Re: [gentoo-user] Cups blockers . . .

2007-06-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 16:25:51 Mick wrote: # emerge -uDv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: ... done! [ebuild U ] net-print/cups-1.2.10-r1 [1.2.9] USE=X dbus jpeg ldap nls pam png ppds ssl tiff -php -samba -slp 0 kB [ebuild U ] media-gfx/xsane-0.994

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating the system fails

2007-06-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 06 June 2007 20:54:30 Thierry de Coulon wrote: I've a somewhat old system (it was installed with 2005.1 at the time) that I wanted to try updating. However, emerge --update --pretend world thows an awfull lot of blocking packages, mostly x11-something, but including KDE, java and

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While nptl is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be preferred on systems that support it, it is not required in order to

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 16:21:31 Florian Philipp wrote: Am Dienstag 05 Juni 2007 15:32 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 10:53:26 Florian Philipp wrote: Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Using another System

2007-06-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 17:05:54 Florian Philipp wrote: Please note that Gentoo needs a i486 to work. No, it doesn't. It needs at least an i486 CHOST to enable nptl. While nptl is faster that linuxthreads and thus should be preferred on systems that support it, it is not

Re: [gentoo-user] alternatives to audacious?

2007-06-04 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 04 June 2007 23:40:44 darren kirby wrote: Was XMMS removed for licensing issues? No. It's because the code is old and unmaintained. If I had the skill I would pick it up myself, but sadly I don't know what the heck I'm doing with it... I'd rather say it's unmaintainable. People

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-21 dependency question

2007-06-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 04 June 2007 01:31:56 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I see in the gtk-doc ebuild the dependency on virtual/emacs. The specific RDEPEND line is emacs? ( virtual/emacs ) But where is does the -21 come from? # emerge --verbose --ask --deep --update --newuse --tree --color=n gimp [SNIP]

Re: [gentoo-user] madwifi-ng upgrade installs wireless-tools; why?

2007-06-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 02 June 2007 14:05:46 John Blinka wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~-- emerge -ptDuNv world [SNIP] [nomerge ] net-wireless/madwifi-ng-0.9.3.1 USE=-injection [ebuild N] net-wireless/wireless-tools-28 USE=-multicall -nls 249 [SNIP] Why does emerge want to install

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge -v portage performs sneak attack on emacs-cvs

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 01 June 2007 02:55:41 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject line is half joke... but I just did an sync and then emerged portage as suggested. After the emerge of portage, emerge process went on and uninstaqlled a couple of versions of emacs-cvs. As you can see in the command

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge -v portage performs sneak attack on emacs-cvs

2007-06-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 01 June 2007 12:06:28 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This happens when you have more than one version of a package in the same SLOT which means your system was in an illegal state. It should have left one version still in that SLOT (namely the one with the highest COUNTER which is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-31 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 18:16:13 Florian Philipp wrote: Ah, the possibility I hadn't thought of is the emul-linux-x86-* packages some of which use portage binpkgs in their SRC_URI. In this case it's emul-linux-x86-xlibs/emul-linux-x86-xlibs. But why does it only affect *.tbz2. I've

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 05:39:01 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: However, paludis does have some missing features that may be critical for your environment: binary packages (both building and using) True. And it misses pkgmoves and slotmoves (profiles/updates/*). and a revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 20:01:43 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: [...] By the way I installed kdebase-meta I believe [...] [SNIP] And why are you installing either of those at all when they have already been pulled in by kde-meta? Heh, I somehow read kdebase-meta as kde-meta... Disregard

Re: [gentoo-user] seg fault emerging abiword

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 21:16:18 Mat Harris wrote: Don't use --nodeps. That would just make a mess out of [your] system. If you've installed split kde (kde-meta) then why are you trying to install monolithic kde packages? I.e. why are you trying to install kdebase rather than kdebase-meta

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 23:45:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:28 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: bunzip2: /home/dsl/distfiles/openmotif-2.2.3-r9.tbz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored [...] It affects *.tbz2 only. That's correct, portage stores some metadata at the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage: garbage after EOF

