[gentoo-user] Grub: for the love of almighty Zardoz the magniicent....

2020-06-30 Thread Alan Grimes
https://omsi.edu/calendar/zardoz I RMA'd my normal mobo as previously discussed.  I went to grab my previous motherboard and it turns out that it had actually released a goodly chunk of it's Magic Smoke (tm) while I hadn't been looking.  So I went down to the Quickie Mart and grabbed a

[gentoo-user] Upgrade to rsync-3.2.0-r1 results in "didn't get server startup line"

2020-06-30 Thread Steve Freeman
I have a local gentoo repo mirror that has been running well for years. It is essentially the same setup as described at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Local_Mirror except that it runs on a non-default port. After upgrading to net-misc/rsync-3.2.0-r1 (from rsync-3.1.3), I can no longer emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc

2020-06-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and > > managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc > > versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate > > versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes but > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc

2020-06-30 Thread Laurence Perkins
On June 30, 2020 1:26:48 AM PDT, "Andreas K. Huettel" wrote: >> That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and >> managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc >> versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate >> versions of the

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-30 Thread Sid Spry
On Sun, Jun 21, 2020, at 5:31 AM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: james > > Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 21:36 > > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo > > > > On 6/17/20 12:52 PM, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] upstream broke cups network printing...

2020-06-30 Thread Michael
On Tuesday, 30 June 2020 04:51:03 BST Alan Grimes wrote: > I was sitting smug and happy thinking I could print from either of my > computers to the laserjet printer downstairs. So therefore when I need > to RMA my mobo and need to print out the forms, it doesn't work. > > The sack of crap seems

Re: [gentoo-user] old kernel on Gentoo

2020-06-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> I might need to build and run an old 3.x kernel on a Desktop PC for some > very specific tests. Would Gentoo be a good solution? I see that currently > gentoo-sources only includes 4.x and 5.x sources. Should work but you need to make sure your glibc supports the kernel. Minimum for 2.30 and

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo chroot with old glibc

2020-06-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
> That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and > managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc > versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate > versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes but > I have a

[gentoo-user] upstream broke cups network printing...

2020-06-30 Thread Alan Grimes
I was sitting smug and happy thinking I could print from either of my computers to the laserjet printer downstairs. So therefore when I need to RMA my mobo and need to print out the forms, it doesn't work. The sack of crap seems to think it can connect to the printer using: Connection: