On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 20:39:46 +0300, Bo Ørsted Andresen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 18:16, Mark Knecht wrote:
[SNIP]
I understand that every package is out there in some repository on the
web. I think Neil has pointed me toward it once or twice at least. The
problem
Hey folks
I've seen that exact problem with many simple routers like
the one you have
and various Linux distros, almost always
some of the programs do work with dns server being the
router itself and
some don't. Namely:
Web browsers and IM apps mostly work,
rsync,svn git and
On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:00, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
When SHOULD I sync again? That is, for how long may I not to sync and
expect that ebuilds can find the files they need to download at the
expected locations? It looks like this depends on the good will of
3-d parties, for example,
Disable the screensaver manually, perhaps? Do you need a screensaver on
a HTPC box?
Or check here
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/archive/index.php/t-41026.html
Using mplayer or Xine in the interim may be an option.
According to:
http://uwstopia.nl/blog/2006/12/disabling-the-screensaver
Totem
On 21 December 2006 04:32, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Hi all
A discussion on the staff blogs over at OSNews about the Linux desktop
got me thinking. Thom and Eugenia seem to think that the linux
desktop peaked in 2001-2004, but I don't remember the hype around
Ubuntu starting till well after that.
Hey fellow Gentoo-ers.
-Original Message-
From: Norman Rieß [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 December 2006 06:01
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Has Linux jumped the Shark?
Jeff Rollin schrieb:
Their argument seemed to be that
because GNOME is
-Original Message-
From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 December 2006 08:33
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Is Gentoo healthy?
Now often should you sync? There is no rule, and none is possible, so
don't ask for one. I can give you
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:39:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
You could, as soon as you have a system in a working state, tar up
the entire /usr/portage tree,
Yes, I think this is a simple answer. A bit difficult for 5-7 machines
if I do it separately for each, but not too bad.
There's no need
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:18:23 -0700, Steve Dibb wrote:
Add sys-apps/gentoo-phonehome to all system profiles :)
There's actually a gentoo-stats project in the works, for those that
would like to (voluntarily) let us know what systems Gentoo is being
used on.
Wasn't there a similar
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:03:26 +0300, Bryan Østergaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 12:16:04PM +0300, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
Is the non-profit organization side of Gentoo healthy? My brief Google
session does not reveal anything that suggests it is not, but if
somebody
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 02:32:15 +, Jeff Rollin wrote:
Their argument seemed to be that
because GNOME is running into problems and because KDE is behind
schedule, the Linux desktop is dead.
STOP PRESS: KDE 4 is behind schedule and KDE 3.5 stops working as a
result!
Although how a project
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 11:00:41 +0300, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
When SHOULD I sync again? That is, for how long may I not to sync and
expect that ebuilds can find the files they need to download at the
expected locations? It looks like this depends on the good will of 3-d
parties, for
A. Khattri a écrit :
Anyone using an Apple USB keyboard with Gentoo Linux?
Specifically, Im running XFCE4 and want to figure out how to map some
keys and get some missing functionality. How can I set these up with
X11/XFCE? Also, I can't seem to switch between X11 and the console (I
think I
-Original Message-
From: Charles Trois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 December 2006 09:31
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Apple keyboards with Gentoo
A. Khattri a écrit :
Anyone using an Apple USB keyboard with Gentoo Linux?
Specifically,
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:25:01 +0300, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Files are removed from the mirrors two weeks after the last ebuild using
them is removed from the tree, so if you sync every two weeks you should
never suffer from missing source files (apart fro restricted ebuilds).
On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:43, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
Files are removed from the mirrors two weeks after the last ebuild using
them is removed from the tree, so if you sync every two weeks you should
never suffer from missing source files (apart fro restricted ebuilds).
Thanks.
