Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 05:13 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Now I have masked mesa-7.8.2 downgrading to 7.7.1, which necessitated a downgrade of xorg-server to 1.7.7-r1 (latest stable), which necessitated a downgrade of xinit to 1.2.1. Thus my

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-23 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:50:26 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: You're mixing two different definitions of stable. Portage 2.2 is certainly reliable, but it is anything but stable with a new version coming out every day at the moment,. I'm waiting for tomorrow

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 22 October 2010 21:52:18 Dale wrote: I'm just hoping that when the switch comes, it is painless. It was for me - so much so that I wondered what all the fuss had been about. -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-23 Thread Zeerak Mustafa Waseem
On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 02:48:58AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:50 on Friday 22 October 2010, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem did opine thusly: It's openrc-${PV}+1 - there's no question about that. Until someone actually ponies up and commits something

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout -- openrc ?

2010-10-23 Thread daid kahl
On 22 October 2010 11:02, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, Well here it seems that openrc is going ~arch http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-688090.html So has it been decided that openrc is the way forward? Any caveats with openrc we should be aware of? Just to put in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-23 Thread daid kahl
Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if not just emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow then emerge -avuND world. No good technical reason for doing shadow first apart from getting

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge depclean gcc

2010-10-23 Thread daid kahl
2010/10/21 Michael Hampicke gentoo-u...@hadt.biz: May I just unmerge my old gcc ? Is it save ? Yes it's save to unmerge your old gcc. You could also - using quickpkg - create a binary package of your old gcc before unmerging (for backup puropses). From the strictly Gentoo side of things,

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: Apparently, though unproven, at 05:13 on Saturday 23 October 2010, Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: Now I have masked mesa-7.8.2 downgrading to 7.7.1, which necessitated a downgrade of xorg-server to 1.7.7-r1 (latest stable), which necessitated

Re: [gentoo-user] Preventing a package from being updated

2010-10-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
daid kahl daid...@gmail.com writes: Don't worry about it. I'm not sure if portage-2.1.9.20 will deal with this automagically (I *think* it does these days and 2.2 definitely does) but if not just emerge -C shadow ; emerge -1 shadow then emerge -avuND world. No good technical reason for

[gentoo-user] cruft after perl-cleaner --all

2010-10-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
perl-cleaner could not deal with /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm I ran equery belongs and neither turned up. Should I just copy them away and remove them in a week if nothing turns up or are they known

Re: [gentoo-user] cruft after perl-cleaner --all

2010-10-23 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Allan Gottlieb schrieb am 23.10.2010 18:13: perl-cleaner could not deal with /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm I ran equery belongs and neither turned up. It is cruft! Some leftovers from

Re: [gentoo-user] cruft after perl-cleaner --all

2010-10-23 Thread Allan Gottlieb
Daniel Pielmeier bil...@gentoo.org writes: Allan Gottlieb schrieb am 23.10.2010 18:13: perl-cleaner could not deal with /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm I ran equery belongs and neither turned

[gentoo-user] usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-23 Thread James
Hello, On most of my kde workstations when I plug in a usb(memory)stick and popup screen appears Devices recently plugged in: On one kde system, this does not occur and I do not know what app/software to install or configure lsusb shows the device properly, just like the other system. None

Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-23 Thread Jacob Todd
Diff your make.conf and package.use files. Somethong is probably missing. On Oct 23, 2010 3:46 PM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote: Hello, On most of my kde workstations when I plug in a usb(memory)stick and popup screen appears Devices recently plugged in: On one kde system, this does

Re: [gentoo-user] cruft after perl-cleaner --all

2010-10-23 Thread Dale
Allan Gottlieb wrote: Daniel Pielmeierbil...@gentoo.org writes: Allan Gottlieb schrieb am 23.10.2010 18:13: perl-cleaner could not deal with /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/XML/SAX/ParserDetails.ini /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i686-linux/Encode/ConfigLocal.pm I ran equery

Re: [gentoo-user] usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-23 Thread Dale
James wrote: Hello, On most of my kde workstations when I plug in a usb(memory)stick and popup screen appears Devices recently plugged in: On one kde system, this does not occur and I do not know what app/software to install or configure lsusb shows the device properly, just like the other

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-23 Thread Dale
James wrote: Dalerdalek1967at gmail.com writes: Hello Dale, On mine, I had to add the device notifier widget to the panel. That is what does the little pop up here. Looks like one of your systems didn't add that by default, mine didn't either tho. Well device notifier is on the

[gentoo-user] Re: usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-23 Thread James
Dale rdalek1967 at gmail.com writes: Hello Dale, On mine, I had to add the device notifier widget to the panel. That is what does the little pop up here. Looks like one of your systems didn't add that by default, mine didn't either tho. Well device notifier is on the systems that work.

[gentoo-user] Re: usb stick autodiscovery

2010-10-23 Thread James
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com writes: What the heck, I'm rebuidling via: emerge -D $(qlist -IC kde-base/) ...we'll see in the morning how it works. James