Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4

2010-07-01 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 01 July 2010 00:15:34 Mick wrote: I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back then: unmerge libpng delete everything left with libpng in it's name emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted same with revdep-rebuild

[gentoo-user] Java EE 6

2010-07-01 Thread dhk
I would like to install Java EE 6, but not sure of the package name. A while back J2EE was rename to JEE and now the latest version is Java EE 6. The portage tree doesn't have anything when a search is done on JEE or java ee, but a search on J2EE results in the following. # emerge --search

Re: [gentoo-user] Java EE 6

2010-07-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 July 2010 12:56:53 dhk wrote: I would like to install Java EE 6, but not sure of the package name. A while back J2EE was rename to JEE and now the latest version is Java EE 6. The portage tree doesn't have anything when a search is done on JEE or java ee, but a search on J2EE

Re: [gentoo-user] Java EE 6

2010-07-01 Thread dhkuhl
Now I'm confused.  According to the following links there is a Java EE 6.* http://java.sun.com/javaee/downloads/index.jspThe first sentence here explains the name change.* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J2ee#Nomenclature.2C_standards.2C_and_specificationsLooking for

[gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread SpaceCake
Hi, I would like to increase the speed of my machine by putting some swap on a fast pendrive. It is working manually by starting a script swapon -s swapon -p -1 /dev/sdb1 swapoff /dev/sda6 swapon -p -2 /dev/sda6 swapon -s but, I would like to make it automatic by creating an udev rule, so when

[gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3-3.6.4 update.

2010-07-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-06-30, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: Firefox got upgraded from 3.6.3 to 3.6.4 yesterday, and now the flash plugin won't work. I tried both x86 and ~x86 versions, and both crash 100% of the time. The problem was caused by an old 9.x copy of the plugin that was left in

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal Gentoo with X

2010-07-01 Thread Shoka
On 30.06.2010 15:48, Shoka wrote: Hello group, I'm trying to build kind of a minimal gentoo setup with X support. All I need is - X11 and a Window Manager - Mozilla Firefox - Lighttpd I use Gnome at this time. du reports the following directories as the biggest directories on my

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 15:49:08 +0200, SpaceCake wrote: I would like to increase the speed of my machine by putting some swap on a fast pendrive. It is working manually by starting a script swapon -s swapon -p -1 /dev/sdb1 swapoff /dev/sda6 swapon -p -2 /dev/sda6 swapon -s but, I would

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-desktop] nm-applet / vpnc / pptp / openvpn

2010-07-01 Thread SpaceCake
Yes, I do. The solution was to include gnome use flag for the plugins too... I had gnome useflag for Networkmanager but not for the plugins L: 2010/7/1 Daniel Gryniewicz d...@gentoo.org Do you have one of the networkmanager VPN plugins installed? Dan On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 10:01 AM,

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Nils Larsson
tor 2010-07-01 klockan 15:49 +0200 skrev SpaceCake: Hi, I would like to increase the speed of my machine by putting some swap on a fast pendrive. It is working manually by starting a script swapon -s swapon -p -1 /dev/sdb1 swapoff /dev/sda6 swapon -p -2 /dev/sda6 swapon -s but, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3-3.6.4 update.

2010-07-01 Thread Grant
Firefox got upgraded from 3.6.3 to 3.6.4 yesterday, and now the flash plugin won't work.  I tried both x86 and ~x86 versions, and both crash 100% of the time. The problem was caused by an old 9.x copy of the plugin that was left in ~/.mozialla/plugins.  After deleting the flashplayer plugin

[gentoo-user] VFAQ mirroring a live root FS

2010-07-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please explain to me what difficulties might occur if I mirror a live root file system and use that for booting (in an emergency case). I know that for proper mirroring I may mirror a live root file system but I have to rsync it after booting from a different device (USB,...)

