[gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
say 10.2 What's the difference between the 8.x and the 10.x series? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 25 Mar, ich bins wrote: Am 25.03.2010 10:45, schrieb Helmut Jarausch: Hi, would anybody please to kind to explain the x11-drivers/ati-driver versioning system to me? I'm waiting for a version that supports Xorg-7.x . From the bug report http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290739

Re: [gentoo-user] ATI-drivers versioning system - I'm confused

2010-03-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 26 Mar, Alex Schuster wrote: Mick writes: On 25 March 2010 11:50, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Many thanks, do you have an estimate when 10.4 appears in the tree? Helmut. I can't answer that (as far as I know the devs will only say that it will appear when

[gentoo-user] ghostscript / a2ps Courier invalidfont

2010-03-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
-fonts which is blocking media-fonts/gnu-gs-fonts-std Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] X11 keyboard permanent mode switch ?

2010-03-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
(each time) to enter normal ASCII characters). If I'm lucky I can revert this to normal if I press the menu-key and the right control-key 'at the right timing'. Is this a bug or a feature (xorg-server-1.7.6) Many thanks for a comment, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik

[gentoo-user] Xauthority and su

2010-04-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
, sux (from X11-misc/sux) doesn't work in that case. I always get X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Are there any means to achieve this? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Xauthority and su

2010-04-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
have X11 forwarding configured and I don't have any problems when working as the same user for which I logged in via ssh -Y. But if I change the user by using su (doesn't work) or sux (works on a local machine), Xauthorization fails. Thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische

Re: [gentoo-user] Xauthority and su

2010-04-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 7 Apr, Jonas de Buhr wrote: I do have X11 forwarding configured and I don't have any problems when working as the same user for which I logged in via ssh -Y. But if I change the user by using su (doesn't work) or sux (works on a local machine), Xauthorization fails. oh wait... maybe the

[gentoo-user] ati-driver for xorg-1.8.0 ?

2010-04-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, while ati-drivers-8.721 is working just fine with xorg-server-1.7.6 it is blocked by the recent xorg-server-1.8.0 . Is there a more recent version of the ati-drivers, already? Many thank for some info, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching to unstable

2010-04-13 Thread Helmut Jarausch
- sometime a package just stops to build (which is reported as failing package). Just emerge it again. So, I'd say some new features are not ready, yet, but still very useful as they are. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] USe rsync to backup RAID0 to RAID1?

2010-04-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
the additional option -H Furthermore I add the -u option for not overriding files on the destination which are newer. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming practices

2010-04-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the installation of a package (unofficial gimp-gap) is 'aborted due to poor programming practices' probably since there have been lots of dereferencing type-punned pointers and similar warnings. How can I forced portage to install it anyway? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] installation aborted due to poor programming practices

2010-04-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 19 Apr, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:47:17 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: the installation of a package (unofficial gimp-gap) is 'aborted due to poor programming practices' probably since there have been lots of dereferencing type-punned pointers and similar warnings

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Apr, Justin wrote: On 20/04/10 09:47, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But I didn't find which patches and why these have only been applied

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/ck-sources - why should I use them?

2010-04-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 20 Apr, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Dienstag 20 April 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, has anybody experience with these new sys-kernel/ck-sources? I could only see they have additional patches (in addition to those of gentoo-sources). But I didn't find which patches and why

[gentoo-user] CUPS-1.5 (SVN) anybody/anywhere

2010-04-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, has anybody experience with CUPS-1.5 (i.e. the svn version)? Does anybody know where to find an ebuild for net-print/cups- ? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] /dev/.udev - safe to remove ?

