[gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely

2013-05-12 Thread covici
Hi. I am using gentoo unstable and after this last update when I tried to do emerge @preserved-rebuild I get the following: These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy net-libs/xulrunner:1.9. (dependency

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic Intensive IPSec Tunnel

2013-05-12 Thread Mick
On Sunday 12 May 2013 03:37:48 Nick Khamis wrote: Thanks yet again Michael! Enjoy your weekend. N. On 5/11/13, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/11/2013 03:13 PM, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Our service provider requires all connections between us be done through

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice Compile

2013-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 11/05/2013 19:53, Silvio Siefke wrote: Hello, is there a way that i can compile Libreoffice on my Desktop System and copy to the Netbook? Because the netbook need long time to compile libreoffice, and the Desktop is little faster. Or can i build a libreoffice Package on Desktop and

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 11 May 2013 16:12:52 -0700, walt wrote: Dale, you didn't describe the symptoms you're seeing, but maybe just seeing how I did it will help: menuentry memtest86 { search -l gentoo64unstable -s root linux ($root)/boot/memtest86/memtest boot } I don't know about memtest86, but

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using gentoo unstable and after this last update when I tried to do emerge @preserved-rebuild I get the following: I didn't know Gentoo specifically made an unstable version, it's generally rock solid for me. These

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely

2013-05-12 Thread covici
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using gentoo unstable and after this last update when I tried to do emerge @preserved-rebuild I get the following: I didn't know Gentoo specifically made an unstable

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely

2013-05-12 Thread Samuli Suominen
On 12/05/13 14:29, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using gentoo unstable and after this last update when I tried to do emerge @preserved-rebuild I get the following: I didn't

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely

2013-05-12 Thread covici
Samuli Suominen ssuomi...@gentoo.org wrote: On 12/05/13 14:29, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using gentoo unstable and after this last update when I tried to do emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Thank you!!! On 5/12/13, staticsafe m...@staticsafe.ca wrote: On 5/11/2013 20:39, Nick Khamis wrote: Hello Everyone, Just running an installation on another IBM machine, and wanted to know which kernel config files can we copy over from one machine to another, and have the same exact

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely

2013-05-12 Thread Philip Webb
130512 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: I am using gentoo unstable ... I didn't know Gentoo specifically made an unstable version, it's generally rock solid for me. By unstable I meant

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 11 May 2013 16:12:52 -0700, walt wrote: Dale, you didn't describe the symptoms you're seeing, but maybe just seeing how I did it will help: menuentry memtest86 { search -l gentoo64unstable -s root linux ($root)/boot/memtest86/memtest boot } I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 May 2013 07:40:15 -0500, Dale wrote: I don't know about memtest86, but memtest86+ installs a menu file in /etc/grub.d, which means grub-mkconfig handles it. % cat /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 menuentry memtest86+ 4.20 { linux16

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice Compile

2013-05-12 Thread William Tomlinson
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is possible from what I've read to cross compile using distcc. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml seems to describe this in detail, though the article is nearly 7 years old. I would prefer this over a one shot package install since you could

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 07:40:15 -0500, Dale wrote: I don't know about memtest86, but memtest86+ installs a menu file in /etc/grub.d, which means grub-mkconfig handles it. % cat /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ #!/bin/sh exec tail -n +3 $0 menuentry memtest86+ 4.20 {

[gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

2013-05-12 Thread luis jure
any hints how to make dropbox work on xfce? google returned many hits for other distributions, or for gentoo but on kde or gnome. i installed net-misc/dropbox and xfce-extra/thunar-dropbox but all i can do is upload files with a browser on the website (that is, it recognizes i have dropbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 May 2013 09:00:04 -0500, Dale wrote: ### END /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ ### There it be. I wonder if it worked all the other times I tried? If anyone else had asked that question I'd have said yes :) I do a similar thing, except the script is in /usr/local/bin, where it

Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

2013-05-12 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi Luis, I don't se any thunar-dropbox in portage You could install gnome-extra/nautilus-dropbox. I work on xfce and dropbox is launched with xfce starting (dropbox.desktop in ~/.config/autostart) ; everything works fine. Cheers, -- Jacques 2013/5/12 luis jure l...@internet.com.uy any

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
I just realized that we were running 3.5.7 on the older systems, and the current version is 3.7.10. Would I be cutting too many corners to copy over the ..config from the older machine. Thanks in Advance, Nick. On 5/12/13, Nick Khamis sym...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you!!! On 5/12/13,

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 May 2013 10:56:50 -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: I just realized that we were running 3.5.7 on the older systems, and the current version is 3.7.10. Would I be cutting too many corners to copy over the ..config from the older machine. That's not a huge step, but you'll have a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Nick Khamis
Please forgive me! Gmail client from hell!

