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SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/usr/lib/digilent/waveforms revdep-rebuild --pretend
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On 2019-10-14, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 14 October 2019 15:47:53 BST Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2019-10-12, Daniel Frey wrote:
>> > I've run into this many times, whenever portage asks me to update itself
>> > after a sync I always run `emerge -a portag
On 2019-10-14, Hartmut Figge wrote:
> Grant Edwards:
>
>>This morning emerge is complaining that virtual/pam-0-r1 is masked and
>>scheduled for removal in 14 days. But virtual/pam is required by
>>sys-apps/shadow which is part of the base profiles.
>
> I was just
This morning emerge is complaining that virtual/pam-0-r1 is masked and
scheduled for removal in 14 days. But virtual/pam is required by
sys-apps/shadow which is part of the base profiles.
What am I missing?
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tinkered for an
embarassingly long time before it dawned on me that simply emerging
portage and gentoolkit together was the answer. It does seem like a
bit of a bug when emerge tells you to run command "whatever", and when
you do emerge tells you it can't do "whatever".
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times. Gentoo is intended to be updated regularly (e.g. once every
week or three). And if a Gentoo system has been sitting around
unmaintained for more than a 6-9 months, then it's usually easier to
just reinstall.
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>> Does anyone have VA-API working on Chromium or Chrome? I've chased
>> down a few possibilities but ended up at dead ends.
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> I finally managed to get chromium-74.0.3729.108 working with vaapi.
>
> See:
> ht
>> Does anyone have VA-API working on Chromium or Chrome? I've chased
>> down a few possibilities but ended up at dead ends.
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> I finally managed to get chromium-74.0.3729.108 working with vaapi.
>
> See:
> ht
On 2019-09-16, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On one of my machines, I'm unable to do "emerge --sync" because the
> key update fails:
>
> $ sudo emerge --sync
> >>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'...
>* Using keys from /usr/
port 11371.
Other machines in the same location don't seem to have the WKD
failure, and don't seem to be attempting to refresh keys from
hkps://keys.gentoo.org.
Is the WKD failure _causing_ the attempt to refresh from
hkps://keys.gentoo.org?
How does one troubleshoot the WKD failure?
On 2019-09-11, Grant Edwards wrote:
> This morning the build of gdb failed during a routine update:
...
> CXXxml-tdesc.o
> CXXinit.o
> CXXLD gdb
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> tui/tui-win.o: undefined reference
On 2019-09-12, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2019-09-11, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> This morning the build of gdb failed during a routine update:
>>
>> [...]
>> CXXxml-tdesc.o
>> CXXinit.o
>> CXXLD gdb
>> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-
On 2019-09-11, Grant Edwards wrote:
> This morning the build of gdb failed during a routine update:
>
> [...]
> CXXxml-tdesc.o
> CXXinit.o
> CXXLD gdb
> /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/8.3.0/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld:
> tui/tui-win.o: undef
On 2019-09-11, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2019 17:26:20 - (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> Though it might be tricky to get the mount to happen automagically
>> when the phone's USB cable is plugged in...
>
> It should be possible with a udev rule.
Yes, I
On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> On 9/11/19 5:17 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
>>
>> You can mount sftp and ssh as filesystems just like you do with MTP.
>
> Good observation, I'll try that route.
Though it might be tricky
On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
> On 9/11/19 4:33 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2019-09-11, Raffaele Belardi wrote:
>>> After my recent switch from Gnome to XFCE (both ~amd64) transferring
>>> files from the smartphone to the desktop via USB/MTP has become
&
, and initially thought it might be due to the
fact that I had both ncurses:5 and ncurses:6 installed. I uninstalled
:5 and did a revdep-rebuild (which found nothing to rebuild). But gdb
still fails to build.
Any clues?
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IIRC, there's a farily extensive recent thread on this.
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On 2019-09-08, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 11:38 AM Grant Edwards
> wrote:
>>
>> This seems to happen regularly with Imagemagick. Version 7.0.8.60
>> just went stable today, yet it can't be built because version 7.0.8.60
>> sources can no longer b
.
Am I doing something wrong?
Shouldn't there be a requirement that an ebuild actually be
_buildable_ from scratch when it goes stable?
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.x can
be rather painful.
