On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 21:07:53 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
My concerns with this, other than my abilities, are:
1. Showing proper respect to the guy who pioneered the effort to date,
and who may simply be out of town. (This disrespect would be alleviated
if there was an
On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:56:41 -0800, Grant wrote:
Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking
at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like
things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to
be the closest relation, but
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 01:05:08 +0100, b.n. wrote:
Florian Philipp ha scritto:
Other things to improve? A better documentation on USE-flags. In my
opinion every maintainer should provide as much information as possible
on what exactly a USE-flag changes. At the moment it's the
administrator's
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 18:13 -0600, Dale wrote:
Florian Philipp wrote:
Okay, here it goes:
I think we could need a better support for binary packages.
There was a thread in here a few months ago about how to offer binary
packages for customers. As far as I remember the problem was
Florian Philipp wrote:
On Fri, 2007-12-14 at 18:13 -0600, Dale wrote:
Florian Philipp wrote:
Okay, here it goes:
I think we could need a better support for binary packages.
There was a thread in here a few months ago about how to offer binary
packages for customers. As far as I
I love gentoo and can't settle for anything else. What can I do to
make sure development doesn't stop?
Let me in on that. What can I do too?
Help out with bugfixing by submitting patches or even just
confirming bugs and supplying needed details?
Join testing teams? Join the Weekly News
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:44:55 -0600, Dale wrote:
That is when you compile it on another machine then install it on the
laptop. The -K option comes to mind here.
Which is what I think the OP was talking about. If you install one of the
*-bin packages from portage, you are protected by the
On Saturday 15 December 2007 03:35:51 Grant wrote:
My ideas aren't really important unless they're everyone else's ideas
too.
What is it exactly you want to achieve by starting these pointless threads?
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 03:44:55 -0600, Dale wrote:
That is when you compile it on another machine then install it on the
laptop. The -K option comes to mind here.
Which is what I think the OP was talking about. If you install one of the
*-bin packages from
That is when you compile it on another machine then install it on the
laptop. The -K option comes to mind here.
Which is what I think the OP was talking about. If you install one of the
*-bin packages from portage, you are protected by the checksums in the
ebuild digest.
On Friday 14 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would I likely be opening my lan up for some christmas shopping by
having a gentoo guest on a WinXP host running as a DMZ machine?
It would be pretty barebones with a IPTABLE setup for logging and
tagging
Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking
at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like
things being improved as quickly as possible. FreeBSD is supposed to
be the closest relation, but even that won't do. I don't think there
is
On Saturday 15 December 2007 15:05:28 Grant wrote:
Neil correctly translated my pseudo-English to what I actually meant. I
don't want to make Portage binary based. I just want to make Portage's
binary package support more conveniently usable on big networks.
Even eclasses in the tree don't
Hans de Graaff wrote:
A possible solution would be for you (or someone) to become a proxy
maintainer, meaning that you'd get the bug reports and provide new
ebuilds, and a developer (most likely someone from the backup herd) would
review it and put it in the tree.
Hi Hans, thanks for the
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
On Dec 14, 2007 3:46 PM, Kenneth Prugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you using the sky2 driver for your NIC by chance?
Nope, I've tried a tulip and a 3COM NIC. Pretty run-of-the-mill. :-)
Since you seem to have checked that the problem is
Florian Philipp wrote:
Maybe his/her laptop doesn't stand the
thermal output of its CPU when emerging or maybe he/she's the
administrator of a large company's network, trying to move every
computer system to Gentoo.
Check out distccd!
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On Saturday 15 December 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
One of the challenging things about the BackupPC ebuild is that the
program needs to be configured to work with its own instance of apache
(run as user backuppc), and I think none of the ebuild contributors
are all too sure of the standard
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
(Apologies if this has already been mentioned)
Another (maybe less intrusive, although slightly less efficient) option
is to install the BackupPC_Admin CGI as setuid so that it runs as user
backuppc (this is how I run BackupPC-2.1.2-r1). This does not require a
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
Yes, I am aware of that. The BackupPC ebuild should support either
way, as there is a speedup of about 15x (according to the BackupPC
author) when running the webserver as user backuppc. There should be
a USE variable controlling this.
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
Ah ok, I just thought it would be easier, to get things going and catch
up with upstream, to release an ebuild that only supports the suid mode
of operation, and then, taking the necessary time, improve it in future
releases, rather than supporting all the features
So, what would need to happen for one of these projects to take off
would be one or more people to be in charge of it and organize it, and
they recruit as many people as possible to work on the project along
with them?
The real blocker for features that I'd like Gentoo to support is
The real blocker for features that I'd like Gentoo to support is Portage.
