Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?
on 03/13/2009 07:52 AM Thanasis wrote the following: on 03/12/2009 11:54 PM Justin wrote the following: can you provide us our kernel config? Attached it. (Acer Aspire ONE A110L Atom 1.6GHz/512 MB/8.9/8GB) In the header it says version: 2.6.28-gentoo-r2 but it's actually -r3
Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a Netbook satisfactorily on Gentoo?
Grant schrieb: I've installed and updated Gentoo on my girlfriend's Acer Aspire One netbook and it's just so slow. The only things I can think of to speed it up would be to upgrade the RAM from 1GB (not sure if that's possible) and/or swap out the SSD for a HD. Anyone running a netbook not excruciatingly slow? - Grant Use prelink and avoid using a cron daemon. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use Kbackup and then k3b to burn them. Works well so far. Just On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: DAR - http://dar.linux.free.fr/. There is also a gui, kdar. Are there GUIs not depending on KDE? -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
[gentoo-user] Eclipse and EclipseME on gentoo?
Hi, I have installed Eclipse from the ebuild. Now I tried to install the plugin to do Mobile Development available from eclipseme.org. However it does not show up in the Eclipse Properties where some things need to be configured. Anybody got this to work? Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: elw...@agouros.de Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185 Captain, this ship will not survive the forming of the cosmos. B'Elana Torres
Re: [gentoo-user] backup program recommendations?
On Friday 13 Mar 2009, Liviu Andronic wrote: On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:33 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: I use Kbackup and then k3b to burn them. Works well so far. Just On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: DAR - http://dar.linux.free.fr/. There is also a gui, kdar. Are there GUIs not depending on KDE? Yes, there is darGUI. Checkout freshmeat.net. -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Find ebuilds that use a flag
Hello, I need to be able to find which packages use a particular flag. gpac to be specific: Enable GPAC support when exporting to 3GPP format. Any simple/global tools to find and list each and every package available on Gentoo that has this flag as a option? There is also an ebuild named gpac Kino is one package the has this gpac flag. How so I know it is the only one that requires this gpac flag? James
Re: [gentoo-user] Find ebuilds that use a flag
James schrieb: Hello, I need to be able to find which packages use a particular flag. gpac to be specific: Enable GPAC support when exporting to 3GPP format. Any simple/global tools to find and list each and every package available on Gentoo that has this flag as a option? There is also an ebuild named gpac Kino is one package the has this gpac flag. How so I know it is the only one that requires this gpac flag? James You can use equery hasuse gpac == shows all install packages which have or qgrep -v IUSE|grep gpac == extensive but should bring you all packages which have it in USE signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing an internet connection
Grant ha scritto: I travel with a strong external antenna for picking up faint wireless signals. It works great, May I ask which antenna? It's a long time I'm looking for something like that but I keep being told that external antennas are often useless (I'm thinking of the over-the-counter usb stuff) m. Here it is: http://www.hawkingtech.com/products/productlist.php?CatID=32FamID=58ProdID=152 Pair this with a USB network adapter and a 15 meter USB extender cable and you're set. It's a great antenna. Thanks! m.
Re: [gentoo-user] Find ebuilds that use a flag
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:36:54 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Any simple/global tools to find and list each and every package available on Gentoo that has this flag as a option? Since it's a local use flag, I suppose 'euse -i gpac' should do the trick. euse is a part of app-portage/gentoolkit package. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse and EclipseME on gentoo?
Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I have installed Eclipse from the ebuild. Now I tried to install the plugin to do Mobile Development available from eclipseme.org. However it does not show up in the Eclipse Properties where some things need to be configured. Anybody got this to work? I have not tried it, but you will probably have better luck getting information on the Gentoo-Java list. IIRC, Eclipse is a bit of a nightmare in terms of packaging because it has so many components that are rather tightly coupled version-wise. Aaron
Re: [gentoo-user] Eclipse and EclipseME on gentoo?
