Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Xav'
Le Thursday 28 August 2008 08:40:39 Suman Chakrabarty, vous avez écrit : After successful installation of Gentoo 2008 on an old Compaq Pressario notebook, I was trying to emerge kde-meta on it, but was not successful. :( My USE flags: USE=nptl nptlonly -ipv6 -fortran unicode svg hal dbus X

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Suman Chakrabarty
Xav' wrote: If you did install kdelibs, then the Qt version that is picked up by this configure is not the same version you used to compile kdelibs. The Qt Plugin installed by kdelibs is *ONLY* loadable if it is the _same Qt version_, compiled with the _same compiler_ and the same Qt

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Xav'
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:16:57 +0530, Suman Chakrabarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xav' wrote: If you did install kdelibs, then the Qt version that is picked up by this configure is not the same version you used to compile kdelibs. The Qt Plugin installed by kdelibs is *ONLY* loadable if it is

[gentoo-user] Hijacking threads

2008-08-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Aug 2008, at 07:40, Suman Chakrabarty wrote: References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] After successful installation of Gentoo 2008 on an old Compaq Pressario notebook, I was trying to emerge kde-meta on it, but was not successful. :( Please don't

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 09:46:57 schrieb ext Suman Chakrabarty: Here are some output that might be useful. Is this the right way to reemerge kdelibs? Following command did not do anything.  ~ # emerge -D --newuse kdelibs emerge -1 kdelibs HTH... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dale
Suman Chakrabarty wrote: Thanks for your quick response. Adding --update did not help. Here are some output that might be useful. Is this the right way to reemerge kdelibs? Following command did not do anything. ~ # emerge -D --newuse kdelibs Calculating dependencies... done!

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-28 Thread Stroller
On 27 Aug 2008, at 05:28, Dave Oxley wrote: ... I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. ... Hi there, Is the problem

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/8/28, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also, what this heck is this about? MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from mirror.ovh.net claiming to be That shouldn't be in your make.conf file. Just take a look in the signature of thie message. :-) This message has been scanned for

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dale
Daniel Pielmeier wrote: 2008/8/28, Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also, what this heck is this about? MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from mirror.ovh.net claiming to be That shouldn't be in your make.conf file. Just take a look in the signature of thie message. :-) This

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-28 Thread Stroller
On 27 Aug 2008, at 20:00, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: ... I have two 500GB SATA drives, a 320GB IDE and a 250GB IDE. ... I would like to set these up so that the maximum amount of disk space is usable, but still be able to recover from any one drive failing. I would also like to be able to add

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:11:48 +0100, Stroller wrote: Hard-drives from the scrap pile can be immensely useful, but if you want ease of setup, reliability, redundancy and peace-of-mind then scratch cheap off your list of requirements. As the saying goes Cheap, reliable, fast - pick any two.

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-28 Thread Stroller
On 28 Aug 2008, at 10:24, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:11:48 +0100, Stroller wrote: Hard-drives from the scrap pile can be immensely useful, but if you want ease of setup, reliability, redundancy and peace-of-mind then scratch cheap off your list of requirements. As the

Re: [gentoo-user] RAID with mixed drive sizes

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:53:16 +0100, Stroller wrote: I did open my message with the words cheap, fast purty Sorry, I missed that. - it all depends what you're buying. ;) I think we'll end this conversation right here :) -- Neil Bothwick Is it possible to be totally partial?

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Suman Chakrabarty
Thanks everybody for your helpful replies. :) Try this, emerge -1v kdelibs and then try to install the rest. What it is saying is that you have upgraded qt since kdelibs was last compiled and it needs to link everything to the new qt. After you reemerge kdelibs, it should work fine. It

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/8/28, Suman Chakrabarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Now my question is: why? man emerge says that the -1 option is equivalent to --oneshot which is Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world file for later updating. But how does it help emerge something which was not emerging

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 14:19:46 schrieb ext Suman Chakrabarty: Now my question is: why? man emerge says that the -1 option is equivalent to --oneshot which is Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world file for later updating. But how does it help emerge something which

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dale
Suman Chakrabarty wrote: Thanks everybody for your helpful replies. :) Try this, emerge -1v kdelibs and then try to install the rest. What it is saying is that you have upgraded qt since kdelibs was last compiled and it needs to link everything to the new qt. After you reemerge kdelibs,

[gentoo-user] How to publish a project?

