On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:54:58 AM Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
You give me too much credit :-)
There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick,
Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie (awesome name!),
James, kashani, Pandu and about a 1000
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:56:48 AM Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:25:22 -0500
Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
I'm lucky, I can vote with my feet. Out of 140, I have two servers
that *require* Linux. One runs Sybase ASE, the
2011-09-08 23:07 keltezéssel, Mick írta:
On Thursday 08 Sep 2011 09:29:38 ifj. Stefán István wrote:
Hello!
I've installed vmware-player, but can't start it. It outputs a lot of
messages (none of them seems to be error msgs) and gives back the prompt:
localhost ~ # vmplayer
Logging to
2011-09-09 04:18 keltezéssel, Michael Higgins írta:
On Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:29:38 +0200
ifj. Stefán Istvániste...@stef.hu wrote:
Hello!
I've installed vmware-player, but can't start it. It outputs a lot of
messages
[ 8 ]
It wont start even if I add a virtual machine config file parameter
On Friday, September 09, 2011 07:24:06 PM pk wrote:
On 2011-09-09 10:53, Dale wrote:
Can I slap whoever started this? The more I think on this, the worse it
Yes Dale, you have my permission! And while you're at it, slap him from
me too! ;-)
It _may_ be this guy that's responsible for
Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:56:48 AM Dale wrote:
I sometimes think people get tired of the chatter box. lol I wonder
if I am on somebody's blacklist? :/
If you are, that person is missing out on some good entertainment :)
That may depend on my meds. lol
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:04:24 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
I copied /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-evdev.conf to
/etc/X11/xorg-conf.d/99-evdev.conf and edited it
No, you are right!
I inserted 99-evdev.conf, because 10-evdev.conf will be overwritten
when updateing,
No it won't. Most of
On Sunday, September 11, 2011 08:44:20 PM James Wall wrote:
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:07:23 -0500, Dale wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
Mick wrote:
On Sunday 11 Sep 2011 19:56:48 Dale wrote:
Joost Roeleveld writes:
What about the following as a gentoo-solution:
As long as filesystem-support for /usr is in the kernel, why can't
/usr be mounted right after /?
Eg. instead of worrying with an init*, why not edit the boot-scripts to
have /usr mounted before udev and colleagues
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 09:59:41 -0500, Dale wrote:
http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
I had absolutely no idea I sent *that* much mail to gentoo-user :-)
Me either. That's when I had to accept that I was a true chatter box.
O_O I wonder if Neil knows this? He
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
Me either. That's when I had to accept that I was a true chatter
box. O_O I wonder if Neil knows this? He may not realize how many
he sends either.
Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only
me?
The 09/09/11, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
The question arose, when Canek mentioned bluetoothd, that udev seems to need
in some cases.
This is wrong. udev on its own does not require extra tools from /usr.
Though, the rules used by udev do use software in /usr. It's NOT a udev
fault _at
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 23:15:52 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only
me? girlfriend says that Alan and Neil are both male bald middle-aged
pedantic old gits with a fascination for the writing of Douglas Adams.
And they are both
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:37:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
So I wonder what Neil will write about this.
He seems to be lying low.
Just in an area with very poor Internet access. I'm back in England now :)
--
Neil Bothwick
Top Oxymorons Number 31: Small crowd
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:45:44 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
As long as filesystem-support for /usr is in the kernel, why can't
/usr be mounted right after /?
Eg. instead of worrying with an init*, why not edit the boot-scripts to
have /usr mounted before udev and colleagues start?
Because
Neil Bothwick writes:
On Sat, 10 Sep 2011 18:34:42 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote:
Since I am on this list, I tend to confuse Alan and Neil. Is this only
me?
Whoops, which should be: I tend to confuse Alan _with_ Neil. But then,
both may be right.
No, it's not only you. Dale confuses the
On Monday, September 12, 2011 09:49:22 AM Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:45:44 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
As long as filesystem-support for /usr is in the kernel, why can't
/usr be mounted right after /?
Eg. instead of worrying with an init*, why not edit the boot-scripts
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:07:12 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
I'd like to know why these functions cannot be separated, run the
command to populate /dev early on, then start the udev daemon after
the filesystems have been mounted.
Some sort of early boot rules file would need to be used
Hi,
On Monday, 12. September 2011 10:40:02 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
The 09/09/11, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
The question arose, when Canek mentioned bluetoothd, that udev seems to
need in some cases.
This is wrong.
udev on its own does not require extra tools from /usr.
Though, the
On Monday, September 12, 2011 10:13:45 AM Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:07:12 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
I'd like to know why these functions cannot be separated, run the
command to populate /dev early on, then start the udev daemon after
the filesystems have been
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:34:17 +0200, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
I wonder if it could be done more simply. udevd loads but only parses
those rule files marked as suitable for early boot time. Later in the
boot it switches to full mode and loads all rule files.
