Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
I'd have thought lots of people in the gentoo crowd would have been
eagerly awaiting subversion 1.2.x with its substantial new reserved
checkout - but nothing seems to have moved forward.
you must have missed this link from the gentoo homepage (on the left):
Steve [Gentoo] wrote:
Hmmm - that all sounds sane, but what is this default period of time?
What criteria must be met in order for a masked package (and
specifically for Subversion) to become unmasked?
I *think* it is something along the lines of 30 days without a bug,
not 100% sure though.
Vincent A. Primavera wrote:
Hello,
Just looking for some opinions here. What is a good approach to
installing applications with a minimal amount of optional USE flags
enabled? For example, if one were to run `emerge -pv kde-base/kde` you
Hi,
regarding kde, you might want to try the
Well this is an excellent resource, BUT it seems
devoid of any examples where a custom device driver,
say for the serial port on a linux system,
inserted as a module or is part of the kernel,
and the associate software that allows users
to access some of the hardware(features) and not
other
And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a
lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...)
Is this result normal ? What did I miss ?
1. it might be old stuff that really isn't needed anymore, as already
mentioned by others
2. portage up to
dont inaverdently remove them? For instance I am using udev for some time
now, can I let depclean remove devfsd?
yes you can, at least i had no problems with that
Marco
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John Dangler wrote:
I changed some options to the menuconfig (trying to get that splash to
work), and saved the changes to an alternate config file.
I'd like to make a kernel with _that_ config file and keep it separate from
my default 2.6-r12 kernel, since, when the splash causes the panic, I
John Dangler wrote:
I have just installed a basic 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6) on my laptop. I'm
trying to get my arms around the USE flags. I found a set of 'default'
settings (I think) under /usr/portage/profiles/base/use.defaults . From
what I've read in the gentoo documentation, this seems
John Dangler wrote:
I just finished the base install of the 2005.1 system (2.6.12-r6). When I
run emerge -sync, and then emerge -uDvp system, I get a short list updates
that portage wants to emerge, but there aren't any kernel updates. However,
if I run emerge -uDvp world, there is a new
you might also want to try
man emerge
most commands on your system will have a manpage, and they will probably
give you helpful hints as to how they function. you can also do it
with any other command:
man ls
man gcc
man ldd
man man
...
Hope that helps,
Marco
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Harry Putnam wrote:
I know about perl scipting for this but wanted something like the
`date' command that is its own dedicated program.
Is there a unix tool that outputs a finer grain of time segments?
man date
look for nanosecond format, e.g.:
date +%N
Marco
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John Dangler wrote:
That makes some sense. (Gentoo is all about choices)
So, basically, I emerge the new 'slot' and then re-compile the new kernel
version according to the handbook, giving me both the existing kernel
version and the new version...
Exactly, installing the new kernel sources does
John Dangler wrote:
The list of possible flags is somewhat overwhelming. And many of them, I
wouldn't really know if I need them or not. So far, since I only have the
base system running, I'm trying to get everything I want to have sans a
graphic environment going, so I'm doing USE=-X with the
John Dangler wrote:
Does the moving of the config files have any effect on the already compiled
kernel? (I was under the impression that a .config _went with_ a specific
build) or is that a throwback to too much time in a m$ environment?
the .config file determines how and especially which
Willie Wong wrote:
The nanosecond option has always puzzled me, if only because on my box
I never get any finer grained output than microseconds... i.e. date
+%N always gives 0 as the last three digits.
Now technically this computer runs at 2 GHz... so presumably it is
possible to hit the
Raphael Melo de Oliveira Bastos Sales wrote:
As for comments on VMWare, it isn't free software and you need a
licence key. Some purists don't like the fact that it isn't free. I
never tested it, but I hear it is a great emulator. Plex86, the free
software counter-part, is still under
W.Kenworthy wrote:
Lastly, top/bottom posting is a religion so you are unlikely to change
either groups opinion, but just cause angst.
[This is not meant as a flame, so please read this message to a
lighthearted tune, sipping a glass of wine in the comfort of your
favourite easy-chair :) --
Grant wrote:
The xfce4-panel has stopped loading automatically for me and the
calendar has started. Where can I specify that I want the panel
started with xfce4 but not the calendar?
panel:
I believe it should be sufficient to start the panel (xfce4-panel)
manually once via terminal or
Willie Wong wrote:
2. I already have pam installed. What is the cleanest way to remove it
without having any residual hiccoughs.
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Remove_PAM
Follow it exactly. If you miss a step, you might have to whip out a
liveCD the next time your reboot to get into your
Jerry Turba wrote:
Thanks Willie and Marco for the ideas. I got the HOWTO and will read it
and try it out. I wasn't aware that there was a gentoo wiki. Looks like
lots of info there that I need to read.
Thanks for the help.
Hi, just for clarification so there is no confusion, my suggestion
David Busby wrote:
I cannot open /etc/ld.so.cache! What? See:
cdrtx cdr_tx # ls -l /etc/ld.so.cache
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18311 Aug 27 21:13 /etc/ld.so.cache
Any other ideas?
I reproduced your bug and diagnostics on a vmware install of gentoo
exactly by doing a chmod a-x /
So issuing a
John Dangler wrote:
I just tried emerging gaim and got this error:
configure: WARNING: Could not find Tcl which is needed for the kadm5 tests
configure: error: Could not find Tcl
!!! Please attach the config.log to your bug report:
!!!
John Dangler wrote:
I know this isn't really the Gentoo (read - Linux) way, but, since I'm using
this for business apps, I need to take the end users point of view for a
moment. Open Office or the Ximianized Open Office. I read that Ximian
was bought by Novell, so I'm wondering which of these
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