Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com writes:
In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files
or anything from /etc without your involvement (either manually or
with etc-update or similar).
Do any of the config tools, etc-update, dispatch-conf, cfg-update etc,
ever
Hi Paul,
Paul Hartman writes:
On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Alberto Luaces alua...@udc.es wrote:
Hello,
I have searched quite a bit for an error I'm having when emerging
current zlib-1.2.5-r2. The problem is that somehow the soname is not
written in the .so file, and the build process
on 05/29/2011 11:49 PM Alan Mackenzie wrote the following:
So, I thought, maybe this feature is another pesky group restriction.
So I tried adding myself to group disk, then to group cdrw,
Try adding yourself to plugdev group also.
Hi All,
I have a little problem regarding time. After every boot I have to
setup my clock because about my machine the current time is +2 hour
more. To be honest, this is a little bit annoying.
What I did:
- According to install guide I have copied the
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Budapest to
On 24 May 2011 14:53, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
I'm an old Gentoo fun and after a while I installed back to my
machine. Unfortunately, I got used to the comfort of the Windows and
my main purpose is that to make a comfortable work environment which
is as comfortable
IIRC, starting from baselayout-2 the timezone is in /etc/timezone
Just one line: Region/City
Rgds,
On 2011-05-30, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
I have a little problem regarding time. After every boot I have to
setup my clock because about my machine the current time
Am 30.05.2011 10:15, schrieb András Csányi:
Hi All,
I have a little problem regarding time. After every boot I have to
setup my clock because about my machine the current time is +2 hour
more. To be honest, this is a little bit annoying.
What I did:
- According to install guide I have
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:15:59AM +0200, András Csányi wrote:
So my question is that, what should I do to have the current time
automatically (I'm in Hungary/Budapest)? Should I make a new clock
file?
You should probably customize /etc/conf.d/hwclock, search for Clock in
Am 30.05.2011 11:02, schrieb Henry Gebhardt:
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:15:59AM +0200, András Csányi wrote:
So my question is that, what should I do to have the current time
automatically (I'm in Hungary/Budapest)? Should I make a new clock
file?
You should probably customize
On Monday 30 May 2011 09:15:59 András Csányi wrote:
Hi All,
I have a little problem regarding time. After every boot I have to
setup my clock because about my machine the current time is +2 hour
more. To be honest, this is a little bit annoying.
What I did:
- According to install guide
Am 30.05.2011 00:18, schrieb Henry Gebhardt:
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:28:47PM -0500, Dale wrote:
I went back to the man page, it sort of left the @ out on mine:
-d, --date=STRING
display time described by STRING, not `now'
No mention of the @ sign there. It does
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 10:57:51AM +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
Am 30.05.2011 10:15, schrieb András Csányi:
The localization guide seems to be in a poor state. Copying the zoneinfo
file from /usr/share... to /etc/localtime is not the best way to do it
because then you miss updates. It is
Hi, Alan.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 11:56:10PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Neil.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:10 on Monday 30 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
My money says you've been hit by the Gnome Borg - where you are only
permitted to do things the way the gnome devs have deemed to be
appropriate and TheOneTrueWay(tm). After all, you are just a
On Mon, 30 May 2011 10:57:51 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
The localization guide seems to be in a poor state. Copying the zoneinfo
file from /usr/share... to /etc/localtime is not the best way to do it
because then you miss updates. It is better to create a symlink between
the two.
Which
On Monday 30 May 2011 11:33:02 Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 12:10 on Monday 30 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
Can't say I blame you. What's the choice, though? I appreciate the
spare uncluttered desktop of Gnome. Last time I tried KDE (about 7 years
ago) it was
I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the
stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine.
James Wall
On Sun, May 29 2011, Nils Larsson wrote:
måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb:
What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ?
echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale
and
env-update
should work.
Thanks. It just needed
source /etc/profile
at the end. The variables are now
On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] setting locale:
måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb:
What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ?
echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale
and
env-update
should work.
Not likely. The correct locale
On Mon, 30 May 2011 08:40:02 +0200, Graham Murray wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user:
Do any of the config tools, etc-update, dispatch-conf, cfg-update etc,
ever prompt for removing a redundant file? In my experience they only
'trigger' for changed content within existing
* Gregory Shearman zek...@gmail.com [110528 20:17]:
In linux.gentoo.user, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [110528 12:43]:
After seeing an older thread asking about a router, I figured I'd ask my
own question...