2008-08-28 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Hi, I am not sure if here is a right place to ask such question, but I just think maybe someone here have such experience and may help me. I have written a project, which is a distribution net file system, and I want to publish it under GPL. I have source code now of course, but I don't know how

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Suman Chakrabarty
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 14:19:46 schrieb ext Suman Chakrabarty: Now my question is: why? man emerge says that the -1 option is equivalent to --oneshot which is Emerge as normal, but do not add the packages to the world file for later updating. But how does it

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Xav'
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:11:34 +0530, Suman Chakrabarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 14:19:46 schrieb ext Suman Chakrabarty: Now my question is: why? man emerge says that the -1 option is equivalent to --oneshot which is Emerge as normal,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2008/8/28, Suman Chakrabarty [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks, but I don't think my confusion was addressed fully. Let me explain. The following command did not work as reported (and suggested) before: ~ # emerge -D --newuse kdelibs Calculating dependencies... done! Auto-cleaning packages...

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:41:34 schrieb ext Suman Chakrabarty: Thanks, but I don't think my confusion was addressed fully. Let me explain. The following command did not work as reported (and suggested) before:   ~ # emerge -D --newuse kdelibs Calculating dependencies... done!

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:36:54 schrieb ext Xav: This has not worked not because of the -1, but because you remove --newuse No, it was because he removed -D (deep update), to force a (re-)installation. Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Suman Chakrabarty schrieb: Thanks, but I don't think my confusion was addressed fully. Let me explain. The following command did not work as reported (and suggested) before: ~ # emerge -D --newuse kdelibs Calculating dependencies... done! Auto-cleaning packages... No outdated packages

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:41:24 schrieb ext Sebastian Beßler: It is not the -1 that is added but the --newuse that is left. Once more: it's _not_ because of --newuse, but because of -D! Bye... Dirk -- Dirk Heinrichs | Tel: +49 (0)162 234 3408 Configuration Manager

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Xav'
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:38:47 +0200, Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:36:54 schrieb ext Xav: This has not worked not because of the -1, but because you remove --newuse No, it was because he removed -D (deep update), to force a (re-)installation.

Re: [gentoo-user] Hijacking threads

2008-08-28 Thread Suman Chakrabarty
Stroller wrote: On 28 Aug 2008, at 07:40, Suman Chakrabarty wrote: References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] After successful installation of Gentoo 2008 on an old Compaq Pressario notebook, I was trying to emerge kde-meta on it, but was not successful. :(

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:50:47 schrieb ext Xav: No... The -D doesn't stand for deep update, but for deep, so with deep, portage will also check dependencies of the package. Try to do emerge -D kdelibs and you will see that portage reemerge kdelibs. To have a deep update, the right

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:45:01 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:41:24 schrieb ext Sebastian Beßler: It is not the -1 that is added but the --newuse that is left. Once more: it's _not_ because of --newuse, but because of -D! Seems that was nonsense,

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 07:32:01 -0500, Dale wrote: Let me give this a shot. You don't really want every package you have installed to be recorded in the world file. It can make you do updates that you may not really need. That's not the main reason for keeping world clean, since emerge

[gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Hi, I have tried to setup a software Raid1 for root (/), boot, home and var. So far, so good. Support is in kernel. The four ones are assembled: Personalities : [raid1] md3 : active raid1 sda6[0] sdb6[1] 421906944 blocks [2/2] [UU] md2 : active raid1 sda5[0] sdb5[1] 19534912 blocks

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Xav'
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:41:42 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have tried to setup a software Raid1 for root (/), boot, home and var. So far, so good. Support is in kernel. The four ones are assembled: Personalities : [raid1] md3 : active raid1 sda6[0] sdb6[1]

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:11:34 +0530, Suman Chakrabarty wrote: But, emerge -1v kdelibs worked as suggested. I don't understand why it works with -1 option added, but not without. It has nothing to do with the addition of -1, which only affects the world file, but the removal of --newuse. Had you

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:54:03 +0200, Xav' wrote: You have to know that the kernel isn't able to assemble RAID devices together without the use of mdadm. So you have to use an initrd with the mdadm binary to use a RAID root ! Could you please keep quiet about that, my computers have been using

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Xav'
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:59:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:54:03 +0200, Xav' wrote: You have to know that the kernel isn't able to assemble RAID devices together without the use of mdadm. So you have to use an initrd with the mdadm binary to use a

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread ert256
[ 28.08.2008 16:41 ], Volker Armin Hemmann : Hi, I have tried to setup a software Raid1 for root (/), boot, home and var. So far, so good. Support is in kernel. The four ones are assembled: Personalities : [raid1] md3 : active raid1 sda6[0] sdb6[1] 421906944 blocks [2/2] [UU]

