[gentoo-user] Re: Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-05 Thread Martin Vaeth
Dale wrote: > > It sounds like a rather rare problem. Maybe even only during boot up. It is a non-existent problem on openrc if you clean /tmp and /var/tmp on boot (which you should do if you use opentmp): The purpose of opentmpfiles is to fill these directories with certain data during boot,

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-05 Thread Dale
Victor Ivanov wrote: > On 05/12/2020 10:13, Dale wrote: >> that as, I learned the hard way.  Once you get Gentoo installed and all >> the packages you want installed completed, it is wise to add the >> --oneshot option to the defaults in make.conf.  That helps keep the >> world file clean since

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-05 Thread Dale
Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 12/4/20 12:02 PM, Dale wrote: >> >> So basically, that package would have to start over from scratch to be >> fixed.  That's not very likely if history means anything. >> > > I think the opentmpfiles devs are planning to copy/paste the > systemd-tmpfiles C code into

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-05 Thread thelma
On 12/05/2020 02:31 PM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Thelma: > ... >> https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-office/glabels >> >> It seems that version 3.99 is available upstream, while the latest >> version in the Gentoo tree is 3.4.1. > > There is two glabels, the "old" 3-series, and the newer

Re: [gentoo-user] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-05 Thread karl
Thelma: ... > https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-office/glabels > > It seems that version 3.99 is available upstream, while the latest > version in the Gentoo tree is 3.4.1. There is two glabels, the "old" 3-series, and the newer "qt" 4-series, you can get them with: git clone

Re: [gentoo-user] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-05 Thread thelma
On 12/05/2020 12:33 PM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Thelma: >> On 12/05/2020 09:58 AM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: [snip] >>> possible also as root >>> ldconfig >>> >>> And then reinstalling glabels >> >> Running "ldconfig" didn't help. > > Strange, worked like a charm here. > It has a lot of

Re: [gentoo-user] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-05 Thread thelma
On 12/05/2020 12:33 PM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Thelma: >> On 12/05/2020 09:58 AM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: >>> Karl: > ... >>> Instead of barcode you could try out zint: >>> >>> git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/zint/code zint-code >>> cd zint-code >>> git co

Re: [gentoo-user] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-05 Thread karl
Thelma: > On 12/05/2020 09:58 AM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > > Karl: ... > > Instead of barcode you could try out zint: > > > > git clone https://git.code.sf.net/p/zint/code zint-code > > cd zint-code > > git co ade31c41fba14b942cca30a4a605e48517613d25 > > mkdir build > > cd build > > cmake .. > >

Re: [gentoo-user]

2020-12-05 Thread thelma
On 12/05/2020 09:58 AM, k...@aspodata.se wrote: > Karl: >> Thelma: >>> I have app-office/glabels installed with (barcode -eds) >>> but the style menus is not showing "GNU Barcode >>> >>> Is it a bug? >> >> app-text/barcode doesn't provide the lib needed, see below. > > Instead of barcode you

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel?

2020-12-05 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Michael, On Friday, 2020-11-27 19:07:17 +, you wrote: > ... > A 4k block size is recommended for ntfs-3g which is the default sector > created > by fdisk and friends on Linux these days. This will align your partition > optimally. In addition, mkfs.ntfs will use 4096 bytes as the

[gentoo-user]

2020-12-05 Thread karl
Karl: > Thelma: > > I have app-office/glabels installed with (barcode -eds) > > but the style menus is not showing "GNU Barcode > > > > Is it a bug? > > app-text/barcode doesn't provide the lib needed, see below. Instead of barcode you could try out zint: git clone

Re: [gentoo-user] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-05 Thread karl
Thelma: > I have app-office/glabels installed with (barcode -eds) > but the style menus is not showing "GNU Barcode > > Is it a bug? app-text/barcode doesn't provide the lib needed, see below. /// I tried this: # echo app-office/glabels barcode -eds > /etc/portage/package.use/glabels # emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-05 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/4/20 12:02 PM, Dale wrote: So basically, that package would have to start over from scratch to be fixed.  That's not very likely if history means anything. I think the opentmpfiles devs are planning to copy/paste the systemd-tmpfiles C code into opentmpfiles eventually. That will make

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-05 Thread Victor Ivanov
On 05/12/2020 10:13, Dale wrote: that as, I learned the hard way.  Once you get Gentoo installed and all the packages you want installed completed, it is wise to add the --oneshot option to the defaults in make.conf.  That helps keep the world file clean since you won't have packages in the

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/5/20 11:13 AM, Dale wrote: n952162 wrote: On 12/5/20 10:06 AM, n952162 wrote: I understand now that you've checked this list for me.  That is really helpful.  Thank you. (in that it shows me how to go about it). Advice from a long term user who didn't do this in the beginning. 

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-05 Thread Dale
n952162 wrote: > On 12/5/20 10:06 AM, n952162 wrote: >> >> I understand now that you've checked this list for me.  That is really >> helpful.  Thank you. >> > (in that it shows me how to go about it). > > Advice from a long term user who didn't do this in the beginning.  Read that as, I learned

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/5/20 10:06 AM, n952162 wrote: I understand now that you've checked this list for me.  That is really helpful.  Thank you. (in that it shows me how to go about it).

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 11:40 PM, Jack wrote: >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:  sys-kernel/gentoo-sources     selected: 4.19.72    protected: none omitted: 5.4.72 It's going to remove an old version and leave a newer version.  If you really want the old one kept, you should

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 11:46 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 23:19:00 +0100, n952162 wrote: Okay, I've never done a depclean.  Is that something I need to do?  I mean, I'm always worried it'd remove something that I need, but given all the problems I have, I guess that'd be the lesser of

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-05 Thread n952162
On 12/4/20 11:40 PM, Jack wrote: You seem to not really understand how gentoo works. Yes, that's absolutely true. Most of the time, yes, you do need to do a depclean.  It's pretty common to do it after every world update.  In general, it gets rid of things emerged as a dependency of

Re: [gentoo-user] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-05 Thread Dale
the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 12/05/2020 12:35 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> I have app-office/glabels installed with (barcode -eds) >> but the style menus is not showing "GNU Barcode >> >> Is it a bug? > The only difference after installation I've notice question mark in a > bracket,

Re: [gentoo-user] glabels not showing GNU Barcode

2020-12-05 Thread thelma
On 12/05/2020 12:35 AM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I have app-office/glabels installed with (barcode -eds) > but the style menus is not showing "GNU Barcode > > Is it a bug? The only difference after installation I've notice question mark in a bracket, instead of "I" eix app-text/barcode