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread SpaceCake
I've never created udev rule so the usal way does not tell me too much :) I've checked the net for examples but it looks like very complicated for me :) My usb stick looks like this Bus 007 Device 015: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro Corp. Transcend JetFlash Flash Drive Can you share with me some

Re: [gentoo-user] Java EE 6

2010-07-01 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/1/10, dhk dhk...@optonline.net wrote: I would like to install Java EE 6, but not sure of the package name. A while back J2EE was rename to JEE and now the latest version is Java EE 6. The portage tree doesn't have anything when a search is done on JEE or java ee, but a search on J2EE

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:17:15 +0200, SpaceCake wrote: I've never created udev rule so the usal way does not tell me too much :) I've checked the net for examples but it looks like very complicated for me :) http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html My usb stick looks like this Bus

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3-3.6.4 update.

2010-07-01 Thread netfab
Le Thu, 1 Jul 2010 08:06:04 -0700, Grant a écrit : Firefox got upgraded from 3.6.3 to 3.6.4 yesterday, and now the flash plugin won't work.  I tried both x86 and ~x86 versions, and both crash 100% of the time. The problem was caused by an old 9.x copy of the plugin that was left in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-07-01 Thread Grant
I need to install the google-api-adwords-perl library, and it requires that SOAP-WSDL is patched with the soap_wsdl_patches.pl perl script. Can I have SOAP-WSDL patched via the perl script in an ebuild? - Grant Here is the perl script: http://pastebin.com/YM3G5sKn Can anyone with perl

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread SpaceCake
So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device? Also I'm thinking how can I instruct udev to turn off swap when the device is removed, but this is another story :) Thanks L: 2010/7/1 Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/01/2010 08:44 AM, SpaceCake wrote: So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device? Also I'm thinking how can I instruct udev to turn off swap when the device is removed, but this is another story

Re: [gentoo-user] X-Server-1.8 and Intel i915 modesetting stability

2010-07-01 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 30.06.2010 09:09, schrieb Andrea Conti: 1. On boot up, the screen goes completely black until the xserver is started. KMS provides its own framebuffer console driver -- disable any other framebuffer drivers such as (u)vesafb and enable FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY under

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread SpaceCake
that's good if I want to mount at a specific location, but for swap I need the device name, but this is changes depending on how many other usb drives are connected. Looks lik this is a tricky question :) L: 2010/7/1 Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com On 07/01/2010 08:44 AM, SpaceCake

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
SpaceCake writes: So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device? I think, you can's. But you can add SYMLINK=swap to make the device appear as /dev/swap, too. Also I'm thinking how can I instruct

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Nils Larsson
tor 2010-07-01 klockan 08:49 -0700 skrev Bill Longman: On 07/01/2010 08:44 AM, SpaceCake wrote: So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device? You need to have the udev rule or the script that it runs

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:44:24 +0200, SpaceCake wrote: So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) I take it you haven't read the link I posted? BTW, please don't top-post on this list. -- Neil Bothwick Programmer

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 18:05:46 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device? I think, you can's. But you can add SYMLINK=swap to make the device appear as /dev/swap,

Re: [gentoo-user] VFAQ mirroring a live root FS

2010-07-01 Thread Daniel Troeder
On 07/01/2010 05:12 PM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, would anybody please explain to me what difficulties might occur if I mirror a live root file system and use that for booting (in an emergency case). I know that for proper mirroring I may mirror a live root file system but I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 18:06 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote: tor 2010-07-01 klockan 08:49 -0700 skrev Bill Longman: On 07/01/2010 08:44 AM, SpaceCake wrote: So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device?

[gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3-3.6.4 update.

2010-07-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-01, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Firefox got upgraded from 3.6.3 to 3.6.4 yesterday, and now the flash plugin won't work. ?I tried both x86 and ~x86 versions, and both crash 100% of the time. The problem was caused by an old 9.x copy of the plugin that was left in

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Nils Larsson
I guess the deeper question (although entirely rhetorical AFAIC) is why would someone want to swap out to a removable device? Hot-pluggable swapspace. For various desperate and/or just-in-case scenarios. One might argue that if you find there you did it wrong in the first place.

