Re: [gentoo-user] Re: grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 01:27:52 + (UTC), James wrote: Also, dont forget /etc/default/grub (nicely hidden!) for fine tuning such as custom commandline args like memmap to lock out bad memory. Is this where --verbose --quickbooting --parallel booting? options are set? It contains

Re: [gentoo-user] stomping on gnomes

2014-01-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 10:36:36 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: I am running the use flags of -gnome and -systemd and a desktop profile of /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/x86/13.0 What's wrong with default/linux/x86/13.0/desktop? Can someone suggest a more appropriate use flag/profile

[gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, James's recent thread on grub2 with several kernels prompted me to have another play with grub2. I followed the grub2 migration guide[1] up to and including where it says At this point you should reboot your machine and select GRUB2 Chainload. I did that and found I was offered only

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-01-25 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: I've been operating this way for years and maintained the kernel versions manually. That was not a lot of work, with the help of some elementary bash- ing and copypasting, and I don't want the flexibility of boot options thrown

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Martin Vaeth
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Now, my question is how to have grub2 offer me a choice of kernels from all those that are present in /boot (a separate ext2 partition). Not only that, but pass different softlevel selectors to them. In my opinion you should decide for either

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread J. Roeleveld
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2014-01-25 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: I've been operating this way for years and maintained the kernel versions manually. That was not a lot of work, with the help of some elementary bash- ing and copypasting, and I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Mini-XML license

2014-01-25 Thread hasufell
On 01/25/2014 08:07 AM, Pavel Volkov wrote: Is Mini-XML license (/usr/portage/licenses/Mini-XML) considered a free license? If so, why is it not in @FREE group? I have @FREE in my ACCEPT_LICENSE= in make.conf.

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Any ideas anyone? Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what your old menu.lst did. root=(hd0,msdos1) timeout=10 default=0 fallback=3 color_normal=white/blue color_highlight=black/light-gray

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-25 Thread Graham Murray
Andrés Becerra Sandoval andres.bece...@gmail.com writes: If you put the kernels in /boot with proper names and launch: ​ grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Grub will set up the kernels for you. How do you then choose which one to boot by default? I normally run hardened-sources but also

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Any ideas anyone? Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much what your old menu.lst did. ---8 Well, what a gent! I didn't mean to imply

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 13:51:01 Martin Vaeth wrote: An example for a manual setup (i.e. not autogenerating grub.cfg) using this technique can be found here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7426932.html#7426932 Good $(DEITY)! I'd have to enlarge my boot partition to cram all that in!

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:18 AM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: Any ideas anyone? Here's a manually written grub.cfg that should do pretty much

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2 multiple kernels

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 11:18 AM, Graham Murray gra...@gmurray.org.uk wrote: Andrés Becerra Sandoval andres.bece...@gmail.com writes: If you put the kernels in /boot with proper names and launch: grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg Grub will set up the kernels for you. How do you then

[gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread Joseph
I'm using a python script cdnpayroll.py but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File ./cdnpayroll.py, line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I tried to remove the single quote from several places but I'm still getting an error. File ./cdnpayroll.py, line 1328

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Mick
On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 17:22:27 Mike Gilbert wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 12:08 PM, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Saturday 25 Jan 2014 10:42:52 Mike Gilbert wrote: Maybe it'll become clear over time how to arrange the input to grub2-mkconfig to achieve a similar

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread Chris Stout
- Original Message - From: Joseph Sent: 01/25/14 10:15 AM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py I'm using a python script cdnpayroll.py but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File ./cdnpayroll.py, line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread David Abbott
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using a python script cdnpayroll.py but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File ./cdnpayroll.py, line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I tried to remove the single quote from several places

[gentoo-user] Re: Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread James
Mick michaelkintzios at gmail.com writes: Perhaps I'm getting older or just bored with change, but is there an alternative to grub2 that has the simplicity of grub-legacy, for more complex than your average Ubuntu-like user requirements? From my research, nothing that is gaining ground.

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-25 Thread Jarry
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage... OMG, I was really over-optimistic! Even

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub2 and softlevels

2014-01-25 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps I'm getting older or just bored with change, but is there an alternative to grub2 that has the simplicity of grub-legacy, for more complex than your average Ubuntu-like user requirements? I have used grub2 on some

Re: [gentoo-user] cdnpayroll.py

2014-01-25 Thread Joseph
On 01/25/14 14:21, David Abbott wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 1:15 PM, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I'm using a python script cdnpayroll.py but for some reason or another is giving me an error: File ./cdnpayroll.py, line 160 ''' ^ SyntaxError: invalid syntax I tried to remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on Dell PowerEdge R715/R720

2014-01-25 Thread Kerin Millar
Johann Schmitz wrote: We use Dell servers exclusively and have for 15 years. I think we're up to 400+ physical boxes now and the number of Linux-compatibility issues in all that time is exactly zero :-) That's good to hear. If Dell sold server-class hardware that wasn't 100% supported in

Re: [gentoo-user] tmpfs for portage: how much?

2014-01-25 Thread Jackie
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote: I would like to use tmpfs for all the package-compilation to spare my SSD from too many writing-cycles, but I can not guess how much do I need. I'm rather limited with RAM, if I use more than 512MB for /var/tmp/portage... OMG, I was really over-optimistic! Even