2010-04-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi rkhunter showed a warning because there is a /dev/.udev directory on my machine. qfile didn't find any 'owner'. Is it safe to remove that directory? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] mixing python-2 and python-3 howto

2010-04-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
and I know about eselect python but do I have to switch Python (by using eselect) before emerge a given packages. And does this work at all (a Gentoo system where different parts use different versions of Python)? Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer

[gentoo-user] kernel: conftest segfault error 4 in libc-2.11.1.so

2010-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, after upgrading to glibc-1.22.1 I get this strange (non-fatal) error message in my /var/log/messages. Has anybody seen this as well or does anybody know where this comes from? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University

[gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto

2010-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to bypass processing by CUPS and send some postscript/pdf file directly to a USB / network printer. Does anybody know how this can be achieved? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto

2010-04-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 28 Apr, David W Noon wrote: On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:10:02 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote about [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto: I'd like to bypass processing by CUPS and send some postscript/pdf file directly to a USB / network printer. Does anybody know how this can be achieved? Why

Re: [gentoo-user] bypassing CUPS - howto

2010-04-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 29 Apr, Stroller wrote: On 28 Apr 2010, at 15:27, Helmut Jarausch wrote: ... Why do you need to bypass CUPS? Thanks, it's just for debugging. Printing some pdf files with acroread makes some printers hang here. To locate the problem source, I'd like to check if the printer works

[gentoo-user] acroread-9.3.2 produces invalid postscript?

2010-04-29 Thread Helmut Jarausch
feature of printing several pages on a sheet of paper which is very handy when printing slides of a presentation) Thanks, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] RFC ebuild for a non-standard Python package

2010-05-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to install the new package expy on sourceforge http://expy.sourceforge.net/ Unfortunately, the contents of it are a bit non-standard. First, the tarball has the unusual name expy.6.6.tgz. Second, it untars in to the current directory (no subdirectory expy-6.6) Third, it has

[gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
-auv1 -j4 --keep-going $(qlist -IC kde-base/) upgraded 24 packages. Where does this discrepancy come from? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update - why doesn't it update my kde packages

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 4 May, Bert Swart wrote: On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 10:57:10AM +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, the following situation puzzles me a lot. My 'standard' way of updating is emerge --keep-going -j4 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep --tree @system @world but it didn't update anything

Re: [gentoo-user] libdb no longer slotted?

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
-5.10.1 uses 4.8 and my system is running quite happily (at least, I think so) Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] two glibcs with different version

2010-05-04 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 4 May, Kraus Philipp wrote: Am 04.05.2010 um 13:09 schrieb Neil Bothwick: On Sat, 1 May 2010 12:58:34 +0200, Kraus Philipp wrote: I would suggest dual-booting... Sorry, that's no solution, because it is only one network service, that need's a older glibc. I can't reboot a server

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel notification of file system changes

2010-05-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 5 May, Iain Buchanan wrote: Hi, I'm looking for some kernel-based notification of changes to my file system. I've been looking at inotify, but it's not exactly what I want. Basically I want to know if _any_ write occurs anywhere. I don't want to register a whole bunch of files to

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 6 May, Roger Mason wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 6 May 2010, at 09:37, Roger Mason wrote: ... I just built a new machine (celeron 3 GHz) using a script that builds the kernel using genkernel and a config that is copied from that of the kernel on the install

Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure

2010-05-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
/ ) then execute lspci -k it shows you all drivers that have been selected during boot. Good luck, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] Open Source DSP tools for learning?

2010-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 6 May, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, Does anyone possibly know of any tools in Open Source for exploring DSP filter design? Something that might allow me to write equations, stimulate the filter, see the results in a GUI? Have a look at Scilab and Xcos (www.scilab.org) Helmut. -- Helmut

[gentoo-user] logrotate - strange error message

2010-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have the following file as /etc/logrotate.d/denyhosts /var/log/denyhosts { missingok notifempty create 0640 root root sharedscripts prerotate /etc/init.d/denyhosts stop endscript postrotate

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate - strange error message

2010-05-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10 May, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 10 May 2010 09:46:11 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have the following file as /etc/logrotate.d/denyhosts /var/log/denyhosts { missingok notifempty create 0640 root root sharedscripts prerotate /etc/init.d

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

2010-05-11 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11 May, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2010 10:47:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I still have huge breakage with gnomecanvas and other things, meaning that lots of gtk apps are broken right now for me. This worked for me lafilefixer --justfixit emerge --oneshot --jobs 1

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD-Container ?

