Re: [gentoo-user] Re: glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale
On 2006-05-05 19:11, Farhan Ahmed uttered these thoughts: Well userlocales USE flag was there in glibc-2.4-r1 but it's absent in glibc-2.4-r2.. But here's the weird thing, I had compiled glibc-2.4-r1 with userlocales USE flag, in my /etc/locales.build I just have en_US/ISO-8859-1 en_US.UTF-8/UTF-8 so the locale -a output, quiet expectantly, is: C en_US en_US.utf8 POSIX But with 2.4-r2 there is no such flag as userlocales and I was expecting glibc to build all locales, but to my surprise I still have the above said locales only.. Any ideas? locale-gen automatically uses /etc/locales.build (if it exists) if it doesn't find any locales to generate in /etc/locale.gen Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email /\ and proprietary formats. pgpz1jEZJOeyT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo servers down?
On 2006-05-05 10:49, Alexander Skwar uttered these thoughts: Do other people also experience problems with http://bugs.gentoo.org/ and http://packages.gentoo.org/ right now? The servers react extremely slow and bgo is only showing me a À right now. It seems that (at least) bugs.gentoo.org has had some problems for a while now. From what i gather it's the database it's using that's pretty bogged down... Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email /\ and proprietary formats. pgpr6erAPBlSG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] insufficient emerge -t output
On 2006-04-13 06:28, Mantas Povilaitis uttered these thoughts: when I do emerge -uDp world, my (kde only) system wants to pull in a lot of gnome packages. When I add -t to see what wants them, it doesn't show: room17 mantas # emerge -uDpvt world [snip] If I understand how to read the tree correctly, gnome is pulled in as x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme dependency and gtk-engines as a dependency of x11-themes/gnome-themes. But this tree doesn't show what wants gnome themes and gnome-icon-theme. I would think the only time a package is shown as a top level object in the tree output from emerge is when it's included in the world-file. So my question is how to find out why my system wants gnome themes and gnome-icon-theme. You're sure you haven't installed x11-themes/gnome-themes explicitly before? Send output of: grep gnome /var/lib/portage/world Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email /\ and proprietary formats. pgprbns0kJ8gB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] subversion
On 2006-03-15 00:47, David Corbin uttered these thoughts: Anybody have any idea when subversion 1.3 will available as an ebuild? It is... Marked testing on most architectures it seems. If you want it, read man portage and look for package.keywords Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgpYY7mw6fIL4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo USE flags
On 2006-03-14 16:02, Goran Maksimovi� uttered these thoughts: I have already asked this but I will ask again. I am looking for who could write me a list of USE flags to setup in make.conf, so anyone? I need desktop system with KDE and not GNOME, support for DVD and CD ripping and burning, playing DVDs and DivX movies, MP3. I will do programming and testing of Apache server, mail server, MySQL. Best tip I can give you is going through /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc and pick the ones you think you need... From the requirements you laid down above, a start would probably be: USE=kde -gnome -gtk gtk2 mysql apache2 dvd dvdr xvid mp3 Then add whatever programming-languages you use in there too. F.ex. ruby, python, perl. Although you might want to add these per package instead, as they might just add scripting capabilities for certain applications. For more information about masking, package-specific use-flags and so on: $ man portage Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgpJDGIxFKcIe.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Portage Problem
On 2006-03-14 16:47, Timothy A. Holmes uttered these thoughts: I am trying to install JFFNMS, as part of its dependancies, it wants to install php4.4.2, however the computer already has PHP5 installed and running nicely. Is there a way to install JFFNMS without installing php4 and have it use php5 properly? That depends entirely on if JFFNMS runs on php5 or not... I'd guess that if it's trying to draw in php4 as a dependency when you already have php5 installed, it's probably not running on php4 reliably yet, in which case you'll have to make some choises... - If you don't really need php5, you just install php4 and unmerge php5 (and mask it if it's getting dragged in by emerge again). - If you want to run both php4 and php5, read this: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/php/php4-php5-configuration.xml - Or you edit the ebuild for JFFNMS to not have a depencency for php5 and try out running it on php5 instead... Probably wont work since either the maintainer or developers of JFFNMS has tried running it (or knows it wont run) on php5. Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgpKUAhgbWbma.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Stop and continue emerge -e world
On 2006-03-14 23:39, Petr Uzel uttered these thoughts: Hello everybody! I'm currently running emerge -e world because of gcc upgrade. I would appreciate if I can stop this emerge and continue tomorrow from where it was stopped. I have two questions: 1) Is there any possibility to stop and later continue (after reboot) emerge -e world without compiling every package again? 2) If I do this, will be the system usable after reboot? (some of packages compiled with gcc-3.3.6 and other with gcc-3.4.5) Actually, the faster way would be to use revdep-rebuild instead of emerge -e world (isn't this mensioned in the upgrade guide for gcc?). If you still have gcc-3.3.6 installed on your system, you won't have a problem from rebooting (as far as I know). Regards, Patrick Börjesson -- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgplqB4K6fc7W.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How many GB for / partition?