For most other sorts of apps, it's fairly easy to write code that
works on both, and even easier to just switch over.
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at with SOY
and file system) was
compiled in with proper parameters on the kernel command line.
Root on LUKS, iSCSI, software RAID 5; sure, those things need help.
Virtually none of the server's I've supported needed any of those for
root. Other disks / file systems that were activated via init scripts?
Sure.
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they don't actually /need/ them to boot their system. So they choose to
not use them, thereby reducing unnecessary complexity in the boot process.
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technical ones.
Please clarify what "this trivial solution" is. Are you referring to
initramfs / initrd or the 'split-user' USE flag?
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On 8/5/19 8:45 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
Even bigger hack.
I wouldn't be me if I didn't lob these two words out there:
mount namespaces
/me will see himself out now.
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ing structure:
/bin -> /usr/bin
/usr/bin -> /.bin
That would mean that the pre-/usr /bin contents would still be
accessible via /.bin even after /usr is mounted. And /bin would still
point to /usr/bin as currently being discussed with /usr merge.
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. I just hope the Gentoo
principles hold a while longer.
Maybe it's my Slackware roots showing. But I want to believe that it's
possible to judiciously configure and compile software to work on just
about any platform. (Assuming that the requisite version of libraries
are somewhere on the system.)
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about it. AIX
will refuse to use a populated directory as a mount point.
As I type this, perhaps ZFS on Linux complains, but I don't recall.
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e systemd
inspired changes which caused this loss of functionality. ;-)
Fair enough.
Though I would question just how much and what is broken by having a
separate /usr file system without systemd. }:-) Specifically, is it
truly broken? Or does it need some minor tweaks?
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food because my neighbor is doing it.
· I /do/ want to start cooking my food because I think that cooked
food is tastier than uncooked food.
Let's review any changes on their merits *before* they are implemented.
Sure.
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On 8/4/19 7:26 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
I am also using a bit of a hack that I think could be (re)used to allow
/usr being a separate file system without /requiring/ an initramfs /
initrd. (I'll reply in another email with details to avoid polluting
this thread.)
I think that a variation
an initrd) to fix things
at times. I'm also quite happy without an initramfs / initrd.
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twork
interface (with the phone acting as a router). For me that usually
"just works". When I want to transfer files, my phone is usually
already connected to the local network via Wifi, so that's what use.
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Yep, I second that recommendation. There are also a couple free FTP
servers that work well. I've had good luck with FTPServer by Andreas
Liebig, but there's really no reason to pick FTP over SSH/SCP/SFTP.
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uot; touted by some pro-systemd people. I always thought it
sounded like a horrible idea and an excellent reason to stick with
openrc.
I have enough problems figuring out package build failures with -j2. :/
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interface isn't showing up yet, because the
firmware loading is failing. It worked when booting from the minimal
install image, so I've still got some kernel configuration tweaking to
do. I have vague memories of the iwlwifi driver not working well when
compiled as part of the kernel but working
On 2019-07-25, Grant Edwards wrote:
> All the examples I can find of people using root=PARTUUID=<> show the
> longer PARTUUID values you get with a GPT parition table. Does the
> root=PARTUUID=<> mechanism only work with GPT and not with DOS
> parition tables?
The comme
ried a rootdelay of up to 20 seconds, and that doesn't seem to
help.
All the examples I can find of people using root=PARTUUID=<> show the
longer PARTUUID values you get with a GPT parition table. Does the
root=PARTUUID=<> mechanism only work with GPT and not with
n, sometime in the December-January timeframe.
>
> I guess you should have written your code in a way that can store
> current state so that it can resume.
No kidding. Isn't "how to use checkpoint files" lesson number zero
when you start working on long-running computational jobs?
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On 2019-07-09, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2019-07-05 14:25, Grant Edwards wrote:
>
>> -grub.cfg--
>> timeout=10
>> root=hd0,1
>>
>> menuentry 'vmlinuz-4.19.52-gentoo' {
>> linux /
following to the ~/.Xdefaults file, reread it, and be good to go.
xterm.vt100*colorMode: false
Reread the file via "xrdb ~/.Xdefaults" or logout & back in.
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of
'192.0.2.1:/export/hostname/root'
With a return code of 1.