I'm looking for a cheap but reliable router that
On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:43:19 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
Moreover, I never use file redirection from echo when a text editor is
a more appropriate tool. What you have suggested above could well
replace a valid locale setting with an that invalid one, without any
checks at all on the existing
On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:48:15 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
How does the tool of choice determine if a file is redundant or not?
Just because a configuration file is not associated with a Portage
package [any more] does not necessarily mean it is redundant.
No, but it indicates the file
Trying to update from kde4.5 to kde4.6
A simple emerge -uD world gives:
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.7.2-r1 [4.6.3-r1] USE=-jit%
-private-headers%
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2 [4.6.3-r2]
[blocks b ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2 (x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2 is blocking
Mick writes:
On Sunday 29 May 2011 18:16:04 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Saturday 28 May 2011 20:27:59 Alex Schuster wrote:
Maxim Vorontsov writes:
27.05.2011, в 21:35, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org написал(а):
I backup them up regularly. And I just had to restore some config
On Monday 30 May 2011 17:45:17 Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
Trying to update from kde4.5 to kde4.6
A simple emerge -uD world gives:
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.7.2-r1 [4.6.3-r1] USE=-jit%
-private-headers% [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2 [4.6.3-r2]
[blocks b ]
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 9:47 AM, James Wall wallservi...@gmail.com wrote:
I have had that particular problem if I mounted /dev before extracting the
stage3 tarball. Just follow those instructions and you sill be fine.
James Wall
I tried doing the steps that I found in my google search as
Hi all,
this issue is being worked currently. The bug you want to follow is
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597
William
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Am 30.05.2011 16:43, schrieb David W Noon:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] setting locale:
måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb:
What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ?
echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale
and
env-update
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:00:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] setting locale:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:43:19 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
Moreover, I never use file redirection from echo when a text editor
is a more appropriate tool. What you have suggested above could well
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:48:15 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
How does the tool of choice determine if a file is redundant or not?
Just because a configuration file is not
Florian Philipp wrote:
Sure thing. However, it is much faster to type `echo foo bar` than
writing Open your favorite file editor and enter 'foo' into 'bar'.
Being concise is often the better approach when you want to show a
solution to the problem at hand instead of educating the reader.
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:16:44 +0100, Mick wrote:
Don't panic! What I did was to progressively uninstall the blockers
and then run emerge -uaDv world. Eventually there were no blockers,
the latest qt was installed and then kde4.6.
If the blockers are marked with a lower case b, portage will
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:46:47 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
Setting noclobber in /etc/profile.d/*shopts.sh avoids that particular
problem, as well was the one of accidentally nuking a file when you
meant to add to it with .
Setting noclobber is fine for not obliterating the current contents
On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:05:10 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
Just because a configuration file is not associated with a Portage
package [any more] does not necessarily mean it is redundant.
No, but it indicates the file warrants a closer look as it may be
orphaned. qfile is my tool of choice
On Monday 30 May 2011 20:02:06 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:16:44 +0100, Mick wrote:
Don't panic! What I did was to progressively uninstall the blockers
and then run emerge -uaDv world. Eventually there were no blockers,
the latest qt was installed and then kde4.6.
If
Mick wrote:
On Monday 30 May 2011 20:02:06 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:16:44 +0100, Mick wrote:
Don't panic! What I did was to progressively uninstall the blockers
and then run emerge -uaDv world. Eventually there were no blockers,
the latest qt was installed and
Eh... Right, so ...
The echo example might have been a bit blunt. I've found myself using echo
examples as a general you need to add this setting here device, like you
learn to do when you start using Gentoo, might have been a bit presumptuous of
me.
As for the incorrect locale string,
Am 30.05.2011 20:05, schrieb David W Noon:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:48:15 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
How does the tool of choice determine if a file is redundant or not?
On Sun, 29 May 2011 20:49:05 +
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
Having played a CD, I discover there's no way to eject it; the physical
button on the drive is inactive until I exit from Gnome, which is
clearly suboptimal.
Try checking to see if any program has a file open in the cd.
If
On 2011-05-29 8:28 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
so - why don't you get a router that ONLY does the routing and a nice
good switch where you can tag the vlans?