My Senao/EnGenius 200mW WiFi card was working fine for a few years, and now,
after some upgrade and a power-outage that caused a reboot, it's not. I
cannot figure out for the life of me what is wrong now. It's been two days
of constant debugging and I'm out of ideas. I'm trying to use the kernel
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:52:53 +0300, Bo Ørsted Andresen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:43, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
Files are removed from the mirrors two weeks after the last ebuild
using
them is removed from the tree, so if you sync every two weeks you
should
-Original Message-
From: Daevid Vincent [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 December 2006 10:11
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Help getting PCMCIA WiFi card working again
--snipsnip--
daevid ~ # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr
wow.. this thing is still going..
On 12/21/06, Andrey Gerasimenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:52:53 +0300, Bo Ørsted Andresen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 21 December 2006 10:43, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
Files are removed from the mirrors two weeks after the
Hi,
I tried to install qemu on my system. The command I used (and the
response) were:
emerge -v --ask --tree --newuse qemu
--newuse implies --update... adding --update to options.
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N]
On Friday, 22 December 2006 0:30, Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
Hi,
I tried to install qemu on my system. The command I used (and the
response) were:
emerge -v --ask --tree --newuse qemu
--newuse implies --update... adding --update to options.
These are the packages that would be merged, in
When I log out of Gentoo and select reboot, the computer reboots fine, but
when I select shutdown, the computer hangs at: Remounting remaning
filesystems readonly, and no other messages. It just sits forever.
I re-emerged baselayout and checked my shutdown.sh, it all looks ok,
but...no go.
Any
What filesystems do you have mounted usually?
David
Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of success.
I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this list.
-Original Message-
From: Douglas Linford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 December
Hello,
I'm seeing these messages when hal starts:
* Stopping Automounter ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping D-BUS system messagebus ...
[ ok ]
* Starting D-BUS system messagebus ...
[ ok ]
* Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ...
David,
These are my fstab mounts:
/dev/sdb1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/sdb3 / ext2 noatime 0 1
/dev/sdb2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/sda6 /media/XPData ntfs users,owner,ro,umask=000 0 0
/dev/sda7 /media/XPMedia ntfs users,owner,ro,umask=000
2006/12/21, Douglas Linford [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
When I log out of Gentoo and select reboot, the computer reboots fine, but
when I select shutdown, the computer hangs at: Remounting remaning
filesystems readonly, and no other messages. It just sits forever.
I re-emerged baselayout and checked my
Roger Mason wrote:
Hello,
I'm seeing these messages when hal starts:
* Stopping Automounter ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer daemon ...
[ ok ]
* Stopping D-BUS system messagebus ...
[ ok ]
* Starting D-BUS system messagebus ...
[ ok ]
* Starting Hardware
Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote:
What filesystems do you have mounted usually?
David
/Note: These views are my own, advice is provided with no guarantee of
success. I do not represent anyone else in any emails I send to this
list./
-Original Message-
*From:* Douglas
On 21/12/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The risk that the user might nuke the partitions containing Windows is
always there regardless of what distro you use. You still make the same
decisions, fdisk, cfdisk and gparted are still there. Whether you click
here, click OK then say
This section is snipped one of Allen M. posts on the monster gentoo
health thread (last paragraph is where my topic starts:
[...]
Archive a portage tree by all means. But if an ebuild is removed that a
user want to keep, the solution is so simple it's amazing. Copy the
ebuild to
Jeff Rollin wrote:
On 21/12/06, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The risk that the user might nuke the partitions containing Windows is
always there regardless of what distro you use. You still make the same
decisions, fdisk, cfdisk and gparted are still there. Whether you click
here,
On 21/12/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All things considered, Mandrake is easier to install than windoze any
day. You think about it, you set up the drives, select ALL the software
you can fit and hit the install button. How easy is that? You only
have to reboot once too. I counted six
On Thursday 21 December 2006 18:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the event user runs with ~ARCHITECTURE flag set then masking won't
do it... right?
Wrong.