GRUB2 is incredibly bendy, if only the documentation were as compliant
to the wishes of its users,
Sometimes I wonder just how bendy it really is.
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to the drives and utilize
the drive's full capacity.
The idea that Linux can no longer do this with larger drives disheartens me.
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, sometimes it's the case that if you're having to bend
to tool too much, you might be trying to do something the tool is not
meant to do, and as such you should re-think what you're trying to do.
After that brief sanity check, by all means, bend the tool to your
liking. }:-)
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I shudder when I contrast that with many hundreds of lines of cruft
that the mkconfig system would generate.
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easily. (I'm
color-blind, so this might enhance the problem.)
You can also redefine the colors in XTerm so that anything that thinks
it's using a given color number is actually using whatever RGB value you
set. Thus you can alter the colors to whatever you want.
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dot files are ""hidden by default, but there if you
know where and how to look.
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with different RAID properties.
I once had a LV w/ RAID 0 striping across multiple PVs with another LV
with RAID 5 for redundancy, in the same PVs.
This LVM functionality does require RAID (multiple device) support as
that's what's used /inside/ (read: under the hood) of LVM.
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s it extra that comes with device-mapper?
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On 6/22/19 3:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
The indentation shows that is is a hard dependency of cryptsetup, which
is backed up by reading the ebuild. I expect that it needs the
device-maper functionality provided by lvm, in which case you can set the
device-mapper-only USE flag to avoid
On 6/22/19 2:13 AM, Mick wrote:
These USE flags are the same like mine.
ACK
I don't think it is a shell related problem (but may be wrong).
I think we need to be very careful and specific what part we think is
shell (thus possibly readline) related vs terminal emulator related vs
On 6/22/19 1:52 AM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
I think (wrongly?) that readline deals with redrawing when typing a
command in the shell.
I believe that readline comes into play with the shell which is
controlling the command line. Any past output, even old command lines,
are historical data that
On 6/21/19 5:03 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
## equery uses x11-terms/xterm
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[: I - package is installed with flag ]
[ Colors : set, unset ]
* Found these USE flags for x11-terms/xterm-337:
U I
- - Xaw3d
On 6/21/19 4:20 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
Nope. Just plain xterm (which I use a lot). BTW: it also works
remotely, via ssh. $TERM is "xterm".
What use terms do you have enabled (that impact XTerm)?
Please post the output of equery uses x11-terms/xterm.
XTerm(337)
I think that's the current
On 6/21/19 3:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
No description. It clearly gets the homepage info from the .ebuild
file (it doesn't exist anywhere else) so why it cannot also get the
description is beyond me.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That's what I meant by "trivially worked around" :-)
;-)
BTW, does your
On 6/21/19 2:04 PM, Jorge Almeida wrote:
My xterm wraps & resizes just fine (e.g., a long line wraps;
on maximizing the window, contents are redrawn and use just one
line, if it fits). I don't think I did anything special for this
to work.
That surprises me.
Are you automatically running
On 6/21/19 12:03 PM, Mick wrote:
I seem to have this enabled, as far as the GUI shows, along with reverse
wraparound
If it's enabled (checked) in XTerm's menu, then the feature is enabled.
not sure what the reverse wraparound does.
"reverse wraparound" is when you backspace off the left
On 6/21/19 11:27 AM, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Is there a command to show the fields like DESCRIPTION and HOMEPAGE
from an installed ebuild, or is this one of the annoying gaps in the
framework that must be (and can be) trivially worked around?
Does equery meta not show what you want?
% equery
On 6/21/19 6:57 AM, Mick wrote:
Is there some setting I can apply to address this annoying phenomenon?
I'm not aware of such a setting for XTerm.
Note: My ignorance of such a setting does not preclude it from existing.
need for the
ability for a different user to log in and halt the system. That common
/ shared user was usually named "halt" / "shutdown" / "reboot" / etc.
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On 6/19/19 9:51 PM, Dale wrote:
It seems you like that way and it works best for your situation and that
is what matters.
Yep. I'm happy enough, for now. We'll see if I change my opinion in
the future.
