you run it.
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 06:40:17 -0600, Dale wrote:
equery belongs file name
Or, if you want the result quickly, qfile file name
qfile is part of portage-utils.
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create it and use rsync to copy the contents of
the old LVs over. If the only reason for the change is to have a
different name, use vgrename either before or after the move. You can't
run vgrename on an in-use VG, so boot into single user mode or from a
live CD.
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What
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:31:35 +, Mick wrote:
This is a data partition, so if I unmount it I guess I can vgrename
it? Do I need to run vgchange -a n first?
It wouldn't hurt. I've only done this with VGs that contain system
partitions, so I always used a live CD to do it.
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 21:35:05 +, Mick wrote:
maybe use portage to check that all the binaries on your computer
match to what portage thinks it should be.
How do you do that?
equery check cat/pkg
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All wight - Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
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with current
Beagle releases. Did you get this ebuild for te lefous overlay? That one
is two years old, the latest kio-beagke on kde-apps.org is 0.3.1
See the comments at http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=28437
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WinErr 01A: Operating system overwritten - Please
to disable it.
That will only disable it for the one emerge, and you will still be told
about any potential collisions in the portage elog information.
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:49:03 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote:
cd /
rpm2cpio /tmp/picasa-2.7.3736-7.i386.rpm | cpio -id
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=200568 reports success using
rpm2targz
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may
, it worked well but I
didn't try it with HDTV (because we don't have that here).
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that the extraction method is important, but that someone
has got it to run and detailed the steps in the bug report.
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We are Drunk of Borg. Resilience is floor tile. Wan'be sim'lated?
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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:49:46 + (UTC), James wrote:
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes:
There seem to be several devices, based on USB2 that connect to
a computer and can receive ATSC (HDTV) or traditional broadcasts.
The ones I've found for N. America all require Vista
:) Granted, he wrote that he also
created desktop files - that's something, I haven't done.
But I think, that's at as important as the way the stuff was
extracted, don't you think? :)
I'm not fighting, merely pointing out reports from two people that they
got it to work :(
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stream to disk or the player,
so one card seems much the same as another. You do need a reasonable
antenna tough, although the Freecom worked better with a poorer setup
than my Hauppage Nova 500 card, the supplied desktop antenna won't cut it
unless you live next door to the transmitter.
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precompiled packages from a distro. Portage already has
the mechanism for build once, install many, it is just lacking some of
the safeguards at the install stage that are present for the build stage.
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Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
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install is so much more efficient.
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Behaviorist psychology -- pulling habits out of rats
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no longer have GnuPG
installed, that is now all flags.
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in much the same way, allowing you to mount individual
directories with their own passwords, so you could have a single /home
with each user's directory having its own password. You back up the
encrypted data, so no passwords are needed for this.
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Linux users do it without paying
, but it's been a while since
I used it. In that respect it was inferior to encfs (unless this has
changed) but it was faster.
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, you can also do it with
echo u /proc/sysrq-trigger
echo b /proc/sysrq-trigger
Do not use e or i this way as they will kill sshd.
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/runlevels/default
rm -f ../text/*
for i in * ; do
ln -s ../default/$i ../text/$i
rm -f ../text/{xdm,vmware}
done
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Weird enough for government work.
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model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E6750 @ 2.66GHz
This is a 64 bit processor.
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The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. *
Bohr
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fix it...
I've had this happen from time to time, and always when using VMware (I
rarely use VNC). As with you, quitting VMware doesn't help, only logging
out and back in.
I've no idea if the desktop is relevant, I'm using KDE.
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Did you sleep well? No, I made a couple
of that award...
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in /proc/cmdline, any attempt to run
xdm later will fail. The only way to get back into X is to reboot.
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Does fuzzy logic tickle?
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will warn you if you have any unsupported USE flags set. That
and eix-test-obsolete are useful for keeping make.conf and /etc/portage
clear of cruft.
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Captain, I sense millions of minds focused on my cleavage.
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On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 03:17:03 +0100, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
put this in your make.conf:
SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/opt /home
This should really go in /etc/revdep-rebuild/99revdep-rebuild nowadays.
