Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > > On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > >> I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait > >> for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself.

[gentoo-user] mixing x86 and amd64 distcc?

Hello all, Can amd64 distcc compile for a gentoo x86 setup? Or do I need a 32bit chroot? Regards, Coert Waagmeester

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait >> for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How >> difficult would the latter be? > > If the package just move

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

On 02/15/12 17:58, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Found this blogpost serendipitously: > > http://mark.orbum.net/2011/11/15/the-pan-pipes-of-gentoo-linux-always-at-the-source/ > > so, are we brothers? :-) > > Rgds, > brothers in deed.. :) btw, met siang om pandu.. -- Regards, Hari Purnama

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Alternative to firefox?

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 08:43:20AM -0800, Grant wrote > Thanks for the suggestions everyone. It sounds like chromium and > midori are the most popular here but lots of other suggestions I will > look into too. Thanks for posting the question. I found out about midori, thanks to this thread.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a fee?

Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 17, 2012 10:13 AM, "Grant" > wrote: >> >> I'd like to pay to have an ebuild built. Can anyone recommend a way >> to get in touch with a good person for the job? >> >> - Grant >> > > gentoo-dev? :-) > > Rgds, > gentoo-devhelp ? Dale

Re: [gentoo-user] gptfdisk on livedvd-12.0 ?

On Feb 17, 2012 2:58 AM, "James" wrote: > > Hello, > > My download of livedvd-12 is running really slow, > despite trying dozens of mirrors (mirrorselect produced > poor suggestions) currently. > > So, I am trying to find out if gptfdisk is on the latest > livedvd or SystemrescueCD. I cannot f

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for a fee?

On Feb 17, 2012 10:13 AM, "Grant" wrote: > > I'd like to pay to have an ebuild built. Can anyone recommend a way > to get in touch with a good person for the job? > > - Grant > gentoo-dev? :-) Rgds,

[gentoo-user] ebuild for a fee?

I'd like to pay to have an ebuild built. Can anyone recommend a way to get in touch with a good person for the job? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

On 2/16/12, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P > > Congratulations! The first correct use of "one of those who" I've seen in > several years. If only Americans would speak English! > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, "Peter Humphrey" wrote: > > On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P > > > > Congratulations! The first correct use of "one of those who" I've seen in several years. If only Americans wo

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

On Thursday 16 February 2012 04:07:38 Pandu Poluan wrote: > I am one of those guys who are against initrd/initramfs :-P Congratulations! The first correct use of "one of those who" I've seen in several years. If only Americans would speak English! I'll subside back into obscurity now... -- Rg

[gentoo-user] Re: Group Calendaring with decent Outlook interaction

On 02/16/2012 04:04 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > Sadly, we are a Windows shop, That thought never crossed my mind when I mentioned Evolution. > and although it has admittedly been a > while, I have seen nothing to indicate that Evolution is any better > on Windows than it ever has been. When I played

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SIP service?

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:51:27 -0800 Grant wrote: > >> Is anyone using a SIP service they like that works with generic SIP > >> clients like linphone? > >> > >> - Grant > >> > > > > I like sip2sip.info the most! > > I should have said I need to be able to call regular > phone number from the SIP c

Re: [gentoo-user] slim keyboard layout

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 14:54, James Broadhead wrote: > On 16 February 2012 09:10, András Csányi wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I have been googling for a while to find the answer for the question >> how on earth I'm able to set up the default keyboard layout of slim, >> but I haven't find any answer

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SIP service?

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:56:52 -0800 Grant wrote: > Is anyone using a SIP service they like that works with generic SIP > clients like linphone? > > - Grant > I like sip2sip.info the most! -- Willie Matthews matthews.wil...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:14:19 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > What I meant was, I rely on ls to remind me (or other sysadmins) that > the file is special and should not be edited willy-nilly. > I don't want a well-meaning but misguided minion to 'taint' the > mercurial repo. Makes sense. > > Howeve

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} SIP service?

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Grant wrote: > Is anyone using a SIP service they like that works with generic SIP > clients like linphone? I use Callcentric, have for a few years now as my "home phone". It works with Linphone or any generic SIP client or hardware. You can sign up for a free acc

[gentoo-user] {OT} SIP service?