Sometimes there are many ways to do things but some just work better
in certain
After the good input that I received in the "Preventing new versions of
gentoo-sources…" thread, I figured I'd ask this question:
Is there a way to cause ebuild file to limit the version of other
packages, e.g. net-misc/openvswitch's limiting sys-kernel/gentoo-sources
to a supported kernel
On 6/19/19 8:51 PM, Dale wrote:
Honestly, I'm not sure there is a easy way to do this.
I'm actually happy with what Vadim recommended.
It keeps me within the minor (?) version of the kernel that I want to
stay within, while still allowing updates to new micro (?) versions.
Is Major, Minor,
.
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"keywords"
command. (It seems to be command specific, with "check", "has",
"hasuse", and "list" supporting it.)
Unfortunately, it does not look like "keywords" supports the "-o"
(overlay) option.
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On 2019-06-19, Dale wrote:
> [...] So, the splitter does in fact work but not with my puter's
> video card.
I suspect that the splitter only works for a handful of specific
signal formats. Try configurring your card to output a typical ATSC
"TV" format (720p 30Hz or 1080i 6
tools /can/ work properly.
I'm assuming that I don't have something configured properly and that's
preventing equery from doing what I want.
I need to read and learn about eix to understand if / why it's a better
tool than equery.
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, I updated the mainifest with repoman in both repositories.)
I'm liking the local repo for things, but I'm used to using equery
keywords and equery uses, neither of which seem to work as desired. :-/
I'm assuming that it's my ignorance.
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On 6/19/19 1:43 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
These days there are other ways to do the same
You could probably add the Set UID bit to the halt binary and restrict
read & execution to members of the group. Then any user that can read
it, can run it as root via Set UID.
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to effect.
The testing is even better than I had originally hoped.
gentoo-sources-4.14.127.ebuild came in since I did my updates a few days
ago. So now emerge is telling me there is a new version of
gentoo-sources, that is within my specified parameters. :-)
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~ (testing/experimental).
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ce for any suggestions.
Good luck.
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TL;DR: It does seem that the kernel was holding things back to the
point that things weren't working. :-(
On 6/8/19 12:01 PM, Grant Taylor wrote:
I'm having problems with newly compiled modules (zfs (et al.) and vbox
(et al.)) and kernel after doing two "emerge -DuNe @world"s.
I'
n absolute, 100%) the case.
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On 6/16/19 8:37 PM, Manuel McLure wrote:
For example, per IBM for AIX
(https://developer.ibm.com/articles/au-aix7memoryoptimize3/):
"A more sensible rule is to configure the paging space to be half the
size of RAM plus 4GB with an upper limit of 32GB. In systems with more
than 32GB of RAM,
On 6/16/19 7:02 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
So you didn't read what I wrote ... Par for the course :-(
I did. I still hear people say it today. It's not old as in past tense.
The basic Unix mechanism needs twice ram.
I disagree.
It's inherent in the design of the thing. Whether linux no
On 6/16/19 1:14 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
I'd have a single /home partition
I was thinking of the other OS as more of a live distro copied to the
system than anything else. I wasn't thinking that the OP wanted to
actively use the alternate distro frequently. As such, I figure that
most
On 6/15/19 7:04 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
Hello list,
Hi,
The main system on this box is ~amd64 plasma, but I also have a
small rescue system which is amd64, no desktop. I use bootctl from
systemd-boot to manage the UEFI images.
I don't have much experience with UEFI. But I do have some
about it. (Life happened.)
This renews my interest in helping support it and trying to get it back
into portage.
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On 6/9/19 12:49 PM, Mick wrote:
3. Rebuild libtools, binutils, glibc.
Well, I've had some progress.
I'm now booted and running the kernel I just compiled. (Same config,
same genkernel command.)
I unmasked, downgraded, and selected (binutils-config) binutils to
2.30-r4 before re-running
On 6/9/19 2:23 PM, Mick wrote:
I think Dale meant a later tree will contain updated packages, which
may fix previous breakages and incompatibilities.
Please clarify which tree: Kernel and / or Portage
Hypothetically, a later VBox version requires some later version libs,
which your current
On 6/9/19 1:38 PM, Dale wrote:
While I see that point and quite often it is a good idea, it could
also be that a fix is in the newer tree. It could even be that you
caught the tree in the middle of some sort of change and you missed
part of it.
