Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Braun
On 5/30/07, Lutz Schönemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi! I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server not

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 May 2007 23:05:56 -0400, Denis wrote: I use 'gunzip -c /proc/config.gz .config make oldconfig' consistently, never had a problem. I always keep a working kernel in Oh neat-o! I didn't know there was a copy of the running config in /proc... It's an option you need to

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 May 2007 00:37:16 -0400, Denis wrote: While we're on the subject of administration, I have a question about emerge. Sometimes emerge would display important information in green or yellow stars after it's finished merging a package - such as warnings or valuable tips. However, if

Re: [gentoo-user] Why doesn't esearch find exact packages? [Bug: 180307]

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 May 2007 18:41:48 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Yes, I can use eix, but I don't have this on all my boxes, nor do I want to install it and maintain yet another package cache and all that (for example, on a dev VMWare guest that I want to keep as small as possible). So use eix

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 05/30/2007 Denis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote While we're on the subject of administration, I have a question about emerge. Sometimes emerge would display important information in green or yellow stars after it's finished merging a package - such as warnings or valuable tips.

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Lutz Schönemann
Hi, Hi! I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server not to process events coming from this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X11 from another machine [SOLVED]

2007-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 May 2007, Andrew Lowe wrote: Sounds simple but the amount of stuffing around I had to do before it eventually workedprobably best left unsaid. Anyway, thanks to all for the help and here's hoping I get access to SSH the next time I have to do anything like this. It's

[gentoo-user] which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Köhler
Hi, so until recently, i have been using sysklogd. So i had my auth.log, mail.log, syslog, messages, etc. in /var/log. Now i switched to syslog-ng. Now, only /var/log/messages gets filled with all, that i would expect in auth.log or mail.log. Maybe syslog-ng can be configured to behave like

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, sean wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sunday 27 May 2007, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 09:26 -0400, sean wrote: I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just crashed. I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force

[gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Braun
On 5/30/07, Lutz Schönemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hi! I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the

[gentoo-user] XFS problems

2007-05-30 Thread Jules Colding
Hi, My XFS problems continue. Now I got this in my log. Do I have big hardware problems or is this software? It happened under a fairly big VMware clone operation. Any help/advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, jules May 30 10:29:27 omc-2 spamd[5932]: prefork: child states: II May 30

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Eray Aslan
On 30.05.2007 10:21, Neil Bothwick wrote: This runs in the early hours, so I can read it whenever it suits me during the day and apply the changes as I want. I run testing, so frequent updating is a good thing; with a stable system, weekly would be fine, but the longer you leave it the more

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Sven Köhler wrote: So the next thing i could try is metalog. Does it have a nice default config? I think so, but I did modify it to better suit my needs. It doesn't need logrotate, which IMHO is a big plus, and I find its filters much easier to set up than syslog-ng's. I am curious, though:

Re: [gentoo-user] which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, so until recently, i have been using sysklogd. So i had my auth.log, mail.log, syslog, messages, etc. in /var/log. Now i switched to syslog-ng. Now, only /var/log/messages gets filled with all, that i would expect in auth.log or mail.log.

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On 5/29/07, Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I usually dread kernel updates because then I have to go through kernel menuconfig all over again, and for me, that takes some time. I guess one can reuse the old .config file, but I understand it's not always a safe thing

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Sven Köhler
I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other log daemons, why do you want to switch log daemons? Last sysklogd version if from 2001. And portage contains 1.4.2_pre2007* versions. This was curious to me. And on the other hand,

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mat Harris wrote: My only little problem is that when I try to emerge AbiWord (2.4.5-r1), it compiles fine but when it tries to install to files into the real filesystem it segfaults like so: [...] /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_Options.glade

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Lutz Schönemann
Hi, Hi! I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server not to process events

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Galevsky
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Syslog-ng Is that kind of conf (described in Quick Start section) far away from what you are looking for ? Gal' 2007/5/30, Sven Köhler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am curious, though: If you like the sysklogd layout to the point that you want to replicate it exactly in other

[gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Sven Köhler wrote: But i guess, they have a more suitable default setting. Everything going to /var/log/messes is just to simple, i think. Actually i don't want the layout to be like sysklogd. But i would like a little more complicated default setting. Okay, in that case, I'll say that

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Randy Barlow
Mat Harris wrote: /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_WordCount.glade /usr/share/AbiSuite-2.4/AbiWord/glade/ap_UnixDialog_Styles.glade Segmentation fault Does this happen with any other packages or only AbiWord? R -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Randy Barlow
Lutz Schönemann wrote: Hi, Hi! I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server not to process events coming

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:39:01 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for your environment: binary packages (both building and using) True. And it misses pkgmoves and slotmoves (profiles/updates/*). and a revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS problems

2007-05-30 Thread Randy Barlow
Jules Colding wrote: May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156355] sd 0:4:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040001 May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156423] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 97564151 May 30 10:29:46 omc-2 [10827.996196] I/O error in filesystem (sdb1) meta-data dev sdb1 block

Re: [gentoo-user] XFS problems

2007-05-30 Thread Jules Colding
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:24 -0400, Randy Barlow wrote: Jules Colding wrote: May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156355] sd 0:4:1:0: SCSI error: return code = 0x00040001 May 30 10:29:40 omc-2 [10822.156423] end_request: I/O error, dev sdb, sector 97564151 May 30 10:29:46 omc-2 [10827.996196]

[gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Grant
I routinely use commands like this: ls -l *.torrent but today I get this: $ ls -l *.torrent ls: invalid option -- [ Try `ls --help' for more information. I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an update change this behavior for anyone else? - Grant -- [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 May 2007, Grant wrote: I routinely use commands like this: ls -l *.torrent but today I get this: $ ls -l *.torrent ls: invalid option -- [ Try `ls --help' for more information. I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an update change this

Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 May 2007 07:25:51 -0700, Grant wrote: $ ls -l *.torrent ls: invalid option -- [ Try `ls --help' for more information. Torrent files can have weird names, you probably have one named -- [kewl doodz] -- some dodgy file.torrent. The shell is expanding the wildcard and passing it to

Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Grant
I routinely use commands like this: ls -l *.torrent but today I get this: $ ls -l *.torrent ls: invalid option -- [ Try `ls --help' for more information. I get similar results when trying to use wildcards with scp. Did an update change this behavior for anyone else? You probably

Re: [gentoo-user] Wildcards stopped working

2007-05-30 Thread Grant
$ ls -l *.torrent ls: invalid option -- [ Try `ls --help' for more information. Torrent files can have weird names, you probably have one named -- [kewl doodz] -- some dodgy file.torrent. The shell is expanding the wildcard and passing it to ls, which thinks it is an option. The standard way

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question

2007-05-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Strictly http and https, and only through Internet Explorer. Ugh, why that ? cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/

[gentoo-user] Re: Xserver @ oss-qm overlay [WAS: Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies ...]

2007-05-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2007 18:49:31 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: The circular dependencies between Xserver and drivers do not come from upstream. They're artificial. If we just want an simple-to-use package which gets the Xserver *and* drivers based on

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip That is exactly what the xorg-x11 metapackage is designed to do. Not exactly. The xorg-x11 package pulls in much more than just the server w/ some drivers. cu -- - Enrico

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Mat Harris
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 10:22, Benno Schulenberg wrote: Mat Harris wrote: My only little problem is that when I try to emerge AbiWord (2.4.5-r1), it compiles fine but when it tries to install to files into the real filesystem it segfaults like so: [...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A List Question

2007-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Am Dienstag 15 Mai 2007 02:45 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think that once my internet access becomes functional (even then it will just be .edu, .org, .gov, and .mil sites), I will see how well the gmane page loads for me. :) I will use it to read the messages, and email to post. How do

