Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Spidey spide...@gmail.com wrote: That's one task that I find difficult to do in Gentoo. Should I mess with temp folders in /var/tmp/portage to find changelogs there? I'd like something easy to use as eix or equery, but since Gentoo just maintains ebuild files I

[gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log

2011-10-02 Thread Adam Carter
HW = Chipset: ATI Radeon HD 4250 (Chipset = 0x9715) Config is mostly taken from a working amd64 + radeon system. linux-firmware is installed. No errors or warning in the the xorg logs, but startx returns a blank screen on both the VGA and HDMI outputs. It also fails with no xorg.conf. There's

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-02 Thread James Broadhead
On 2 October 2011 07:06, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: emerge --changelog -p blah? Oh wow. I'll be using that a lot from now on. If only I'd read the portage changelog to find out when they added this feature :P

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log

2011-10-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 02 Oktober 2011, 17:51:19 schrieb Adam Carter: HW = Chipset: ATI Radeon HD 4250 (Chipset = 0x9715) Config is mostly taken from a working amd64 + radeon system. linux-firmware is installed. No errors or warning in the the xorg logs, but startx returns a blank screen on both the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 02 Oktober 2011, 01:13:54 schrieb Spidey: That's one task that I find difficult to do in Gentoo. Should I mess with temp folders in /var/tmp/portage to find changelogs there? I'd like something easy to use as eix or equery, but since Gentoo just maintains ebuild files I guess it

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log

2011-10-02 Thread Adam Carter
Xorg.0.log; [ 824.120] X.Org X Server 1.10.4 Release Date: 2011-08-19 [ 824.121] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0 [ 824.121] Build Operating System: Linux 3.0.4-gentoo x86_64 Gentoo [ 824.121] Current Operating System: Linux proxy 3.0.4-gentoo #2 SMP Sat Oct 1 18:19:30 EST 2011 x86_64 [

[gentoo-user] Re: How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/02/2011 07:13 AM, Spidey wrote: That's one task that I find difficult to do in Gentoo. Should I mess with temp folders in /var/tmp/portage to find changelogs there? I'd like something easy to use as eix or equery, but since Gentoo just maintains ebuild files I guess it doesn't mess with

Re: [gentoo-user] How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Dale
Andrey Moshbear wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 00:17, Spideyspide...@gmail.com wrote: The question is in the subject: how to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use? Someone somewhere in this list suggested using some tool, I've tried that but it was extremely

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 08:06:05 +0100, James Broadhead wrote: On 2 October 2011 07:06, Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: emerge --changelog -p blah? Oh wow. I'll be using that a lot from now on. If only I'd read the portage changelog to find out when they added this feature :P

[gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/02/2011 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Look into app-portage/ufed. Hey, cl. That is some cool stuff. Maybe I can use this to clean this up: USE=3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 aml apng automount avahi [snip monstrosity] It seems you confused make.conf with package.use :-P

Re: [gentoo-user] How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 01:17:01 -0300, Spidey wrote: The question is in the subject: how to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use? eix-test-obsolete finds this and more besides, it's great for keeping /etc/portage cruft-free. -- Neil Bothwick Very funny

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/02/2011 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Look into app-portage/ufed. Hey, cl. That is some cool stuff. Maybe I can use this to clean this up: USE=3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 aml apng automount avahi [snip monstrosity] It seems you confused make.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log

2011-10-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 02 Oktober 2011, 17:51:19 schrieb Adam Carter: HW = Chipset: ATI Radeon HD 4250 (Chipset = 0x9715) Config is mostly taken from a working amd64 + radeon system. linux-firmware is installed. No errors or warning in the the xorg logs, but startx returns a blank screen on both the

[gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/02/2011 12:14 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/02/2011 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Look into app-portage/ufed. Hey, cl. That is some cool stuff. Maybe I can use this to clean this up: USE=3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 aml apng automount avahi [snip monstrosity]