If it were me, I'd try everything you can but
On 6/9/19 12:49 PM, Mick wrote:
If you haven't done it already, perhaps have a look in the path
/lib/modules/ 4.9.76-gentoo-r1/misc/ to check the VBox modules are
present and owned by root:root with 0644 access rights.
They are there. I would have expected the error message to be different
On 6/9/19 2:56 AM, Mick wrote:
This sounds as if it may be related to a move from an older gcc to
a newer version.
I'm not sure it's related to a gcc version:
# gcc-config -l
[1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-6.4.0 *
[2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-8.3.0
I think that gcc 8.3 might have been selected and I
On 6/8/19 1:17 PM, Dale wrote:
I'm not sure I completely understand this one but a thought occurred
to me.
Thoughts are good. That's why I asked.
This may be way off base here so feel free to ignore it if it is.
Did you make sure the kernel symlink is pointing to the right kernel
when you
On 6/8/19 12:26 PM, Mick wrote:
Were these contents not there, or is it that the new version of
modules do not work?
The old (original for the sake of this thread) versions (restored from
backups) work just fine.
The version produced during the first emerge -DuNe @world worked. At
least
I'm having problems with newly compiled modules (zfs (et al.) and vbox
(et al.)) and kernel after doing two "emerge -DuNe @world"s.
Everything worked fine after rebooting after the first "emerge -DuNe
@world". So, I did another "emerge -DuNe @world". (This harks back to
the old stage 1 ->
I seem to remember going from older /to/ 6.4 being a bit touchy.
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On 6/6/19 9:57 AM, Grant Taylor wrote:
It seems as if the regenworld script adds things that it finds from
/var/log/emerge.log that aren't themselves dependencies of something
else. Thus it the world file is cleaner than if all installed packages
were in the world file.
To put some numbers
to a safe place and try the script. I'd try it once with the old world
file in place and once without a world file at all. Then see which one
works best. If that fails, do it manually.
ACK
Good luck. I hope one or the other works.
Thank you.
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On 6/5/19 9:18 PM, Dale wrote:
I would start by removing anything that has libs in it. Generally,
those should be pulled in as deps. After that, I'd go through the
list and remove anything that you don't directly use.
ACK
Can I just edit /var/lib/portage/world? Or do I need to do
What is the best way to clean up the world file?
I have inherited a system where someone did individual emerges to update
packages when there was a single package that had a problem. So, now
all the packages that emerge wanted to update have been added to the
world file.
I'd like to clean
On 2019-06-04, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2019-06-03, n952...@web.de wrote:
>
>> Fundamentally, autounmask seems like something I don't want to do,
>> at all. What happens if I just remove zz-autounmask? What do I
>> have to emerge to find out?
>
> It occurs
On 2019-06-04, Mick wrote:
> I just downloaded my preferred medium of choice for installing Gentoo and
> discovered sysrescuecd now runs Linux Arch instead of Gentoo and to make
> things worse it is running systemd instead of openrc. :-(
That's sad news indeed.
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rectories and /etc, and then just do a clean install.
Though perhaps you want to battle your way through this upgrade to
earn your portage merit badge. If that be the case, then
Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close up the wall with our failed emerges.
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On 5/23/19 9:49 PM, mad.scientist.at.la...@tutanota.com wrote:
I suspect most lawyers would agree that email is just a bad idea
if confidentiality matters, or the web in general frankly and it's
getting worse fast.
I find that S/MIME works quite well for me. It's also largely
transparent
On 5/23/19 1:11 PM, Dale wrote:
I have to deal with a State entity for some communications and they
do that send a link thing to go to a Cisco site to get/send emails.
I guess it is somewhat better than just plain open email but as you
point out, if they have the email with the link, they do
pairs per party.
If you trust their server, and your server, you might be able to get by
without dealing with encryption in the email and instead relying on
encryption between the servers. - There are some more nuances to this,
but it can be made to work.
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On 5/18/19 7:04 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
Not that I do it (it would be a bit of a learning experience :-)
but this is where using ldap for user management would score ...
Centralized ID administration is nice. I've dabbled with the following:
· Manual UID & GID management
· Copying
On 5/18/19 5:49 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
I'd be interested if there are other scripts people have put out
there, but I agree that most of the container solutions on Linux
are overly-complex.
Here's what I use for some networking, which probably qualifies as
extremely light weight
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