2009/3/13 Aaron Clark ophid...@ophidian.homeip.net Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I have installed Eclipse from the ebuild. Now I tried to install the plugin to do Mobile Development available from eclipseme.org. However it does not show up in the Eclipse Properties where some things need to be configured. Anybody got this to work? I have not tried it, but you will probably have better luck getting information on the Gentoo-Java list. IIRC, Eclipse is a bit of a nightmare in terms of packaging because it has so many components that are rather tightly coupled version-wise. Aaron I get the latest version of eclipse from the web and install it without problem. is the only porgram wich i don't install from the ebuild.
[gentoo-user] Re: Find ebuilds that use a flag
Justin justin at j-schmitz.net writes: Any simple/global tools to find and list each and every package available on Gentoo that has this flag as a option? equery hasuse gpac == shows all install packages which have or qgrep -v IUSE|grep gpac == extensive but should bring you all packages which have it in USE This only searches my installed base of software: [ Searching for USE flag gpac in all categories among: ] * installed packages [I--] [ ] media-video/kino-1.3.1 (0) How do I search for ebuilds (packages) that have this flag as an option, for all of the software I do not have installed? James
[gentoo-user] Re: Find ebuilds that use a flag
Mike Kazantsev mike_kazantsev at fraggod.net writes: Since it's a local use flag, I suppose 'euse -i gpac' should do the trick. euse is a part of app-portage/gentoolkit package. euse -i gpac global use flags (searching: gpac) no matching entries found local use flags (searching: gpac) [-] gpac (media-video/kino): Enable GPAC support when exporting to 3GPP format OK, how do I know this is an exhaustive search of both packages installed and other packages I do not have install on the system it is ran on? James
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Find ebuilds that use a flag
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:17:46 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: OK, how do I know this is an exhaustive search of both packages installed and other packages I do not have install on the system it is ran on? Simple: you have to trust in euse :) Also, I've noticed that there's q-analog of euse in app-portage/portage-utils package: quse 'quse -e gpac' should give you pretty much what you need and should work for both global and local use flags. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Find ebuilds that use a flag
Mike Kazantsev schrieb: On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:17:46 + (UTC) James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: OK, how do I know this is an exhaustive search of both packages installed and other packages I do not have install on the system it is ran on? Simple: you have to trust in euse :) Also, I've noticed that there's q-analog of euse in app-portage/portage-utils package: quse 'quse -e gpac' should give you pretty much what you need and should work for both global and local use flags. euse is often not correct in its output!!! signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:51:05 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want to do this. I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho. No worries. If I break it, I get to keep the pieces... Michael's been around a while, his name is familiar. He did say he wants -rN updates so I take that to mean he wants bug fixes and security updates but everything else to stay that same and especially no potential ABI/API changes One potential problem is ebuilds disappearing from the portage tree as packages are updated, so it would be worth copying everything he uses (or the whole tree) into an overlay. Thanks to you both for all the suggestions and caveats... I'll report back when I've done the script to populate package.mask with atoms *pre-*pended by '~'. As one of you mentioned, it's not an unreasonable thing to want to freeze a system, but OTOH Gentoo does like regular updating. If something drops from the tree, that's okay... My goal is, for packages I've unmasked for the architecture, that they don't keep being updated to the latest available, but eventually come into concordance with 'stable'. Cheers, -- |\ /|| | ~ ~ | \/ ||---| `|` ? ||ichael | |iggins\^ / michael.higgins[at]evolone[dot]org
Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system
Michael Higgins wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:51:05 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:13:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Could he just not sync and call it a day? I suspect this is going to bite him one day tho. We know Gentoo likes to be updated fairly regular. I been around Gentoo for years and I don't think I would want to do this. I'm not sure how much experience the OP has tho. No worries. If I break it, I get to keep the pieces... Michael's been around a while, his name is familiar. He did say he wants -rN updates so I take that to mean he wants bug fixes and security updates but everything else to stay that same and especially no potential ABI/API changes One potential problem is ebuilds disappearing from the portage tree as packages are updated, so it would be worth copying everything he uses (or the