[gentoo-user] Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-05 Thread Matt Connell
I see posts on LWN (or other sources) for kernel minor version releases, such as this one: https://lwn.net/Articles/811334/ The notes will typically say that users should upgrade to that minor version due to bug fixes or security patches. I know that gentoo-sources tracks on the most current LTS

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-06 Thread Matt Connell
On 2020-02-06 11:40, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > 5.4 has just become the newest LTS. I see that now. But my original question still stands as to why the stable version of gentoo-sources is consistently a few versions behind the latest LTS release.

Re: [gentoo-user] best rss reader?

2020-04-19 Thread Matt Connell
On 2020-04-19 16:15, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > 1. what rss feed reader do you use? TinyTinyRSS on a virtual server and a web browser. https://tt-rss.org/ > 2. what are your theoretical principles that >guided you to choose the rss feed that you >use. Versatility:

Re: [gentoo-user] Pocket sneaks back

2020-03-16 Thread Matt Connell
On 2020-03-16 19:46, Dale wrote: > Anything that can do, I can do locally by saving a web page or > downloading the content.  Pocket is easily replaced by just synchronizing bookmarks, for most people's purposes, and FF already supports that. If you need more than that, I can recommend Wallabag

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Netflix Error Code O7355 with Opera

2020-06-11 Thread Matt Connell
On 6/11/20 7:45 AM, Michael wrote: > I figured since qtwebengine uses the same rendering engine and I spend enough > time compiling that package anyway, because KDE won't do without it, I might > as well ditch Chromium. I haven't looked back. ;-) Since you already have qtwebengine built, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?

2021-10-12 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:18 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Profile selection is implemented as a symlink from > /etc/portage/make.profile.  If you move your repository, then you > need > to re-select the profile since the symlink will be broken. Ah, that would be it. Thanks for explaining, I never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Migrate from rsync to git for emerge --sync?

2021-10-12 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2021-10-12 at 21:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > no profile selected I'm surprised you had gotten this far without a profile selected. Maybe you had previously selected one that was deprecated at some point and removed from the list?

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive pricing and the near future

2021-10-05 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2021-10-05 at 18:32 -0500, Dale wrote: > If anyone reading this does track the pricing of drives, are they on > the rise, stable, dropping or what? I can't speak to trends, but I've used this site in the past to keep an eye out for a deal when it comes up. It only indexes Amazon prices,

Re: [gentoo-user] Any decent alternative to Thunderbird?

2021-11-14 Thread Matt Connell
On Sun, 2021-11-14 at 22:23 +, Wol wrote: > Any decent alternative to Thunderbird? I switched to Evolution and never looked back. It does everything I needed from T-Bird without relying on plugins/addons.

Re: [gentoo-user] Switching from eudev to udev, disaster.

2021-11-29 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2021-11-29 at 22:47 -0600, Dale wrote: > Now if I can figure out how to reset the list of /dev/sd* names that > are lurking about and inconsistent, that would be like striking > gold.  Every time I hook up my external drive, it gets a different > sd* name.  It does the same on the SD cards

Re: [gentoo-user] portage - ERROR: setup

2022-03-08 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2022-03-08 at 16:12 -0700, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > In /usr/src/linux is pointing correctly: > >    linux -> linux-5.10.61-gentoo 5.10.61 isn't offered by gentoo-sources anymore. I think you probably depcleaned it at some point since then, so there are no more sources there.

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo for a virtual server in the cloud?

2022-03-20 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-03-18 at 14:57 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I've got a Gentoo image running in Linode without any problem. > > I'm fairly certain that they offer Gentoo as an option when creating > the VPS.  It's been too long and I've messed with too many things > since then. They do. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Contribution: Python C Code builder, Simple Build

2022-01-20 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-01-20 at 17:12 +0100, Attila Boczkó wrote: > I would like to send a little python program that runs GCC to compile > the C code. The C Code can put multiple sub directories in the main > SRC directory. The python code uses os.walk method to find all C Code > files and pass it to GCC.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging dev-php/xdebug

2023-08-28 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 15:04 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: > dev-lang/php:7.4 is also masked, so I assume this is due to be  > removed soon. 7.X is EOL upstream as of 9 months ago, hence the mask. It was acknowledged in the mask commit that we would lose access to some other packages because of this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sqlite downgraded by update breaks things

2023-09-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-09-06 at 19:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > OSes are like biology: apparently logical but actually messy And both developed organically!