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Denis
I read the man make.conf and also the make.conf.example. Seems pretty clear, except what is the qa option for the PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES variable? And I assume the info option logs all the green-star stuff at the end of emerge? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Sven Köhler: It does not read /etc/syslog.conf, it reads /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for it's configuration. Chances are the default is to send most everything to messages Yes, that's the default. And actually, i don't want to configure all my machines. I would prefer a more

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 20:01:43 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: [...] By the way I installed kdebase-meta I believe [...] [SNIP] And why are you installing either of those at all when they have already been pulled in by kde-meta? Heh, I somehow read kdebase-meta as kde-meta... Disregard that

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Mat Harris
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 18:01, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:34:49 Mat Harris wrote: It appears I may have more of a problem than I thought. By the way I installed kdebase-meta I believe (as the kde howto suggested) but now when trying to install most kde apps I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: which syslog?

2007-05-30 Thread darren kirby
quoth the kashani: darren kirby wrote: quoth the Sven Köhler: It does not read /etc/syslog.conf, it reads /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf for it's configuration. Chances are the default is to send most everything to messages Yes, that's the default. And actually, i don't want to

[gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi! As part of some testing I've decompressed my distfiles into another directory. I've done it that way: cp /usr/src/portage/distfiles/*.tar.bz2 /home/dsl/distfiles bunzip2 /home/dsl/distfiles/*.tar.bz2 cp /usr/src/portage/distfiles/*.tbz2 /home/dsl/distfiles bunzip2

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:16:18 Mat Harris wrote: Don't use --nodeps. That would just make a mess out of [your] system. If you've installed split kde (kde-meta) then why are you trying to install monolithic kde packages? I.e. why are you trying to install kdebase rather than kdebase-meta

[gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-30 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am trying to ssh into a RH server (CentOS) using pubkey authentication and this is what I am getting back: == debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS sent debug1: expecting SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS debug1: SSH2_MSG_NEWKEYS received debug1: SSH2_MSG_SERVICE_REQUEST sent debug1:

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Mat Harris
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 19:26, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:16:18 Mat Harris wrote: Don't use --nodeps. That would just make a mess out of [your] system. If you've installed split kde (kde-meta) then why are you trying to install monolithic kde packages? I.e.

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-30 Thread Fabio
Hello Mick mic ! :D On 30/05/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Offering public key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa I am not sure if you know the publickey authentication method, so

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-30 Thread Mauro Faccenda
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 16:57, Mick wrote: Hi All, [...] I find it confusing. First of all I do not have a id_rsa. it tries the default keys (id_rsa or id_dsa), if exists. if you don't want it to try it, you can use the -i parameter to ssh pointing to your private key (ssh -i

Re: [gentoo-user] how do you keep up with system administration?

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 May 2007 13:20:13 -0400, Denis wrote: I read the man make.conf and also the make.conf.example. Seems pretty clear, except what is the qa option for the PORTAGE_ELOG_CLASSES variable? And I assume the info option logs all the green-star stuff at the end of emerge? qa = Quality

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mat Harris wrote: So from now on I should always install a package with -meta if its from kde (providing one is available eg. kdevelop)? Not necessarily. The meta packages are there to pull in a whole group of packages, so you don't have to name them all separately. But if you just use a few

Re: [gentoo-user] [perhaps OT] ssh from Gentoo into a RedHat server

2007-05-30 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:12, Fabio wrote: Hello Mick mic ! :D On 30/05/07, Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, debug1: Next authentication method: publickey debug1: Trying private key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_rsa debug1: Offering public key: /home/michael/.ssh/id_dsa I am not sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:28 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: bunzip2: /home/dsl/distfiles/openmotif-2.2.3-r9.tbz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored [...] It affects *.tbz2 only. That's correct, portage stores some metadata at the end of the archive. -- Neil Bothwick Politically

Re: [gentoo-user] Deactivate keyboard

2007-05-30 Thread Lutz Schönemann
Hi, Hi! I have set up Gentoo on a system that I would like to use as a video, music player and sometimes to check my emails. There is a remote control connected to it and is detected as a serial keyboard. Now I want the xorg-server not to process events coming from this

