Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-26 Thread Momesso Andrea
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 04:14:38PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 12:14:14PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400, James Skinner wrote: Top-posting is totally fine when emailing from

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Thanasis
on 03/26/2009 02:22 AM Jerry McBride wrote the following: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 05:51:30 pm Thanasis wrote: on 03/25/2009 11:04 PM Alan McKinnon wrote the following: On Wednesday 25 March 2009 22:50:46 Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-26 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:38 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: 2. Character encodings are easy: use Unicode. :) http://www.unicode.org/charts/symbols.html Yes they're easy.  My question is about

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: svn: OPTIONS of 'http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk': could not connect to server (http://overlays.gentoo.org) But pointing firefox to http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk lists

[gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question

2009-03-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild contains DEPEND=${RDEPEND} doc? ( app-text/texi2html virtual/texi2dvi ) python? ( dev-lang/swig[python] ) octave? ( dev-lang/swig[octave] ) What does dev-lang/swig[python] mean? Since dev-lang/swig/swig-1.3.39 does not use the

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 March 2009 11:14:38 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild contains DEPEND=${RDEPEND} doc? ( app-text/texi2html virtual/texi2dvi ) python? ( dev-lang/swig[python] ) octave? ( dev-lang/swig[octave] ) What does dev-lang/swig[python]

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild syntax question

2009-03-26 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
2009/3/26 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de: Hi, the  sci-libs/mathgl-1.8-r1.ebuild  contains DEPEND=${RDEPEND}        doc? ( app-text/texi2html virtual/texi2dvi )        python? ( dev-lang/swig[python] )        octave? ( dev-lang/swig[octave] ) What does dev-lang/swig[python]

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 02:32:49 +0100, Tom wrote: So, any ideas how to do something like this? Maybe something ready made, or a convenient script. Smart Boot Manager - http://sourceforge.net/projects/btmgr/ -- Neil Bothwick Planet 98% full! Delete Windows users? (Y/y) signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Tom
Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers. Bios doesn't support it :( Tom

[gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have the same problem. It makes no difference whether I use Firefox or

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 02:32 +0100, Tom wrote: Hi I had a very un-nice evening, trying to get my system back into a usable state, which I eventually managed, but that is another story. It made me realise I need a way to be able to use my cdrom drive to boot cds. Let me explain before you

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Tom
Why wast your time with floppies? Boot from a USB stick that has plenty of storage on it for kernels and drivers. Bios doesn't support it :( So was this machine manufactured 10 years ago or are you *that* good in choosing crappy hardware? I regular y excel in choosing

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Philip Webb
090326 Robin Atwood wrote: Recently http://freshmeat.net/ updated its look and now the fonts are very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. http://www.linuxjournal.com/ seems to have the same problem. It makes no difference whether I use Firefox or

[gentoo-user] Re: aliases

2009-03-26 Thread Thanasis
on 03/23/2009 05:18 AM Dale wrote the following: I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? Dale You can also use the unalias command, eg: $ alias ls='ls -la' $ unalias ls (then it stays unaliased for

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Robin Atwood schrieb: Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have the same problem. It makes no difference

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Mike Kazantsev a écrit : On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:33:58 +0100 laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: But your real problem is a stupid original disk layout. Why don;t you decide to fix that instead of getting into cute tricks with symlinks? Because I let my server host install it

Re: [gentoo-user] Browsers not seeing symbol font

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Kevin O'Gorman kogor...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: After a bit of Googling, it seems the accepted solution is to use HTML entities for those symbols and not try to use the raw characters

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 26 Mar 2009, Philip Webb wrote: 090326 Robin Atwood wrote: Recently http://freshmeat.net/ updated its look and now the fonts are very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. http://www.linuxjournal.com/ seems to have the same problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some web sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Thursday 26 Mar 2009, Florian Philipp wrote: Robin Atwood schrieb: Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Joshua D Doll
Thanasis wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? Here's my link on the subject: http://torvalds-family.blogspot.com/2009/03/new-logo.html

[gentoo-user] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Robin Atwood wrote: Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/) seems to have the same problem. It makes no difference whether

[gentoo-user] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Put this in /etc/fonts/local.conf: [...] I forgot to mention that is that file is empty or does not exist, create it and put this at the beginning: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd !-- /etc/fonts/local.conf file to configure system

[gentoo-user] compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). Does [xcb=] means without the flag? Tree bug?

[gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Hi list! A quick question: If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask ...), are there issues I should be aware of? Do I have to mask newer glibc-versions, newer kernel headers or some use flags? What about the nptl use flag? Thanks in advance! Florian Philipp

[gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Hi, What should I emerge to have my etc-update colored for differencies ? this is dead: http://no.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_etc-update thanks Laurent

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:47:05 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! A quick question: If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask ...), Wow. That kernel is what 4? 5? years old are there issues I should be aware of? Plenty. First off, udev is unlikely to work

[gentoo-user] Re: compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). Does [xcb=] means without the flag? Tree bug? I don't know why it shows like this with you, but here it told me that that I had to remove the xcb

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:54:34 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Andrew Gaydenko wrote: compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). Does [xcb=] means without the flag? Tree bug? I don't know why it shows like this

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread Justin
laurent wrote: Hi, What should I emerge to have my etc-update colored for differencies ? this is dead: http://no.gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_etc-update thanks Laurent edit /etc/etc-update.conf and exchange line 32 diff -- colordiff. and emerge colordiff. signature.asc Description:

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:53:47 +0100 laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: What should I emerge to have my etc-update colored for differencies ? emerge app-misc/colordiff \ sed -i 's|diff_command=diff -uN %file1 %file2|diff_command=colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf -- Mike Kazantsev //

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:47 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! A quick question: If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask ...), are there issues I should be aware of? Do I have to mask newer glibc-versions, newer kernel headers or some use flags? What

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:07:06 +0500 Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: sed -i 's|diff_command=diff -uN %file1 %file2|diff_command=colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf sed -i 's|diff_command=diff|diff_command=colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf Oops, my bad :) -- Mike Kazantsev //

Re: [gentoo-user] compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 20:31 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). Does [xcb=] means without the flag? Tree bug? From the Gentoo Development guide: There are also shortcuts for

Re: [gentoo-user] compiz and mesa

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 14:18 -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 20:31 +0300, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: compiz wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb] (even 0.8.2), and mesa 7.4_rc1 wants x11-libs/libX11[xcb=] (it's for current ~amd64). Does [xcb=] means without the flag? Tree bug?

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Mike Kazantsev a écrit : On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:07:06 +0500 Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: sed -i 's|diff_command=diff -uN %file1 %file2|diff_command=colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf sed -i 's|diff_command=diff|diff_command=colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf Oops,

Re: [gentoo-user] cleaning disfiles

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:36:41 +0100, laurent wrote: I read about a tool to color the etc-update difference, can't find it again, if you know about it ;) colordiff, it's in portage. -- Neil Bothwick 0 and 1. Now what could be so hard about that? signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:22:37 +0100 laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: sed -i 's|diff_command=diff|diff_command=colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf Oops, my bad :) Sweet :) L Never trust one-liner fix I bet it'd be written all over the ashes of post-apocalyptic world as well ;) --

Re: [gentoo-user] Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 7:34 AM, Robin Atwood robin.atw...@attglobal.net wrote: Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal (http://www.linuxjournal.com/)

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:47:05 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! A quick question: If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask ...), Wow. That kernel is what 4? 5? years old Yep, I was surprised myself. It is a virtual machine

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Albert Hopkins schrieb: On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 18:47 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! A quick question: If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask ...), are there issues I should be aware of? OTOH if pull in a really old revision of the portage tree that

