started zoomlinux. Works for me (I guess my system already had all needed libs installed). cu Gerrit

[gentoo-user] ebuild with cmake, swig and python

2019-09-03 Thread Gerrit Kühn
PYTHON2 and ENABLE_SWIG_PYTHON3 in this case). This part works as far as I can see. Is there anything else to consider? Somehow the ebuild environment appears to be different from what I have on the commandline so that the second python version isn't properly found. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT scripting - strip zero if between period and digit

2019-01-24 Thread Gerrit Kühn
uot;${myip}"$(printf "%i" "${d}")"." ; done; echo ${myip%.} 1.2.0.4 --- HTH Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] OT expect script question

2018-12-04 Thread Gerrit Kühn
always returns immediately. It never waits for new data to arrive. It does not have to since it matches everything. --- Could it be that it just matches empty without waiting for anything? cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

2018-08-23 Thread Gerrit Kühn
ing to use it privately, for business, in academics... cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] Running 3rd party apps intended for Ubuntu/RedHat

2018-08-22 Thread Gerrit Kühn
d et alia to find and bundle up the set of required library files. Some years ago I used a tool called ermine for something similar. Looks like it still exists (although I don't know if it will be of any use for you today): <http://www.magicermine.com/> cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] skip package

2018-05-02 Thread Gerrit Kühn
ding until I am ready to do it. Sounds like you want to use the "--exclude" option? cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] /var/tmp on tmpfs

2018-02-09 Thread Gerrit Kühn
by default then? > > Can somebody think of a situation when it should not be done? /var/tmp/portage may take up quite some space, and not everybody will want to have that on a RAM-based fs. cu Gerrit

[gentoo-user] kernel 3.2 conflicts with gcc-6.4

2018-02-08 Thread Gerrit Kühn
is not really supported for anything, and I'd like to avoid having to compile different parts of the system with different compilers. cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC setup guide for dummies?

2017-04-05 Thread Gerrit Kühn
Do you intend to have "virtual" VNC desktops, or do you want to be able to use the "physical" display? Arch also has a nice description of the differences and things to configure: <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TigerVNC> cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] cron tab

2017-03-22 Thread Gerrit Kühn
s "at 18:05 on day-of-month 3 *and* on every day-of-week from Monday through Friday". This is not a "logical" and, it is a "lingual" one. "Today" is Tuesday in your case, which belongs into "Monday through Friday". cu Gerrit

Re: [gentoo-user] modest mail server for home network

2006-03-07 Thread gerrit
directly to maildir folders so you could probably do without a smtp server. To make those maildirs available over pop3 and imap you could use the fairly lightweight dovecot imap server. -- gerrit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] sound recording software in gentoo

2006-03-05 Thread gerrit
, sound effects), and which of those does Gentoo have in the Portage tree? You could have a look at ardour, rosegarden, muse, hydrogen, qjackctl etc. These are all in the portage tree. For a overview of linux and audio apps see: http://www.linux-sound.org/ -- gerrit -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE media ioslave, udev, hal, and ivman

2005-11-14 Thread Gerrit Thede
Actually I can't help, but I'm stuck with the same problem: media:/ ioslave mounts for example my usbstick if I click on it, but doesn't show anything when it is trying to load the contents of media:/sda1, although it's mounted correctly on /media/sda1. There is a bug filed in bugs.kde.org at

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE media ioslave, udev, hal, and ivman

2005-11-14 Thread Gerrit Thede
I fixed it by compiling a cvs-snapshot of hald. Now the property volume.is_mounted = behaves correctly. http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fHalBuildInstructions I used /usr as prefix and installed. The init-script and the policies are used from hal-0.5.4 package, i didn't need to modify