Re: [gentoo-user] What is a dependency of ruby

2023-09-21 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-09-21 at 16:03 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > What commands show me what installed packages have ruby as a dependency? > > emerge -cav ruby emerge --depclean --pretend ruby No need to ask when you don't actually mean to depclean it... nor could you if something depended on it.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What to do about openssl

2023-10-04 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-10-04 at 12:57 -0400, John Covici wrote: > All those are masked, I am using the ~amd64. > All of the v3 packages are masked in my repository, just updated a > couple of days ago. Something on your local machine is masking these, they are definitely unmasked for me and many others.

Re: [gentoo-user] VPN newbie questions

2023-08-21 Thread Matt Connell
On Sat, 2023-08-19 at 22:34 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >   Many commercial VPNs claim to support linux.  Do they do this at the > OS level as an executable, or at the browser level as an extension? The real answer, that I suspect you're looking for, is no. There's no custom software required in

Re: [gentoo-user] Jekyll on Gentoo using containers

2023-08-29 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-08-29 at 15:31 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > $ cat /var/log/docker.log | cut -d \ -f 2- [to omit date & time] > level=info msg="Starting up" > level=error msg="failed to mount overlay: no such device" > storage-driver=overlay2 > level=error msg="exec: \"fuse-overlayfs\":

Re: [gentoo-user] Remove rust completely

2022-05-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-05-11 at 22:24 -0400, Mansour Al Akeel wrote: > a choice would be to just go with firefox-bin if not rust-bin. I went with rust-bin because lots of GTK programs (evince, gimp, deluge) as well as some other miscellaneous utilities rely on librsvg which requires rust. So, since I need

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome-103.0.5060 - choose password for new keyring

2022-07-08 Thread Matt Connell
> > > By upgrading one of my system, I've just noticed this behaviour is > > > enforced (I think) by new package that was pulled by emerge: > > > [ebuild  N    ] gnome-base/gnome-keyring-42.1  USE="pam ssh-agent > > > (-selinux) -systemd -test" > > > I don't use gnome, I use XFCE but I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome-103.0.5060 - choose password for new keyring

2022-07-08 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-07-08 at 09:34 -0400, Matt Connell wrote: > > Should not this instruction say emerge --pretend  --depclean rather > > than --unmerge ? > > Since its pretended, the result is the same, ultimately. I take this back. You're correct. depclean should show you wh

Re: [gentoo-user] google-chrome-103.0.5060 - choose password for new keyring

2022-07-08 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-07-08 at 11:26 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > - if I enter password for the keyring, how to change it in the future. The aforementioned seahorse will allow you to manage this. I'm certain there's a CLI way to access it. > - do I need to keep that password, will I be ask to

Re: [gentoo-user] bundler-2.1.4 failing to emerge

2022-07-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-07-06 at 11:50 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > I'm updating my system, but it is stopping on dev-ruby/bundler-2.1.4 > > According rebuild, below it shouldn't be related to new "python" > > [ebuild R ] dev-ruby/bundler-2.1.4 USE="doc -test" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby27 >

Re: [gentoo-user] GNU Jami

2022-07-21 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-07-21 at 15:15 +0200, w...@op.pl wrote: > Does anybody know a reasonable way to install GNU Jami on Gentoo? I've had success with installing rpm/dpk and installing a package intended for another system. You might need to do some minor repairs with directories, but it is an option.

[gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl upgrade failure

2022-05-10 Thread Matt Connell
I can't figure out why a perl update isn't building. This is only happening on one single machine out of the half dozen Gentoo systems I have running. I've never had issues building perl itself either. Modules sure, but never the main perl package. My search-fu is failing me as well,

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

2022-08-29 Thread Matt Connell
How many torrents are you seeding, for a point of comparison? I use deluge (headless) on my home server, seeding anywhere from 500- 1000 individual torrents, representing ~5TB of total data, and the process is cruising along at just over 1GB of memory used. Maybe qbittorrent just doesn't scale

Re: [gentoo-user] Limiting amount of memory a program can use.