2010-06-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
and afterwards delete the files. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] mkfs.btrfs check for bad blocks - howto

2010-06-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
I do about this? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] mkfs.btrfs check for bad blocks - howto

2010-06-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10 Jun, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday 10 June 2010 11:15:17 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, when creating a file system on a partition on a brand new hard disk, I have always used the '-c' twice to check for bad blocks. This works for ext3 and ext4. Now, I'd like to use a btrfs file system

[gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help

2010-06-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition. Unfortunately, the backup version is 4 weeks old. But my /usr partition is up-to-date and I have binary build-pkgs. What's the fastest way to restore the portage-relevant data on the root partition? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help

2010-06-14 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 14 Jun, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition. Unfortunately, the backup version is 4 weeks old. But my /usr partition is up-to-date and I have binary build-pkgs. What's the fastest way to restore

Re: [gentoo-user] root partition lost - backup too old - please help

2010-06-15 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 14 Jun, Dru Kargin wrote: On 06/14/10 12:19, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 14 Jun, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Montag 14 Juni 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, due to a disk crash I've lost my root partition

[gentoo-user] annoying message - /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 is not a symbolic link

2010-06-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] gnome applications die when run as root

2010-06-18 Thread Helmut Jarausch
for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] who wants to downgrade my gcc ?

2010-06-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 24 Jun, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:57:55 +0200, Thomas U. Nockmann wrote: But, an emerge --update --newuse --deep --tree --with-bdeps y @system @world wants to downgrade it to gcc-4.4.3-r3 How can I find out, why? What does `equery d gcc` say? What does

[gentoo-user] VFAQ mirroring a live root FS

2010-07-01 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, would anybody please explain to me what difficulties might occur if I mirror a live root file system and use that for booting (in an emergency case). I know that for proper mirroring I may mirror a live root file system but I have to rsync it after booting from a different device (USB,...)

[gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've discovered balsa , a great mail client, btw. How can I configure the application which is called for a pdf attachment. I cannot see any configuration item for balsa itself, so I suppose it must be a Gnome setting. Currently it's set to acroread, but I'd like to set it evince. I've

[gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image// usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/' is not a directory: No such file or directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/05/10 17:39:36, Arttu V. wrote: On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, this errors baffles me. Emerging media-gfx/exact-image works just fine on one machine but fails on a very similar (Gentoo) machine with install: target `/var/tmp/portage/media

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/05/10 21:55:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 05 Jul 2010 18:35:41 +0200, Helmut Jarausch wrote: instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image /usr/lib

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-05 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/05/10 22:09:09, Arttu V. wrote: On 7/5/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: MAKEOPTS=-j1 didn't help instead of /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image-0.8.1/image//usr/lib64/ python2.6/site-packages there is a file /var/tmp/portage/media-gfx/exact-image

[gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments Looking at this line it shows if test $ax_python_header != no; then So, how can I find out the value of $ax_python_header. Putting some echo statements into configure

Re: [gentoo-user] configure error - how to debug

2010-07-06 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/06/10 19:34:29, Alex Schuster wrote: Helmut Jarausch writes: I'm trying to find out why I get a configure error (on one machine) ./configure: line 14859: test: too many arguments Looking at this line it shows if test $ax_python_header != no; then So, how can I find

Re: [gentoo-user] (gnome) default pdf viewer

2010-07-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
gnomevfs-info MyFile.pdf still shows MIME type : application/pdf Default app : wine-extension-pdf.desktop I wonder where this 'wine-extension-pdf.desktop' is coming from. And Balsa tries to use this when viewing a pdf attachment. I'm lost, Helmut. On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange install path but only on one machine

