On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:42:57 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, does the emptytree (-e) option basically tell it that you don't
have ANYTHING instlled where it should be? :P
Yes, it empties the depend tree. So portage thinks that no software is
installed.
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On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 07:01 +0200, Naga wrote:
According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want
_all_
distfiles.
hm, it has been a while since I last read the handbook. There were a
small number of files to rsync back then :)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, does the emptytree (-e) option basically tell it that you don't
have ANYTHING instlled where it should be? :P
Well, if you do a emerge -e world, it will recompile everything on your
system. I do mean everything. On mine it takes a little over 48
hours.
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 07:39:55 Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 07:01 +0200, Naga wrote:
According to some devs on -dev (IRC) last night about 50 GiB if you want
_all_ distfiles.
Found it :)
A-How much space does a distfiles mirror need?
B-58G
B-well, that's what it needs
On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, Here goes...
How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy of the
portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the distfiles directory
of the average server?
dunno, but huge.
Would it be possible to draw down
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On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, Here goes...
I have an ancient Gateway 200ARC sans notebook hard drive (amongst other
things). I don't have the stupid little ribbon cable so I can't install
one either. And they charge like $50 for one. The notebook was free,
and a 1GB USB stick is only $20. a 2GB is like $40.
I wanted to install Linux on it
On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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On Dienstag, 22. Mai
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 23:44 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
[snip]
I followed this guide:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/02/12/usb-ubuntu-tutorial-for-linux-us
ers/#more-117
And used Ubuntu 7.04. It worked great. I can boot and get online and all
sorts of things.
However, nothing saves
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snip
That would also let me make sure that I have an up to date portage
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:13:11 +0900
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snip
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On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:13:11 +0900
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snip
The next
On Tue, 22 May 2007 16:42:38 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't think you'll need much processing power to
parallel-fetch. I do it on every computer with a fast enough
internet connection. The real limit is disk and network for
downloading, not at all processor.
I think RAM
On Tue, 22 May 2007 03:07:57 -0500, »Q« wrote:
If you populate your world file first (by hand if you like), then one
emerge -ef world should get you all the files you might need.
That won't work, portage will complain that there is a problem with our
world file and bail out. Put the packages
On 5/22/07, Nistor Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm experiencing some
weird behaviour in Amarok. The problem is that with some songs the length is
not displayed. I'm unable to scroll forwards or backwards in the song, and
moodbar does not
Hi,
On Mon, 21 May 2007 22:38:48 -0400 Michael George
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I am trying to emerge sys-block/nbd for my LTSP system. I get the
error:
configure: error: Could not find an nbd.h from 2.6 or above.
What's the version of your linux-headers package?
But locate nbd.h gives me:
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 11:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 5/22/07, Nistor Andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm experiencing some
weird behaviour in Amarok. The problem is that with some songs the length
is not displayed. I'm unable to
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:30:44 Naga wrote:
B-well, that's what it needs actually, probably in the docs it has it
specified
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/source_mirrors.xml
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On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:01:19 Naga wrote:
So, does the emptytree (-e) option basically tell it that you don't
have ANYTHING instlled where it should be? :P
Yes, it empties the depend tree. So portage thinks that no software is
installed.
That's an implementation detail that used to be
On Tue, 22 May 2007 08:34:16 +0200
Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dienstag, 22. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, Here goes...
How large is the package archive for gentoo, assuming a full copy
of the portage tree, and all of the source tarballs in the
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Montag, 21. Mai 2007, Nistor Andrei wrote:
Hello list,
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm experiencing some
weird behaviour in Amarok. The problem is that with some songs the length
is not displayed. I'm unable
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the same problem: some song's length uncknown and they are
unscollable. I'm NOT using moodbar, and using xine engine.
I think my tracks are fine, mplayer doesn't display any errors about them...
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On 5/22/07, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I followed this guide:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/02/12/usb-ubuntu-tutorial-for-linux-us
ers/#more-117
Reading that, I wonder where Gentoo fits in... It even uses a Ubuntu
LiveCD to CREATE the system...
