[gentoo-user] my echanges script

2005-12-21 Thread Beau E. Cox
in the *gentoolkit*. AUTHOR Beau E. Cox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2005-2006 by Beau E. Cox This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either Perl version 5.8.7 or, at your option, any later version

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-22 Thread Beau E. Cox
Gentoo documentation and *equery* documentation in the *gentoolkit*. AUTHOR Beau E. Cox, [EMAIL PROTECTED] COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2005-2006 by Beau E. Cox This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself, either

Re: [gentoo-user] eix - What's eix, then?

2006-01-06 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 06 January 2006 04:51 pm, Stroller wrote: On 6 Jan 2006, at 21:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 22:01:00 +0100, Christian Heim wrote: The only thing that is slow, is update-eix due to reading the cache (well slow by my definition means 20s). You obviously haven't

[gentoo-user] su stopped working

2006-01-09 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the su: Permission denied, Sorry. message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password; no joy 2) created a new user and tried 'su'; ditto 3) tried in X( kde ) and non-X; nope 4) rebooted; nada I can't seem to

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED]

2006-01-09 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 09 January 2006 04:27 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 04:18 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Very strange... 'su' ( and 'sudo' ) stopped working for my normal users. I get the su: Permission denied, Sorry. message. I have tried: 1) changed the root password

[gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY

2006-01-09 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I'm working on a series of ebuilds for the more esoteric CPAN modules that I use. In the Gentoo Developer Handbook there is a statement about PORTDIR_OVERLAY: In that directory, you must use the same structure (and categories) as in /usr/portage. OK. But I really want to make a new

Re: [gentoo-user] PORTDIR_OVERLAY

2006-01-09 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Monday 09 January 2006 11:15 am, Holly Bostick wrote: Beau E. Cox schreef: Hi - I'm working on a series of ebuilds for the more esoteric CPAN modules that I use. In the Gentoo Developer Handbook there is a statement about PORTDIR_OVERLAY: In that directory, you must use the same

Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED]

2006-01-10 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Tuesday 10 January 2006 04:34 am, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Beau E. Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 09 January 2006 15:13 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Michael Sullivan Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] su stopped working [SOLVED] Yep

[gentoo-user] make test return code ignored

2006-01-10 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - (I posted this on gentoo-perl in error - am reposting here - sorry) I'm developing some ebuild scripts, and came across a problem. I have enabled tests and when an ebuild test fails, it is not dieing but going adhead and doing the install. In the src_test function, I have: ... make test

[gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - When a new kernel ( I'm using gentoo-sources ) comes down the line, I go to /usr/src, ln -s to linux, copy current .config, yada, yada... It works fine. Now I notice in eix that all my old kernels are marked as 'installed'. I normally keep only the previous kernel in /boot. Can I safely

Re: [gentoo-user] Old kernel versions

2006-01-19 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Wednesday 18 January 2006 11:05 pm, Andres Becerra Sandoval wrote: On 1/19/06, Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - When a new kernel ( I'm using gentoo-sources ) comes down the line, I go to /usr/src, ln -s to linux, copy current .config, yada, yada... It works fine. Now I

[gentoo-user] hal-0.5.5.1-r3 dependency loop

2006-01-22 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Looks like there is a dependency loop with the recently unmasked hal-0.5.5.1-r3. If I: $emerge -uD world ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] sys-apps/dbus-0.60-r3 [0.23.4-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.5.1-r3 [0.4.8] ... When done, I check with: #

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins version 'ping-pong'

2006-01-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I try: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 [0.8.10] OK. So I do it: # emerge -uD world [SUCCESS] Now I check again: # emerge -uD world -p ... Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild UD]

Re: [gentoo-user] hal-0.5.5.1-r3 dependency loop

2006-01-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:35 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 19:21:54 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: Looks like there is a dependency loop with the recently unmasked hal-0.5.5.1-r3. If I: It's not a loop. KDE 3.4 depends on the older HAL (0.4x) and D-BUS. if you update to HAL

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/bin/test doesn't seem to do anything

2006-01-28 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Friday 27 January 2006 09:43 pm, Robert Persson wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 16:22 Richard Fish was like: test doesn't output anything...it indicates success/failure with the exit code.   ... As others have said though, watch out for the 'test' command built-in to many shells,

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.5 hours!

2006-01-28 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Saturday 28 January 2006 12:52 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote: I haven't seen any new posts in 3 and a half hours. That must be a new record. -- Regards, Ernie post, post, post, ... :) -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions at the same time? -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:56 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Beau E. Cox wrote: Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions at the same time? Yes, I do all that all the time. Alexander Skwar -- Espy we need to split main intocore and wtf

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 29 January 2006 01:04 am, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: --- Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions at the same time? -- Aloha = Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-29 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 29 January 2006 06:53 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: On Sun, 2006-01-29 at 01:02 -1000, Beau E. Cox wrote: On Sunday 29 January 2006 12:56 am, Alexander Skwar wrote: Beau E. Cox wrote: Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in different terminal sessions

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Sunday 29 January 2006 09:59 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:51:32 -1000 Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in | different terminal sessions at the same time? No. Many have said Yes. Can you explain

[gentoo-user] progress in emerge --sync

2006-02-01 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - I notice that the rsync command generated by emerge --sync contains the --progress flag. I run emerge --sync as a cron job ang log the output; the progress goo messes up my logs. I can't find any mention of a 'progress' (or a 'noprogress') flag in the emerge man page. Is there a way to get

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox

2006-02-04 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Saturday 04 February 2006 03:09 am, Daniel D Jones wrote: I'd like to run Firefox 1.5. The latest stable build appears to be 1.07. I added ww-client/mozilla-firefox ~x86 to my package.keywords file, which resulted in Deer Park being installed. I don't want Deer Park, just the 1.5 release

Re: [gentoo-user] So O.K.

2006-02-04 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Saturday 04 February 2006 04:02 am, Franta wrote: Due to the issues I hit (nearly) every time I do an upgrade. I did the upograde today too. There was one on udev. I think devices don't coming up (Sound, USB) could belong to this kind of problems. Well. nothing changes. I've tried it

Re: [gentoo-user] dchp ebuild needs updated Manifest

2006-02-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:27, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Last night's sync/update: cathy ~ # emerge -uD world -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] net-misc/dhcp-3.0.3-r3 [3.0.3-r2] cathy ~ # emerge -uD world

Re: [gentoo-user] [RESOLVED] dchp ebuild needs updated Manifest

2006-02-23 Thread Beau E. Cox
On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:34, Beau E. Cox wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 07:27, Beau E. Cox wrote: Hi - Last night's sync/update: cathy ~ # emerge -uD world -p These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U