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

2012-02-16 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 13:53:45 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Feb 16, 2012 1:49 PM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: walt w41...@gmail.com writes: In any case, if you need -zlib in one package and zlib in another you can set/unset the needed flag for just

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

2012-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
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 moved from

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

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

[gentoo-user] slim keyboard layout

2012-02-16 Thread András Csányi
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.

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

2012-02-16 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org 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.

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

2012-02-16 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org mailto:jo...@antarean.org 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 ?

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org mailto:jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, February 16, 2012 6:24 am, Pandu Poluan wrote: I am wondering if any

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

2012-02-16 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, February 16, 2012 12:39 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org mailto:jo...@antarean.org wrote: SNIP Pandu, I

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

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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] unclear package collisions in nvidia-drivers-295.20-r1

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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 and

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

2012-02-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 5:16 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com 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.

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

2012-02-16 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2012-02-15 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 07:09:38 -0500, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2012-02-15 7:10 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 7:12 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2012-02-15 5:17 PM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 6:48 PM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thu, February 16, 2012 12:39 pm, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 16, 2012 6:14 PM, Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net wrote: Am 16.02.2012 11:12, schrieb Pandu Poluan: On Feb 16, 2012 3:33 PM, J. Roeleveld

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 7:00 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Allan Gottlieb
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 to be

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

2012-02-16 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-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 emerge --info

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

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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] [OT] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-16 Thread m...@trausch.us
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 is

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

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
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,

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

2012-02-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 16, 2012 8:41 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk 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.

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

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Paul Hartman writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org 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

Re: [gentoo-user] slim keyboard layout

2012-02-16 Thread James Broadhead
On 16 February 2012 09:10, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Paul Hartman writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Alex Schuster
Mark Knecht writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org wrote: Mark Knecht writes: On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 7:29 AM, Alex Schuster wo...@wonkology.org 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

[gentoo-user] gptfdisk on livedvd-12.0 ?

2012-02-16 Thread James
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

[gentoo-user] {OT} SIP service?

2012-02-16 Thread Grant
Is anyone using a SIP service they like that works with generic SIP clients like linphone? - Grant

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

2012-02-16 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
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. However, if

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

2012-02-16 Thread Willie Matthews
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 11:56:52 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com 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] slim keyboard layout

2012-02-16 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 14:54, James Broadhead jamesbroadh...@gmail.com wrote: On 16 February 2012 09:10, András Csányi sayusi.a...@gmail.com 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Willie Matthews
On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:51:27 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread walt
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] (A nice illustration of Gentoo)

2012-02-16 Thread Peter Humphrey
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... -- Rgds

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 17, 2012 8:16 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 2/16/12, Peter Humphrey pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org 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

[gentoo-user] ebuild for a fee?

2012-02-16 Thread Grant
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] ebuild for a fee?

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 17, 2012 10:13 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com 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,

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

2012-02-16 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Feb 17, 2012 2:58 AM, James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com 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

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

2012-02-16 Thread Dale
Pandu Poluan wrote: On Feb 17, 2012 10:13 AM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com mailto:emailgr...@gmail.com 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] Re: Alternative to firefox?

2012-02-16 Thread Walter Dnes
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. It

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

2012-02-16 Thread Hari Purnama
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] linuxtv-dvb-headers gone virtual blocks mythtv overlay

2012-02-16 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
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 moved from

[gentoo-user] mixing x86 and amd64 distcc?

2012-02-16 Thread Coert Waagmeester
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

2012-02-16 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:19:33 +0100 Raffaele BELARDI raffaele.bela...@st.com 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