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:54:03 +0200, Xav' wrote: You have to know that the kernel isn't able to assemble RAID devices together without the use of mdadm. So you have to use an initrd with the mdadm binary to use a RAID root ! Could you

[gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread BRM
I have been trying to hold out for KDE 4.1 entering the main gentoo portage tree, and some kind of announcement on the list; however, I haven't seen any and it's been a while since KDE 4.1 was released...(longer I think than it took for KDE 4.0.1 to get into the main portage tree.) I am not

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
=== On Thursday 28 August 2008, BRM wrote: === I have been trying to hold out for KDE 4.1 entering the main gentoo portage tree, and some kind of announcement on the list; however, I haven't seen any and it's been a while since KDE 4.1 was released...(longer I think than it took for

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, ert256 wrote: [ 28.08.2008 16:41 ], Volker Armin Hemmann : Hi, I have tried to setup a software Raid1 for root (/), boot, home and var. So far, so good. Support is in kernel. The four ones are assembled: Personalities : [raid1] md3 : active raid1

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 17:30:44 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: thanks, the last thing I want to deal with is an initrd. It's initramfs nowadays and that's quite easy to handle. Bye... Dirk

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread James
Andrew Gaydenko a at gaydenko.com writes: I have been trying to hold out for KDE 4.1 entering the main gentoo portage tree, and some kind of announcement on the list; YES many of us await a tree release of KDE 4. Are there indeed good things (I don't mean ruches and flowers) in KDE4 to

[gentoo-user] Re: How to publish a project?

2008-08-28 Thread James
Chuanwen Wu wcw8410 at gmail.com writes: I have written a project, which is a distribution net file system, and I want to publish it under GPL. I have source code now of course, but I don't know how to make package and publish it as a project . Well you can just make the code available via

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
080828 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: 080828 BRM wrote: I have been trying to hold out for KDE 4.1 entering the Gentoo tree and some kind of announcement on the list; is there any known timeline for when KDE 4.1 might go to the testing branch? I too am waiting to see KDE 4.1 appear in the testing

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 17:30:44 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: thanks, the last thing I want to deal with is an initrd. It's initramfs nowadays and that's quite easy to handle. do you have a nice little howto? Not some general one

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge kde-meta troubles

2008-08-28 Thread Dale
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:45:01 schrieb ext Dirk Heinrichs: Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 15:41:24 schrieb ext Sebastian Beßler: It is not the -1 that is added but the --newuse that is left. Once more: it's _not_ because of --newuse, but because

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Luigi Pinna
You don't need all of that... With mdadm can you put your RAID array as persistent. If it is persistent your kernel can use the autodetect function and build it before mount / I have in my raidtab # cat /etc/raidtab raiddev /dev/md0 raid-level1 chunk-size4k persistent-superblock 1

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:41:04 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: From the stuff I read it should work - but I always get a root not found panic Root device or root fs? -- Neil Bothwick Q: What's the proper plural of a 'Net-connected Windows machine? A: A Botnet signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:56:37 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Ben, sorry, my question is OT wrt your message. Are there indeed good things (I don't mean ruches and flowers) in KDE4 to worry about them at all? Reading all those KDE4 reviews I really can not understand why KDE4 may be more useful

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Donnerstag, 28. August 2008 17:30:44 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann: thanks, the last thing I want to deal with is an initrd. It's initramfs nowadays and that's quite easy

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Roy Wright
Philip Webb wrote: 080828 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: 080828 BRM wrote: Reading all those KDE4 reviews I really can not understand why KDE4 may be more useful for me rather KDE3. My estimate (also based on reading screenshots) is that it is 60 % eye candy, 30 % hype 10 % useful

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 August 2008 19:29:28 Philip Webb wrote: Reading all those KDE4 reviews I really can not understand why KDE4 may be more useful for me rather KDE3. My estimate (also based on reading screenshots) is that it is  60 %  eye candy,  30 %  hype  10 %  useful improvements: the

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:41:04 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: From the stuff I read it should work - but I always get a root not found panic Root device or root fs? it doesn't find /dev/md1 (unknown block device) and panics. And yes, I

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Xav'
Le Thursday 28 August 2008 20:45:15 Volker Armin Hemmann, vous avez écrit : On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:41:04 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: From the stuff I read it should work - but I always get a root not found panic Root device

[gentoo-user] postgresql replication with slony1

2008-08-28 Thread Zhu Sha Zang
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need know if somebody here has installed/configured a postgresql replication where gentoo is a master host. I'm trying to make it using slony1, but have some mismatch configuration, look: / USER=postgres CLUSTER=slave.host DBUSER=snort