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 00:34:04 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Wednesday 30 May 2007 23:45:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 30 May 2007 21:15:28 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote: bunzip2: /home/dsl/distfiles/openmotif-2.2.3-r9.tbz2: trailing garbage after EOF ignored [...] It affects

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:09:10 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I found check_linkage.rb, but it's not installed (or linked) to any of the standard $PATH directories.  Instead, it's in a demo directory.  Is it fully functional? Yes. You run it with ruby. It does still lack a couple of features

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:37:52 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: If it's really useful, it should be chmod'd +x and installed or linked into /usr/sbin.  I can do that myself (in that case /usr/local/sbin), but such wonderful utilities shouldn't be hidden. :) I can't really disagree with that,

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:57:53 Paul Varner wrote: But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses with --package-names because of the lack of support for the =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still supports.. :) Hey, I'm proud of

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 04:43:07 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: There could be other multi-version packages...  Is this normal for portage that is configured to autoclean? Yes.  Autoclean doesn't uninstall versions in a different slot.  I'm not sure about depclean. With the latest

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 05:53:08 Denis wrote: On 5/30/07, Ric de France [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think what is more useful is --prune (I'm guessing as I'm not in front of a Gentoo box at the moment). I usually try: --prune makes no checks of what's still required. [SNIP] But doesn't

Re: [gentoo-user] why multiple versions of java-config, automake, and autoconf?

2007-05-30 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 31 May 2007 06:25:58 Denis wrote: While on the subject, I ran a pretend on revdep-rebuild, and it's complaining about some broken libraries in GCC... [SNIP] broken /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.2/libgcjawt.la (requires /usr/lib/lib-gnu-java-awt-peer-gtk.la)

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-29 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 10:32:23 Daevid Vincent wrote: * mail-mta/exim Latest version available: 4.67 Latest version installed: 4.54 Size of downloaded files: [no/bad digest] Homepage:http://www.exim.org/ So I have this in my package.mask: =mail-mta/exim-4.55

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 25 May 2007 18:52:12 Allan Gottlieb wrote: In particular can I share  * tmp (PORTAGE_TMPDIR) If you ever compile the same package at the same time that may not be such a good idea. Even if it works it may be confusing. Why not just make two subdirs in the same place and use

Re: [gentoo-user] sharing portage directories when dual booting x86 and amd64

2007-05-25 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 24 May 2007 23:42:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: In particular can I share  * distfiles (DISTDIR)  * logs (PORT_LOGDIR) Sure.  * tmp (PORTAGE_TMPDIR) If you ever compile the same package at the same time that may not be such a good idea. Even if it works it may be confusing. Why not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glib-1.2.10-r5 broken for lame

2007-05-23 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 08:57:57 Sven Köhler wrote: trying to update my system , glib is broken here is the output Seems like a libtool problem. Please try to update libtool, and then try to update glib again. Maybe that works. Or maybe not.. ;) Downgrading libtool on the other hand

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:30:44 Naga wrote: B-well, that's what it needs actually, probably in the docs it has it specified http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/source_mirrors.xml -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -f

2007-05-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 08:01:19 Naga wrote: So, does the emptytree (-e) option basically tell it that you don't have ANYTHING instlled where it should be? :P Yes, it empties the depend tree. So portage thinks that no software is installed. That's an implementation detail that used to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto Read the Fine Manual

2007-05-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 22 May 2007 22:09:33 Florian Philipp wrote: Why doesn't apropos or man -k find anything? For example: # man -k man man: nothing appropriate sys-apps/man installs a cron job in /etc/cron.daily/makewhatis. Did you install a cron daemon? Is it configured to run cron jobs in

Re: [gentoo-user] A Theoretical install Question

2007-05-22 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 02:13:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If nothing else the handbook says that Gentoo etiquite says not to rsync your portage tree more than once a day.  For the average distro, once a week or even once a month is more than sufficient to keep up with the packages in the main

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

2007-05-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 18 May 2007 18:10:41 Mick wrote: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy boa have been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your request: - www-servers/boa-0.94.14_alpha20 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword) # Raúl Porcel [EMAIL PROTECTED] (18 May

Re: [gentoo-user] Boa is now hard masked?

