Re: [gentoo-user] Do not emerge firefox 4.0 if you do not want gconf

2011-03-25 Thread pk
On 2011-03-24 22:37, Sebastian Günther wrote: just to warn everyone of you readers, who use ~ARCH: firefox 4.0 arrived with a dep to gconf. A big show stopper for the all who do not want to have any gnome dependencies, but want to have the new Firefox. You have been warned Mostly

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:09:27 +0100, Jarry wrote: I know, there is qfile with -o option, but its syntax is not clear to me. I tried qfile -o * but that is apparently not the correct syntax, as all I got were a few top-level subdirectories and nothing more...

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-25 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thu, March 24, 2011 12:30 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 08:49:52 J. Roeleveld wrote: On Wed, March 23, 2011 5:43 pm, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: md raid devices can do barriers. Don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-25 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday 24 March 2011 22:07:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:08:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as has happened to many others, see if you say the same thing.

Re: [gentoo-user] LVM (Was: the best filesystem for server: XFS or JFS (or?))

2011-03-25 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Friday 25 March 2011 07:51:13 Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 22:07:28 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:08:02 Alan McKinnon wrote: On Thursday 24 March 2011 12:19:39 Dale wrote: I have never used LVM but when it messes up after a upgrade, as

Re: [gentoo-user] Do not emerge firefox 4.0 if you do not want gconf

2011-03-25 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 2011/03/24 05:37PM, Sebastian Günther wrote: Hi, just to warn everyone of you readers, who use ~ARCH: firefox 4.0 arrived with a dep to gconf. A big show stopper for the all who do not want to have any gnome dependencies, but want to have the new Firefox. Judging by the comment in

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-25 Thread Mr. Jarry
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: qfile operates on the files you give it, it doesn't recurse into directories. Try find / -xdev -type f -exec qfile -o {} + Oh, thanks, now it is clear. I think man-page is a little confusing: qfile -o does not find

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote: Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before deleting something. That said, what about these: /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/c++ /usr/bin/c89 /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcov /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++ I think these are

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-25 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote: Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before deleting something. That said, what about these: /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/c++ /usr/bin/c89 /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcov /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6? I don't think we want to break something, portage in particular. ;-) I have no trace of python-2.6 on my system at this point and

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:33:59 -0500, Dale wrote: That gcc one bugs me tho. It's in /usr/bin but doesn't belong to a package. Just blows my mind, which ain't much right now. lol I got to get better meds. Remember that gcc-config sets which version is called when you run gcc, so it must

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:37:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Out of curiosity, how long you, or someone else, been using python 2.7? I install 2.7 on August 10th and removed 2.6 on October 5th. -- Neil Bothwick Documentation: (n.) a novel sold with software, designed to entertain the

[gentoo-user] sense code: driver or disc at fault?

2011-03-25 Thread Andrey Vul
I keep on getting sense error 2/30/05 when trying to burn the livecd on my new dvd burner, and I've tried with various discs. Is the burner at fault? Google isn't of much help.

[gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Simon Siemonsma
I did python-updater as said by the ebuild. After it I did emerge -a --depclean which removed python 2.6 Boy I was I happy that I have daily backups. portage did not work anymore. Changing the active python version before running python-updater gives a lot more packages. I did portage by hand.

[gentoo-user] what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-25 Thread Philip Webb
In /var/log/ there is a file wtmp , which is 24 MB owned by utmp . It is in binary format is updated when I reboot. Can anyone explain what it's for whether it cb safely deleted ? -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___,

Re: [gentoo-user] what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-25 Thread Einux
this file stores previous login sessions since the system existed. It's OK to delete that file if only for regular use. On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: In /var/log/ there is a file wtmp , which is 24 MB owned by utmp . It is in binary format is

Re: [gentoo-user] what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-25 Thread Alex Schuster
Philip Webb writes: In /var/log/ there is a file wtmp , which is 24 MB owned by utmp . It is in binary format is updated when I reboot. Can anyone explain what it's for whether it cb safely deleted ? It tracks logins, you can use the 'last' command to show its contents. I'm pretty

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:37:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Out of curiosity, how long you, or someone else, been using python 2.7? I install 2.7 on August 10th and removed 2.6 on October 5th. -- Neil Bothwick Do you recollect

Re: [gentoo-user] what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-25 Thread Philip Webb
110325 Alex Schuster wrote: Philip Webb writes: In /var/log/ there is a file wtmp , which is 24 MB owned by utmp . It is in binary format is updated when I reboot. Can anyone explain what it's for whether it cb safely deleted ? It tracks logins, you can use the 'last' command to show

Re: [gentoo-user] sense code: driver or disc at fault?

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Andrey Vul andrey@gmail.com wrote: I keep on getting sense error 2/30/05 when trying to burn the livecd on my new dvd burner, and I've tried with various discs. Is the burner at fault? Google isn't of much help. That code means: CANNOT WRITE MEDIUM .

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:56:20 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: I installed 2.7 on August 10th and removed 2.6 on October 5th. -- Neil Bothwick Do you recollect whether you ran python-updater immediately after the 2.7 emerge, and do you remember whether you set 2.7 as your active version

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-25 Thread Mike Edenfield
On 3/25/2011 5:33 AM, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote: Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before deleting something. That said, what about these: /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/c++ /usr/bin/c89 /usr/bin/gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Roman Zilka
Mark Knecht (Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:56:20 -0700): On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:37:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Out of curiosity, how long you, or someone else, been using python 2.7? I install 2.7 on August 10th and removed 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6?  I don't think we want to break something, portage in particular.  ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] what is /var/log/wtmp ?