This is so simple it is either
On Mon 12 Sep 2011 08:07:27 AM IST, Dale wrote:
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
On Mon 12 Sep 2011 07:32:25 AM IST, Dale wrote:
Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
Ever since I have updated my system on 20th September, my rootfs
(/dev/sda2) isn't umounted (remounted ro) on shutdown, due to which I
see
On 9/11/2011 8:28 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr
and /var
will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot.
Hmm, that doesn't smell right to me. What I think you
On 9/12/2011 3:12 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:54:58 AM Dale wrote:
If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon?
Is the Fedora dev aware of non-Fedora installations?
He is, because a Gentoo user/dev explicitly pointed out the
On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 9/12/2011 3:12 AM, Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Saturday, September 10, 2011 02:54:58 AM Dale wrote:
If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon?
Is the Fedora dev aware of non-Fedora installations?
* Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk [09/09/11 12:27]:
On 9 September 2011, at 04:50, Moshe Kamensky wrote:
...
I was happy to soon... It now boots, but after asking me about keyboard
layout, it tries to find the cdrom and fails, with messages like:
Looking for CDROM
Why not install it as a virtual machine under the OSX? Much
easier and
you can have both working at once and the performance is not bad at all.
I didn't consider it, since I don't really need the OSX, but I might
give it a try. Is there a particular VM you recommend?
Vmware
Dear All,
I have two question about Xfce:
- I have two monitors and the panel takes place on the right side of
the left monitor vertically. To put another form, the panel takes
place in 1440x0 position. The applications are able to go down to the
panel if I put them full screen mode. To be
Some packages can apply patches from /etc/portage/patches/, other don't.
Why don't all packages do that? Is there a way to make all packages
use /etc/portage/patches?
Hi,
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:01:34 András Csányi wrote:
Dear All,
I have two question about Xfce:
Is used
kwin under xfce somehow? If a KDE application is used kwin always gets
in the picture?
No, unless you tell it to (kwin --replace iirc) and no. How to fix your
problem, I
On 9/12/11 3:21 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Some packages can apply patches from /etc/portage/patches/, other don't.
Why don't all packages do that? Is there a way to make all packages
use /etc/portage/patches?
It a specific function which needs to be added to the ebuild by the
writer.
Well...to get back on topic...
- Original Message -
From: David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 13:52:53 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote about
[gentoo-user] Gentoo counter?:
I've just read about the 'new' Linux Counter from a slashdot
article,
and I wonder: is there a
On 09/12/2011 04:41 PM, justin wrote:
On 9/12/11 3:21 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Some packages can apply patches from /etc/portage/patches/, other don't.
Why don't all packages do that? Is there a way to make all packages
use /etc/portage/patches?
It a specific function which needs to
A hacky trick would be to implement it yourself by adding the
appropriate function to post_src_unpack of post_src_prepare in
/etc/portage/bashrc.
Nut this is out of warranty, but should work
On 9/12/11 3:51 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 04:41 PM, justin wrote:
On 9/12/11 3:21
Thanks! A bashrc with the following in it seems to work here just fine:
post_src_unpack() {
epatch_user
}
Also, the epatch_user() docs mention that it's safe to call epatch_user
multiple times, so I support no breakages should be expected with
ebuilds and eclasses that call
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 19:28, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote:
His response, to me, appeared to be a heavy dose of way
more people use Fedora/Debian/etc than Gentoo so I'm
tailoring my fix to those people combined with a
On 12 September 2011, at 04:52, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Monday 12 September 2011 04:41:53 I wrote:
I've added USE=alsa and I'm remerging world now. Let's hope I'll be able
to listen to my favourite BBC Radio 3 soon!
Now playing happily, though the BBC do still insist on Flash.
On 09/12/2011 05:42 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Thanks! A bashrc with the following in it seems to work here just fine:
post_src_unpack() {
epatch_user
}
In case anyone else is trying this, the above should be:
post_src_unpack() {
cd ${S}
epatch_user
}
Hi, everybody.
Hope nobody minds me starting a new thread with an accurate name.
Which version of udev is it that has this nauseating feature of needing
/usr loaded to boot?
Somewhere in that version's source will be several (or lots of) /usr.
Just how difficult is it going to be to replace
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 19:28, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote:
His response, to me, appeared to be a heavy dose of way
more people use
Hi Alan,
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:02:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, everybody.
Hope nobody minds me starting a new thread with an accurate name.
Which version of udev is it that has this nauseating feature of needing
/usr loaded to boot?
Somewhere in that version's source will be
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
Hi, everybody.
Hope nobody minds me starting a new thread with an accurate name.