2022-08-30 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2022-08-29 at 16:11 -0500, Dale wrote: > Does deluge have a GUI option?  Of course, if I put it > on another machine, I may go headless for it.  That's one reason I'm > asking.  Options. Yes, deluge has a GUI by default. I just build it with USE="-gtk - libnotify -sound webinterface" and

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

2022-10-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:15 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I *STRONGLY* /OBJECT/ to the notion that users should not edit > configuration files. Calm down. Nobody said you can't. I do. Just know what you're doing and pay attention to what portage does with package-managed configuration files.

Re: [gentoo-user] Update to /etc/sudoers disables wheel users!!!

2022-10-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 22:34 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: >  Is this a bug? Nope, this is the way it is supposed to work. Ramon is correct, user changes should go into sudoers.d which has been the case for... some years now, I think? I don't recall. I still make changes in sudoers directly, and

Re: [gentoo-user] gio/pcmanfm sftp:// "operation not supported"

2022-10-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:31 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > Google led me to several pages where the problem was not having gvfs > installed. I do have gvfs installed, but I suspect it's broken. I get > the impression that > >     $ gio list sftp:/// > > is supposed to work, but that too says

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gio/pcmanfm sftp:// "operation not supported"

2022-10-26 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 16:22 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > Apparently, that error is cause by lack of a DBUS session. I just > happened to stumble across a posting somewhere by somebody who had the > same problem. How they figured out that was the problem remains a > mystery. It is likely that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: repair of a seg-faulting bin-utils

2022-10-26 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 14:37 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > Another possible issue is bad -march settings.  That usually is an > issue if you change your CPU and boot off of an existing hard drive. > If you're going to upgrade your CPU you should rebuild all of @system > (at least) with -march set to

Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands

2022-10-07 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 17:47 +0200, tastytea wrote: > equery meta Ashamed to admit I learned of equery meta today. I'd previously been relying on eix to find, say, the website associated with a package.

Re: [gentoo-user] Change History of linux commands

2022-10-07 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-10-07 at 11:04 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > I think that being ashamed about not knowing something tends to promote > what I consider to be a negative stigmata that people should know > everything and that they should hide what they don't know. Was more just laughing at myself for

Re: [gentoo-user] problem with emerge depclean after world update

2022-09-30 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-09-30 at 20:36 +0100, Wol wrote: > I've noticed that --depclean hardly seems to be cleaning anything out > now. Despite regular emerge updates. I do an emerge update world every > week, followed immediately by a depclean, but it's probably cleaned > maybe one or two packages in the

Re: [gentoo-user] pulseaudio - pipewire

2022-08-03 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2022-08-03 at 18:17 +0200, hitachi303 wrote: > I care about having sound but don't care to much about how it is > working. Any suggestions which path will lead me to the goal of having > the least trouble in future? If you're using pulse now and things are working, then stick with

Re: [gentoo-user] Backup program that compresses data but only changes new files.

2022-08-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Sun, 2022-08-14 at 21:42 -0400, Julien Roy wrote: > Hello, > > On 8/14/22 18:44, Dale wrote: > > Thoughts?  Ideas? > > You might be interested in borgbackup [1] > It takes delta backups and has de-duplication and compression to save > some space. It supports encryption too. > It's packaged

Re: [gentoo-user] Ruby, Ragel, and Colm

2022-12-08 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 18:49 +0100, Matthias Hanft wrote: > I just wanted to "emerge ruby" on a new Gentoo server which failed > at dev-util/ragel-7.0.4 with > >   make[3]: *** No rule to make target '/usr/lib64/libfsm.la', needed by > 'ragel'.  Stop. I also had (I mean I still have the server,

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-12-15 at 15:52 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: >   Can someone give me their output from "emerge -pv1 dev-libs/libpcre" I don't have advice for your specific issue, but, as requested: [ebuild R] dev-libs/libpcre-8.45-r1:3::gentoo USE="bzip2 cxx jit -libedit -pcre16 -pcre32 readline

Re: [gentoo-user] Major problems with libpcre / UTF8

2022-12-16 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2022-12-16 at 11:53 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: > Apologies to those who've already seen this or had their replies > bounce. The mail host I use was down yesterday (the big storm?) so I > haven't seen any responses to this post. All the replies are archived here:

Re: [gentoo-user] where is 'mke2fs' ?