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread SpaceCake
This is a shame but the idea coming from Windows world. In Win7/Vista there is a feature called ready boost which I suppose do something similar... or maybe not :) the main goal is to break the bottleneck of the slow HDD, but it is maybe a better idea to put some part of the system on a SDHC card

[gentoo-user] Where to get qmake for qt3?

2010-07-01 Thread Grant Edwards
I'm trying to build from sources an app that requires qt3 via qmake. According to the build instructions I need to point the make file to qt3's version of qmake. I've found some hints that it should bin in /usr/qt/3/bin, but the only thing under /usr/qt/3 is an 'etc' directory. No bin, no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-07-01 Thread Arttu V.
On 7/1/10, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Arttu. Here is the link to the SOAP::WSDL: http://soap-wsdl.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/soap-wsdl/SOAP-WSDL/branches/Typemap.tar.gz?view=tarpathrev=846 from the README:

Re: [gentoo-user] Where to get qmake for qt3?

2010-07-01 Thread Nils Larsson
Where do I find qmake 3? I assume qt3 and whatever deps. it needs are available through the kde-sunset overlay.

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Bill Longman
On 07/01/2010 08:59 AM, SpaceCake wrote: that's good if I want to mount at a specific location, but for swap I need the device name, but this is changes depending on how many other usb drives are connected. Looks lik this is a tricky question :) No, you don't *NEED* the device name to mount

[gentoo-user] Opera 10.60: fonts suck

2010-07-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I updated to Opera 10.60 just now. The fonts look extremely ugly to the point that makes this browser just a useless bunch of bytes on disk. Anyway to fix this?

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to get qmake for qt3?

2010-07-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-01, Nils Larsson n...@nerdshack.com wrote: Where do I find qmake 3? I assume qt3 and whatever deps. it needs are available through the kde-sunset overlay. Two questions: 1) What do the qt3support use flag and the qt-qt3support package do? I had assumed that they enabled qt3

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:59:43 -0700, Bill Longman wrote: that's good if I want to mount at a specific location, but for swap I need the device name, but this is changes depending on how many other usb drives are connected. Looks lik this is a tricky question :) No, you don't *NEED* the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-07-01 Thread David Abbott
On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/1/10, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you Arttu.  Here is the link to the SOAP::WSDL: http://soap-wsdl.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/soap-wsdl/SOAP-WSDL/branches/Typemap.tar.gz?view=tarpathrev=846 from the README:

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 July 2010 18:06:54 Nils Larsson wrote: tor 2010-07-01 klockan 08:49 -0700 skrev Bill Longman: On 07/01/2010 08:44 AM, SpaceCake wrote: So, it solves the first problem, identifiying the device, but how can I tell to udev to use always /dev/sds (for example) for this device?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Where to get qmake for qt3?

2010-07-01 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-07-01, Nils Larssonn...@nerdshack.com wrote: Where do I find qmake 3? I assume qt3 and whatever deps. it needs are available through the kde-sunset overlay. Two questions: 1) What do the qt3support use flag and the qt-qt3support package do?

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to get qmake for qt3?

2010-07-01 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 07/01/2010 10:21 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-07-01, Nils Larssonn...@nerdshack.com wrote: Where do I find qmake 3? I assume qt3 and whatever deps. it needs are available through the kde-sunset overlay. Two questions: 1) What do the qt3support use flag and the qt-qt3support

[gentoo-user] Re: Where to get qmake for qt3?

2010-07-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-01, Grant Edwards grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com wrote: On 2010-07-01, Nils Larsson n...@nerdshack.com wrote: Where do I find qmake 3? I assume qt3 and whatever deps. it needs are available through the kde-sunset overlay. Two questions: 1) What do the qt3support use flag and the

Re: [gentoo-user] One hard drive much slower for some reason.

