[gentoo-user] genkernel and busybox
Dear All,
I would like to ask what should I do in this case? I would like to
make a new kernel using genkernel but there is no 1.8.1 version of
busybox and it's not available in portage. To be honest I don't want
to do a new kernel by hand despite the fact it would be a few
commands.
Thanks for any help in advance!
sa-home Downloads # genkernel --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
* Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.4.23.1
* Running with options: --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
Could not find source tarball
/var/cache/genkernel/src/busybox-1.18.1.tar.bz2. Please refetch.
sa-home Downloads # eix -s busybox
[I] sys-apps/busybox
Available versions: 1.17.4!t (~)1.18.4!t (~)1.18.5!t 1.19.0!t
(~)1.19.2!t (~)1.19.2-r1!t (~)1.19.3!t 1.19.3-r1!t {debug elibc_glibc
ipv6 make-symlinks mdev nfs -pam savedconfig selinux static}
Installed versions: 1.19.3-r1!t(01:29:36 PM
01/16/2012)(elibc_glibc ipv6 pam -make-symlinks -mdev -savedconfig
-selinux -static)
Homepage:http://www.busybox.net/
Description: Utilities for rescue and embedded systems
sa-home Downloads #
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Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel and busybox
On Jan 24, 2012 4:40 PM, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I would like to ask what should I do in this case? I would like to
make a new kernel using genkernel but there is no 1.8.1 version of
busybox and it's not available in portage. To be honest I don't want
to do a new kernel by hand despite the fact it would be a few
commands.
Thanks for any help in advance!
sa-home Downloads # genkernel --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
* Gentoo Linux Genkernel; Version 3.4.23.1
* Running with options: --menuconfig --no-mrproper --no-clean all
Could not find source tarball
/var/cache/genkernel/src/busybox-1.18.1.tar.bz2. Please refetch.
sa-home Downloads # eix -s busybox
[I] sys-apps/busybox
Available versions: 1.17.4!t (~)1.18.4!t (~)1.18.5!t 1.19.0!t
(~)1.19.2!t (~)1.19.2-r1!t (~)1.19.3!t 1.19.3-r1!t {debug elibc_glibc
ipv6 make-symlinks mdev nfs -pam savedconfig selinux static}
Installed versions: 1.19.3-r1!t(01:29:36 PM
01/16/2012)(elibc_glibc ipv6 pam -make-symlinks -mdev -savedconfig
-selinux -static)
Homepage:http://www.busybox.net/
Description: Utilities for rescue and embedded systems
sa-home Downloads #
Well, there's a forum thread with a similar problem:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-699180-start-0.html
Alternatively, compile busybox with USE=static, package it using quickpkg,
and tell genkernel to use that binary package using
--busybox-bin=/path/to/busybox-binary.tar.bz2
Rgds,
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: netcat and libmix.so.0 curiosity
On Monday 23 Jan 2012 23:34:00 Mervyn Hammer wrote: Thanks for your replies. Am 23.01.2012 23:03, schrieb walt: Very strange indeed. I just installed both packages and I have no libmix.so.0 either, yet everything works. No idea what's causing your problem, but I agree it's a problem I'd want to solve. I'd try running ldconfig -p and lddtree /usr/bin/nc to see where the .0 is coming from. (lddtree is from pax-utils). For completeness: (for dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 after symlink created) ldconfig -p | grep libmix = libmix.so.0 (libc6) = /usr/lib/libmix.so.0 libmix++.so.0 (libc6) = /usr/lib/libmix++.so.0 and output from lddtree /usr/bin/nc = nc = /usr/bin/nc (interpreter = /lib/ld-linux.so.2) libmix.so.0 = /usr/lib/libmix.so.0 libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 * Felix Kuperjans fe...@desaster-games.com [2012-01-23 23:13:26 +0100]: I ran into this problem some time ago, it seems the ebuild dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 is broken. It does no longer create a symlink from libmix.so.0 to libmix.so. Though it worked with the symlink, as you suggested, I upgraded libmix anyway. Hmm ... strange. I have dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 and I also have the symlink: $ ls -la /usr/lib64/libmix* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5752 Mar 25 2011 /usr/lib64/libmix++.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root11 Mar 25 2011 /usr/lib64/libmix++.so.0 - libmix++.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98352 Mar 25 2011 /usr/lib64/libmix.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 25 2011 /usr/lib64/libmix.so.0 - libmix.so -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: netcat and libmix.so.0 curiosity
On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 15:02, Mick wrote: On Monday 23 Jan 2012 23:34:00 Mervyn Hammer wrote: Thanks for your replies. Am 23.01.2012 23:03, schrieb walt: Very strange indeed. I just installed both packages and I have no libmix.so.0 either, yet everything works. No idea what's causing your problem, but I agree it's a problem I'd want to solve. I'd try running ldconfig -p and lddtree /usr/bin/nc to see where the .0 is coming from. (lddtree is from pax-utils). For completeness: (for dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 after symlink created) ldconfig -p | grep libmix = libmix.so.0 (libc6) = /usr/lib/libmix.so.0 libmix++.so.0 (libc6) = /usr/lib/libmix++.so.0 and output from lddtree /usr/bin/nc = nc = /usr/bin/nc (interpreter = /lib/ld-linux.so.2) libmix.so.0 = /usr/lib/libmix.so.0 libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 * Felix Kuperjans fe...