2022-11-17 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-11-17 at 21:41 +0100, Arve Barsnes wrote: > Might it be hidden behind USE="tools"? This is correct. $ equery uses e2fsprogs ... + + tools : Build extfs tools (mke2fs, e2fsck, tune2fs, etc.) Philip, make sure you have the 'tools' USE flag enabled for e2fsprogs and it should

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing .wav files?

2022-12-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 17:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > What do you use to play .wav files? The same thing I use to play every other media: mpv

Re: [gentoo-user] Playing .wav files?

2022-12-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 12:45 -0500, Matt Connell wrote: > On Thu, 2022-12-01 at 17:28 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > What do you use to play .wav files? > > The same thing I use to play every other media: mpv To clarify: media-video/mpv

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc can't find /lib/libdl.so.2

2023-03-18 Thread Matt Connell
On Sat, 2023-03-18 at 18:36 +, Michael wrote: > The kernel has IA32_EMULATION compiled in: > >  # grep IA32_EMULATION /usr/src/linux/.config > CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=y Small nit-pick: Is it enabled in the kernel that is actually running?   zgrep CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION /proc/config.gz > and

Re: [gentoo-user] Tailing compressed build logs

2023-03-09 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-03-09 at 15:49 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Fetching a Debian compiled version and running deb2targz on it ends up with a > .so file, which where to put? app-arch/deb2targz exists. Would probably satisfy the need.

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-journald: user-1000.journal ... Not a XENIX named type file

2023-02-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Sun, 2023-02-26 at 10:31 +0800, johnstrass wrote: > Monotonic clock jumped backwards relative last journal entry Is your system clock accurate? Is it in sync the the hardware clock, if the machine has one?

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about pam-gnupg?

2023-03-02 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-03-01 at 15:38 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > Can you re-architect this as a (pseudo) daemon so that you unlock it > once (or at least a LOT less often) and it stores the necessary > information in memory for subsequent re-use? You just described gpg-agent, the core of what Efe (OP)

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about pam-gnupg?

2023-03-03 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 23:53 -0500, efeizbudak wrote: > > Doesn't this sort of defeat the purpose of using pass? I mean if > > it's > > always decryptable then is it really useful to have it encrypted in > > the first place (assuming you have full disk encryption set up)? Yes and no. Yes in the

Re: [gentoo-user] What do you think about pam-gnupg?

2023-03-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-03-01 at 09:10 -0500, efeizbudak wrote: > I let mutt-wizard set a cron job which takes my password out of pass, > logs into the email server and fetches my mail every 5 minutes. With > this I have to unlock my key as frequently as the amount in > gpg-agent.conf's default-cache-ttl

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 08:23 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > Ext4 seems to be used by well-known binary distros. There's a reason for this. It can fulfill all but the most niche or intensive roles, is robustly supported, well-tested both in development and through wide use in the field, and generally

Re: [gentoo-user] file system for new machine

2023-04-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-27 at 15:54 +0200, tastytea wrote: > btrfs and zfs have some useful features for normal use cases. the > transparent compression can save a lot of space and even increase speed > in some cases, the checksumming guarantees that you will never get a > corrupt file and snapshots make

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average revisited

2023-05-02 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 15:04 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > One example I remember is Firefox having a bizarre colour scheme (the > window frame, not the page display) and missing the three upper-right > buttons. > That wasn't corrected by recompiling Firefox, so I assume the problem was >

Re: [gentoo-user] Load average revisited

2023-05-02 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-05-02 at 19:06 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > What about > >    # emerge -1u qtwebengine && emerge -u @world > > This will first update any dependencies of "qtwebengine" and only update > "qtwebengine" itself when all its dependencies are dealt with, before it > will deal with the

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -U or emerge -N

2023-04-10 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 10:44 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Is it better to us emerge -U or emerge -N > > I've always done -N but it didn't go very smoothly it seems to me -U might be > better option but it takes longer. > Right now I'm doing -U and it is compiling 549-packages. > Since

Re: [gentoo-user] X not starting after kernel upgrade

2023-04-10 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 15:53 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Is: make oldconfig  same as: make olddefconfig ? No. olddefconfig accepts the default answer for each new configuration item, non-interactively. oldconfig is interactive. I can't really give you guidance with your original

Re: [gentoo-user] config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating

2023-04-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-04-10 at 23:44 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > After update I get: > * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating. > > What is this, don't remember seeing it before. > > cfg-update -u > doesn't give me an option to view it. > > dispatch-conf will show you what is