2010-07-01 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: It hasn't mattered in the past. I'm not sure why it should matter now. I really don't see how it could matter at all really. Heck, my DVD drive is slow as it gets, its udma4, but hdc is on the same cable and it is one of the faster drives I have. That would exclude sda of

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:46:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: That will never work in a zillion years for all the good reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread. You MUST disable swap THEN remove the device. This sequence is inviolate. You could use a udev rule to enable the swap, but it has to

Re: [gentoo-user] activating swap by udev event

2010-07-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 01 July 2010 23:50:56 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Jul 2010 21:46:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: That will never work in a zillion years for all the good reasons mentioned elsewhere in this thread. You MUST disable swap THEN remove the device. This sequence is inviolate.

[gentoo-user] qemu-kvm setup questions

2010-07-01 Thread waltdnes
qemu-kvm apparently expects a couple of options in /etc/make.conf, namely QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS and QEMU_USER_TARGETS. The documentation that I could find in Google is underwhelming, to say the least. I could guess from the names alone that they define targets...dohhh. It could use an example.

[gentoo-user] OT: governors (was: Is cpufrequtils needed these days?)

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 07:52:02PM +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Sonntag 28 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: or is the kernel itself clever enough to manage the hardware directly these days? yes, it is. Just use the ondemand governor. I've noticed what looks like some work overloads

[gentoo-user] Re: Boost emerge: bjam-1.41 using 100% CPU

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 05:25:18PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: I did an update to day on two systems. Both are installed boost-1.41.0-r3, and both paused during the install phase for about ten minutes with bjam-1.41 using 100% of the CPU time. Eventually, things become un-jammed and

[gentoo-user] Re: Changed behavior of portage when using FEATURES=getbinpkg

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:14:39PM +0100, Dan Johansson wrote: I have a setup where I have one development host and one production host. On the dev-host I have FEATURES=buildpkg and on the prod-host I have FEATURES=getbinpkg and PORTAGE_BINHOST=http://192.168.4.4/portage-i686/; (this is

[gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging libsoup 2.29.91

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:22:52AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. On my latest update I cannot emerge libsoup -- I did a google search, but I cannot find anything relevant -- this is what I get: checking for Apache PHP module... yes checking for xmlrpc-epi-php... ACCESS DENIED

[gentoo-user] Re: linux-uvc

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 07:35:39PM +0100, Arnau Bria wrote: I've an caer TravelMate 5720 and I'd like to use my webcam (Suyin). I've read some docs and say that I should use uvc driver from kernel and not linux-uvc driver from portage. But portage package also contains user-space tools for

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.6 won't install

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:31:14PM -0400, David Mehler wrote: This is an add-on to my previous post on gnome 2.6 and gentoo. To recap i am trying to get gnome 2.6 going. The compilation is failing at gnome-extra/gnome-user-docs-2.6.2 and specifically on the accessibility guide i'm getting an

[gentoo-user] Re: gconf errors

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 05:16:22PM -0400, David Relson wrote: Recently noticed: error popup when starting firefox, gnumeric, archive manager, etc: An error occurred while loading or saving configuration information for {program}. Some of your configuration settings may not work

Re: [gentoo-user] Can we please get a USB-stick install boot image?

2010-07-01 Thread Iain Buchanan
here's one I prepared earlier ;) This is from 2008: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2008/06/gentoo-linux-live-usb-key.html and these are some notes of mine on syslinux which may help a bit too: http://nthrbldyblg.blogspot.com/2010/02/syslinux-from-linux.html HTH, -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at

[gentoo-user] Re: How can I redirect all portage messages to syslog?

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 10:02:22PM +0200, Jarry wrote: is it possible to redirect *all* portage messages to syslog? I mean, I would like to redirect content of all these files into /var/log/messages (if possible in standard structure): /var/log/emerge-fetch.log /var/log/emerge.log

[gentoo-user] Re: ecryptfs-mount: superflous asking?