2007-05-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 18 May 2007 17:40:30 Mick wrote: Hi All, eix and portage are telling me: [D] www-servers/boa Available versions: [M]0.94.13 [M]0.94.13-r1 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20 [M]~0.94.14_alpha20-r1 [M]~0.94.14_rc21 Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:10:29 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Enrico's 'brilliant' solution is to split packages like Debian Ah, now it get interesting. The primary directive: We are not Debian, If Debian does something, Gentoo must do it completely different. Nonono. It's: We are not a binary

Re: [gentoo-user] Ted ebuild broken

2007-05-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 18 May 2007 05:38:08 Grant Edwards wrote: Anybody have any idea what to do to fix the Ted ebuild? Source compiled. Test phase [not enabled]: app-editors/ted-2.12 Completed installing ted-2.12 into /var/tmp/portage/app-editors/ted-2.12/image/ /usr/lib/portage/bin/ebuild.sh:

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 14:41:45 David Harel wrote: A tip, read the elog printouts or have them mailed to you (see /etc/make.conf.example). Thanks. I wish there was a short list of documents for basic maintenance. It is mentioned in part 2, chapter 2 in the handbook. Unfortunately some

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 16:54:13 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2007 16:23:13 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. Lots? If you'd posted this yesterday, I would[n't] have been able

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 17:47:37 Enrico Weigelt wrote: Thank you for producing lots of circular dependencies (ie. in the Xserver), which make maintenance complicated. Lots? If you'd posted this yesterday, I would have been able to recall the last time I was hit with one. At least

Re: [gentoo-user] openssl 0.9.8 installs /usr/lib/openssl.so.0.9.7 only

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 23:49:18 David Harel wrote: Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: Nop, Attached the output of: # equery files openssl opensslList Is it reproducible? If it is what's the output of `eix -e openssl` (if you don't have eix emerge it) ? On my machine it is reproducible. I

Re: [gentoo-user] OPenOffice broken

2007-05-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 17 May 2007 04:30:37 James wrote: It seems to work, but no spell checking? From the openoffice ebuilds: | pkg_postinst() { | [...] | elog Spell checking is now provided through our own myspell-ebuilds, | elog if you want to use it, please install the correct myspell package

Re: [gentoo-user] how to check package/installation integrity

2007-05-15 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 14:12:52 Enrico Weigelt wrote: # equery check package_name 'equery' comes with 'app-portage/gentoolkit' THX, but does not really solve my problem: i need to check for any broken package. I have no idea which one could be broken. --all or * does not work. # qcheck

Re: [gentoo-user] Funny comment made by kuroo.

2007-05-15 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 21:07:47 David Harel wrote: Using kuroo, sometimes I get a notice such as: QA Notice: Package has poor programming practices which may compile fine but exhibit random runtime failures. Any idea what trigers such as message? It's not from kuroo. It's from portage. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] why PDEPEND ?

2007-05-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 14 May 2007 15:18:21 Enrico Weigelt wrote: I've seen perl has some PDEPEND's, which means that these packages (PodParser and Test-Harness) are emerged right after perl. Why is that necessary ? Shouldn't those packages requiring these two simply have them as DEPEND ? Obviously

Re: [gentoo-user] locate

2007-05-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 11 May 2007 16:09:40 Neil Bothwick wrote: Anyway I don't have a mouse on that system, so I'll have to use Alan suggestion. You could use a script. e.g. A script won't help as it will only change the path in the context of the script. A shell function is required. -- Bo Andresen

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 10 May 2007 21:06:13 Florian Philipp wrote: I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have moved. Well, you

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 11 May 2007 00:12:43 b.n. wrote: # rpm -i foopackage.i386.rpm I fear this way Portage would not be aware of the package being installed. Am I wrong? No, you are correct. -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: I thought this question would be quiet common but I've been unable to get an answer googling and looking through howtos. Actually there are some links in an old thread on forums.gentoo.org but its target seems to have moved.