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If you think that you can truncate my sig to 75 chars, then you can just fu
the disk to another computer that
has a vg00 volume group. I generally use a name related to the computer's
hostname, which avoids conflicts.
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.sig a .sog of sixpence.
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/61-sun-jdk-1.6 containing
SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/opt/sun-jdk-1.6.0.03
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What was the greatest thing BEFORE sliced bread?
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will repeatedly try to build the
same package until entropy stops it. You need
emerge -opts pkglist || untill emerge --resume --skipfirst; do : ; done
but this is a kludge as you will be eying to build packages when their
dependencies failed. I would hope the paludis option is more intelligent.
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it no longer follows the Sylpheed code.
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If Microsoft made cars:
The airbag system would ask are you sure? before deploying.
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) ? =_='
I've had systems too messed up to run reboot or shutdown.
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In possession of a mind not merely twisted, but actually sprained.
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editing, MythTV etc.)
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I need your clothes, your boots, and your tagline!
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. The only time I've had problems with XFS
was a year or so ago when there was a bug involving XFS on encrypted
block devices. Although I generally use ReiserFS, I am using XFS for
everything but /usr/portage on this laptop.
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Q. How many mice does it take to screw in a light bulb
:(
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My wallet's cache is disabled.
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of ram is a good idea.
Mount $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on tmpfs. It will use physical and swap memory, so
even OOo emerges will work providing you have a large enough swap
partition.
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Daddy, what does formatting drive 'C' mean?
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gentoo than the details of the apps, but
I'm not aware of an active VMware list. A pointer to one would shut me
up about this.
The VMware forums are active and generally produce useful information when
googling VMware problems.
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Anything is good and useful if it's made
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 10:15:52 -0800, Grant wrote:
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot /kernel-2.6.22-hardened-r8 root: /dev/sda3
Error 15: File not found
There should be no space between /boot and /kernel.
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Pepperami. Its a bit of an animal.
What
. The virtual machine identifies itself as
different hardware from the host, so the MS profit-protection would
kick in, claiming you were trying to run the same copy of the OS on two
different computers.
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All wight - Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
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, as tar send to stdout by
default.
cd / tar cp . | tar xp -C /mnt/dst
Even simpler...
rsync -ax / /mnt/dst/
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Top Oxymorons Number 18: Taped live
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removed as as small as the ones you listed.
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I'm not crying victim, but I am stating that a lot of spammers
are genuine scumbags. -Sanford Wallace
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set up the partitions,
copy with rsync and run grub to install it on the new drive.
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Error reading FAT record: Try the SKINNY one? (Y/N)
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On Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:04:33 +0200, Sergey Kobzar wrote:
At the moment I use IPW3945. Is it wort to switch to iwlwifi? How does
it work with 2.6.23 kernel? Is it stable?
I use iwlwifi with an Intel 4965 and it works well.
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Accordion: a bagpipe with pleats.
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that
are on the source filesystem.
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Ultimate memory manager; Windows, it manages to use it all..
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, hopefully a
server one, and what does emerge --info show. The output from emerge
--info shows the actual USE flags that will be used, which will be far
too many if you are using a desktop profile.
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I heard Tasha Yar is the Enterprise's expert on Data entry.
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On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:03:39 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does one go about changing the profile? Is it as simple as just
changing the symlink?
Pretty much, then run emerge -uavDN world followed by emerge --depclean,
with and without -p, then revdep-rebuild -p -i.
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to exclude, and /home, which you don't. So you'll need to
backup /home, and any other partitions you need, separately.
I prefer to keep backups of the OS and user data separate anyway, so this
suits me.
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Due to inflation, all clouds will now be lined with zinc.
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with this package... if any.
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Top Oxymorons Number 25: New York culture
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.
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Photons have mass? I didn't know they were catholic!
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of emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild. If a worl update
causes you problems now, reinstalling won't fix that, it will merely
delay its recurrence.
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Why marry a virgin? If she wasn't good enough for the rest of them, then
she isn't good enough for you.
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:59:41 -0500 (EST), Chris Bare wrote:
I'm trying to run my normal upgrade on a gnome-only system. It looks
like the 2.7 version of hplip wants qt even though I have the following
in my make.conf USE:
-kde -qt -qt3 -qt4
Set USE=-X for hplip.