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 04:45:13AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: When remounting a directory (I use manually started scripts for that) for using with ecryptfs I am always asked, whether to use a passphrase or openssl. Is there a way to tell mount to use a passphrase and to shut up for

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage tree from git

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 06:23:03PM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: It has been discussed on gentoo-dev some months ago. Some people were afraid that git would use too many file stats on every operation to be usable (performance-wise). I don't know the outcome of that discussion. Part of it

[gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
Hi all, I'm often stucked by the current policy in this mailing list changing the 'Reply-To' header to the mailing list address. Most mailing lists I use don't do that. It is usually better and prefer the answer to all policy as it permit to be notified of an answer without having to track the

Re: [gentoo-user] ISDN problems

2010-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: On Wednesday 23 June 2010 Alex Schuster wrote: [...] Hello, But /etc/init.d/capi fails to start, when calling 'capiinit activate': ERROR: cannot open /dev/capi20 nor /dev/isdn/capi20 - No such device or address (6) I'd got the same message while setting

[gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-01 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2010-07-02, Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: I'm often stucked by the current policy in this mailing list changing the 'Reply-To' header to the mailing list address. Most mailing lists I use don't do that. It is usually better and prefer the answer to all policy as it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.6 won't install

2010-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 01:59 +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:31:14PM -0400, David Mehler wrote: This is an add-on to my previous post on gnome 2.6 and gentoo. To recap i am trying to get gnome 2.6 going. The compilation is failing at

[gentoo-user] Compilation error: pygtk

2010-07-01 Thread meino . cramer
Hi after updateing libpng I run revdep-rebuild, which said pygtk have to rebuild (beside others). The compilation of pygtk breaks with: Could not write function get_option_group: No ArgType for GOptionGroup* Could not write function settings_install_property: No ArgType for GParamSpec* Could not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging libsoup 2.29.91

2010-07-01 Thread covici
Nicolas Sebrecht nicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 04:22:52AM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. On my latest update I cannot emerge libsoup -- I did a google search, but I cannot find anything relevant -- this is what I get: checking for Apache PHP

[gentoo-user] Re: gnome 2.6 won't install

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:34:25PM -0400, Albert Hopkins wrote: The OP was over 3 months ago. I think a lack of response speaks volumes compared to responding so late. It was a thread that was DOA. Why did you decide to dig it up? The real reason is that I don't have time to track this list

[gentoo-user] Re: problem emerging libsoup 2.29.91

2010-07-01 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 09:58:34PM -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I sure would like to know what access violation means, however. You'll find explanations here : http://bugday.gentoo.org/sandbox.html -- Nicolas Sebrecht

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-01 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: On 2010-07-02, Nicolas Sebrechtnicolas.s-...@laposte.net wrote: I'm often stucked by the current policy in this mailing list changing the 'Reply-To' header to the mailing list address. Most mailing lists I use don't do that. It is usually better and prefer the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-07-01 Thread Grant
[snip] Am I making any sense? I think all of that is right on. I need to find out why the patch isn't working though. Theoretically (if you insist), you could still use the perl's Text::Patch route as well, but (if I'm not entirely wrong, see the excerpted attempted patch run above) the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Patch via perl script in an ebuild?

2010-07-01 Thread Grant
[snip] # Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2 # $Header: $ EAPI=3 inherit perl-module DESCRIPTION=SOAP-WSDL provides a SOAP client with WSDL support. HOMEPAGE=http://soap-wsdl.svn.sourceforge.net;

[gentoo-user] Re: qemu-kvm setup questions

2010-07-01 Thread walt
On 07/01/2010 03:05 PM, waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: qemu-kvm apparently expects a couple of options in /etc/make.conf, I'm jumping in here only because no one else has, so far. I'm the kind of nutcase who enjoys pulling and compiling the latest kernel sources from Linus every morning, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Flash stopped working after Firefox 3.6.3-3.6.4 update.

2010-07-01 Thread Grant
Firefox got upgraded from 3.6.3 to 3.6.4 yesterday, and now the flash plugin won't work. ?I tried both x86 and ~x86 versions, and both crash 100% of the time. The problem was caused by an old 9.x copy of the plugin that was left in ~/.mozialla/plugins. ?After deleting the flashplayer plugin