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:36:41 Florian Philipp wrote: Maybe I should formulate another question: Where is the big difference between a binary ebuild and a binary rpm / deb and why is it so hard to convert them? Gentoo is a source based distro. Usually in Gentoo binary packages are placed in

Re: [gentoo-user] python emerge appears to have broken my python man page symlink

2007-05-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 11 May 2007 00:53:38 Dan Farrell wrote: Hey all. I updated my home server today, and while looking through the resultant emails from portage, I find this message from the python emerge | Subject: package dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4 merged on zeus.spore.ath.cx [SNIP] | WARN: postrm |

Re: [gentoo-user] Separate /usr [was: Clock is way off]

2007-05-09 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 23:49:45 darren kirby wrote: I do have a separate /usr, but do not mount it readonly, as I --sync enough to make remounting it daily rather annoying. Congratulations! You've just explained why PORTDIR defaulting to /usr/portage is stupid. The logical location for the

Re: [gentoo-user] configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-05-08 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 08 May 2007 16:54:59 Arnau Bria wrote: I'm looking forums, google, etc... and I don't find a valid solution. I'm not sure if it's a compiler problem or not, cause I've been able to recompile some packages (binutils, i.e.) [SNIP] configure:2119: checking for i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Xserver on Dell Inspiron M1710

2007-05-05 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 05 May 2007 19:49:11 Allan Gottlieb wrote: I've always used ATI cards and after this experience, I think I still prefer them. [...] My own very unscientific summary of the situation is that ATI has been less favorably reviewed then nvidia. [...] One could say that the open

Re: [gentoo-user] eix way too verbose

2007-05-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 03 May 2007 09:28:54 Alan McKinnon wrote: It seems that with every update, eix output gets more and more verbose. Take this for example: With that in mind it seems relevant to mention which version of eix you're using. I'm putting my bet on 0.9.4 though. ;) nazgul ~ # eix

Re: [gentoo-user] eix way too verbose

2007-05-03 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 03 May 2007 12:50:20 Alan McKinnon wrote: Now the question is if it can be made conditional on whether the package is already installed... ;) Doesn't that defeat the purpose though? Or perhaps you mean to display the Available list if the package isn't installed yet and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 04:03:23 Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote: Whats the purpose of this? To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage. This reminds me very much of [1]. Basically it's a lot harder to

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to compile postgresql-8.2.4

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 12:58:01 Marko Kocić wrote: After today's sync I tried to upgrade postgresql to 8.2.4 I'm getting the following error: snip checking thread safety of required library functions... no configure: error: thread test program failed This platform is not thread-safe.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] amarok and mp3 file rename

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 19:08:54 Francesco Talamona wrote: After xmms was phased out, I chose to use Amarok. Now that I have listened and rated some thousands of mp3 I would like to be able to rename/move files without loosing rating and scoring information. I'm under the impression that

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx USE flag and xorg 7.2: confusion with emerge -pv output about USE flags

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 02 May 2007 23:28:57 b.n. wrote: I'm currently using xorg 7.1 with AIGLX enabled and Beryl. Yesterday night I did an emerge --sync emerge -pv world and that's what I found (among others): [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.2.0-r3 [1.1.1-r5] USE=dri ipv6 nptl sdl xorg -3dfx

Re: [gentoo-user] aiglx USE flag and xorg 7.2: confusion with emerge -pv output about USE flags

2007-05-02 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 03 May 2007 02:26:36 b.n. wrote: However, on a sidenote, I must say I find the current emerge syntax quite confusing. Using the % for both newly added and removed and () for either forced, masked and removed is not the best of ideas, imho. If % means newly, there should at least

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto for Sendmail configuration?