Is anyone using a SIP service they like that works with generic SIP clients like linphone? - Grant

[gentoo-user] gptfdisk on livedvd-12.0 ?

Hello, My download of livedvd-12 is running really slow, despite trying dozens of mirrors (mirrorselect produced poor suggestions) currently. So, I am trying to find out if gptfdisk is on the latest livedvd or SystemrescueCD. I cannot find the software listing for the livedvd-12. Here is a ge

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Mark Knecht writes: > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster >> wrote: > >> > How can I find out in such a case which processes are waiting >> > for I/O? top showed nothing. >> >> iotop is your friend. > > I had called it, but did

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

Mark Knecht writes: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > How can I find out in such a case which processes are waiting > > for I/O? top showed nothing. > > iotop is your friend. I had called it, but didn't spot the problem there. I don't remember exactly what the outpu

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Paul Hartman writes: > >> On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster >> wrote: > >> > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard >> > drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] slim keyboard layout

On 16 February 2012 09:10, András Csányi wrote: > Dear All, > > I have been googling for a while to find the answer for the question > how on earth I'm able to set up the default keyboard layout of slim, > but I haven't find any answer for this. > A few articles say that if the keyboard layout is

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

Paul Hartman writes: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster > wrote: > > Then my hardware broke, and I got new one, except for the system hard > > drive and the PSU. It's an AMD FX-4100 quad-core with 3.6 GHz, 16 G of > > RAM. Running gentoo-sources-3.2.1 as kernel. But it seems playin

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > I've written here in the past about my performance problems. My dual-core > had trouble playing movies without stuttering when there was I/O. It was > mainly swapping that caused this, and 8 G were not enough for me running > KDE4. > > Then m

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Feb 16, 2012 8:41 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:35:50 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > Or use a hardlink instead of a symlink. > > > I tend to stay away from hardlinks; ls IIRC can't differentiate between > > hardlinks and normal files. > > There is no difference. A no

Re: [gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster wrote: > Hi there! > Hi back at ya. > How can I find out in such a case which processes are waiting > for I/O? top showed nothing. iotop is your friend. I'll write more when I get some time to think HTH, Mark

[gentoo-user] I want to play movies without hangs

Hi there! Strange things are going on here. I've written here in the past about my performance problems. My dual-core had trouble playing movies without stuttering when there was I/O. It was mainly swapping that caused this, and 8 G were not enough for me running KDE4. Then my hardware broke, an

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

On 02/15/2012 11:07 PM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Eh? You don't need to duck from me... I am one of those guys who are > against initrd/initramfs :-P I hate extra cogs in the system. Simpler is better! > That said, anyone read his description of other distros? Somehow I got > the vibes that Gentoo's

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 08:09:38 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I didn't realize that I could run emerges together. > The emerge of LO was the penultimate merge coming from an > emerge update world > (the last was LO-l10n) > While this LO merge was in progress could I have safely started another >

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:35:50 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > Or use a hardlink instead of a symlink. > I tend to stay away from hardlinks; ls IIRC can't differentiate between > hardlinks and normal files. There is no difference. A normal file entry in a directory is still a hardlink, what we gene

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16.02.2012 14:09, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Thu, Feb 16 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:31:02 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> >>> That's it! I had collision-protect in make.conf. I just now >>> removed it and indeed emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

On Thu, Feb 16 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:31:02 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> That's it! I had collision-protect in make.conf. I just now removed it >> and indeed emerge --info shows protect-owned. I have an emerge of >> libreoffice running now. But hope tomorrow t

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Feb 16, 2012 7:00 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote: > > On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:39:16 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > Oh well, I'll just add an explicit source then. > > Or use a hardlink instead of a symlink. > > I tend to stay away from hardlinks; ls IIRC can't differentiate between hardlinks and n

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Feb 16, 2012 6:48 PM, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > > On Thu, February 16, 2012 12:39 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: > >> > >> Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > >> > > >> > On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, "J. Roeleveld" >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