Masking says what portage should include as installable. Look inside an
ebuild and you will see lines like
KEYWORDS=~ppc sparc x86
That
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:04:33 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
Archive a portage tree by all means. But if an ebuild is removed that
a user want to keep, the solution is so simple it's amazing. Copy the
ebuild to /usr/local/portage in the correct directory structure. I
maintain
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I ask because setting a higher version number might eventually need
bumping still higher... or if versioning changes somehow will
`higher' not be noticed.
If you want to maintain and use old package-1.0.0 by yourself, and there
is already package-2.3
-Original Message-
From: Jeff Rollin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 21 December 2006 16:12
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?
On 21/12/06, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All things considered, Mandrake is easier to install than
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
While package.provided does have some genuine uses, one of its main
functions is to provide people who don't fully understand it with a simple
way of producing hard to diagnose system breakages :(
Very good Made my day.
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This section is snipped [from -sic] one of Allen M. posts
^
Please excuse the misspelling
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gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Hi Dale,
Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Roger Mason wrote:
Hello,
I'm seeing these messages when hal starts:
Did you upgrade recently? May need to do a etc-update or whatever you
use to update your config files.
Worth a try.
Dale
Yes, I tried that already - no luck :-(
I
On 21/12/06, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All things considered, Mandrake is easier to install than
windoze any
day. You think about it, you set up the drives, select ALL
the software
you can fit and hit the install button. How easy is that? You only
have to
Raymond Lewis Rebbeck написа:
On Friday, 22 December 2006 0:30, Wolfgang Liebich wrote:
Hi,
I tried to install qemu on my system. The command I used (and the
response) were:
emerge -v --ask --tree --newuse qemu
--newuse implies --update... adding --update to options.
These are the packages
Whats going on...?
No has slipped something deadly into portage or otherwise caused
upgrade world calamity.
After about 1 mnth, I just did -uD world and had no problems during or
after the update. And revdep-rebuild also came up clean.
Something is wrong here maybe I'm learning a little bit
On 21/12/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats going on...?
No has slipped something deadly into portage or otherwise caused
upgrade world calamity.
After about 1 mnth, I just did -uD world and had no problems during or
after the update. And revdep-rebuild also came up clean.
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 11:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats going on...?
No has slipped something deadly into portage or otherwise caused
upgrade world calamity.
After about 1 mnth, I just did -uD world and had no problems during or
after the update. And revdep-rebuild also came up
I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with
worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated.
I was trying to figure out what Postfix knows and where it knows it when
I found that I seem to have no domain name. That is, the shell command
domainname(1) returns
On Thu, Dec 21, 2006 at 12:00:28PM +0300, Andrey Gerasimenko wrote:
As for my definition of healthy, it is simple: a healthy organization is
not likely to quit its activities, mainly due to financial problems, in
the next 10 years. If the likely is to be defined, then a healthy
When I start vmware player, I always get this message:
/opt/vmware/player/lib/bin/vmplayer:
/opt/vmware/player/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
Vmware seems to run anyway, so I'm not sure -- is this a problem?
Both cairo
On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with
worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated.
I was trying to figure out what Postfix knows and where it knows it when
I found that I seem to have no domain name.
I get the same message. vmware seems to work just fine, don't worry
about it.
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
When I start vmware player, I always get this message:
/opt/vmware/player/lib/bin/vmplayer:
/opt/vmware/player/lib/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version
information available (required by
Dnia czwartek, 21 grudnia 2006 18:13, Rumen Yotov napisał:
Hi,
+1 for gcc-3.X.
Just to add that maybe you'll have to use gcc-3.4.X for kernel
compilation too, if you use kqemu USE-flag (as above).
I compile the 'kernel'+all of qemu with 3.4.X
No, you don't need GCC3 to compile _kqemu_.
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:09, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
At that point it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay
what I don't have. Probably most frustrating has been that I
don't know it will be removed until it's been removed.
You could,
Michael Sullivan wrote:
On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 11:21 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whats going on...?
No has slipped something deadly into portage or otherwise caused
upgrade world calamity.
After about 1 mnth, I just did -uD world and had no problems during or
after the update. And
On Thursday 21 December 2006 22:28, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
The best way, of course, is to use the binary package thing. Mark:
add EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=-b to your /etc/make.conf.