There is only 1½ people working on it and changing anything in it is hard
because Portage is a horrible mess. There's plenty of activity in the tree
but new desired features cannot be used in the tree until Portage
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes:
Multiple great ideas have already been suggested in this thread. Is
this the first time they've been conceived and shared? Why hasn't
work begun on them? Why isn't work completed on them? Because living
costs money and Gentoo doesn't pay.
I've been
On Saturday 15 December 2007, Randy Barlow wrote:
Yeah, that's the kinds of differences of opinion that are in the bug
report, which is part of what makes this a more difficult ebuild to
write. Things like libraries are really easy because it's just a
configure make make install, but here
b.n. brullonulla at gmail.com writes:
I offered to take over the maintenance of the package and web installation
page, and was turned down (probable by some punk under the age of 20)
Sad. Can you link the thread?
I think that would be counter productive. It's the 'culture of gentoo'
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Friday 14 December 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Would I likely be opening my lan up for some christmas shopping by
having a gentoo guest on a WinXP host running as a DMZ machine?
It would be pretty barebones with a IPTABLE
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I mean if
you connect it to any machine in the diagram or elsewhere wouldn't you
be exposing that machine to the unfiltered internet?
I think that's the idea here - to see the difference between the two
sides of the router. As far as getting that data safely in a
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
(btw, do gentoo initscripts
support starting multiple instances of a daemon, perhaps under different
users and using different parameters? I'd not bet on it, but I may be
wrong. If it's not supported, waiting for baselayout to support this may
take a long time, so it
On 15:27 Thu 13 Dec , Jason Carson wrote:
Greetings,
Where in the kernel config (make menuconfig) do I find the choice for
schedulers. The one I am currently using is Anticipatory. What is the
newest and latest scheduler for 2.6.23?
Regards,
Jason Carson
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Randy Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I mean if
you connect it to any machine in the diagram or elsewhere wouldn't you
be exposing that machine to the unfiltered internet?
I think that's the idea here - to see the difference between the two
sides of the router.
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 11:41:21 -0500, Randy Barlow wrote:
Maybe his/her laptop doesn't stand the
thermal output of its CPU when emerging or maybe he/she's the
administrator of a large company's network, trying to move every
computer system to Gentoo.
Check out distccd!
How does that
Hi there!
I just tried to upgrade my mythtv installation, but the ebuild fails in the
unpack phase with a permission denied-error when accessing the
svn-repository:
Emerging (1 of 2) media-tv/mythtv-0.20.2_p14814 to /
* checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ]
* checking auxfile
Hi - Can anyone give me pointers on how to get ipw2100-firmware working
with kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r9? It works fine with
kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r8 where it's compiled in the kernel
but the same set-up fails in kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.22-gentoo-r9. When
I run emerge
I just did an emerge --sync, and checked what was available for
updateing...
[m3000][root][~] emerge --ask --deep --update --world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20070724 [20070118]
[ebuild
On Sat, 15 Dec 2007 18:55:43 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
- why didn't portage replace the old version itself? That's generally
part of the update process.
GnuPG is slotted, so 1.* and 2.* can be installed simultaneously.
- once I manually unmerged gnupg, what brings it back? I did
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 07:48:12AM -0800, Grant wrote
Lately I've been shopping around for other distros as well as looking
at *BSD. Gentoo development seems to have slowed way down and I like
things being improved as quickly as possible.
One item (amongst many) that chased me away from
Hi group,
I moved a partition(about 60G) from one drive to
another, slightly larger, using:
dd if=/dev/hdc4 of=/dev/hdc6 bs=32k
When the operation completed this appeared:
904017 +1 records in
1904017 record out
numbers which are precisely 999,999 apart. What is
that all about?
Followed by
[snip]
Followed by this:
display all 902 possibilities (y or n)
y
and the screen filled up with an alphabetical list of
executable programs like ls, something-something.sh
etc. Which is strange because it was /home and
contained no files like that.
This is what happens when you
On Tuesday 11 December 2007 09:48:10 am Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 11 December 2007, Jeff Cranmer wrote:
I believe that I have this enabled, however ieee80211 is still barfing
out by asking for CONFIG_NET_RADIO.
I'll check and confirm this tonight.
Also check bugzilla. I remember reporting
Alexander Puchmayr wrote:
http://svn.mythtv.org/svn/branches/release-0-20-fixes/mythtv
svn: Can't open file '.svn/lock': Permission denied
Speaking out of ignorance here, but I wonder if .svn/lock is a file on
your local machine, or if it's on the svn server? I know nothing about
svn, other
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Maybe his/her laptop doesn't stand the
thermal output of its CPU when emerging or maybe he/she's the
administrator of a large company's network, trying to move every
computer system to Gentoo.
Check out distccd!
How does that help? Either every machine on the network
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