On Feb 16, 2012 7:12 PM, "Tanstaafl" wrote: > > On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a >> while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. >> I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:09:38 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2012-02-15 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > You described your frustration but never mentioned what it is you > > want. Is it a download source for a working appliance? Google will > > find one of those for you. > > I've looked and looke

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

On 2012-02-15 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: You described your frustration but never mentioned what it is you want. Is it a download source for a working appliance? Google will find one of those for you. I've looked and looked and never found one that I could download... and my google-fu is u

Re: [gentoo-user] Again about a gentoo vm appliance for vbox

On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: As you haven't done this recently (I do remember you having troubles a while back) I'm not sure what action you are asking me to take here. I've built a couple of Gentoo VMs on Virtualbox in the past and they both worked fine for me. I've since deleted t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Group Calendaring with decent Outlook interaction

On 2012-02-15 5:16 PM, walt wrote: On 02/15/2012 10:12 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: We use Thunderbird+Lightning+Provider for Google Calendar+Google Calendar here in our office, and the calendaring really is becoming more and more problematic for us, mostly with respect to interacting with Meeting Invi

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:31:02 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > That's it! I had collision-protect in make.conf. I just now removed it > and indeed emerge --info shows protect-owned. I have an emerge of > libreoffice running now. But hope tomorrow to be able to retry the > nvidia-drivers emerge an

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 18:39:16 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Oh well, I'll just add an explicit source then. Or use a hardlink instead of a symlink. -- Neil Bothwick If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Thu, February 16, 2012 12:39 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: >> >> Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> > >> > On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, "J. Roeleveld" > > > wrote: >> >> >> >> Pandu, >> >> >> >> I haven't checke

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, "Florian Philipp" wrote: > > Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > > > On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, "J. Roeleveld" > > wrote: > >> > >> > >> On Thu, February 16, 2012 6:24 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > >> > I am wondering if any of you had expe

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: > > On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, "J. Roeleveld" > wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, February 16, 2012 6:24 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> > I am wondering if any of you had experienced the same difficulty as me: >> > >> > A couple of days ago, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, "J. Roeleveld" wrote: > > > On Thu, February 16, 2012 6:24 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > I am wondering if any of you had experienced the same difficulty as me: > > > > A couple of days ago, I upgraded openrc from (whatever version it was > > previously) to 0.9.8.4. > > > >

[gentoo-user] gnupg: can't use keyservers

Greets, I recently tried to get/update keys from keyservers and always got stuff like: : can't connect to `pgp.zdv.uni-mainz.de': host not found gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: Not found Didn't matter which keyserver, also tried it from the shell (and not from enigmail/thunderbi

[gentoo-user] slim keyboard layout

Dear All, I have been googling for a while to find the answer for the question how on earth I'm able to set up the default keyboard layout of slim, but I haven't find any answer for this. A few articles say that if the keyboard layout is set up in xorg.conf than it will be okay. It doesn't work. I

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:16:42 +0100, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > Some explanations: I would recommend creating an own overlay so you > don't get problems on sync. If multiple packages are concerned you'll > have to repeat the procedure (except the overlay creation) for each of > them. > If the

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

On 02/16/2012 09:16 AM, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: >> I suppose that my only options for rebuilding mythtv are to wait >> for upstream to update the ebuild or to update it myself. How >> difficult would the latter be? > > If the package just move

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

On Thu, February 16, 2012 6:24 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I am wondering if any of you had experienced the same difficulty as me: > > A couple of days ago, I upgraded openrc from (whatever version it was > previously) to 0.9.8.4. > > One of the scripts in /etc/init.d was a symlink to /opt/some/pack

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: zlib use flag

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:53:45 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Feb 16, 2012 1:49 PM, "Graham Murray" > wrote: > > > > walt writes: > > > > > In any case, if you need -zlib in one package and zlib in another > > > you > can > > > set/unset the needed flag for just one package in > /etc/portage/pack

Re: [gentoo-user] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16.02.2012 08:58, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > After yesterday's sync I found mythtv's overlay not able to build > anymore due to missing dependency: media-tv/linuxtv-dvb-headers is > no longer present in the tree. A quick search shows that it has now