However, nothing saves !!!? As
For some reason, my SSH (openssh-4.5_p1-r1) refuses to remember any
hosts I connect to, and even if I keep connecting to the same machine
over and over, it still wants me to OK the RSA fingerprint manually.
Here's the verbose output when I try to connect to a known machine:
ssh -v
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA512
Denis wrote:
Do I need to be added to some group to fix these permissions?
ls -ld /home/username/.ssh should say that the dir belongs to username, and
have rwx permissions
for it. You probably moved your home directory using root, or something
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:13, Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 23:44 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote:
[snip]
I followed this guide:
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/02/12/usb-ubuntu-tutorial-for-linux-us
ers/#more-117
And used Ubuntu 7.04. It worked great. I can boot and get
Hi!
This question is so basic it's nearly embarrassing to ask...
Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything?
For example:
# man -k man
man: nothing appropriate
Thanks in advance
Florian Philipp
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Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi!
This question is so basic it's nearly embarrassing to ask...
Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything?
For example:
# man -k man
man: nothing appropriate
Thanks in advance
Florian Philipp
you
Hi!
For my Musicbox[1] project, I am looking for a way to control a mpd[2]
with a touchscreen. The device I have in mind is a 10,2 VGA / USB
touchscreen. I assume it is supported by linux.
If I understand correctly, the touchscreen is (if used correctly) just
another way to control the
You probably moved your home directory using root, or something like that.
I don't remember doing that, but maybe I missed something during an
install, who knows...
chown username: /home/username/.ssh
chown username: /home/username/.ssh/*
chmod 700 /home/username/.ssh
chmod 600
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 22:09:33 Florian Philipp wrote:
Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything?
For example:
# man -k man
man: nothing appropriate
sys-apps/man installs a cron job in /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis. Did you
install a cron daemon? Is it configured to run cron jobs in
Timo Boettcher spida at spida.net writes:
For my Musicbox[1] project, I am looking for a way to control a mpd[2]
with a touchscreen. The device I have in mind is a 10,2 VGA / USB
touchscreen. I assume it is supported by linux.
Hello Timo,
I have not set one up, but, if my memory is
That won't work, portage will complain that there is a problem with
our world file and bail out.
Ah, thanks. I didn't realize emerge was unhappy with
packages in world which are not already installed.
Put the packages you want in a file like world then do
emerge -ef $(cat
On Wed, 23 May 2007 08:09:04 +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Put the packages you want in a file like world then do
emerge -ef $(cat myworld).
Another option might be to just go ahead and buckle down and
'emerge -au world', then start the process.
Which won't do much if your world
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Not to mention you will spend much longer waiting for
everything to download then
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 02:13:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If nothing else the handbook says that Gentoo etiquite says not
to rsync your portage tree more than once a day. For the average
distro, once a week or even once a month is more than sufficient
to keep up with the packages in the main
On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three
install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before
moving on from there. After that, I can just make sure to watch
the FAQ's and walkthroughs when I install Xorg to
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three
install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before
moving on from there. After that, I can just make sure to watch
the FAQ's and
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 22:29 +0200, Timo Boettcher wrote:
If I understand correctly, the touchscreen is (if used correctly) just
another way to control the mouse pointer. Is that right?
yes. when you touch, the mouse moves to, and clicks at that location.
You usually have an option to use
On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, Dale wrote:
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that I will probably be better off doing a stage three
install, then doing an 'emerge -euD world' or similar before
moving on from there. After that, I can just
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:03:23PM -0500, deface wrote:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers#Module_Requirement_Mismatch
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:52 -0400, John J. Foster wrote:
Hi,
My system had been happily chugging along with X and KDE running for a
few months nonstop. Every
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On Mittwoch, 23. Mai 2007, Dale wrote:
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
Dale wrote:
Funny, I sync every few days or so and always do a emerge -uvD world. I
have less problems with that than just doing a -u world.
Maybe it is when you do things consistantly that keeps things going
well
and are you doing revdep-rebuilt
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