Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

2021-03-09 Thread Grant Taylor
On 2/21/21 3:23 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: Will someone please explain why the Gentoo AMD64 Handbook ~> Gentoo (at large) says to add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 (or ::1) entry in the /etc/hosts file?  What was the thought process behind that? Shameless Bump -- I'm still interested in

[gentoo-user] mariadb-10.5.9 unit file not found

2021-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
This seems a weird one. After updating to 10.5.9 systemctl claims that there is no unit file $ systemctl start mariadb.service Failed to start mariadb.service: Unit mariadb.service not found. $ ls -l /lib/systemd/system/mariadb.service lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Mar 9 23:08

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward? - Update 2 - SUCCESS! - CURRENT!!!

2021-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 17:26:41 +0100, smurfd wrote: > Massive congrats :) > Great when things work out, after doing a ton of work to get there. As the great Douglas Adams once said "I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward? - Update 2 - SUCCESS! - CURRENT!!!

2021-03-09 Thread smurfd
Massive congrats :) Great when things work out, after doing a ton of work to get there. br smurfd On 2021-03-08 23:06, Grant Taylor wrote: On 2/25/21 5:31 PM, Grant Taylor wrote: 10 have git switch to the next day 20 emerge -aDUN @world 30 assess / deal with masked packages 40 goto 10 It

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward? - Update 2 - SUCCESS! - CURRENT!!!

2021-03-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 9 Mar 2021 00:59:29 +, antlists wrote: > > It means you probably spent a lot of time compile gcc versions only to > > carry on using the old version, but as you said, this wasn't about > > efficiency. You were going to emerge -e @world at the end anyway, > > which would get everything