Re: [gentoo-user] color etc-update

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Mike Kazantsev a écrit : On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:22:37 +0100 laurent laur...@logiquefloue.org wrote: sed -i 's|diff_command=diff|diff_command=colordiff|' /etc/etc-update.conf Oops, my bad :) Sweet :) L Never trust one-liner fix I bet it'd be written all over the ashes of

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:41:38 Florian Philipp wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:47:05 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! A quick question: If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask ...), Wow. That kernel is what 4? 5? years

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Robin Atwood wrote: Recently freshmeat (http://freshmeat.net/) updated its look and now I find the fonts very hard to read. It seems like they are not being rendered with anti-aliasing. Linux Journal

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Florian Philipp
Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Thursday 26 March 2009 20:41:38 Florian Philipp wrote: Alan McKinnon schrieb: On Thursday 26 March 2009 19:47:05 Florian Philipp wrote: Hi list! A quick question: If i install Gentoo on a system with a kernel version 2.6.9 (don't ask ...), Wow. That kernel is

[gentoo-user] flash ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread James
Hello, So the mens college basketball games are streamed over the net. On my newly upgraded kde 4.2.1, neither seamonkey nor mozilla-firefox nor konqueror can play these files. the website (ncaa.com) just tells me to download flash-8 to play highlights of previous games. Is this safe? Is

Re: [gentoo-user] flash ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, So the mens college basketball games are streamed over the net. On my newly upgraded kde 4.2.1, neither seamonkey nor mozilla-firefox nor konqueror can play these files. the website (ncaa.com) just tells me to

Re: [gentoo-user] flash ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 2:44 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, So the mens college basketball games are streamed over the net. On my newly upgraded kde 4.2.1, neither seamonkey nor mozilla-firefox nor konqueror can play these files. the website (ncaa.com) just tells me to

Re: [gentoo-user] Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:30:57 Florian Philipp wrote: About a year ago a company I worked for was consulted to maintain a hospital admin system running on SLES of about that era in a VM. We told them to upgrade or find somebody else. They went off on their merry way to find somebody

[gentoo-user] Re: Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 26 March 2009 21:30:57 Florian Philipp wrote: About a year ago a company I worked for was consulted to maintain a hospital admin system running on SLES of about that era in a VM. We told them to upgrade or find somebody else. They went off on their merry way to

[gentoo-user] Re: flash ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread James
Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gentoo at gmail.com writes: Actually, I just went to the site and it says: I do not see where you found that? Try this site: http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/basketball/men/ So it doesn't appear the games are in Flash... unless you /only/ want to see the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Compatibility with Kernel 2.6.9

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:19:13 +0200 Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: You mentioned elsewhere in the thread web server If that's the case, I'd be telling the hosting provider that 2004 called and they want their minutes back. Then I'd be looking for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: flash ncaa.com bball

2009-03-26 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:36 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: I do not see where you found that? I went to ncaa.com and clicked the watch games live link on the main page. I get that on Konqueror, Firefox and Seamonkey. Emerge net-www/netscape-flash version 10.0.22.87 and set the

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-26 Thread Nicolai Beuermann
Willie Wong wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:49:20PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: svn: OPTIONS of 'http://overlays.gentoo.org/svn/proj/vmware/trunk': could not connect to server (http://overlays.gentoo.org) But pointing firefox to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ugly fonts on some seb sites

2009-03-26 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 27 Mar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: [...] Put this in /etc/fonts/local.conf: [...] I forgot to mention that is that file is empty or does not exist, create it and put this at the beginning: ?xml version=1.0? !DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM fonts.dtd

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Mick
On Thursday 26 March 2009, Tom wrote: It seems its a bios bug or something, I even contacted the vendor (ASRock) and they sent me an updated flash image, which I was sofar unable to install, for some strange obscure reason. Mentioning the obvious just in case ... have you run a checksum on

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Jorge Morais
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 22:50:46 +0200 Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: Has anyone seen the boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources? usr/src/linux/drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_vga16.ppm Why did they substitute the penguin with this ugly disguised mouse? If you had upgraded because of a