whole tree) into an overlay. Thanks to you both for all the suggestions and caveats... I'll report back when I've done the script to populate package.mask with atoms *pre-*pended by '~'. As one of you mentioned, it's not an unreasonable thing to want to freeze a system, but OTOH Gentoo does like regular updating. If something drops from the tree, that's okay... My goal is, for packages I've unmasked for the architecture, that they don't keep being updated to the latest available, but eventually come into concordance with 'stable'. Cheers, Something like this was actually discussed a while back for people with servers that have to be seriously stable. I don't think anything ever came out of it but you may want to check around and see if it did and we missed it. I would think Alan would know if it did tho since I think he maintains a few servers. Few may be understating it a bit. ;-) I think this could be a good idea for some myself. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Find ebuilds that use a flag
James wrote: Hello, I need to be able to find which packages use a particular flag. gpac to be specific: Enable GPAC support when exporting to 3GPP format. Any simple/global tools to find and list each and every package available on Gentoo that has this flag as a option? There is also an ebuild named gpac Kino is one package the has this gpac flag. How so I know it is the only one that requires this gpac flag? James Using eix (emerge eix; update-eix): eix -e -U gpac Using equery: equery hasuse -p -o gpac -p meaning search portage tree -o meaning search any overlays you might have Listening to your hard drive grind away should convince you it's doing what you want. It should also convince you to use eix. Either way you do it, media-video/keno is the only one Nick
[gentoo-user] WAN-laptop1-router-laptop2 : no laptop1-router communication
My laptop is connected to a distant wireless signal with a strong antenna and I'd like to create a local wireless LAN using the distant wireless signal as the WAN. The layout would look something like this: WAN-(wireless)-laptop1-(ethernet)-router-(wireless)-laptop2 My travel router is wireless, has a LAN port, and can operate in Router, Client, or AP mode. I think AP mode is what I want. laptop2 can ping the router, but it can't ping laptop1. laptop1 can't ping the router. I don't know what my communication problem is between the router and laptop1. Here is my eth0 config for laptop1: config_eth0=( 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ) The travel router is in AP mode and configured like this: IP: 192.168.0.30 Subnet Mask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 I have dnsmasq and shorewall on laptop1 for DNS and NAT, but I can't use those until I get laptop1 talking to the router. Does anyone see what I'm doing wrong? - Grant
[gentoo-user] can't make rt2570 module
Hi group,
I found a bug report for this but that involved a problem with the kernel
config. In this case, portage doesn't seem to have a problem with that.
This is for a NovaTech usb-wifi gizmo. ID: 0eb0:9020
#emerge -v rt2570
...
* Found sources for kernel version:
* 2.6.23-gentoo-r6
* Checking for suitable kernel configuration options...
[ ok ]
...
* Preparing rt2570 module
make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r6'
CC [M]
/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module/rtusb_main.o
CC [M]
/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module/mlme.o
/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module/rtusb_main.c:
In function 'usb_rtusb_probe':
/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module/rtusb_main.c:1907:
error: 'dev_base' undeclared (first use in this function)
/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module/rtusb_main.c:1907:
error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module/rtusb_main.c:1907:
error: for each function it appears in.)
/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module/rtusb_main.c:1907:
error: 'struct net_device' has no member named 'next'
make[1]: ***
[/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module/rtusb_main.o]
Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs
make: ***
[_module_/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module]
Error 2
make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-gentoo-r6'
*
* ERROR: net-wireless/rt2570-20070209 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3167: Called linux-mod_src_compile
* environment, line 2429: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* eval emake HOSTCC=\$(tc-getBUILD_CC)\
CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}-
LDFLAGS=\$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)\ ${BUILD_FIXES}
${BUILD_PARAMS}
${BUILD_TARGETS} || die Unable to emake HOSTCC=$(tc-getBUILD_CC)
CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS=$(get_abi_LDFLAGS) ${BUILD_FIXES}
${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS};
* The die message:
* Unable to emake HOSTCC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= -C /usr/src/linux
M=/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module
modules
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
* A complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/net-wireless:rt2570-20070209:20090311-154403.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/temp/environment'.
