[gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-26 Thread Ralf Stephan
Hello, recently sys-apps/mktemp is blocking coreutils even in x86. mktemp is needed by baselayout, debianutils and a2ps. As a2ps is optional and newer baselayout (~x86) version no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring mktemp, even in ~x86 versions. So, we have a problem. What

[gentoo-user] Re: mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-26 Thread Ralf Stephan
no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring mktemp, even in ~x86 versions. Make that 'even in x86 versions' -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 25 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: Thanks Alan, Sorry for top posting. I noticed these very old machine have only 8GB drives in them. Looks like I'm actually going to replace the drives and then do new installs from scratch. 8G

Re: [gentoo-user] mktemp dependency problems

2008-04-26 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Ralf Stephan wrote: Hello, recently sys-apps/mktemp is blocking coreutils even in x86. mktemp is needed by baselayout, debianutils and a2ps. As a2ps is optional and newer baselayout (~x86) version no longer require mktemp, that leaves debianutils requiring mktemp,

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:17:38 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: There is no way that I know of to know before running emerge --sync what has been removed from the servers and hence would be removed from my machine. Why do Gentoo devs think they should remove anything from my machine. It's my machine,

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, it's pretty insane. We were using these machines only as MythTV frontend boxes so basically they boot, start mythfrontend, spin down the drive and then talk to the backend over the network. They didn't need much space so I probably

[gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo-wiki.com

2008-04-26 Thread Dan Johansson
Hi, Is it only me or does someone else have problems with gentoo-wiki.com today? Here's what I get back when I try to access gentoo-wiki.com -8--- ERROR The requested URL could not be retrieved While trying to retrieve the URL:

[gentoo-user] Gentoo for embedded-linux

2008-04-26 Thread Yoav Luft
I've recently grown interested in Linux for embedded devices, specifically, ARM computers and ARM core DSP's. I am a Gentoo-linux user and an electronics technician, and know nothing about programming operating systems. Are there any relevant projects, specifically Gentoo flavored once for

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] gentoo-wiki.com

2008-04-26 Thread Jonas Pedersen
Dan Johansson wrote: Hi, Is it only me or does someone else have problems with gentoo-wiki.com today? No, it is not only you. -- Jonas Pedersen - jonas - at - chown.dk / http://chown.dk Online picture gallery at http://pictureshow.dk -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Qmail and Spamassassin won't integrate

2008-04-26 Thread Sean
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 05:13:21PM -0600, darren kirby wrote: quoth the Tim Garton: Hi Tim, I run spamassassin with exim, so can't offer all that much help, but as for attempt 1 you may try running: spamc -R {some file containing full source of a sample email} to make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for embedded-linux

2008-04-26 Thread Neil Walker
Yoav Luft wrote: I've recently grown interested in Linux for embedded devices, specifically, ARM computers and ARM core DSP's. I am a Gentoo-linux user and an electronics technician, and know nothing about programming operating systems. Are there any relevant projects, specifically Gentoo

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-26 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday 26 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is turning into a big time sink that I don't really have so I'll probably just use cygwin stuff to get some unix tools onto vista. But first, are you running gentoo in a vmware on vista? I was

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo for embedded-linux

2008-04-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, You mean something like this?: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/embedded/index.xml AFAIK, portage is far from being suitable for real embedded development. It's lacking essential things like sysroot. Also dozens of ebuilds will hazardouzly fail

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Etaoin Shrdlu ha scritto: On Thursday 24 April 2008, 18:54, KH wrote: USE=-ipv6 -ftp emerge -av mplayer To the OP: this is exactly the kind of thing that should be avoided. Yes, but also tell the OP that the correct thing is to edit

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox crash when playing flash

2008-04-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Gustavo Campos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I figure out that the mpd didn't work either when the firefox was suspending there, is it possible they cann't work together. Well that points to the road I was trying to take: sound problem. At my site, adobe-flash also causes bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Circular dependencies when USE=gnome and emerging world

2008-04-26 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Michael Schmarck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I do emerge -DuvatN world, I get an error to the effect, that there are circular dependencies. Please see below. you might try to build the leafs of the tree step by step and report back which of the packages are actually broken. cu --

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-26 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 25 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I'm thinking it probably won't do any real good to monkey around with the kernel either, if the initramfs thing isn't the problem them it seems likely to be a vista problem. The kernel is exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:41 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Yeah, it's pretty insane. We were using these machines only as MythTV frontend boxes so basically they boot, start mythfrontend, spin down the drive and then

[gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

2008-04-26 Thread Mick
Hi All, I have a rather large .mov file which I want to split into two separate files. What options are available to me? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:20 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 12:17:38 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: There is no way that I know of to know before running emerge --sync what has been removed from the servers and hence would be removed from my machine. Why do

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

2008-04-26 Thread Hal Martin
I assume you want each piece of this file to be play-able? If you don't care about that, just use split to chop them up into your desired size and then use cat to reassemble them at the destination. *$ split –bytes=1m /path/to/large/file /path/to/output/file/prefix* 'man split' will also contain

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub heartbreaker

2008-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was just starting to think you might be friend material. Then you go and mention me and Vista in a positive sense in the same sentence. I shall now have to send some of the lads around to your