Money/knowledge level? I don't know how to do it, so I was looking for
something that will work that I can do myself, that is
On 2011-05-28 8:42 PM, Gregory Shearman wrote:
In linux.gentoo.user, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org [110528 12:43]:
Anyone? Will one of the FLOSS builds for the cheap Cable/DSL routers
support VLANs on the different built-in router ports (ie, Tomato, DD-WRT
or
On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:20:01 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:05:10 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
[snip]
The only algorithmic approach with which I would feel comfortable
would be if the file were checked against the
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes:
modules=fuse
Which appears to be the proper syntax judging from the comments in
the stub file provided (/etc/conf.d/modules).
But `fuse' never gets auto loaded. There must be something more or
different it needs.
Your syntax is correct.
On 30/5/2011, at 11:10am, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
...
Right clicking on Audio Disc gives an eject menu point. YUCK!!! If
I'd've wanted an Apple Macintosh, I know where to buy one. I just want
my drive's eject button to work.
Your Linux box isn't working, and you're complaining about Macs?
On 30/5/2011, at 11:33am, Alan McKinnon wrote:
You're dashed right. I now understand what's happening: When a CD is
inserted and Gnome detects it as an audio CD, the CD drive is locked. At
the same time, a stupid icon Audio Disc appears on the screen.
I don't understand why they
On 31/5/2011, at 12:26am, Stroller wrote:
On 30/5/2011, at 11:10am, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
It gets worse. If you double click on Audio Disc, it opens a window
with the files uselessly displayed.
I'll bet it doesn't display the actual files. Audio CDs don't have files,
they have a
In preparation for the upcoming upgrade to gnome3, I've installed
the latest gentoo snapshot to a new virtualbox machine. (So I can
trash my virtual gentoo machine instead of my real gentoo machine :)
The virtual install went perfectly AFAICT, except for building a new
customized kernel for the
On Mon, May 30 2011, David W. Noon wrote:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] setting locale:
måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb:
What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ?
echo LANG=en_US_utf8 /etc/env.d/02locale
and
env-update
should
Are you using a recent stage3 tarball? If so, I suspect your booting
problem has got something to do with this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597
Rgds,
On 2011-05-31, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
In preparation for the upcoming upgrade to gnome3, I've installed
the latest
Meh, I clicked 'Send' too fast.
*My* suggested solution:
Generate an initramfs containing udev. The hands-down easiest way is
using genkernel's 'only create an initramfs' switch (sorry I forgot
what exactly).
This needs to be done exactly once throughout the life of your VM.
(To the herd of
On 30 May 2011 20:58, Allan Gottlieb gottl...@nyu.edu wrote:
On Mon, May 30 2011, David W. Noon wrote:
On Mon, 30 May 2011 04:20:01 +0200, Nils Larsson wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] setting locale:
måndagen den 30 maj 2011 03:26:49 skrev Allan Gottlieb:
What must I do to get en_US_utf8 ?
I can't be of much more help to you, I don't use Gnome at all (see above)
Can't say I blame you. What's the choice, though? I appreciate the
spare uncluttered desktop of Gnome. Last time I tried KDE (about 7 years
ago) it was anything but uncluttered. I tried XFCE briefly, but couldn't
daid@titan ~ % cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local.rules
# external USB, Seagate FreeAgent GO aka cyclops
SUBSYSTEMS==usb, DRIVERS==usb, ATTRS{serial}==
5LZ2XQJ5, SYMLINK+=cyclops ACTION==add,
RUN+=/etc/udev/scripts/mount_cyclops.sh
Sorry, but make sure that the one entry (begins with
David W Noon wrote:
You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not
clean up configuration files that have been modified. It removes files
that are still in the same state as when the package was emerged, but
not those modified by the user. I don't see how user changes
On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:10:02AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Sunday 29 May 2011, Alan Mackenzie
did opine thusly:
Hi, Neil.
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:13:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 29 May 2011 22:58:39 +0200, Alan McKinnon
On Monday 30 May 2011 17:06:01 Tanstaafl wrote:
On 2011-05-29 8:28 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
so - why don't you get a router that ONLY does the routing and a nice
good switch where you can tag the vlans?
Money/knowledge level? I don't know how to do it, so I was looking for
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com writes:
There are times that if portage removed a config file, I would not be
happy. Sometimes I unmerge a package then remerge but want to keep
the config files.
Would I like there to be the option, yep, I sure would. There are
also times when I want to get rid
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