[gentoo-user] MediaTomb - sorting images by exif rating

2011-10-02 Thread czernitko
Hello there! I am using Mediatomb with my telly which is so far the best DLNA server I've tried. I use the telly to present images from my DSLR camera and I'd like to be able to list only images that have rating over 4. By rating, I mean EXIF tag 0x4746 (Exif.Image.Rating). Does anybody know how

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/02/2011 12:14 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/02/2011 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Look into app-portage/ufed. Hey, cl. That is some cool stuff. Maybe I can use this to clean this up: USE=3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac acpi alsa amd64 aml apng

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:13:49 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/02/2011 12:14 PM, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/02/2011 11:44 AM, Dale wrote: Look into app-portage/ufed. Hey, cl. That is some cool stuff. Maybe I can use this to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:13:49 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: In that case, I then use package.use. Like this in package.use: x11-base/xorg-server -hal net-misc/ntp caps -ipv6 media-gfx/gtkam debug sys-power/nut -usb I use package.use for those exceptions where I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:36:54 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:13:49 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: In that case, I then use package.use. Like this in package.use: x11-base/xorg-server -hal net-misc/ntp caps -ipv6

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:36:54 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:13:49 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: In that case, I then use package.use. Like this in package.use: x11-base/xorg-server -hal net-misc/ntp caps

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:36:54 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:13:49 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com  wrote: You often mention the attraction of Gentoo is you get

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:50:41 -0500, Dale wrote: That said, I'm going to try USE=-perl -python emerge -Nav world and see what pukes on my keyboard. Also, I think a lot of things required python and/or perl back when I added the flag. If they require Perl or Python, you won't have the perl

Re: [gentoo-user] MediaTomb - sorting images by exif rating

2011-10-02 Thread czernitko
Thanks for your answer, Michael. I have already read the web page you posted, but my problem is that libextractor extracts various EXIF metadata from jpeg files EXCEPT for exif rating. So I wonder whether there is any workaround/any way to do this in some different way? Or maybe some way to teach

Re: [gentoo-user] MediaTomb - sorting images by exif rating

2011-10-02 Thread Michael Mol
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:58 AM, czernitko czerni...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your answer, Michael. I have already read the web page you posted, but my problem is that libextractor extracts various EXIF metadata from jpeg files EXCEPT for exif rating. So I wonder whether there is any

Re: [gentoo-user] How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread pk
On 2011-10-02 10:44, Dale wrote: How's that for a USE line? What does it look like if there is a USE Hm... this doesn't really answer the original question but I like to put my USE flags (in make.conf) in a list (alphabetized [using sort]) like this: USE= 3dnow 3dnowext a52 aac -accessibility

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 10:53:46 -0400 Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:36:54 -0500 Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:13:49 -0500

Re: [gentoo-user] How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Dale
pk wrote: On 2011-10-02 10:44, Dale wrote: How's that for a USE line? What does it look like if there is a USE Hm... this doesn't really answer the original question but I like to put my USE flags (in make.conf) in a list (alphabetized [using sort]) like this: USE= 3dnow 3dnowext a52 aac

Re: [gentoo-user] X hang / occasionally after using LVM

2011-10-02 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Sonntag 02 Oktober 2011, 22:34:25 schrieb J.Marcos Sitorus: Hi Volker, I just update VirtualBox from 4.0.8 to 4.1.2 today, and when emerge finished I read the message that I need to manually put virtualbox modules to /etc/conf.d/modules. The module I said that I set to autoload on boot was

Re: [gentoo-user] How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread pk
On 2011-10-02 19:51, Dale wrote: So, I guess you put the \ on the end and indent the next line and it sees it as one line. This is copy-paste (well, it's not all of it but I think you get the idea) directly from my make.conf: USE= 3dnow 3dnowext a52 aac -accessibility acl acpi ... Portage

Re: [gentoo-user] How to read package changelogs?