Re: [gentoo-user] Libreoffice Compile

2013-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/05/2013 15:48, William Tomlinson wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but it is possible from what I've read to cross compile using distcc. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/cross-compiling-distcc.xml seems to describe this in detail, though the article is nearly 7 years old. I would prefer this

Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely

2013-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/05/2013 13:29, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:44 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Hi. I am using gentoo unstable and after this last update when I tried to do emerge @preserved-rebuild I get the following: I didn't

[gentoo-user] gentoo and orca using gnome 3.8

2013-05-12 Thread covici
Hi. I am trying to build orca from master which is necessary for gnome 3.8 which I have installed. Orca uses python3.3 and will not even use 3.2. So I emerged 3.3 by putting a keyword ~amd64 in the keywords. Now, how do I get the packages to go in -- the first one which has problems is

Re: [gentoo-user] dropbox on xfce

2013-05-12 Thread luis jure
hi jacques! thanks for your response. i'm glad it's working for you, it gives me some hope... i'm afraid i need some more help, though. on 2013-05-12 at 16:48 Jacques Montier wrote: I don't se any thunar-dropbox in portage no, i found an ebuild in an overlay. i can't see that it does

Re: [gentoo-user] Settings for Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen video card

2013-05-12 Thread Fast Turtle
Problem is that CPU does not have any onboard graphics. For the Xeon you need one ending in 5 (1205/1225/1245) in order to get the onboard gpu. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: OK, I'm getting serious with the install on my new machine, so here come

Re: [gentoo-user] Settings for Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen video card

2013-05-12 Thread Fast Turtle
If you don't have the cpu yet, my suggestion is to go with the 1245 v2 as it offers the best bang for the buck. It also includes the HD4000 GPU (same as the i5/i7 Ivy Bridge and with same settings). On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: OK, I'm getting

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and orca using gnome 3.8

2013-05-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 12.05.2013 18:12, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Hi. I am trying to build orca from master which is necessary for gnome 3.8 which I have installed. Orca uses python3.3 and will not even use 3.2. So I emerged 3.3 by putting a keyword ~amd64 in the keywords. Now, how do I get the packages

[gentoo-user] Which mysql USE flag do I need - mysql or mysqlnd?

2013-05-12 Thread Mick
Hi All, I am looking at an aged php installation and noticed that there is a mysqlnd USE flag, which I have not enabled. From the mysql documentation it seems that mysqlnd is attracting most development and features. Then I had a look here and it is not mentioned:

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo and orca using gnome 3.8

2013-05-12 Thread covici
Michael Hampicke m...@hadt.biz wrote: Am 12.05.2013 18:12, schrieb cov...@ccs.covici.com: Hi. I am trying to build orca from master which is necessary for gnome 3.8 which I have installed. Orca uses python3.3 and will not even use 3.2. So I emerged 3.3 by putting a keyword ~amd64 in

Re: [gentoo-user] Booting memtest86 from grub2

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 12 May 2013 09:00:04 -0500, Dale wrote: ### END /etc/grub.d/39_memtest86+ ### There it be. I wonder if it worked all the other times I tried? If anyone else had asked that question I'd have said yes :) Well, it is spring here so I shutdown today and did some

[gentoo-user] Gcc compiling, is this normal?

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Howdy, I been noticing something weird when I upgrade gcc. Is this normal? root@fireball / # genlop -c Currently merging 2 out of 5 * sys-devel/gcc-4.4.7 current merge time: 6 seconds. ETA: 24 minutes and 27 seconds. Currently merging 3 out of 5 * net-misc/curl-7.30.0

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc compiling, is this normal?

2013-05-12 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 12/05/2013 23:16, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been noticing something weird when I upgrade gcc. Is this normal? root@fireball / # genlop -c Currently merging 2 out of 5 * sys-devel/gcc-4.4.7 current merge time: 6 seconds. ETA: 24 minutes and 27 seconds. Currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Real qucik question - Copying over kernel configuration for same machines

2013-05-12 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 08:39:02PM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote Hello Everyone, Saw examples for genkern, but we build our own kernels. After copying the files over we like to run make and make modules_install on the new machine. Since the new machine will probably have a newer kernel, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc compiling, is this normal?

2013-05-12 Thread David Relson
On Sun, 12 May 2013 23:27:48 +0200 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/05/2013 23:16, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been noticing something weird when I upgrade gcc. Is this normal? root@fireball / # genlop -c Currently merging 2 out of 5 * sys-devel/gcc-4.4.7 current merge

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc compiling, is this normal?

2013-05-12 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: On 12/05/2013 23:16, Dale wrote: Howdy, I been noticing something weird when I upgrade gcc. Is this normal? root@fireball / # genlop -c Currently merging 2 out of 5 * sys-devel/gcc-4.4.7 current merge time: 6 seconds. ETA: 24 minutes and 27

[gentoo-user] gettext missing symlink message

2013-05-12 Thread Walter Dnes
I ran into this today while installing Gentoo on my new machine. making executable: usr/lib64/preloadable_libintl.so .[33;01m * .[39;49;00mQA Notice: Missing soname symlink(s): .[33;01m * .[39;49;00m .[33;01m * .[39;49;00m usr/lib64/libgnuintl.so.8 - preloadable_libintl.so .[33;01m *

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic Intensive IPSec Tunnel

2013-05-12 Thread Adam Carter
You can read a comparison between the *Swans here, but things have moved on since; e.g. StrongSwan supports IKEv1 in Aggressive Mode, Aggressive mode with pre-shared keys is vulnerable to offline dictionary attack so you might as well use main mode. If for some reason you have to use

Re: [gentoo-user] Traffic Intensive IPSec Tunnel

2013-05-12 Thread Mick
On Monday 13 May 2013 03:13:27 Adam Carter wrote: You can read a comparison between the *Swans here, but things have moved on since; e.g. StrongSwan supports IKEv1 in Aggressive Mode, Aggressive mode with pre-shared keys is vulnerable to offline dictionary attack so you might as well use