2007-05-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 29 April 2007 18:14:53 Dan Cowsill wrote: As per the gmail question, perhaps some clarification is in order. I'd like to use gmail's smtp server to send mail instead of my ISP's server.  Is this possible with the TLS/SSL encryption that Gmail uses? Sure. From /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf:

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-haskell/network

2007-05-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 28 April 2007 20:50:12 Iván Pérez Domínguez wrote: In the official portage there's a package called dev-haskell/network. It does absolutely nothing (it even says that). Why is it there? What is the purpose of having that package if it's not a virtual package that, btw, ghc could

Re: [gentoo-user] strange equery result

2007-05-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 30 April 2007 02:03:23 maxim wexler wrote: On my way from updating from 2.6.16 to 2.6.20 kernels decided to upgrade ati-drivers and went to http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ATI_Drivers for a refresher. It says to run equery to see that dloader use flag is off but this is what I get:

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 01 May 2007 19:28:06 Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote: can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild? Let me clarify: I want a few packages to not be merged under / directly but rather to be located under

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/lib/libGL.so: No such file or directory

2007-04-27 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 27 April 2007 11:27:26 Arnau Bria wrote: Is this link supposed to exist? What package owns this file? Equery does not find it... app-admin/eselect-opengl is the tool that will allow you to select the openGL implementation, and it will create the relevant symlinks for you,

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kde-env Block kdelibs

2007-04-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:16:10 Rumen Yotov wrote: i tried to update one of my gentoo box.it gave me following notice. it tried to unmerge kde-env but there is no like ebuild in de portage. so what will be the problem. please help me resolve this. NOTICE -- [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-base/kde-env Block kdelibs-SOLVED

2007-04-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 11:07:35 AIT Gentoo User wrote: i removed kdelibs but not workd.finaly i removed /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kde-env folder. tried. it worked. *shrug* You should *never* touch anything in /var/db/pkg manually. Why you assume that an installed package cannot be unmerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot configure Synaptics Touchpad - Disabling Tapping synclient

2007-04-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 08:50:52 Alexander Skwar wrote: Hello. I'm having a hell of a time configuring my Synaptics Touchpad. Basically, I'd like to disable the annoying tapping feature; with tapping, they mean, that the user shortly hits (taps) the touchpad and this is then interpreted as

Re: [gentoo-user] What to use for a Intel Xeon processor (IA64 or AMD64) ?

2007-04-24 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 24 April 2007 13:02:57 Davi wrote: I know that Intel Xeon processors have EM64T support, which means normally full compatibility to AMD64? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IA64 IA64 is Itanium CPUs I think - you should go with amd64. But Xeon is Itanium's substitute...

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug in bash ?

2007-04-21 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 21 April 2007 09:52:40 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can somebody explain why ls [A-Z]* works as ls * (or ls -R): It seems that [A-Z] is ignored by bash-3.1.17 on amd64. The expression works as expected with zsh... Try `ls [[:upper:]]*`. Also -R is recursive. You should google that

Re: AW: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild?

2007-04-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 20 April 2007 12:34:15 Stephan Eberle wrote: Ah! Sorry, a little more research on my side revealed that I have to emerge gentoolkit. It even has a nice guide. ;) http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoolkit.xml -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -pv vs emerge -DuNpv

2007-04-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 19 April 2007 15:13:39 Neil Bothwick wrote: Hello Graham Murray, If not, the behavior you see is normal. Just add sys-kernel/gentoo-sources to the world file. Shouldn't gentoo-sources be part of system? No, because you may not want to use gentoo-sources. system contains

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge -pv vs emerge -DuNpv

2007-04-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 19 April 2007 19:47:27 maxim wexler wrote: to take a look at --with-bdeps in `man emerge`. I can't find it. Not in google either. Spelling? You need portage 2.1.2 for it... -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] ivtv support for gentoo-sources 2.6.19-r7 and higher?

2007-04-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 20 April 2007 00:08:03 Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I am trying to update my MythTV server's kernel to 2.6.19 or higher. It's been running 2.6.17. When I boot either 2.6.19-r7 or 2.6.20-r6 and attempt to build the ivtv driver I get message like this: * Checking for suitable kernel

Re: [gentoo-user] List installed packaged for 'system'

2007-04-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 19 April 2007 04:28:37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had installed the 2006.1 release on an i686 system. Few weeks later I just synced the portage (only) using a snapshot. Now using quickpkg i want to create the binary packages of 'system' and install it on an underpowered

Re: [gentoo-user] List installed packaged for 'system'