[gentoo-user] new symbols in portage

2009-03-26 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Since updating portage I notice the following whenever I run emerge: ... Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined ... But what does [?=0] mean which sometimes appears? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] new symbols in portage

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:13:07 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: But what does [?=0] mean which sometimes appears? Just the fact that ebuild, used to build given package, no longer exists. Could be something you've hacked (or just changed a bit and redigested) in haste right in

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:13:38 -0300, Jorge Morais wrote: If you had upgraded because of a needed feature, I assume you would have read about the release, and thus would know about Tuz. So you upgraded to a ~arch kernel without any need. Why? Because if no one runs the testing packages, they

Re: [gentoo-user] new symbols in portage

2009-03-26 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 27 March 2009 00:13:07 maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, Since updating portage I notice the following whenever I run emerge: ... Portage tree and overlays: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined ... But what does [?=0] mean which

Re: [gentoo-user] new symbols in portage

2009-03-26 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:13:07 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: [0] /usr/portage [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined ... But what does [?=0] mean which sometimes appears? It means you are going from an ebuild of indeterminate source to one from the portage

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:13:38 -0300 Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: If you had upgraded because of a needed feature, I assume you would have read about the release, and thus would know about Tuz. So you upgraded to a ~arch kernel without any need. Why? The question is

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Jorge Morais
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:36:41 +0500 Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:13:38 -0300 Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: If you had upgraded because of a needed feature, I assume you would have read about the release, and thus would know

Re: [gentoo-user] Boot via floppy from cdrom

2009-03-26 Thread Tom
Mentioning the obvious just in case ... have you run a checksum on it? Perhaps they should email it again to you? No, I just sent them my request. If that was the problem, I'm going to cry, and pull my hair out ;-) Thanks...hoping... Tom

[gentoo-user] Block emerge world package

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Hi, Emerge world want to emerge dev-lang/neko 1.7.1-r1 I already have 1.8 running. How can I tell emerge not to install that package? Laurent It's a beautifull news to see dev-lang/neko!! :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Block emerge world package

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 03:37 +0100, laurent wrote: Hi, Emerge world want to emerge dev-lang/neko 1.7.1-r1 I already have 1.8 running. How can I tell emerge not to install that package? Laurent It's a beautifull news to see dev-lang/neko!! :) Hard for me to say since I don't have a

Re: [gentoo-user] Block emerge world package

2009-03-26 Thread laurent
Albert Hopkins a écrit : On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 03:37 +0100, laurent wrote: Hi, Emerge world want to emerge dev-lang/neko 1.7.1-r1 I already have 1.8 running. How can I tell emerge not to install that package? Laurent It's a beautifull news to see dev-lang/neko!! :) Hard for me to

Re: [gentoo-user] layman: could not connect to server

2009-03-26 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:04:22PM +0100, Penguin Lover Nicolai Beuermann squawked: thanks for your answer: Here is what I did: 1) emerge -1 neon - revdep-rebuild (everything was consistent): layman -f -a sabayon failed, layman -s vmware failed too 2) USE=expat emerge -1 neon; emerge -1

Re: [gentoo-user] Block emerge world package

2009-03-26 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 04:12 +0100, laurent wrote: I though it was a layman overlay, but listing them with layman -L does not show them. Is there a general way to desable packages or find if they are part of an overlay ? I'm not sure what you mean by disable packages? Do you mean unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] linux boot logo in 2.6.29-gentoo sources

2009-03-26 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:59:02 -0300 Jorge Morais please.no.spam.h...@gmail.com wrote: It's still a way to check out these new features hands-on :) It's a kernel. Exactly. That's definitely one of the thing you have to know about, especially if this one's got some unpredictable stuff in it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: aliases

2009-03-26 Thread Dale
Thanasis wrote: on 03/23/2009 05:18 AM Dale wrote the following: I'm not real familiar with aliases but know what it is. If you use the alias method, how would you disable it for a one time run? Dale You can also use the unalias command, eg: $ alias ls='ls -la' $ unalias ls