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 23:45:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:28 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: bunzip2: /home/dsl/distfiles/openmotif-2.2.3-r9.tbz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored [...] It affects *.tbz2 only. That's correct, portage stores some metadata at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 00:34:04 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 23:45:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:28 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: bunzip2: /home/dsl/distfiles/openmotif-2.2.3-r9.tbz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored [...] It affects

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend to swap on a diskless host

2007-05-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:21:03 +0200 Michal 'vorner' Vaner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello AFAIK, I think you do not want to do that. Not on important boxes, that's for sure! First: You need to load the kernel from the swap, in the time it loads, you have no running kernel (well, there is a

Re: [gentoo-user] which -march flag to pick for Intel Core 2 Duo in make.conf?

2007-05-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:26:32 -0400 Denis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 5/25/07, Andreas Claesson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since you (Denis) are doing a lot of mathematical calculations you will probably benefit from running in 64bit mode. I often need to run Monte Carlo simulations (in C)

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to mount a bad disk

2007-05-30 Thread Dan Farrell
On Tue, 29 May 2007 22:13:58 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Kirkwood wrote: sean wrote: I have a Windows XP driver here that belongs to a friend that just crashed. I am trying to figure out if there is some way I can force the drive to mount on my system so that I can get

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 07:20:45 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:39:01 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for your environment: a revdep-rebuild equivalent (although this can be hacked around) With the

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:09:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I found check_linkage.rb, but it's not installed (or linked) to any of the standard $PATH directories.  Instead, it's in a demo directory.  Is it fully functional? Yes. You run it with ruby. It does still lack a couple of features

[gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Denis
Hi all... This is the output of emerge --info for the Gentoo box that I'm still configuring - fresh install. I configured and compiled a working version of the kernel, configured CFLAGS and USE flags, etc. I also ran emerge -eD system and emerge -eD world and updated /etc configs accordingly.

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:20:52 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:09:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I found check_linkage.rb, but it's not installed (or linked) to any of the standard $PATH directories.  Instead, it's in a demo directory.  Is it fully functional?

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:23:00 Denis wrote: Why are there multiple versions of java-config, autoconf, and automake shown on my system? They are incompatible, slotted, and each slot is individually required (or was at some time). There could be other multi-version packages... Is this

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 04:20 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses with --package-names because of the lack of support for the =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still supports.. :) Hey, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:37:52 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If it's really useful, it should be chmod'd +x and installed or linked into /usr/sbin.  I can do that myself (in that case /usr/local/sbin), but such wonderful utilities shouldn't be hidden. :) I can't really disagree with that,

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:57:53 Paul Varner wrote: But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses with --package-names because of the lack of support for the =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still supports.. :) Hey, I'm proud of

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Ric de France
Hi, On 31/05/07, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There could be other multi-version packages... Is this normal for portage that is configured to autoclean? Yes. Autoclean doesn't uninstall versions in a different slot. I'm not sure about depclean. I think what is more

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:43:07 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: There could be other multi-version packages...  Is this normal for portage that is configured to autoclean? Yes.  Autoclean doesn't uninstall versions in a different slot.  I'm not sure about depclean. With the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Denis
On 5/30/07, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what is more useful is --prune (I'm guessing as I'm not in front of a Gentoo box at the moment). I usually try: # emerge -Pp Here's the output: myhost etc # emerge -Pp These are the packages

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 05:53:08 Denis wrote: On 5/30/07, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what is more useful is --prune (I'm guessing as I'm not in front of a Gentoo box at the moment). I usually try: --prune makes no checks of what's still required. [SNIP] But doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Denis
While on the subject, I ran a pretend on revdep-rebuild, and it's complaining about some broken libraries in GCC... [SNIP] broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires /usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la) broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgij.la

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 06:25:58 Denis wrote: While on the subject, I ran a pretend on revdep-rebuild, and it's complaining about some broken libraries in GCC... [SNIP] broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires /usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la)