2007-04-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 19 April 2007 04:50:22 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:     sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//' | while read pkg; do Probably a good idea to insert a `sort -u`: sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//' | sort -u | while read pkg; do -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [gentoo-user] List installed packaged for 'system'

2007-04-18 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 19 April 2007 04:50:22 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: # cd /var/db/pkg \    emerge -peq system | sed -n 's|^\[ebuild[^]]*\] \([^ $]\+\).*$|\1|p' | \ sed -r 's/-[^-]+(-r[0-9]+)*$//' | while read pkg; do        for p in ${pkg}-*; do            quickpkg =$p;        done;    done

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby scripts for amarok won't run anymore

2007-04-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 16:48:11 Nistor Andrei wrote: Hi, after an emerge --depclean I noticed none of the ruby scripts work anymore. I get this error: ruby: no such file to load -- auto_gem (LoadError) Does anyone know how this can be fixed? (re-)emerge rubygems. It works!

Re: [gentoo-user] ruby scripts for amarok won't run anymore

2007-04-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:55:59 Nistor Andrei wrote: Hi, after an emerge --depclean I noticed none of the ruby scripts work anymore. I get this error: ruby: no such file to load -- auto_gem (LoadError) Does anyone know how this can be fixed? # unset RUBYOPT And make sure

Re: [gentoo-user] create an installable custom distro with gentoo?

2007-04-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 20:27:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: Or change it for OOo builds only.   I keep forgetting to do stuff like that and only find out 4 hours into an 8 hour emerge :-) I wonder if you could do this in /etc/portage/env? You cannot. Setting CHECKREQS_ACTION=error in

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package.use

2007-04-17 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 17:58:27 Richard Marz wrote: It is it possible to glob an entire subdirectory in package.use. I'm trying to stop portage from using the doc flag when installing java development suites. I tried adding the following to my package.use file: dev-java/* -doc Then ran

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 April 2007 15:00:30 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:40:10 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: equery --quiet --nocolor list --duplicates gentoo-sources | awk '{print $1}' | head -n -2 | xargs --no-run-if-empty emerge --unmerge /dev/null Out of interest: 1)

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-16 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 April 2007 16:23:34 John covici wrote: Well, here issomething which might help -- output from update-eix. Reading Portage settings .. Building database (/var/cache/eix) .. [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata) Reading 100% [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

2007-04-15 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Monday 16 April 2007 00:44:57 Rostislav wrote: On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote: Hi. I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there. I did emerge --regen but still no luck. The make.conf within layman

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge --sync doesn't work anymore

2007-04-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 14 April 2007 11:54:42 Benjamin Graf wrote: I added some ebuilds in /usr/local/portage and ran the ebuild foo.ebuild digest command for every ebuild I added. Now, emerge --sync gives me an error : calypso ~ # emerge --sync Starting rsync with

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I enable package specific FEATURES and CFLAGS?

2007-04-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 14 April 2007 13:28:26 Jules Colding wrote: Hi, I always want to build evolution and evolution-data-server with: CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O1 -ggdb -pipe FEATURES=splitdebug as opposed to other all packages which I want to build with: CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O2 -pipe How can I arrange

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I enable package specific FEATURES and CFLAGS?

2007-04-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 14 April 2007 14:08:58 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: # CAT END /etc/portage/env/mail-client/evolution Heh, that obviously went out a bit too fast. cat not CAT. :) -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I enable package specific FEATURES and CFLAGS?

2007-04-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 14 April 2007 15:34:59 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: # mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/mail-client # CAT END /etc/portage/env/mail-client/evolution CFLAGS=-march=k8 -O1 -ggdb -pipe FEATURES=$FEATURES splitdebug END Likewise for gnome-extra/evolution-data-server. I think here

Re: [gentoo-user] SQLITE tcl useflag - what for?

2007-04-14 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 14 April 2007 18:20:36 Rodrigo Lazo wrote: No matter if I set the flag or not... I always get the tcl dependency... If doc is enabled tcl is mandatory (the dep). If doc is not set tcl is optional depending on the tcl use flag. You can see this yourself if you look in the ebuild.