[gentoo-user] Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
(Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] chkrootkit release 0.48

2008-04-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
http://www.chkrootkit.org/#new -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

2008-04-26 Thread Mick
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Hal Martin wrote: I assume you want each piece of this file to be play-able? If you don't care about that, just use split to chop them up into your desired size and then use cat to reassemble them at the destination. *$ split –bytes=1m /path/to/large/file

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:22:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Where I get frustrated/ticked off/mad is when some independent developer, or group of developers, simply decides to remove code on **MY** machine and force me

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Neil Walker
Mark Knecht wrote: I log in and want to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong. What the heck are you talking about? emerge --sync doesn't delete ANY files from your system. Be lucky, Neil --

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Neil Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I log in and want to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong. What the heck are you talking about? emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between updates. I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or back room somewhere. It hasn't been powered up in a long time. I log in and want to figure out what's in front of

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 26 April 2008, Neil Walker wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I log in and want to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong. What the heck are you talking about? emerge --sync doesn't delete ANY

Re: [gentoo-user] Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to do would be to open a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version bump.

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 19:56 +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Hal Martin wrote: I assume you want each piece of this file to be play-able? If you don't care about that, just use split to chop them up into your desired size and then use cat to reassemble them at the destination.

Re: [gentoo-user] Doubt about FLAG use

2008-04-26 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
Enrico Weigelt wrote: BTW: is there an way for passing an temporary package.use filename to portage (for trying out certain configs) ? What do you mean by temporary? You could execute 'USE=tmpflag emerge cat/packagename'. But as already pointed out, this is not a good idea for future use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Stroller
On 26 Apr 2008, at 19:57, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between updates. I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or back room somewhere. It hasn't been powered up in a long time. I log in and want to figure out what's in front of

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread darren kirby
quoth the Mark Knecht: I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between updates. I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or back room somewhere. It hasn't been powered up in a long time. I log in and want to figure out what's in front of me with respect to

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

2008-04-26 Thread luis jure
El Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:06:52 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: mencoder -vf harddup -ovc copy -oac copy -of lavf -lavfopts format=mov -ss 1:30 -endpos 3:00 -o output.mov input.mov explanation: [...] -ss 1:30 - skip the first 1 min + 30 sec -endpos 3:00 - end input at

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:56:42 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: This whole thread, from my original subject line on, has been saying that emerge --sync removes profiles. Does it or not? It does, because emerge --sync synchronises your portage tree with the current one on the servers. But nothing really

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:00:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: One could write a dual-portage thingy that replicates what you have then does emerge --sync, and also has an --undo fetaure for just in case. Wouldn't rsync's --backup and --backup-dir options be sufficient for the rare cases when tree

Re: [gentoo-user] Splitting .mov files

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 18:43 -0300, luis jure wrote: El Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:06:52 +0200 Florian Philipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: mencoder -vf harddup -ovc copy -oac copy -of lavf -lavfopts format=mov -ss 1:30 -endpos 3:00 -o output.mov input.mov explanation: [...] -ss 1:30 -

[gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread Sven Köhler
(Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to do would be to open a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a version bump. Like this one: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=194832

[gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to do would be to open a bug on http://bugs.gentoo.org and request a

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
Hi Alan, Thanks for the reply. Also, up front, I'm thinking that my tone is somehow being misinterpreted. I'm not at all high energy about this. I'm worried now it's not coming across the way I'm feeling about this. Low key. Low stress. Just looking to make things better in the future.

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:54 PM, Stroller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 26 Apr 2008, at 19:57, Mark Knecht wrote: ... I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between updates. I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or back room somewhere. It hasn't been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread Florian Philipp
On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 18:46 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The proper thing to

Re: [gentoo-user] Very old machine blocking/update questions

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Kirkwood
The machine I'm typing this on has 2 of these (Barracuda 7200.7's)- they are absolutely silent...so that machine's one might be ready to throw its bearings! Cheers Mark Alan McKinnon wrote: Today I worked on a machine with a 40G 7200rpm Barracuda (the office sounded like it had a Boeing

[gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread 7v5w7go9ub0o
Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 18:46 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: Florian Philipp wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 14:38 -0400, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: (Portage is a little dated at 1.2.9) http://sourceforge.net/projects/rkhunter/ Thanks for the info but this doesn't belong here. The

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rootkit Hunter release 1.3.2

2008-04-26 Thread darren kirby
quoth the 7v5w7go9ub0o: Nope. I'm sure they're busy, and took the message at face value. 'Twould be nice if someone added a little note to the categories indicating that Gentoo Linux is the place to put version bumps; it might get more of us newbies involved and owning part of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 1:00 PM, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Mark Knecht wrote: I don't buy that it's my issue created by a long time between updates. I could turn on any machine that's sitting in a junk heap or back room somewhere. It hasn't been

[gentoo-user] No mail from list

2008-04-26 Thread Anthony E. Caudel
I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days now. Anyone else having problems with the list? -- Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin --

Re: [gentoo-user] Would emerge --sync remove old profiles?

2008-04-26 Thread Neil Walker
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 26 April 2008, Neil Walker wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: I log in and want to figure out what's in front of me with respect to updates. I type emerge sync and portage deletes files. to me that's just wrong. What the heck are you talking about?