Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 19:25:55 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? - Grant Yes me. ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. For desktops and laptops, x86 was

Re: [gentoo-user] Ext4 problem and disk access

2012-12-09 Thread Jacques Montier
2012/12/9 Andre Goessel gentoo-u...@goessel.net Moin, On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 03:36:29PM +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: As soon as i mount an ext4 partition on my second 1To HDD, the hard drive is always working (read/write) every second (even when doing nothing). This problem appears

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/09/2012 01:13 AM, Grant wrote: I need to be able to install only certain packages from a layman overlay so I do stuff like this: package.mask: */*::perl-experimental package.unmask: perl-core/CPAN::perl-experimental This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone know of

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:13:16 -0800, Grant wrote: This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone know of a way to install only certain packages from a layman overlay and use eix-test-obsolete? I don't add such overlays to make conf. Instead, I symlink directories for the packages I want

Re: [gentoo-user] eclean and the --time-limit option

2012-12-09 Thread Francesco Turco
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012, at 17:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: It sounds like you want wget to use --no-use-server-timestamps. I haven't tried it, but something like FETCHCOMMAND=$FETCHCOMMAND --no-use-server-timestamps in make.conf should do it. If not, get the default settings from emerge --info

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-09 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sat, Dec 08, 2012 at 05:20:36PM -0600, Dale wrote: That's been my experience too. I run @preserved-rebuild when it tells me to but revdep-rebuild rarely finds anything. Thing is, it has a time or two. It is best to run revdep-rebuild and be sure than not to and run the risk of not

[gentoo-user] openrc - network configuration fails - how to debug it

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have a problem with wlan without dhcpd. I have created the bug report below but didn't get any comments. Perhaps, some here on this list has an idea how to debug the problem. Here my bug report sys-apps/openrc (0.11.8 and earlier) doesn't play well with wlan without dhcp, i.e. This

Re: [gentoo-user] eix and bad colors.

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/08/2012 12:26:35 AM, Dale wrote: If I figure out something or Helmut's config works, I'll post back. Here is my ebuild app-portage/eix-.ebuild in my local overlay. Hopefully it helps, Helmut. # Copyright 1999-2012 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/09/2012 11:10:52 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:13:16 -0800, Grant wrote: This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone know of a way to install only certain packages from a layman overlay and use eix-test-obsolete? I don't add such overlays to make conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 07:18:42 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: What is @preserved-rebuild ? It is a portage set, hence the @ prefix, containing packages that need to be rebuilt in order to link them against the installed versions of libraries. workstation ~ # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild emerge:

Re: [gentoo-user] openrc - network configuration fails - how to debug it

2012-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 09 Dec 2012 15:18:49 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: config_wlan0=192.168.1.3 netmsk 255.255.255.0 ^ If this is a direct paste from your config, there's the problem. -- Neil Bothwick PC DOS Error #03: Windows not found: (C)heer (P)arty (D)ance

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-09 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 04:48:24PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: What is @preserved-rebuild ? It is a portage set, hence the @ prefix, containing packages that need to be rebuilt in order to link them against the installed versions of libraries. workstation ~ # emerge -a

[gentoo-user] OT: Mail2HTML

2012-12-09 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, is there a easy program i can convert emails to html? Hypermail is little overload. Mail2Html find only as man page, Download links not work. Thx for ideas Silvio

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mail2HTML

2012-12-09 Thread Scott Lawrence
Many moons ago, I created slark: https://github.com/bytbox/slark. It's the polar opposite of hypermail - very lightweight, but not much functionality. /plug shameless=1 This might be the same mail2html, though: http://home.online.no/~pjacklam/perl/programs/mailutil/mail2html.pl On Sun, 9

Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

2012-12-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 11:01:37 -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: What is @preserved-rebuild ? It is a portage set, hence the @ prefix, containing packages that need to be rebuilt in order to link them against the installed versions of libraries. workstation ~ # emerge -a

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Florian Philipp
Am 09.12.2012 04:51, schrieb Michael Mol: On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? It's looking promising. Not that I have a horse in the race, but I very much like

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Sun, 09 Dec 2012 20:24:58 +0100 schrieb Florian Philipp li...@binarywings.net: Am 09.12.2012 04:51, schrieb Michael Mol: On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 10:25 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: Mail2HTML

2012-12-09 Thread Silvio Siefke
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 12:23:16 -0500 (EST) Scott Lawrence byt...@gmail.com wrote: Many moons ago, I created slark: https://github.com/bytbox/slark. It's the polar opposite of hypermail - very lightweight, but not much functionality. /plug shameless=1 This might be the same mail2html,

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Grant
I need to be able to install only certain packages from a layman overlay so I do stuff like this: package.mask: */*::perl-experimental package.unmask: perl-core/CPAN::perl-experimental This really freaks out eix-test-obsolete. Does anyone know of a way to install only

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Vaeth
in package.mask: */*::init6 eix-test-obsolete find over 27,000 packages under this heading: Redundant in /etc/portage/package.mask: ... considered as REDUNDANT_IF_MASK_NO_CHANGE The reason for this is the following: Since the category and package is */*, your mask can match every package -

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Grant
It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? - Grant Yes me. ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because there was nothing else, so x86 is going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing specific layman packages eix-test-obsolete

2012-12-09 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/09/2012 04:01 PM, Grant wrote: If my package.mask is empty, eix-test-obsolete runs fine. If I have this in package.mask: */*::init6 eix-test-obsolete find over 27,000 packages under this heading: Redundant in /etc/portage/package.mask: ... considered as

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Grant
It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? - Grant Yes me. ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because there was nothing else, so x86 is going to

[gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread James
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. For desktops and laptops, x86 was used simply because there was nothing else, so x86 is going to have to fight for it's survival And won't the manufacturers be more inclined to use

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: first water cooled system

2012-12-09 Thread James
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerarmin at googlemail.com writes: sensors, pwmconfig, fancontrol. No need to get the bios involved (except maybe shutdown at 95°C) Sorry, I keep getting disconnected from this install... Does this wiki look about right for what to do with pwmconfig, and fancontrol

[gentoo-user] Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man pages. You can check with: find /usr/share/man/ -type l ! -exec test -r {} \; -print If you are affected by this bug, then the above will print something

Re: [gentoo-user] Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man pages. You can check with: find /usr/share/man/ -type l ! -exec test -r {} \; -print If you are affected by this bug, then the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 15:23:28 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: It seems like ARM processors will destroy x86 before too long. Does anyone think this won't happen? - Grant Yes me. ARM will take over where it makes sense and won't where it doesn't. For desktops and

Re: [gentoo-user] Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Dale
Dale wrote: Link to bug too. I'd like to CC that. I found it. For once the search feature actually worked for me. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437000 I posted a +1 on there too. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how

[gentoo-user] Re: Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 10/12/12 07:27, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man pages. You can check with: find /usr/share/man/ -type l ! -exec test -r {} \; -print Small

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Will ARM take over the world?

2012-12-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 13:44:09 -0800 Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: But this is an old, old, old argument. People predicted the demise of mainframes for years when x86 started becoming a quite powerful of cpu. The current truth is that IBM sell more mainframes year of on year, growth is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does anyone else have broken symlinks in /usr/share/man/man1?

2012-12-09 Thread Dale
Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 10/12/12 07:27, Dale wrote: Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I'm affected by a bug that seems to affect only some Gentoo users. dev-libs/openssl seems to install broken symlinks for some of its man pages. You can check with: find /usr/share/man/ -type l ! -exec test