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:56:37 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Ben, sorry, my question is OT wrt your message. Are there indeed good things (I don't mean ruches and flowers) in KDE4 to worry about them at all? Reading all those KDE4 reviews

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Xav' wrote: Le Thursday 28 August 2008 20:45:15 Volker Armin Hemmann, vous avez écrit : On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:41:04 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: From the stuff I read it should work - but I

Re: [gentoo-user] root on raid 1 = no boot

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:52:33 +0200, Xav' wrote: it doesn't find /dev/md1 (unknown block device) and panics. And yes, I created md0,1,2,3 with mknod in /dev Did you create the nodes with de /dev partition unmounted ? I think you have to check this... because when the kernel boot up, the

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 28 August 2008 21:03:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:56:37 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Ben, sorry, my question is OT wrt your message. Are there indeed good things (I don't mean ruches and flowers)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to publish a project?

2008-08-28 Thread b.n.
James ha scritto: Chuanwen Wu wcw8410 at gmail.com writes: I have written a project, which is a distribution net file system, and I want to publish it under GPL. I have source code now of course, but I don't know how to make package and publish it as a project . Well you can just make the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to publish a project?

2008-08-28 Thread Andrey Falko
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am not sure if here is a right place to ask such question, but I just think maybe someone here have such experience and may help me. I have written a project, which is a distribution net file system, and I want to

[gentoo-user] idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread James
Well, I know I'm asking for a few flames here, but, this idea just popped into my head and I cannot get rid of it. When you sync and update a system that has not been updated for a while, you get many packages to upgrade. OK usually not a problem. However, myself (and many other folks) are

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2008 21:03:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 28 August 2008 17:56:37 Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Ben, sorry, my question is OT wrt your message. Are

Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each package. Then a lazy admin could go through them,

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: It's far from fixed here. Admittedly better than 173.*, but the vast majority of work remains to be done: What ever happened to all of those folks that said Nvidia is the superior video vendor? I took quite a beating (on this list) for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Donnerstag, 28. August 2008, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: It's far from fixed here. Admittedly better than 173.*, but the vast majority of work remains to be done: What ever happened to all of those folks that said Nvidia is the superior video vendor?

Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread Joshua D Doll
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each package. Then a lazy admin

Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread Dale
Joshua D Doll wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each package.

Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread Matt Harrison
Joshua D Doll wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those instructions for each package.

Re: [gentoo-user] idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread Dale
Matt Harrison wrote: Joshua D Doll wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:22:00 + (UTC), James wrote: Why, could the dev add an option that parses out all of those pesky admin things into either a singular log file? Or better yet, a gui popup that lists just those

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.1

2008-08-28 Thread Philip Webb
080828 Roy Wright wrote: if I understand correctly, then main reason for Qt 4 is that KDE apps sb able to run on other OSes, eg Windoze. Yes, that's good ! -- the way to get M$ofties to use free software is to offer them our desktops apps, st the Windows OS gets orphaned. I tried Dolphin on

[gentoo-user] Re: idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread James
Dale dalek1967 at bellsouth.net writes: Do you mean like the elog system that can write this information to a separate log file, email it to you, pass it to a command or any combination of these? There are also elog viewers in portage, OK elog look good. Is this the best wiki to use to

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE 4.1...

2008-08-28 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes: I want to apologise if I ever bashed you. Nope and it does not matter, I never remember those things anyway. AMD (and now ATI) rules. methinks their binary drivers are so-so. But their open source driver initiative

[gentoo-user] Linux vs Alteon

2008-08-28 Thread Adam Carter
My gentoo laptop is receiving an appropriate arp-reply from an alteon 2208 (according to tcpdump), but doesnt put it in its arp table. A windows box on the same port works fine. Has anyone come across this? Can i debug arp on linux?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: idea on updates

2008-08-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:46:36 + (UTC), James wrote: OK elog look good. Is this the best wiki to use to initailly set it up? http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Making_portage_use_/usr/sbin/sendmail_to_send_out_ELOG_mails Hardly the TIP is now obsolete! See /etc/make.conf.example for further

Re: [gentoo-user] fdisk - expanding a partition beyond 2TB

2008-08-28 Thread Dave Oxley
Stroller wrote: On 27 Aug 2008, at 05:28, Dave Oxley wrote: ... I've just added a fourth disk to my Raid 5 set increasing the capacity from 1.5TB to 2.25TB. I have 4 partitions on this volume set; the fourth of which is 1.49TB which is then further subdivided using lvm2. ... Hi there,