2010-07-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/09/10 14:02:39, Arttu V. wrote: On 7/6/10, Arttu V. arttu...@gmail.com wrote: I filed a bug (#327171). The bug is marked fixed, and at least on my testing system emerge exact-image is successful. Yes, it installs just fine now (unfortunately no revision bump, so I didn't notice

[gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, since a few days logrotate is failing due to error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory What has changed, what am I missing? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/12/10 11:00:00, Enrico Weigelt wrote: * Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, since a few days logrotate is failing due to error: stat of /var/account/pacct failed: No such file or directory do you have the process accounting deamon running ? No, and I've

[gentoo-user] [OT] how to extract a GIT repository

2010-07-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
with the uncompressed sources. I could use ebuild PATH TO ebuild file unpack and then look at /var/tmp/portage//work/ but is there a direct way (or how does portage do this)? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen

[gentoo-user] firefox-3.6.7 any flash player on 64bit

2010-07-21 Thread Helmut Jarausch
version of Firefox ever. Or am I the only one with problems? Thanks for some comments, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

[gentoo-user] Access to an embedded microSDHC card?

2010-07-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, when I attach my Garmin GPSmap 62s with an installed microSDHC card to a USB port, I only see one device which is the internal storage of the Garmin. On Windows I see a second mass storage device (the microSD card) in addition. How to access this internal SD card or how to debug the

Re: [gentoo-user] Access to an embedded microSDHC card?

2010-07-30 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 07/30/10 10:25:07, Dan Johansson wrote: On Friday 30 July 2010 10.03:11 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, when I attach my Garmin GPSmap 62s with an installed microSDHC card to a USB port, I only see one device which is the internal storage of the Garmin. On Windows I see a second mass

[gentoo-user] CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT

2010-08-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed for nxssh, I've got the message !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection Does anybody have an idea what that means? Thanks for a hint, Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT

2010-08-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/20/10 09:35:06, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed for nxssh, I've got the message !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection Does anybody have an idea what that means? Thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT

2010-08-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/20/10 15:43:20, walt wrote: On 08/20/2010 12:35 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, today, when emerging dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8o-r2, which is needed for nxssh, I've got the message !!! CANNOT IMPORT HTTP.CLIENT: cannot import name HTTPSConnection The class HTTPSConnection

[gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a local distribution file. I've tried SRC_URI=file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 but file:// doesn't seem to be supported. Is there any alternative? Thanks for a hint, Helmut. (I'm using portage-2.2._rc68)

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a local distribution file. I've tried SRC_URI=file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 but file:// doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Thanks, Mick, Robin and Alan! Helmut.

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a local distribution file. I've tried SRC_URI=file::///usr/local/Src/MyPack.tar.bz2 but file:// doesn't seem

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild with local source?

2010-08-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/24/10 19:17:05, Arttu V. wrote: On 8/24/10, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 08/24/10 13:45:05, Robin Atwood wrote: On Tuesday 24 August 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I'd like to create an ebuild (in my local overlay) which refers to a local

[gentoo-user] Portage internals : shadow root

2010-09-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, when portage installs a package, it first installs it into some shadow root. Then it records all files installed before it moves the files to the real root. I have to do some installations on SUSE systems (which are not administered by me) and I'd like to imitate that procedure there.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage internals : shadow root

2010-09-23 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/23/10 11:50:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 10:55 on Thursday 23 September 2010, Helmut Jarausch did opine thusly: Hi, when portage installs a package, it first installs it into some shadow root. Then it records all files installed before it moves

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X programs as root

2010-09-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 09/25/10 01:35:16, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ... But if some reason you want sudo, /etc/sudoers has some info: ## Run X applications through sudo Read the comments there and uncomment what suits you. Did I mention that you should use kdesu instead of sudo? :-P Which version of

Re: [gentoo-user] Which Comes First, the Unmask or the Mask?