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I know which package needs to upgrade without using emerge --sync?

2007-04-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 April 2007 17:46:42 Fabio wrote: Now I advise people to keep their systems synced at least once a month, not because their machine necessarily needs to, but because after much time with no emerging --sync, you'd see your computers spending one or two days downloading and compiling

Re: [gentoo-user] OT im more just curious

2007-04-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 April 2007 23:36:29 Anthony E. Caudel wrote: Gentoo since 1999. Really? I was under the impression the first release went out in 2002. Of course it could be installed before that but '99? (and yeah, I'm 24). -- Bo Andresen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] lib w/o a package?

2007-04-13 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Saturday 14 April 2007 07:23:59 Dan Farrell wrote: equery takes the guesswork out of package manangement: | [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery belongs gdbm.so | [ Searching for file(s) gdbm.so in *... ] | dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4 (/usr/lib64/python2.4/lib-dynload/gdbm.so) |

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse

2007-04-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 April 2007 14:24:16 Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote: I'm new to gentoo so bare with me. I'm trying to emerge eclipse-core, but can't seem to wrap my head around the idea about masked programs. I have read trough the documentation about the emerge tool but didn't find a working

Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse

2007-04-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 12 April 2007 15:02:28 Alan McKinnon wrote: There are not one but TWO ways that packages get masked. Actually there's at least 3 possible masking reasons.. ~arch keyword, missing keyword and package.mask. Also the missing keyword reason is overloaded. [SNIP] [...] and

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 April 2007 01:12:08 Anthony E. Caudel wrote: At around 300MB per kernel, that's ten excess kernels, so you can't be doing it that often. Once you're happy with the current kernel, you only need emerge -P gentoo-sources to remove the rest. I use a script that removes all but

Re: [gentoo-user] Any consequences to package.mask'ing newer kernels?

2007-04-12 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Friday 13 April 2007 01:59:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: Provided you have gentoolkit something as simple as this works: # emerge -Cva $(equery -q list gentoo-sources | head -n -2) That only cleans out /usr/src, it's slightly different to what I use (which rm's the directories first to speed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS ...-O3 -pipe vs ...O2 no pipe

2007-04-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 11:39:50 Daniel Iliev wrote: Exactly what kind of damage are you talking about? Don't you think if there was a real problem with -O3, gentoo devs would have excluded it as an option, especially when they have an easy to apply mechanism for doing that (I have in mind

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS ...-O3 -pipe vs ...O2 no pipe

2007-04-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Wednesday 11 April 2007 12:56:43 Daniel Iliev wrote: Sorry, I don't get it. Perhaps it is my poor English but I couldn't understand two things: - Is -O3 supported by Gentoo or not? -O3 is supported by Gentoo. - What's the special thing about Gentoo ebuilds that makes -O3 dangerous? No

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS ...-O3 -pipe vs ...O2 no pipe

2007-04-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 16:58:47 Uwe Thiem wrote: On 10 April 2007, maxim wexler wrote: Interesting. Just completed emerge -uvDN world using the -03 -pipe cflags in make.conf for the PIII arch. I noticed as the output scrolled by that the flags I set were being used for all packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Stage feature request and bug report.

2007-04-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 08 April 2007 20:05:50 Jerry McBride wrote: Just a small request of the gentoo stage developers... Would it be at all possible to include rsync in the next round of development? ??? rsync is already on the stages.. -- Bo Andresen pgpXS1wydVs1w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS ...-O3 -pipe vs ...O2 no pipe

2007-04-10 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 10 April 2007 21:45:04 Uwe Thiem wrote: That said, you can rebuild your system to be O2 by editing /etc/make.conf (O3 - O2) and the --newuse option for emerge. I don't think it's worth it. ;-) You mean --emptytree. -- Bo Andresen pgpe55VrkhfAo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Why are gentoo people so in love with colorized output?!?

2007-04-06 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:07:33 Mick wrote: Not really. Just use --color=y if you want colors through a pipe. Hmm, neither less not cat give me color output.  Passing --color=y to either tells me things like: --color=y was for emerge to enable colors through a pipe. less needs -R to show

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