Which version of udev is it that has this nauseating feature of needing
/usr loaded to boot?
Somewhere in that version's source will be
In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this:
media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2
When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of emerging the newer
version, I get:
$ emerge freetype
WARNING: A requested package will not be merged because it is listed
in
On Monday, September 12, 2011 11:29:12 AM Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 19:28, Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote:
His response, to me,
Hi Canek,
On Monday, 12. September 2011 11:35:13 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
(This would be my only post in this new thread: I think I have made my
point of view clear in the other thread).
I have seen a lot of disinformation going on in the other threads
(like some people suggesting that
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Alan Mackenziea...@muc.de wrote:
Hi, everybody.
Hope nobody minds me starting a new thread with an accurate name.
Which version of udev is it that has this nauseating feature of needing
/usr loaded to boot?
Somewhere in that
On Sep 12, 2011 11:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this:
media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2
When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of emerging the newer
version, I get:
$ emerge freetype
WARNING: A
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Alan Mackenziea...@muc.de wrote:
Hi, everybody.
Hope nobody minds me starting a new thread with an accurate name.
Which version of udev is it that has this
On Monday, 12. September 2011 18:41:37 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this:
media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2
When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of emerging the newer
version, I get:
$ emerge freetype
WARNING: A
On 09/12/2011 07:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Sep 12, 2011 11:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de
mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote:
In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this:
media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2
When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of
Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Hi,
On Monday, 12. September 2011 10:40:02 Nicolas Sebrecht wrote:
So, what's the good way to fix all that mess? Certainly not moving most
of software to /. Fortunately, we can expect /usr to be mounted before
udev starts via the initramfs.
That's *your*
On Monday, 12. September 2011 12:42:00 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
You say it was disinformation about /var. Care to explain why me and
one
other person read the same thing? It was mentioned on -dev. I was
pretty sure it
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Alan Mackenziea...@muc.de wrote:
Hi, everybody.
Hope nobody minds me starting a new
Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 19:28, Joost Roeleveldjo...@antarean.org wrote:
On Monday, September 12, 2011 08:14:57 AM Mike Edenfield wrote:
His response, to me, appeared to be a heavy dose of way
more people use Fedora/Debian/etc than Gentoo so I'm
tailoring my fix to those
On 09/12/2011 07:42 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 18:41:37 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this:
media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2
When I try to emerge freetype however, instead of emerging the newer
On Monday, 12. September 2011 20:04:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 07:42 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 18:41:37 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this:
media-libs/freetype-1.4_pre20080316-r2
Hi, Michael.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Hi Alan,
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:02:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hope nobody minds me starting a new thread with an accurate name.
Which version of udev is it that has this nauseating feature of
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:02:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hope nobody minds me starting a new thread with an accurate name.
Which version of udev is
Hi Alan,
On Monday, 12. September 2011 17:17:37 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Michael.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
Hi Alan,
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:02:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hope nobody minds me starting a new thread with an
On Monday, 12. September 2011 13:39:59 Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:02:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
you misunderstood something.
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 12:42:00 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
You say it was disinformation about /var. Care to explain why me and
one
On 09/12/2011 08:17 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 20:04:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 07:42 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 18:41:37 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:02:48 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hope nobody minds me
On Monday, 12. September 2011 14:26:13 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 12:42:00 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
You say it
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
The first step in a clean solution, IMO, is to revert that change. The
second step is to fix the 'silent failure' problem for packages which
depend
On Monday, 12. September 2011 21:31:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 08:17 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 20:04:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 07:42 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 18:41:37 Nikos
On Monday, 12. September 2011 14:37:24 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 05:33:34PM +0200, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12.
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 20:44:20 -0500, James Wall wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot:
On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:46 PM, David W Noon dwn...@ntlworld.com
wrote:
[snip]
I have some scripts that generate LVM rebuild scripts. These scan
the current logical volumes and generate
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 14:37:24 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
No fixable, in reality. The flexibility of udev is in part in that the
userspace can (and actually do) run arbitrary scripts and binaries
from udev
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
The first step in a clean solution, IMO, is to revert that change. The
second
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:18:53 Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 14:37:24 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
No fixable, in reality. The flexibility of udev is in part in that the
userspace can
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
And yeah, that's not how classical Unix do things. Who cares? Linux
does it so much better. Regards.
Some of us here care. That is the reason we are not liking this one bit.
Dale
:-) :-)
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:18:53 Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 14:37:24 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
No fixable,
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:00:49 -0400, Michael Mol wrote about Re:
[gentoo-user] udev + /usr:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Canek Peláez Valdés
can...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
And then you lose the flexibility.