2010-10-20 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/20/10 04:06:52, Andy Wilkinson wrote: I believe I know the answer to the question... the real question is, how can I work around it? ;) I am running the development branch of www-client/chromium (currently 8.0.552.0). As a result, I like the latest builds to always be unmasked when

[gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this is a bit off topic, since it primarily concerns a laptop running OpenSuSe 11.3, but I do need your help and I known there are experts here. This old laptop has a radeon RV350 (mobility Radeon 9600 M10) graphics card. There is an xf86-video-ati driver installed. Now, when booting

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:41 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, this is a bit off topic, since it primarily concerns a laptop running OpenSuSe 11.3, but I do need your help and I known there are experts here. This old laptop has a radeon RV350

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with ancient ATI graphics card

2010-10-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28402 You might try http://impressive.sourceforge.net/ (it needs PIL, PyGames and PyOpenGL) Helmut. Le 25/10/2010 09:50, Helmut Jarausch a gentiment tapote: Hi Paul, it turned out there is a bug in the linux kernel up to and including 2.6.36

[gentoo-user] Tracing use flags - how to?

2010-10-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, this might well we a FAQ but I couldn't find it. In the process of upgrading to xorg-server-1.8.2 I'd like to remove the 'hal' use flag. I have removed it in /etc/make.conf and added 'udev' instead. The xorg-server definitely doesn't have this use flag set in /etc/portage/package.use

Re: [gentoo-user] Tracing use flags - how to?

2010-10-28 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 10/28/10 10:22:42, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 09:18 on Thursday 28 October 2010, Helmut Jarausch did opine thusly: Hi, this might well we a FAQ but I couldn't find it. In the process of upgrading to xorg-server-1.8.2 I'd like to remove the 'hal' use

[gentoo-user] HP625 anybody?

2010-11-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I've just bought an HP625 notebook with a pre-installed SuSE system. Of course, I'd like to replace this with GenToo. The problems concern the broadcom WLAN driver, the bluetooth driver and the keyboard layout (including special keys). The graphics works just fine with 2.6.36 /

Re: [gentoo-user] HP625 anybody?

2010-11-03 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/03/10 13:13:28, Dale wrote: As far as drivers go, this should help you find the right one. http://kmuto.jp/debian/hcl/ Many thanks, Dale, a very interesting page. Helmut.

[gentoo-user] [OT] rsync question

2010-11-10 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, the following behaviour of rsync puzzles me. I have the following situation Source/Athis is a symlink ! Dest/A this is a real directory now cd Dest/A rsync -auHz -ni --rsh=ssh --delete --exclude='/A/' source machine:Source/ . shows that it's going to

[gentoo-user] import site fails - why

2010-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have cloned the root fs and /usr onto a new machine (as I have done many times before) I boot SystemRescueCD and mount the new root on, say, /nroot Then my standard procedure is as follows mount -o bind /proc /nroot/proc mount -o bind /dev /nroot/proc chroot /nroot /bin/bash cp

Re: [gentoo-user] import site fails - why

2010-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/12/10 15:24:44, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:56, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: mount -o bind /proc /nroot/proc mount -o bind /dev /nroot/proc That looks a bit strange to me, doesnt it to you? :) I would retype that as follow: mount -t proc

Re: [gentoo-user] import site fails - why

2010-11-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/12/10 15:58:27, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 16:32, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: On 11/12/10 15:24:44, Fatih Tümen wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 15:56, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: mount -o bind /proc /nroot/proc

[gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware

2010-11-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have an up-to-date ~amd64 GenToo installation with has been built on a current AMD64 (Phenom II) machine where I used -mtune=native in etc/make.conf since I didn't think of the case that I would need to port this system to a somewhat older Opteron based machine (still AMD64) But after

Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware

2010-11-16 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/16/10 10:56:29, Alan McKinnon wrote: Backup your portage related data and re-install. Seriously - you know you are looking at doing emerge -e world and will need to fiddle stuff to make it complete successfully. If you just reinstall, put your old world file and /etc/portage/

Re: [gentoo-user] how to rebuild gentoo on a somewhat different hardware

2010-11-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
binaries will only run on equal or greater hardware than what it was built on. Thanks Alan. I knew that, but then I inherited an somewhat older Opteron machine and I wasn't aware that this one had a different instruction set then current Opterons. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer