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote: 110325 Alex Schuster wrote: Philip Webb writes: In  /var/log/  there is a file  wtmp , which is  24 MB   owned by  utmp . It is in binary format is updated when I reboot. Can anyone explain what it's for whether it cb

[gentoo-user] Problem with python-updater ?

2011-03-25 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, I upgraded python2.6 to python2.7, then i run eselect python set python2.7, then python-updater. Here is the python-updater output : * Starting Python Updater... * Main active version of Python: 2.7 * Active version of Python 2: 2.7 * Active version of Python 3: 3.1 *

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all orphaned files?

2011-03-25 Thread Dale
Mike Edenfield wrote: On 3/25/2011 5:33 AM, Dale wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote: Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before deleting something. That said, what about these: /usr/bin/cc /usr/bin/c++

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with python-updater ?

2011-03-25 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, I upgraded python2.6 to python2.7, then i run eselect python set python2.7, then python-updater. Here is the python-updater output : * Starting Python Updater... * Main active version of Python: 2.7 * Active version of Python 2: 2.7 * Active version

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Dale
Roman Zilka wrote: Mark Knecht (Fri, 25 Mar 2011 06:56:20 -0700): On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:50 AM, Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:37:15 -0500, Dale wrote: Out of curiosity, how long you, or someone else, been using python 2.7? I

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Dale
Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 4:37 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Hartman wrote: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Dalerdalek1...@gmail.comwrote: And if we should set python to 2.7, should we remove python-2.6? I don't think we want to break

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Dale
Simon Siemonsma wrote: I did python-updater as said by the ebuild. After it I did emerge -a --depclean which removed python 2.6 Boy I was I happy that I have daily backups. portage did not work anymore. Changing the active python version before running python-updater gives a lot more packages.

[gentoo-user] What's the ._unmerge_ directory there for?

2011-03-25 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I noticed that recent versions of portage 2.1.9 create an ._unmerge_ directory in /var/tmp/portage. What is it used for?

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with python-updater ?

2011-03-25 Thread Roman Zilka
Jacques Montier (Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:17:41 +0100): Hi all, I upgraded python2.6 to python2.7, then i run eselect python set python2.7, then python-updater. Here is the python-updater output : * Starting Python Updater... * Main active version of Python: 2.7 * Active version of

[gentoo-user] humor: Re: python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Do you recollect I don't recollect what I did seven days ago, let alone seven months. Ah ha, TOO FUNNY. (old man rolling on the floor with tears rolling down his cheeks) Still chuckling over this post 50 year old prose hours later.

Re: [gentoo-user] What's the ._unmerge_ directory there for?

2011-03-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: I noticed that recent versions of portage 2.1.9 create an ._unmerge_ directory in /var/tmp/portage.  What is it used for? Looks like this is the new PKG_TMPDIR. I think this is patch that made the change, with

[gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread James
Hello, Background: I use Thunderbird as my email client, but the mail servers of another (my isp). What I want is an email setup that interoperates with encrypted emails from various unix and windows based servers. (maybe dreaming here?) So I'm research on interoperability of eningmail, pgp,

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Stéphane Guedon
On Friday 25 March 2011 01:28:35 Dale wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. Should this new version

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Grant
One of my machines just saw a python-2.7 update and the ebuild was good enough to remind me to run python-updater, but it didn't suggest that I run eselect python and set the active version to 2.7. Should this new version python be selected first as the active python 2 version and then

Re: [gentoo-user] python-2.7 python-updater

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 20:09:50 +0100, Stéphane Guedon wrote: I think wicd rely on python 2.6 currently. This is my setup on my laptop ! (trying other version break networking with wicd). Wicd works fine with 2.7. There was a problem when 2,7 was first released, but that was fixed in a Wicd

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with python-updater ?

2011-03-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:17:41 +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: * Adding to list: dev-libs/boost:1.42 * check: manual [Added to list manually, see CHECKS in manpage for more information.] Do what it says. The man page explains manual checks and how to skip them, that's why the output tells

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 25.03.2011 19:51, schrieb James: It's been a while since I set up a mail server, but, if that (postfix) is what I need to do, then just tell how (overview) the packages you'd use, or is this part of postfix? Mail encryption is, as far as I know, something that works on the client-side

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Matt Harrison
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:09:23PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Am 25.03.2011 19:51, schrieb James: It's been a while since I set up a mail server, but, if that (postfix) is what I need to do, then just tell how (overview) the packages you'd use, or is this part of postfix? Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 25.03.2011 22:13, schrieb Matt Harrison: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:09:23PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Mail encryption is, as far as I know, something that works on the client-side only. The mail server doesn't see the encryption, encrypted mails contain only text, just like every

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Matt Harrison
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:26:24PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Am 25.03.2011 22:13, schrieb Matt Harrison: On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 10:09:23PM +0100, Sebastian Be?ler wrote: Mail encryption is, as far as I know, something that works on the client-side only. The mail server doesn't see

Re: [gentoo-user] encrypted email (gentoo-windows)

2011-03-25 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 25.03.2011 22:48, schrieb Matt Harrison: I believe it can encrypt as well, as long as they keys are supplied previously for the recipients. That sounds interessting. I have to look into that. Maybe that is something for the thread starter too. Even stranger, you're the first person who

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with python-updater ?

2011-03-25 Thread Elaine C. Sharpe
In linux.gentoo.user, you wrote: Jacques Montier (Fri, 25 Mar 2011 17:17:41 +0100): Hi all, I upgraded python2.6 to python2.7, then i run eselect python set python2.7, then python-updater. Here is the python-updater output : * Starting Python Updater... * Main active version of