Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Dale wrote: >> Rich Freeman wrote: >>> If there were some kind of trade-off I'd see the argument, but the >>> worst case here is just that they may or may not need it. For >>> something with some benefit and almost no

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:25 PM, Dale wrote: > Rich Freeman wrote: >> >> If there were some kind of trade-off I'd see the argument, but the >> worst case here is just that they may or may not need it. For >> something with some benefit and almost no drawback that seems like

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Dale wrote: >> The problem is, if the hard drives fills up, most won't know that they >> can use LVM to expand it by adding a new drive. Since they don't know >> what LVM is, they don't know about the option they have

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 9:41 AM, Dale wrote: > > The problem is, if the hard drives fills up, most won't know that they > can use LVM to expand it by adding a new drive. Since they don't know > what LVM is, they don't know about the option they have and won't use it >

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:13 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: >> But I'm not talking about it for users like you and I. >> I've said over and over in this thread about regular users and you seem >> to be missing that part; it's the entirety of everything

[gentoo-user] Re: Easiest way to block domains?

On 2017-08-31 08:47, Walter Dnes wrote: > > The "couple" was meant literally, i.e. typically 2 years until it > > breaks. I don't know for sure if it is the flash or something else. > > It's not a bad brand - I have had many different brands, nothing > > lasts much more than that. And I don't

[gentoo-user] BINPKG_COMPRESS portage variable

Hello. I just set BINPKG_COMPRESS="xz" in /etc/portage/make.conf in order to compress binary packages with the xz algorithm. It seems to work, but binary packages filenames still end with .tbz2 instead of .txz. How can I change that? Example: # file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Easiest way to block domains?

On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 04:45:34PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote > On 2017-08-30 18:28, R0b0t1 wrote: > > > >> Also: how long is the replacement going to last? Anything with > > >> flash as the main storage will be back at the recycling station > > >> (ideally) within a couple of years. This

Re: [gentoo-user] Why isn't this SDcard mounting?

> On 29 Aug 2017, at 14:53, Stroller wrote: > ... > Instead of mounting the SDcard, it's mounting the loopback device. > > A card, as /dev/sdb, was previously zeroed over and repartitioned a couple of > days ago. I bet if I reboot the system it'll be recognised.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange behaviour in quite special case

Hi, On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:27:22 -0300 Francisco Ares wrote: > Hi, All. > > This is a rather special case, so I don't expect much, but who knows? > > I've built a Gentoo x86-64 system for an embedded application. > > Just after a lot of updates, which I am unable to track, it stopped working >

Re: [gentoo-user] app-eselect dependencies

On Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:02:14 +0200 Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi > > some package (sci-libs/gsl) needs app-eselect/eselect-cblas > > Trying to emerge app-eselect/eselect-cblas portage says > app-eselect/eselect-cblas" is blocking sci-libs/scalapack-2.0.2-r1, > sci-libs/gotoblas2-1.13-r1 > > but

[gentoo-user] Re: systemD?

On 30/08/17 23:39, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote: I do not want to start a whole systemd storm, glad i was offline for that.  however, in my case i'd really like to avoid systemd.  can i setup with out systemd, or do i need to remove and patch later. As others mentioned, openrc is

Re: [gentoo-user] Simplest NTP client for standalone system?

On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 12:14:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote > On 30/08/2017 13:25, Walter Dnes wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 09:49:58AM -0700, Rich Freeman wrote > >> On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon > >> wrote: > >>> > >>> Another example is LVM.