[gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please explain Portage's technique for selecting Python versions for packages from dev-python and similar. I'd like to set up things such that Portage installs only the Python-3.{3,4} version unless the packages doesn't support Python-3.x Currently I have

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:27:00 +0100 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: PYTHON_COMPAT=python2_7 python3_3 python3_4 This is a variable meant for packages; and thus, setting it in make.conf has no effect afaik. PYTHON_TARGETS=python2_7 python3_3 python3_4 You'll want to set

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/28/2014 10:37:56 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:27:00 +0100 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: I have tried to remove python2_7 from PYTHON_TARGETS but then I cannot re-install portage although it is based on Python3. Why is this? Can you share us the

Re: [gentoo-user] Local Mail with Procmail and Thunderbird (or similar)

2014-03-28 Thread Marc Stürmer
Am 28.03.2014 11:40, schrieb wraeth: My question is: does anyone know how I can configure either Procmail to deliver messages in a format Thunderbird will understand; or how I can configure Thunderbird to be a little bit more maildir compliant? Well, why don't you just install a local

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Francisco Ares
To auto log-in, I use a feature of agetty: On /etc/inittab: # TERMINALS # c1:12345:respawn:/usr/bin/fbi -a -noverbose --nocomments /etc/splash/natural_altec/images/silent-1024x768.jpg c1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty --noclear 38400 tty1 linux c2:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty 38400 tty2 linux

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On 28-Mar-2014 8:55 pm, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: Also, as for a bootable flash drive, if you use logical volumes for mount partitions, it works like a charm. If not, depending on the other physical drives, during boot, drive letters may change (I believe during the initramfs part

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Francisco Ares
Everyday learning something that's why I like Linux and, in special, Gentoo. Thanks Francisco 2014-03-28 12:26 GMT-03:00 Nilesh Govindrajan m...@nileshgr.com: On 28-Mar-2014 8:55 pm, Francisco Ares fra...@gmail.com wrote: Also, as for a bootable flash drive, if you use logical volumes

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Francisco Ares
Also, as for a bootable flash drive, if you use logical volumes for mount partitions, it works like a charm. If not, depending on the other physical drives, during boot, drive letters may change (I believe during the initramfs part of the boot). It was basically like this: - install a bare bones

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 22 Mar 2014 19:37:35 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2014 13:57:22 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: I've installed that old favourite SysRescCD on a pen drive, following a method I found on the Web to include a persistent file-system with all the extras I wanted in, e.g.,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:42:59 +0100 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: sys-apps/portage:0 (sys-apps/portage-:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by sys-apps/portage (Argument) (sys-apps/portage-:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of Python2 (where possible)

2014-03-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi Tom, that was really helpful. MANY THANKS, Helmut On 03/28/2014 08:29:27 PM, Tom Wijsman wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 11:42:59 +0100 Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: sys-apps/portage:0 (sys-apps/portage-:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-user] Portable Gentoo (Pen Drive Linux)

2014-03-28 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 14:15:56 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: There is a file that is executed by default at login, I think it is .autorun. I remember having to add an option to ignore it on the LXFDVDs because we use .autorun on those to launch a browser. I had a poke around and didn't

[gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
Hello, Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8? I would not expect portage to want to do this because: 1. opencv-2.4.8 is unstable (and I run a stable system) 2. opencv-2.4.5 is masked Thank you, Chris = jane ~ # grep opencv

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/03/2014 01:05, Chris Stankevitz wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8? It's not doing that. You need opencv as it's a dep for something, and portage wants you to have a version that's in the tree. The only stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You need opencv as it's a dep for something, and portage wants you to have a version that's in the tree. The only stable version is 2.4.5 but you have masked that in package.mask Hi Alan, I attempted to mask only

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 29/03/2014 01:48, Chris Stankevitz wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You need opencv as it's a dep for something, and portage wants you to have a version that's in the tree. The only stable version is 2.4.5 but you have masked that in

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: You did post emerge output using -t and it shows up at the top level which is a bit odd, it implies portage wants to update opencv anyway, not as a result of it being a dep. I agree it's odd and I agree it appears

[gentoo-user] Re: Why is portage insisting that I upgrade media-libs/opencv?

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Stankevitz
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Chris Stankevitz chrisstankev...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone tell me why portage is insisting on upgrading me from opencv-2.4.5 to opencv-2.4.8? This is solved: 1. opencv has USE=cuda. I have opencv-2.4.5 installed. 2. I had these mask rules: # 2013-12-24