*
* Messages for package net-wireless/rt2570-20070209:
*
* ERROR: net-wireless/rt2570-20070209 failed.
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 49: Called src_compile
* environment, line 3167: Called linux-mod_src_compile
* environment, line 2429: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* eval emake HOSTCC=\$(tc-getBUILD_CC)\
CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}-
LDFLAGS=\$(get_abi_LDFLAGS)\ ${BUILD_FIXES}
${BUILD_PARAMS}
${BUILD_TARGETS} || die Unable to emake HOSTCC=$(tc-getBUILD_CC)
CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- LDFLAGS=$(get_abi_LDFLAGS) ${BUILD_FIXES}
${BUILD_PARAMS} ${BUILD_TARGETS};
* The die message:
* Unable to emake HOSTCC=i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
CROSS_COMPILE=i686-pc-linux-gnu- LDFLAGS= -C /usr/src/linux
M=/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module
modules
*
* If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call stack if
relevant.
* A complete build log is located at
'/var/log/portage/net-wireless:rt2570-20070209:20090311-154403.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at
'/var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/temp/environment'.
*
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[gentoo-user] rhythmbox is looking for an older shared object
revdep-rebuild is flagging rhythmbox as requiring libtotem-plparser.so.10 . After the last upgrade all I have installed in /usr/lib64/ is libtotem-plparser.so.12 . Should I just make a link or do I need to install an older version? or should I wait for a rhythmbax update? Other similar files installed are: # ls -FC1 /usr/lib64/libtotem-plparser* /usr/lib64/libtotem-plparser.la /usr/lib64/libtotem-plparser-mini.la /usr/lib64/libtotem-plparser-mini.so@ /usr/lib64/libtotem-plparser-mini.so.12@ /usr/lib64/libtotem-plparser-mini.so.12.0.5* /usr/lib64/libtotem-plparser.so@ /usr/lib64/libtotem-plparser.so.12@ /usr/lib64/libtotem-plparser.so.12.0.5* Thanks, Dave
Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 13:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, yet allow package-rN updates... I don't think there's a real good way to accomplish this, but the approach I would take is to setup a local portage tree that the system syncs from. You could then cherry pick the ebuild updates that go into that local, and now customized, portage tree. -Sean
Re: [gentoo-user] can't make rt2570 module
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:32:08 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: /var/tmp/portage/net-wireless/rt2570-20070209/work/rt2570-20070209/Module/rtusb_main.c:1907: error: 'dev_base' undeclared (first use in this function) There's no such thing in recent kernels anymore. In fact, rt2570 module in portage tree is outdated, so you can either downgrade the kernel to use it or (much better approach) just update ebuild to fetch newer sources from the project page. http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/wiki/index.php/Downloads -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to freeze my Gentoo system
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Sean s...@ttys0.net wrote: On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 13:40 -0700, Michael Higgins wrote: Don't know the proper term, but I want to stop version updates for a while, yet allow package-rN updates... I don't think there's a real good way to accomplish this, but the approach I would take is to setup a local portage tree that the system syncs from. You could then cherry pick the ebuild updates that go into that local, and now customized, portage tree. -Sean I'm not sure if this is any use to you, but what I tend to do with my workstation and laptop which I use daily for work is, I have the following bash aliases in place ( because I'm lazy ). I tend not to run a a full deep update via emerge during the work week but do look out for reported security vulnerabilities via the glsa-check application. I can then update only the affected package or packages as needed and the system remains otherwise in-tact and stable. alias secchk='glsa-check -p affected' alias secup='glsa-check -f affected' -- Beau Dylan Henderson No human being should be denied the fundamental right to educate themselves or indulge their curiosities. To deny any person the right to do so, for whatever reason, is nothing more than the safeguarding of ignorance to ensure that enlightenment does not become a threat. For nothing in this world is more dangerous than an open mind. -- Matthew Good
