[gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-29 Thread alain . didierjean
I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know, ~adj~ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge virtual/emacs fails

2008-04-29 Thread Justin
Roger Mason schrieb: Hello, Has anyone else run into this: emerge virtual/emacs [snip] Unpacking m4-1.4.11.tar.lzma to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.11/work Something is wrong with your portage PATHs, because it wants to unpack to /var/tmp/portage/m4-1.4.11/work and not to

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Yes. No. Yes. HTH...

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ?

[gentoo-user] Network access to MySQL

2008-04-29 Thread Peter Humphrey
Having just installed mysql on my server, I've found that I have to set bind-address = 0.0.0.0 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf to enable me to connect to mysqld over the local network: leaving it at the default 127.0.0.1 causes connection requests to be rejected. Is there a more secure value for this

[gentoo-user] Re: ftdi usb-serial converter broken

2008-04-29 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Yes, sure that's it but where exactly do you indicate Y to the Experimental? That must be what I cannot find. You'll have found it straight away now that you've replaced your damaged sources, but for the record, it's the first option on

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to MySQL

2008-04-29 Thread Hamish
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 10:51:30 Peter Humphrey wrote: Having just installed mysql on my server, I've found that I have to set bind-address = 0.0.0.0 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf to enable me to connect to mysqld over the local network: leaving it at the default 127.0.0.1 causes connection requests

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-29 Thread alain . didierjean
Selon Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend.

[gentoo-user] pptp client under nat

2008-04-29 Thread Vladimir Rusinov
Hello! I'm trying to connect from my home box to my office network. At home I have US Robotics ADSL modem (192.168.1.1) and gentoo host 192.168.1.3. 192.168.1.3 is set up as DMZ in modem (so, all ports are open and all portmapped to 192.168.1.3). iptables is not set up (it looks I haven't even

Re: [gentoo-user] different strange kernel name - 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-g506ab20b-dirty

2008-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:05:07AM +0800, Penguin Lover Chuanwen Wu squawked: 1, Why I got a new kernel image(2.6.24-gentoo-r4-gb921d0de-dirty) instead of using the old one (2.6.24-gentoo-r4-g506ab20b-dirty) ? As I know if I add/change something as modules, all I need to do is make make

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-29 Thread Willie Wong
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 09:43:09AM +0200, Penguin Lover [EMAIL PROTECTED] squawked: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ?

[gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread reader
I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that big an update without a fresh install. What is the smoothest way to do it? How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to x86/2008 That option is of course not available currently at /usr/portage/profiles.

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-29 Thread Joseph
On 04/29/08 09:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use lyx 1.5.4 with tetex on a Gentoo computer. It works fine; I'm thinking about switching to texlive, as tetex seems on a deadend. Has anyone done it yet ? Got any problem ? How does LyX work with it ? Please let me know, The transition works OK;

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that big an update without a fresh install. What is the smoothest way to do it? Download the 2008 minimal install cd and install. Frankly, updating a 2006 install to

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that big an update without a fresh install. There's no such thing as a 2006 install. What does exist, is the collection of packages that were on the LiveCDs released in 2006. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:31:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to x86/2008 Change the /etc/make.profile symlink or use eselect profile. That option is of course not available currently at /usr/portage/profiles. 2008 hasn't been

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:31:05 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to x86/2008 Change the /etc/make.profile symlink or use eselect profile. That option is of

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Neil Walker
Neil Bothwick wrote: 2008 hasn't been released yet. Switch to 2007.0 for now, then it will be less of a change when 2008.0 is released. It was released on April 1st. ;) Be lucky, Neil -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to MySQL

2008-04-29 Thread kashani
Peter Humphrey wrote: Having just installed mysql on my server, I've found that I have to set bind-address = 0.0.0.0 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf to enable me to connect to mysqld over the local network: leaving it at the default 127.0.0.1 causes connection requests to be rejected. Is there a more

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:35:53 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hmmm. I may have read this latest post just in time. My system contains /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop Ah, they've moved it! The other profiles are in /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux, that's why the

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Hmmm.  I may have read this latest post just in time.  My system contains /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop and I had just linked /etc/make.profile to it and synced up.  I was about to emerge world -- it was going to

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, 21:00, Alan McKinnon wrote: I rattled off the path to profiles from memory in my previous post without actually checking what I had on the machine :-) When I went to look for it, I didn't find a 2008.0 profile at first - that took a 'find' command. I see now I have:

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me off as useful important stuff just *goes away* I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have found out easily all the available profiles by doing eselect