@desaster-games.com [2012-01-23 23:13:26 +0100]: I ran into this problem some time ago, it seems the ebuild dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 is broken. It does no longer create a symlink from libmix.so.0 to libmix.so. Though it worked with the symlink, as you suggested, I upgraded libmix anyway. Hmm ... strange. I have dev-libs/libmix-2.05-r5 and I also have the symlink: $ ls -la /usr/lib64/libmix* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5752 Mar 25 2011 /usr/lib64/libmix++.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root11 Mar 25 2011 /usr/lib64/libmix++.so.0 - libmix++.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 98352 Mar 25 2011 /usr/lib64/libmix.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 25 2011 /usr/lib64/libmix.so.0 - libmix.so This happens if a previous version created it. Try unmerging libmix and netcat, delete the symlink and re-emerge netcat. It won't be created again, though it should. (At least, this happend on many of my boxes, x86 and amd64) Regards, Felix
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I know, in general, what proxies do -- caching, filtering, and bypassing firewalls. I have even written a couple of very special purpose proxies. Now I need one for work, and don't realy want to write another custom special purpose when it seems there must be a canned one which can do the job. We have some vendors who transact business over special ports with custom protocols. We pay for these connections, and we only have two of them, good enough for QA, but when a developer needs to test code, they have to drag their machine over to QA and schedule time with one of these connections. What we need is a proxy which can take any number of connections on our side and funnel everything into one or two vendor connections. I don't know enough of the proxy jargon to know how to describe it. I imagine some kind of NAT. No filtering or caching; firewall penetration will be taken care of elsewhere. Any suggestions, or proxy education hints? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o
Re: [gentoo-user] Proxy questions
On Tuesday 24 Jan 2012 17:08:43 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I know, in general, what proxies do -- caching, filtering, and bypassing firewalls. I have even written a couple of very special purpose proxies. Now I need one for work, and don't realy want to write another custom special purpose when it seems there must be a canned one which can do the job. We have some vendors who transact business over special ports with custom protocols. We pay for these connections, and we only have two of them, good enough for QA, but when a developer needs to test code, they have to drag their machine over to QA and schedule time with one of these connections. What we need is a proxy which can take any number of connections on our side and funnel everything into one or two vendor connections. I don't know enough of the proxy jargon to know how to describe it. I imagine some kind of NAT. No filtering or caching; firewall penetration will be taken care of elsewhere. Any suggestions, or proxy education hints? I'm not entirely clear of your use case scenarios and the constraints you are trying to address with a proxy (e.g. why the developer does not connect directly to the vendors port(s) to access their service? ) but I'll guess that you probably need a reverse proxy/load balancer arrangement - something like pound, portfusion, or even nginx? BTW, did I mention apache mod_proxy? I am not sure what authentication arrangements you need to access your vendors ports, if you have VPNs or other secure tunnels between your site and the vendors', but let's say I'd read up on reverse proxies as a start. This should make the transaction transparent for your devs, they won't necessarily know which vendor they end up with after they hit your URL, but I am not sure if it will satisfactorily address the issue of scheduling time for a connection with your vendors at times of high demand. Once ports or vendor service limitations are reached the connections will eventually become saturated. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?
Hi. I am upgrading gnome to gnome3 and I find that at least gnome-control-center wants pulseaudio, but I hate pulseaudio and, if possible, don't want to install it at all. I did configure package.provided to not compile, but gnome-control-center seems to require it. Anyway to get around this? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gnome-control-center any way to configure without pulseaudio?
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/24/2012 01:14 PM, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am upgrading gnome to gnome3 and I find that at least gnome-control-center wants pulseaudio, but I hate pulseaudio and, if possible, don't want to install it at all. I did configure package.provided to not compile, but gnome-control-center seems to require it. Anyway to get around this? I feel the same, and I've started using xfce4 instead of gnome3 because they don't require any sound daemon (yet) and the new gnome-shell won't run on my old video hardware anyway. I just scanned through the gnome-control-center code looking for clues about pulse and found no sign that pulse is voluntary. There are no config options to enable or disable pulse, so it appears that pulse is here to stay in gnome3. oldfart I doubt that one in a hundred computer users would know how to use pulse to fix sound problems even *if* pulse is the right solution. A long way yet to go before pulse will be anything but a curse to me :( /oldfart Yep, I agree. So what would happen if I installed pulse and just didn't start the thing, what would I lose then? Seems like a waste of disk space to me. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com