[gentoo-user] [OT] some two more rsync questions

2010-11-17 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have two problems with rsync 1st) if I give both commandline options -u and -c it looks as if a file which is more recent but different on the destination is not updated, i.e. -u overrules -c Is that true? 2nd) There is a symlink A on SourceDir which refers to a directory

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] some two more rsync questions

2010-11-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/19/10 00:08:06, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 17 November 2010 12:16:48 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I have two problems with rsync 1st) if I give both commandline options -u and -c it looks as if a file which is more recent but different on the destination

Re: [gentoo-user] time for an emerge -e world?

2010-11-24 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/24/10 17:03:34, Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 17:48 on Wednesday 24 November 2010, Kevin O'Gorman did opine thusly: On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.comwrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 20:54 on Friday 19 November

Re: [gentoo-user] On what to base a custom live CD?

2010-11-25 Thread Helmut Jarausch
to it. Does anybody have an recommendations for a good way to build a small liveCD with a custom kernel module? -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] How to exclude a directory from rsync

2010-11-26 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 11/25/10 22:51:36, Renat Golubchyk wrote: On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 23:01:51 + Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2010 22:26:28 Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 2010-11-16 22:24, schrieb Alan McKinnon: Apparently, though unproven, at 23:12 on Tuesday 16 November

[gentoo-user] A desparate needs advice!

2010-12-07 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I have cloned an ~amd64 system which is running happily on a modern Opteron machine to an old Opteron machine. Unfortunately, I've built that system with CFLAGS -msse3 and msse4a and USE-flags sse3 sse4a . Since these instructions are not available on an old Opteron I had to emerge -e world

[gentoo-user] Python:2.7 - Save to use as default?

2010-12-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, dev-lang/python-2.7.1 has been unmasked and with the recent autgen from today it builds cleanly. Is it safe to use this version as standard Python (via eselect) when running python-updater afterwards, of course? Many thanks for sharing your experience, Helmut.

[gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in world - howto

2010-12-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, does anybody know about an easy method to remove all entries from /var/lib/portage/world which would have been pulled in anyway even if they were not contained in world. My current attempt would be to write a script which executes emerge -vpc on each entry in world. If it wouldn't be removed

Re: [gentoo-user] Which architecture ???

2010-12-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/08/10 12:25:23, dhk wrote: I have a laptop which has an AMD Athlon Neo X2 L335 2.2GHz Dual Core processor on it and I'd like to know which architecture (handbook and livecd) to use. The handbook choices are: x86, sparc, amd64, ppc, ppc64, alpha, hppa, mips, ia64, arm. I'm guessing

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in world - howto

2010-12-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/08/10 14:40:56, Matthew Summers wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 5:23 AM, Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de wrote: Hi, does anybody know about an easy method to remove all entries from /var/lib/portage/world which would have been pulled in anyway even if they were

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove redundant entries in world - howto

2010-12-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 12/08/10 17:11:58, Albert Hopkins wrote: I have a script I used to locate redudancies in the world file. It requires gentoolkit. It basically looks at packages in world that have reverse dependencies also in world (but only goes one level deep). Just # auditworld

[gentoo-user] Kernel doesn't use all of the available memory

2010-12-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I see a strange effect which puzzles me. I have two AMD64 (~amd64) Systems. Both have 8Gb memory installed as reported by their BIOS as well as by lshw. One is a somewhat older Opteron, the other one a recent Phenom II. But the output of 'free -m' differs significantly On the Phenom II

[gentoo-user] ebuild creation (python-2.7) - please help

2010-12-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, after switching to Python-2.7 an ebuild of myself fails. I'm trying to write an ebuild for dev-python/pyparsing- My attemp fails with 'setup.py' not found. The package is unpacked into /var/tmp/portage/dev-python/pyparsing-/work/pyparsing- This contains the subdirectories doc

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