2011-10-02 Thread Spidey
I guess emerge --changelog will print ebuild changelogs, right? I'll try /usr/share/doc, and if it's not enough, go for the package website and find it there. Thank you for the suggestions. Claudio Roberto França Pereira (a.k.a. Spidey) hardMOB - HTForum - @spideybr Engenharia de Computação -

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log

2011-10-02 Thread Spidey
Try with this simplified xorg.conf: Section Device Identifier aticonfig-Device[0]-0 Driver fglrx #Driver radeon EndSection You can toggle video drivers also and tell what happened. By the way, you realise you also need to setup correct kernel modules and disable

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-10-02 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 10/01/11 19:46, Grant wrote: I think separate repositories would only be necessary when using distributed version control (git) as opposed to centralized (subversion). I think subversion's path-based authorization should eliminate the need for separate repositories? Separate repos

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 10:53:46 -0400 Michael Molmike...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:36:54 -0500 Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:13:49

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:26:27 -0500, Dale wrote: One thing I don't like about having all the separate file in package.* is trying to keep up with them. I have several files that are there that don't even have anything in them because either portages unmask feature or autounmask created

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:26:27 -0500, Dale wrote: One thing I don't like about having all the separate file in package.* is trying to keep up with them. I have several files that are there that don't even have anything in them because either portages unmask feature or

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to easily find out what USE flags are redundant in make.conf and package.use?

2011-10-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:51:56 -0500, Dale wrote: I generally use autounmask or portages unmask feature and it gives them names. Thing is, just because is it named something doesn't mean that is what is in it. I had a KDE unmask file that had things that were not KDE but was needed by KDE.

[gentoo-user] gv - default printer

2011-10-02 Thread Joseph
Does anybody know how to setup default printer for gv Is it possible? -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Development framework with access restriction?

2011-10-02 Thread Mick
On Sunday 02 Oct 2011 00:27:23 Grant wrote: I'm not sure if you are overcomplicating this by trying to use Unix permission. Have you instead considered webdav? You can restrict this to particular (apache) users/groups, directories, files. It also uses lockfiles so with two users editing

Re: [gentoo-user] gv - default printer

2011-10-02 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
I *think* gv just calls lpr, so the question then is which is your default printer. Regards. El 02/10/2011 15:07, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com escribió: Does anybody know how to setup default printer for gv Is it possible? -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] Blank screen in X, no errors in Xorg.log

2011-10-02 Thread Adam Carter
By the way, you realise you also need to setup correct kernel modules and disable conflicting ones when changing from fglrx to radeon, right? Really - i thought changing the X driver was all that was required. Is that do with with KMS? Anyway, i think i'll focus on just using fglrx as its

[gentoo-user] BASH Completion - Mixing directories and executables

2011-10-02 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
Hi all, I was wondering if someone had a good suggestion to fix the following: $ woTAB $ wordTABTAB $ word wordforms wordlist2hunspell $workTAB $workspaces/ I'm trying to reach the workspaces directory but BASH completion seems to prefer executables. It seems to only list directories

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH Completion - Mixing directories and executables

2011-10-02 Thread Alexander Tanyukevich
On Monday, October 3, 2011, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if someone had a good suggestion to fix the following: $ woTAB $ wordTABTAB $ word wordforms wordlist2hunspell $workTAB $workspaces/ I'm trying to reach the workspaces directory but BASH completion

Re: [gentoo-user] gv - default printer

2011-10-02 Thread Joseph
On 10/02/11 15:56, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: I *think* gv just calls lpr, so the question then is which is your default printer. Regards. El 02/10/2011 15:07, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com escribiA^3: Does anybody know how to setup default printer for gv Is it possible? --

Re: [gentoo-user] BASH Completion - Mixing directories and executables

2011-10-02 Thread Hilco Wijbenga
On 2 October 2011 16:37, Alexander Tanyukevich atanyukev...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday, October 3, 2011, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if someone had a good suggestion to fix the following: $ woTAB $ wordTABTAB $ word wordforms          wordlist2hunspell $workTAB