Here's the chief problem with that argument...it's not just limited to
/usr. If
Canek Peláez Valdés writes:
But what you guys don't seem to realize is that /lib and /bin and
/sbin was the original hack: everything really should go into /usr,
because now (with an initramfs) we can do what we were not able 30
years ago. We not need anything in /, really.
You do have a
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:49:28 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 09/12/2011 07:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Sep 12, 2011 11:11 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de
mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote:
In my /etc/portage/profile/package.provided, I have this:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:42:00 -0400
Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Alan Mackenziea...@muc.de
wrote:
Hi, everybody.
Hope nobody minds me
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 03:35:19PM -0400, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
I read that page. I understand the problem. I'm not convinced.
I can respect that. I can only then say that we must agree to
disagree, because I also understand the problem, and I am convinced.
But what you guys don't
On 09/12/2011 10:02 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 21:31:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 08:17 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 20:04:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 07:42 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On
On 09/12/2011 11:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 19:49:28 +0300
Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 09/12/2011 07:31 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote:
On Sep 12, 2011 11:11 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de
mailto:rea...@arcor.de wrote:
In my
On Sep 13, 2011 2:10 AM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
On 09/12/2011 08:17 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 20:04:47 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 07:42 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 18:41:37 Nikos
On Sep 13, 2011 3:16 AM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 15:18:53 Michael Mol wrote:
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de
wrote:
On Monday,
On Monday, 12. September 2011 23:42:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 10:02 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 21:31:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 08:17 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 20:04:47 Nikos
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 17:33:34 +0200
Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote:
Every udev version works this way.
Fixing udev to continue working with separate /usr is far from
trivial imo. Changing some paths is not the way to go for sure.
First of all, udev has to distinguish between
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:07:46 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
No, it states that it's not solveable for the broadest set of cases (I
hesitate to say 'universally') unless you can run arbitrary scripts
which may be in /usr.
Consider it possible that nfsd is needed to mount /usr.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:48:01 +0300
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote:
If you provide xyz-1.2.3 then portage does not know what *you* did
to achieve that and makes no attempt to deal with it at all. You are
expected to completely 100% deal with all of xyz, including all
slots. man 5
On Monday, 12. September 2011 22:57:40 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:07:46 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
No, it states that it's not solveable for the broadest set of cases (I
hesitate to say 'universally') unless you can run arbitrary scripts
which may be in
On 09/13/2011 12:18 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 23:42:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 10:02 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 21:31:59 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 08:17 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On
On Tuesday, 13. September 2011 01:11:39 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/13/2011 12:18 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 23:42:30 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 09/12/2011 10:02 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 21:31:59 Nikos
On 09/13/2011 01:26 AM, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
On Tuesday, 13. September 2011 01:11:39 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
[...]
You cannot provide a slot - you provide a package - freetype in this
case. A slot is a gentoo specific thing.
So is package.provided :-)
Of course :) Point is, you
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Michael Schreckenbauer grim...@gmx.de wrote:
On Monday, 12. September 2011 22:57:40 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 16:07:46 -0400
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
No, it states that it's not solveable for the broadest set of cases (I
hesitate
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 04:14:26AM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote
* Keep udev as it was before (i.e., living in / instead of in /usr) and
somehow make sure that everyone RTFM/RTFFAQ, or
* Make two versions of udev, one which lives in / for those who've done
their homework, and another version in
Hi,
I run my IBM model M keyboard (1987 :) via a Belkin USB-PS2
converter.
This results in a problem
Sometimes after wakeup from supsend to disk (supend to RAM is not
check yet) the keyboard hangs: All LEDs are flashing and not key
is accepted. Power cycling via USB plug helps. I am
Hi,
I am using the US layout for my keyboard in the altgr-intlk variant.
UTF8 is activated.
Furthermore I use CAPS LOCK as compose key. I tried compose key
sequences from /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose and many
do work.
So I think the basic mechanism is ok.
But some came out as
On Monday 12 September 2011 21:31:09 Alan Mackenzie wrote:
They could have put everything on /usr 30 years ago, if they'd have seen
fit. They saw then good reason not to. What you and KS seem oblivious
to is the reason for /bin, /sbin. It is to allow a small boot so as to
permit system
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 02:37:24PM -0400, Canek Pel??ez Vald??s wrote
No fixable, in reality. The flexibility of udev is in part in that the
userspace can (and actually do) run arbitrary scripts and binaries
from udev rules. You can fix the ones that require binaries in /usr
*NOW*, but not
On Monday 12 Sep 2011 13:11:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 9/11/2011 8:28 PM, Albert W. Hopkins wrote:
On Sunday, September 11 at 18:54 (-0500), Dale said:
I think I saw it mentioned on -dev that some time shortly /usr
and /var
will be needed on / or you will need the init* thingy to boot.
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