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 automount usb doesn't work

2023-04-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 09:43 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > When USB is inserted, the icon appears on a desktop but it is not aouto > mounted. > > In settings: Removable Drive and Media --> > - Mount removable drive when hot-plugged (is checked) > > Does it have something to do with

Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 automount usb doesn't work

2023-04-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 11:28 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Does user need to be in group:  plugdev for it to work. I'm fairly confident that you do, yes. "Udisks uses polkit to handle permissions. Make sure each user is in the plugdev group"

Re: [gentoo-user] config file '/etc/mtab' needs updating

2023-04-11 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 09:34 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > cfg-update is a bit crufty, but its main advantage is support for > 3-way merges, which are usually automated.  So if you change one line > in the middle of a config file you won't have to manually go through > diffs to re-apply the change

Re: [gentoo-user] Mouse and hibernate

2023-04-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 20:04 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > I need the keyboard to bring it out of suspend. Forgive a naive question that I only ask because it hasn't come up yet: is the power buttonan option to wake the machine? Everyone has their own preferred workflow and I've always just

Re: [gentoo-user] Logic?

2023-04-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 17:22 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > 1. My system was basically working last time I updated it several > months > ago. > > 2. Now both of my main web browsers are severely if not utterly > foobar. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_release

Re: [gentoo-user] mailing list problem?

2023-04-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 18:44 -0400, Jack wrote: > I've recently gotten a few of my usual "Bouncing messages" messages  > from the mailing list, but when I go to the archives to see if I can  > identify the problematic messages, I don't see anything since the  > middle of March. 

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: replacement for ddclient?

2023-06-09 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2023-06-09 at 22:38 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: > > They have a nicely documented API, and the server does support > > HTTPS, > > so it may be time to write my own DDNS client daemon. > > Doesn't your router have a Dynamic DNS function? I stopped using > ddclient years ago because my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Highlight certain packages being upgraded

2023-07-10 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-07-10 at 04:25 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > that excessively long qt package > Off-topic, but just in case you mean qtwebengine, I was able to get > rid of it by putting "-webengine" in my USE flags. I got rid of it by switching to a flatpak version of the singular desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] Steam.

2023-06-01 Thread Matt Connell
On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 15:18 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote: > I haven't been able to run steam on my machine for about 2 weeks now. No > idea what the cause is, reported to Valve's Github page. Current symptom > is that window opens but driving thread stalls out or ??? and UI > freezes, needs to be

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 08:54 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > There's a terminal font called 'hack' that doesn't have anything > inside the zero. Is this the right one? https://github.com/source-foundry/Hack

Re: [gentoo-user] Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-05 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-06-05 at 10:31 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > Bummer. Looks like he might have changed it. Unfortunately I'm no further help in that case. Visually I live and die by the slashed zero, using Terminus, which itself is a replacement for the very old-fashioned ProFont.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Bespoke terminal font

2023-06-06 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-06-06 at 16:02 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > This URL mentions three requirements: > >   - bdf2psf >   - otf2bdf >   - psftools > > from which only the first  (app-text/bdf2psf)  seems to be  available in > the Gentoo mirror :-( dev-util/otf2bdf is available in the 4nykey

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-31 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 20:16 +0300, Alexe Stefan wrote: > > Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire > > web > > engine for an email client" but I'm also in the group of people who > > knows full well what the answer is. > > What is the answer? > Mutt doesn't need a web

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Email clients

2023-07-31 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 14:46 -0400, Kusoneko wrote: > Why would you want a mail client to also be a web browser when you already > have a web browser to do that job? I will never understand the mindset of > trying to include web browsers into everything. Web browsers are massive > pieces of

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-31 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-07-31 at 17:14 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I see it's a gnome program and has 17 new dependencies (to this box). Unfortunately one of them is webkit-gtk, which, if you don't have it already, is a compilation lift. Normally I would be in the chorus of "why do I need a whole entire

Re: [gentoo-user] Kudos on prompt release of gentoo-sources w/ Zenbleed mitigation

2023-07-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-07-25 at 15:19 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > Thanks and well done to the Gentoo Kernel Project for promptly pushing > out 5.15.122, 6.1.41, et alia. Those latest kernels add mitigation for > the "Zenbleed" vulnerability found in AMD Ryzen and Epyc processors. Not that I doubt you but

Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

2023-07-30 Thread Matt Connell
On Sat, 2023-07-29 at 01:29 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've been a loyal user of KMail for many years. (Loyal? Masochistic > might be a better word.) It suits me exactly - or it would if it were > reliable. It isn't, though, which drives me to consider alternatives. To present an alternative

Re: [gentoo-user] google SMTP with postfix - Password not accepted

2023-06-20 Thread Matt Connell
On Tue, 2023-06-20 at 12:09 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Any better solution for me, to get a remote system new IP address. > > Telus has a tendency of changing the static IP without any warning, it > happened to me in the middle of ssh connection with the remote system. Dynamic DNS

Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

2023-06-18 Thread Matt Connell
On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 00:02 -0500, Dale wrote: > Thanks Matt for pointing me in this direction.  As it is, this might > be a better player for me than QMPlay2 is.  This works as good as > QMPlay2 and it closes at the end.  I miss gnome-player tho.  Silly > old thing > gave me a lot of years of

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel driver for: Intel Corporation I211 Gigabit Network Connection

2023-06-30 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2023-06-30 at 14:44 -0600, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > > Is the  switch a reliable 1Gb switch? I've owned a couple of cheap > > switches that said they were 1Gb but didn't always work. > > I'm using TRENDnet 24-Port Gigabit Switch Is the cable known good? I've had both poor quality

Re: [gentoo-user] ip_change_notifier - empty IP address

2023-06-28 Thread Matt Connell
Not quoting anything because I'm just making a general reply, to the general problem that you're generally trying to solve. Generally. You really should be using DNS for what you're trying to do, one way or the other. Reverse DNS, when set up properly, will always return the appropriate IP

Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

2023-06-16 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-06-14 at 09:02 -0500, Dale wrote: > > Gnome-player is about dead.  It got removed from the tree ages ago > but > until a recent upgrade, it still worked.  I been using QMPlay2 on > videos > that doesn't have the right codec thingy for Gnome-player.  So, I'm > kinda used to QMPlay2,

Re: [gentoo-user] Klayout and ruby target problem.

2023-06-25 Thread Matt Connell
On Sun, 2023-06-25 at 11:19 -0500, Dale wrote: > By default, it has no ruby target it seems, although it used to.  The > on/off status changes.  Setting to match the old way made it worse, > as > mentioned above.  I can't figure out how to make this work.  > > Any ideas?  Thoughts?  > > Dale >

Re: [gentoo-user] QMPlay2 single instance, want multiple.

2023-06-16 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2023-06-16 at 22:16 -0500, Dale wrote: >  It doesn't seem to have a preferences thing that I can find.  > You know where they hide that thing? mpv is wholly configuration file based, fortunately or unfortunately. Not the easiest bar to reach, but the man page is extremely well detailed.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --sync fails with a python error

2023-05-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Mon, 2023-05-15 at 16:24 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: > RuntimeError: OpenPGP signature not found on Manifest It sounds like your sync is hitting a mirror that is currently broken. Are you using a defined mirror list or letting it auto-select?

[gentoo-user] Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

2023-11-23 Thread Matt Connell
First time I've seen this happen! Any time I emerge anything, I get portage telling me I have the following preserved libs: --- !!! existing preserved libs: >>> package: app-arch/bzip2-1.0.8-r4 * - /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1

[gentoo-user] Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

2023-11-23 Thread Matt Connell
First time I've seen this happen! Any time I emerge anything, I get portage telling me I have the following preserved libs: --- !!! existing preserved libs: >>> package: app-arch/bzip2-1.0.8-r4 * -

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage reports preserved libs, but won't rebuild

2023-11-23 Thread Matt Connell
Sorry for the double post; I got a mail-undeliverable from Google so I thought it didn't go through and retried it. Turns out it got to the mailing list (both times) but not to gmail recipients because Google doesn't like my SPF record (record says hard-fail on no match and someone somewhere is

Re: [gentoo-user] hardened vs -bin packages

2023-11-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2023-11-15 at 09:00 +0100, ralfconn wrote: > I suppose I'd better use the non-bin version of at least the thunderbird > and firefox ones, to take advantage of the hardened toolchain features > for these internet-connected applications. I'm not so sure of  > libreoffice (which I use