Heh, that's FEATURES=buildpkg.
--
Bo Andresen
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On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:44 +1030, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
You need gcc 3.x to compile Qemu.
So how does one go about this? Would emerge gcc-3.4.4 (or whatever the
version you want to use) do the trick? Is there anything else that
would need to be done? As in, would one need to tell the
On 12/21/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:09, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
At that point it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay
what I don't have. Probably most frustrating has been that I
don't know
On Friday 22 December 2006 01:26, Mark Knecht wrote:
I wonder if -b could be put in one of the /etc/portage/package.XXX
files so that it could be done every time for ejust specific packages?
That doesn't seem to work (because the FEATURES and EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS vars
are checked on the python
On Thursday 21 December 2006 09:54, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:18:23 -0700, Steve Dibb wrote:
Add sys-apps/gentoo-phonehome to all system profiles :)
There's actually a gentoo-stats project in the works, for those that
would like to (voluntarily) let us know what systems
Hi,
On my dad's machine - 350 miles remote from me - he reports that
spell checking has ceased to work. In Evolution the option to check is
grey'ed out. In Open Office he says it acts like it's spell checking
but isn't doing anything and completes with spelling mistakes.
I took a quick look
On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with
worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated.
I was trying to figure out what Postfix knows and where it
Randy Barlow написа:
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 00:44 +1030, Raymond Lewis Rebbeck wrote:
You need gcc 3.x to compile Qemu.
So how does one go about this? Would emerge gcc-3.4.4 (or whatever the
version you want to use) do the trick? Is there anything else that
would need to be done? As in,
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 05:36:45PM +, Penguin Lover Jorge Almeida squawked:
What is it?
eix says Framebuffer internationalized terminal emulator and the
homepage is supposed to be
http://www-124.ibm.com/linux/projects/iterm/;
It seems this is a IBM decoy, since it gets mercilessly
On 12/21/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/21/06, Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21/12/06, Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm beginning to think my system configuration is a mess. It started with
worrying about Postfix, but has quickly escalated.
I was
On 21 December 2006 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote:
package.provided is intended for use when you install something without
portage - it's your way of telling portage the package is installed even
though it's not in the database.
What is that good for? Say I write my own app (like the one my
Mark,
There's some dictionaries you've got to include to allow for the spell
check to work in OO.o... From memory, try:
# emerge -DNuva aspell-en
# emerge -DNuva hunspell
I'm sure there's more to include, but I can't remember them. Don't
forget to restart OO.o to pick up the new
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 06:29 +0200, Rumen Yotov wrote:
GCC is SLOTed, you could have more than one/two versions at once.
Managed with 'gcc-config ...'. Check the options.
Check with eix ^gcc$ to see all available versions, then run:
emerge =sys-devel/gcc-3.4.6-rX (depending on your arch/~arch).
On Thursday 21 December 2006 19:36, Uwe Thiem wrote:
On 21 December 2006 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote:
package.provided is intended for use when you install something
without portage - it's your way of telling portage the package is
installed even though it's not in the database.
What is
On Thursday 21 December 2006 23:28, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
But he can't: the ebuild is gone. That is the case we're trying to
solve here: he has emerged a newer version of a package, finds it
doesn't work correctly, wants to go back to the previous version,
but seess that that version is
I had this working for years, but some UDEV or something changed and now my
wlan0 is gone and I can't figure out how to get it working again.
I can't find a single, current, How-To on setting this up.
I'm trying to use the hostap driver that's in the 2.6.x kernels (as per the
note on hostap's
Hi, group!
emerge --depclean removes perl-core/DB_File.
emerge -DuN world installs perl-core/DB_File.
equery d perl-core/DB_File
[ Searching for packages depending on perl-core/DB_File... ]
mail-client/squirrelmail-1.4.8
virtual/perl-DB_File-1.814
Since I don't want to pollute the world file
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