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me off as useful important stuff just *goes away* I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Mark Knecht
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 12:57 PM, John covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 29 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: This kind of gratuitous change is bullshit and *really* ticks me off as useful important stuff just

Re: [gentoo-user] pptp client under nat

2008-04-29 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, 15:48, Vladimir Rusinov wrote: I've setup chap-secrets and peer and when I'm doing #pon my_vpn I'm getting following: using channel 32 Using interface ppp0 Connect: ppp0 -- /dev/pts/7 sent [LCP ConfReq id=0x1 asyncmap 0x0 magic 0x24770bb6 pcomp accomp] rcvd [LCP

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:18:47 +0200, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have found out easily all the available profiles by doing eselect profile list: True, but Gentoo allows, even encourages, working at the lowest level without helpful tools get

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 (I don't even have a 2008.0 -- maybe I need to sync)? Will it unmaks useful packages or

Re: [gentoo-user] Network access to MySQL

2008-04-29 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 29 April 2008, kashani wrote: Peter Humphrey wrote: Having just installed mysql on my server, I've found that I have to set bind-address = 0.0.0.0 in /etc/mysql/my.cnf to enable me to connect to mysqld over the local network: leaving it at the default 127.0.0.1 causes

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 29 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, what will I gain if I change the profile from /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop to /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2007.0 (I don't even have a

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Ian Graeme Hilt wrote: Download the 2008 minimal install cd and install. Frankly, updating a 2006 install to 2008 is counter-productive. You'll have a much easier time doing a fresh 2008 install. Why? If he kept his box up-to-date, there are just going to be some slight changes in the

Re: [gentoo-user] lyx texlive

2008-04-29 Thread b.n.
Willie Wong ha scritto: 1) Yes, switched to TexLive (on at least one box) 2) No, no problems that I can remember. Just need to follow the guide http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/tex/texlive-migration-guide.xml and make sure to select the modules you need with USE flags. Whoa. I didn't know

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Anno v. Heimburg
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: I don't want to comment about the change. However, you could have found out easily all the available profiles by doing eselect profile list: That's a cool eselect module, didn't know about that. I don't change profiles all that often (duh), and end up having to search for

[gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread reader
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to jump an 2006 install up to 2008. I've never made that big an update without a fresh install. There's no such thing as a 2006 install. What does exist, is the collection of packages that were on the LiveCDs released in 2006. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Sandro Hannemann
Well I am not sure, but maybe there is a way of adding more space on your appliance, if neccessary. The idea that strikes me, is you could use your current appliance as the Gentoo-life-system and you install a new machine in that free area, chroot to it and work further. Really the classical fresh

[gentoo-user] Lilo error when booting to windows

2008-04-29 Thread Danis Petkakis
hello there...i have a little trouble booting to windows from lilo...windows is on sdb1 and gentoo on sdc2...when i try to boot to windows i get an error ntldr is missing...my lilo.conf is as follows boot=/dev/sdb prompt timeout=50 default=Gentoo # Gentoo-2.6.24-r4

[gentoo-user] 2008.0 profile

2008-04-29 Thread Daniel Mendler
Hi, I switched to the 2008.0 profile with eselect profile set. Now every ebuild is masked. Is the 2008.0 profile not yet usable or are some special adjustments necessary? Daniel Mendler -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 profile

2008-04-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 01:26:31 +0200, Daniel Mendler wrote: I switched to the 2008.0 profile with eselect profile set. Now every ebuild is masked. Which 2008.0 profile? eselect shows four for amd64, probably the same number for other arches, which one are you using? -- Neil Bothwick Why is

Re: [gentoo-user] 2008.0 profile

2008-04-29 Thread ian . hilt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 07:26:31 pm Daniel Mendler wrote: Hi, I switched to the 2008.0 profile with eselect profile set. Now every ebuild is masked. Is the 2008.0 profile not yet usable or are some special adjustments necessary? Not sure in your case, although if you provide some more

[gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) Now I have neither of these on my system, so what is the matter -- is portage insane? I think I have

Re: [gentoo-user] different strange kernel name - 2.6.24-gentoo-r4-g506ab20b-dirty

2008-04-29 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Thank Willie! On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Willie Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 11:05:07AM +0800, Penguin Lover Chuanwen Wu squawked: 1, Why I got a new kernel image(2.6.24-gentoo-r4-gb921d0de-dirty) instead of using the old one

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:27:57 pm John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) Looks like you're running unstable. In

Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-04-29 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon: Some small corrections: What is the smoothest way to do it? change profile emerge --sync emerge -avuND world First sync, then change profile. Remember, the profiles are in the tree. How might I manage to change the current profile