[gentoo-user] Profile upgrade tip, from a slow learner

2024-03-28 Thread Matt Connell
Remember to disable distcc in your make.conf FEATURES, or you're going to waste a bunch of time troubleshooting strange build failures like I did. That's all, carry on folks.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 19:58 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi all, > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesystem between 2 servers. > Changes can occur on both sides which means I need to have it > synchronise in both directions. > > Does anyone have any thoughts on this? > > Also, both

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 20:54 +0100, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > Am Wed, Mar 27, 2024 at 03:42:07PM -0400 schrieb Matt Connell: > > On Wed, 2024-03-27 at 19:58 +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I am looking for a way to synchronise a filesys

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 17:34 +0100, Michael wrote: > Configure static IP addresses for all your LAN devices on your home > router.  Then set your devices to use DHCP to obtain an address from > the router when they come up.  With a large number of devices which > often change (e.g. guests in a

Re: [gentoo-user] Handbook and question about manual network setup

2024-04-19 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2024-04-19 at 09:05 -0500, Dale wrote: > Basically, I want to be able to start/stop/restart enp3s0 as a > service and have it in a runlevel.  You should just need to create a symlink at /etc/init.d/net.enp3s0 that points to /etc/init.d/net.lo and then you can do the usual rc-service stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Graphics configuration for a Ryzen 7 7700X chip and water cooling.

2024-05-15 Thread Matt Connell
On Wed, 2024-05-15 at 16:25 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > You'll need kernel 5.18 and Mesa 22 plus recent firmware. > > That article was almost 2 years old, so I'd be surprised if all those > are not stable in Gentoo by now. Mesa 22 is not. Only version 24 is stable :)

Re: [gentoo-user] patching an ebuild file

2024-05-17 Thread Matt Connell
On Fri, 2024-05-17 at 20:17 +0200, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > Is there a way to patch an ebuild in a similar way we can patch > > sources? > > > > thanks, > > > > raffaele > > You can make an overlay and mask the pacakges from ::gentoo +1 for an overlay, because others may want to use those

Re: [gentoo-user] 32GB RAM and Swap

2020-05-01 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On 2020-05-01 14:50, Raphael MD wrote: Could I turn my Linux swap off. I have 32 GB of RAM memory, I suppose my system don’t need swap, because I’vea lot of RAM, is this true? As long as you're only running Linux on the machine, I would say yes, you're safe to do that. If you're going to

Re: [gentoo-user] Prefer Gentoo repository rather than overlay?

2020-04-23 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On 2020-04-23 14:35, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: * setting priority of your layman repo below -1000. I think this is the hot ticket here. That way poly-c becomes... an underlay, I guess? It will suit my needs and it only affects this one *lay. I figured this was an "RTFM" type of

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On 2020-04-23 14:01, Jorge Almeida wrote: What I cannot do is to coax discord into working. Maybe discord doesn't expect ALSA's defaults after all? Anyone familiar with discord? (No gamers?) From this forum post, it appears Discord only works with pulseaudio.

[gentoo-user] Prefer Gentoo repository rather than overlay?

2020-04-23 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
Looking for some guidance in managing the source of package installs/upgrades when a package is provided by both the standard repository and an overlay. I currently have the poly-c overlay added via layman. poly-c provides many of the same packages as the standard gentoo repository. When I

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA wizard...

2020-04-23 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On 2020-04-23 16:07, Jorge Almeida wrote: Does it allow you to send the contents of a wav file to an external DAC without first messing with the contents? As I understand it, (and someone please correct me if I am wrong), Pulse is a layer of abstraction over alsa. So if you can do that with

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On 2020-05-05 13:00, Michael wrote: I use FF-68.7.0-r1 with USE="-pulseaudio" and it works fine producing sound. I stand corrected then. I wasn't able to get FF audio working without the pulseaudio use flag, but that may have been because I was trying to do so while still having pulse

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox/Watefox and jack?

2020-05-05 Thread Matt Connell (Gmail)
On 2020-05-05 10:38, tu...@posteo.de wrote: Is Firefox/Waterfox able to interface with jackd? Disclaimer, I do not use Jack. Firefox builds, in my personal experience, are intended to be used with pulseaudio and only pulseaudio. Some people have made some shims for making it worth with

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