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removed and
have everyone complain how the Linux drivers are slower or less capable
than the Windows ones.
Damned if they do and damned if they don't :(
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Wrappers are futile. Chocolate will be assimilated.
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paid for. Can you see them going for that?
Such a task is better undertaken by people outside of Nvidia, but if it
was that simple it would have been done already.
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Windows: just another pane in the glass
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 23:17:03 +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
could anyone please give me some hint how to get my overlay
into layman's overlay list ?
As it says in the layman man page:
To get a new overlay added to the central list provided for layman, send
a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED].
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On Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:42:09 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know about /etc/portage/package.use
but where would I keep something like and extra configure flag, that I
always want applied.
mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/cat/
echo EXTRA_ECONF='whatever' /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg
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On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 10:44:14 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At the `pkg' part of /etc/portage/env/cat/pkg
Do I need to include the full address somehow like: dev-util/cvs
or just `/etc/portage/env/cat/cvs'
cat = category
pkg = package
Use /etc/portage/env/dev-util/cvs
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On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 12:01:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry to keep nagging with this but I must still not have it right. I
do not see that compile flag being set during emerge:
It looks like the cvs ebuild doesn't use EXTRA_ECONF. You could file a
bug report about this.
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you what you need to enable to make the options visible.
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On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 14:45:32 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:
Where does this x.x.24 kernel come from? I did a
recent emerge sync and when I do emerge -pv
gentoo-sources portage comes up with x.x.22-r9.
But Grant is trying to use vanilla-sources.
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Can vegetarians eat animal
Use eix to search packages, it shows all packages, including keyworded
and masked versions. emerge -p only shows the latest version available
for your arch and profile.
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To the optimist, the glass is half full. To the pessimist, the glass is
half empty. To the engineer
variant i this machine and installed on it last Spring with no such
problems (although the kernel used then didn't support my on-board NIC).
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Forget the Joneses...I can't keep up with The Simpsons.
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:)
AFAIR, I'm on a different computer now, it was a BIOS option to enable
AHCI for the SATA controllers.
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RAM DISK is NOT an installation procedure!
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for the installed system.
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Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
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install that I mentioned having problems with AHCI is Vista.
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Loose bits sink chips.
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/portage/profile/package.provided
man portage explains the location and function of these files.
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Crayons can take you more places than starships. * Guinan
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yet.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=176211
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Why isn't phonetically spelled that way?
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On Tue, 8 Jan 2008 15:03:00 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote:
Did a fresh emerge --sync emerge portage but:
Did you run update-eix? Or use eix-sync instead of emerge --sync.
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Beware of the opinion of someone without any facts.
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to give persistent naming based on any attribute of the
device, including serial numbers.
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Electric chairs are period furniture: they end a sentence
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a different ripper? This could be a problem with
sound-juicer, not hal/dbus.
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Bother, said Pooh, as the pin fell out of the grenade.
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-rebuild before
moving onto the rest of world.
emerge -e is pointless, portage is quite capable of determining what
needs to be updated, and reemerging everything just creates noise and
confusion that could make it harder to deal with any potential problems.
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Any connection between
?
If portage isn't forcing you to install it, you don't need it. On the
other hand, it is a bit of a pain to update, so you may as well get it
over with when you know you have the time to deal with it.
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Do you reply to our surveys.?
[X]Never [ ]Always [ ]Sometimes
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On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 07:35:22 -0600, Dale wrote:
I have it set to send it text for this domain. Is it not sending in
plain text? I have the same settings for other mailing lists as well.
You're sending multipart, plain and html, mails.
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Stop tagline theft! Copyright your
that was needed for
packages.
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8088 = model T Ford. Pentium = supercharged 400 horsepower model T Ford.
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On Sat, 12 Jan 2008 05:33:24 -0600, Dale wrote:
Thanks. I didn't know you could change that in the address book. Can
you tell me how this one comes through? It should be plain text,
hopefully only plain text.
It is :)
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Trekkers work out in the `He's Dead Gym
a Linux environment quickly and I had an Ubuntu
disc. I then installed Gentoo from within the installed Ubuntu OS.
