Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 16:30:33 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: My unattended daily system maintenance procedure is like this: layman -S emerge --sync emerge -pvDuN world emerge -pv --depclean eclean -p distfiles eclean -p packages And then attended like this: revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-05 Thread Dale
Grant wrote: I think you're right about that. Can I configure eclean to wait a certain number of days since a package was removed before cleaning it? Even if I only run it once per week, it could remove a package that was updated yesterday that I find out I need tomorrow. -

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins-ugly Update Error install phase

2012-12-05 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, On Sun, 02 Dec 2012 16:54:05 -0800 John Campbell jdc@cox.net wrote: Just try emerging it again. Thanks it was running. Regards Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-05 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 4 Dec 2012 20:04:30 -0800, Grant wrote: The first depclean is redundant, you haven't updated anything so it won't show anything useful. I only run depclean and revdep-rebuild weekly,I don't see a need to routinely do it more often, especially on slower systems. I do run

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/05/2012 01:43 AM, Grant wrote: I switched to msmtp when nbsmtp was treecleaned. The switch was uneventful; it just works, which is high praise. You can't encrypt your password unless you're going to be physically present to decrypt it (with some other password). If your machine is

Re: [gentoo-user] ssmtp alternatives: msmtp vs. dma

2012-12-05 Thread Randy Barlow
Grant wrote: msmtp --passwordeval 'gpg -d mypwfile.gpg' Be careful with passing your password as a command line argument, because it will put your password into the output of ps. This would allow any user on the system to read your password. -- R

[gentoo-user] continue an installation

2012-12-05 Thread Willie WY Wong
Hi list, Suppose that I tried to emerge a package, and the compilation phase went through without problems, but it got stopped in the installation phase. Is there a way to (after I fixed the problem) to tell portage to install the (now all already compiled binaries sitting in /var/tmp/portage)

Re: [gentoo-user] continue an installation

2012-12-05 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012 08:45:10 +0100 Willie WY Wong wong...@member.ams.org wrote: Hi list, Suppose that I tried to emerge a package, and the compilation phase went through without problems, but it got stopped in the installation phase. Is there a way to (after I fixed the problem) to tell