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Top Oxymorons Number 22: Childproof
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that at all.
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Sevareid`s Law: The chief cause of problems is solutions.
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people, it is a part of what Gentoo should offer. Note that I'm
referring to what is now called the minimal CD, the GUI installer CD is
still a waste of resources IMO.
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I distinctly remember forgetting that.
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the handbook, a portage snapshot and a stage tarball. How
many live CDs provide these?
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If at first you don't succeed, call it Windows NT.
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, as
it may contain (theoritcal) up-to-the minute corrections.
So, the portage snapshot and handbook don't have to on the
Live CD.
No, but it's a lot easier if they are when doing a networkless install.
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Top Oxymorons Number 43: Genuine imitation
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IMO.
I would prefer releng to concentrate on producing the traditional style
minimal CD, with the installer project releasing their own discs based on
this when they are able.
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When you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
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On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 20:20:04 +0100, Michael Schmarck wrote:
This cannot be done, as the install CD has to be fetched over
network anyway. At that time, the portage snapshot and handbook
can be downloaded as well.
I've already covered that in a previous reply to you.
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turned on for whatever my NIC is and makes it easy
to start sshd.
But it didn't do networking, so /i did a networkless install and updated
the kernel to a later one that did support my NIC.
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Windows '96 artificial intelligence: Unable to FORMAT A: Having a go at C
, saying that Gentoo should not
have its own live CD. Why?
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Is it a bigger crime to rob a bank or to open one?
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, not the installed system.
It can make a difference.
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And what else floats.?
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somewhere.
Or simply rebuild the existing CD with a newer kernel. Almost all of the
complaints about it being out of date can be traced back to the users'
hardware not being supported in the kernel used a year ago.
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I locked my coathanger in my car; good thing I had a key
not working :(
http://packages.debian.org says it's part of parted, and qfile agrees (I
didn't even know I had it installed).
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Uhura: Captain, you're being flamed on channel one.
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you haven't set GENTOO_MIRRORS yet :)
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This man is depriving a village somewhere of an idiot
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trying to emerge it with the firefox USE flag. Remove
that from make.conf and use xulrunner instead.
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Forget the Joneses...I can't keep up with The Simpsons.
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one in the last day or
so.
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Top Oxymorons Number 5: Twelve-ounce pound cake
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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:32:15 +, Matt Harrison wrote:
I can't see how I could have properly killed some hardware just by
moving a cable an inch to one side.
Did you touch a grounded object before putting your hand inside the case.
A static discharge could kill the motherboard.
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of a B) can be handled by recent
portage releases.
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Q. Why did the koala fall out of the tree?
A. It was dead.
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before the new Portage went stable and back then you had to
resolve it by hand.
That's right, but now the new portage is stable so it is handled on
stable systems. The block was handled automatically when it first appeared
on ~arch systems.
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Is it true that cannibals don't eat
the
problem a couple of week ago, and i don/t remember any portage update,,,
2.1.6 AFAIK, which contains some of the new 2.2 features. I've not used
it myself because I always use testing versions of portage, even on
stable boxes.
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Secret hacker rule #11: hackers read manuals
things after they are broken, but the
new portage approach of not breaking them is much nicer :)
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If at first you don't succeed you'll get lot's of advice.
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is
~amd64. Are you trying to mix stable and testing packages?
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Bother, said Pooh, as the vice squad took his GIFS
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space on the root partition of
the new machine and the virtual filesystems will get mounted over
them. On my desktop, one file in /proc is more that ten times the size of
the root filesystem!
Use the -x option with rsync to prevent copying these.
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Yes, I am an agent of Satan
with that one also, either before or after rebuilding
lirc :(
Try this http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189022
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I thought I saw the light at the end of the tunnel...
but it was just some sod with a torch bringing me more work!
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, or have some arcane
QT package built from source, you should only have QT installed as a
dependency.
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Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
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means that build time dependencies won't be updated on a world update,
deep or otherwise, unless the package depending on them is updated.
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Reboot America.
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.version localversion2
The build system adds the contents of any localversion* files it finds,
and it also increments .version.
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Electrocution, n.:
Burning at the stake with all the modern improvements.
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