remounting. You don't. But saying that remounting /usr when you do updates takes up an unreasonable amount of time is pretty much moot if you take a couple of minutes to script your update procedure. a) /tmp is cleaned during boot - so this won't happen anyway. /tmp ios cleaned so late, that it is too late, is both are totally full. b) Don't let it happen in the first place. you can not tell an attacker what not to do. c) Boot a rescue system like Knoppix and clean /tmp. yeah! but why boot from a boot-cd, if you don't have to? (hint: /tmp not on its own, small partition) Oh yeah, it's much better to have /tmp on the same filesystem as /, making the system unusable as soon as you fill up /tmp. Good suggestion ;) d) In reality, I NEVER had it happen that /tmp or /var/tmp ran out of space. What happened more often is that /var ran out of space, because of the logs in /var/log. you have never used gimp, did you? I have seen gimp filling up a 5GB /tmp. I see. Strange thing is, that about every server and workstation I've seen more or less contradicts what you say. if you have 20+ users on each of them, and every single one is a little cracker in disguisse, it may make sense, but for a single user box? Why are you asking? because you are the one starting with 'server' and 'workstations' Correct. So what? Why are you asking? and the OP never talked about one or the other. His system MUST be the one or the other. nope, there is a third category: personal computer (also called home computer). What's this got to do with anything at all? If every partition takes a second, it will be very noticable. Hardly. (Notice that I'm not saying No.) if mounting becomes the major 'hold up' in your booting process, it becomes VERY noticable. Jaja. Do you actually expect to be taken seriously? not from you. From thois mailing list I learnt, that if someone is not on your side, the person is wrong. Good philosophy. Good luck getting through life with that attitude. I have been there, I doubt that. Why should I lie? I had 3 ibm harddisks 1x10Gb,2x40gb one seagate 20gb and all and everything on its own partition. And it was hell after a while. I would imagine it could get pretty screwed up using ordinary partitions which you can't resize easily. But from Alexander's point of view this is pretty much moot since it seems that extending filesystems using LVM is extremely easy and fast. More harddisks=bigger chance that one of them dies. So, instead of spreading your data out over several harddrives (reducing the chance of loosing _all_ your data when a harddrive dies), you'd rather have everything on one harddrive, thus loosing all your data when that harddrive dies... Best suggestion I've heard in a long time ;) True. So? What does this have to do with the fact, that the available hd's are too small? Just as a reminder - that's the scenario YOU are talking about. becuase you started with 'buy more harddisks' It is simple math. *LOL* _You_ should not talk about maths :) you obviously don't understand simple statistics. The statistics in your reasoning really has no bearing in the argument, since harddrives will fail no matter how many (or few) harddrives you have. And even though having more harddrives increases the chance of one of them failing, how does that impact your choice in what partitioning-scheme you want to use (especially if you use LVM)? Seems like. But maybe it's just, that I've got problems following your nonsense, hm? you mean your nonesense? Yep, it is hard to deal with you. I snipped the rest: TL:DR Wow, intelligent rebuttals here... Impressive. At the end of the day, it's basically a choice of how secure/robust you want your filesystem layout to be compared to how much tinkering you want to do to keep everything rolling along nicely. Using alot of ordinary partitions seems to be pretty outdated when we have access to LVM, and can bring alot of hassle if you have made your partitions to small, or waste alot of space if made to big. Using one partition for basically everything under / is a bit less secure if you're running a couple of services on your system, but if you're just using the system as a workstation, I wouldn't be too worried about it. Using LVM seems to be a lot more flexible since you can start small with your filesystems, and extend them after time when need be. But this also includes some supervision of how much space you have available on your different filesystems. Could probably be considered a more convenient alternative if you plan to extend your system later on with more harddrives, or plan on separating your data areas to further security/robustness. Please end the flamefest now, k? -- / Patrick Börjesson \ --- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email
Re: [gentoo-user] Postfix authentication error??
On 2006-02-09 15:48, Darren Grant uttered these thoughts: When trying to connect remotely with an email client (thunderbird) I can't seem to authenticate... and it's driving me crazy. Could someone please point me in the right direction? #tail -f /var/log/messages Feb 9 15:43:52 myhost imapd: Connection, ip=[:::216.xxx.xxx.xx] Feb 9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: LOGIN FAILED, [EMAIL PROTECTED], ip=[:::216.xxx.xxx.xx] Feb 9 15:43:55 myhost imapd: authentication error: Input/output error Where is my configuration problem most likely? In my /etc/postfix/main.cf file? or in my courier configs? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Well, you can exclude postfix from the problem since postfix doesn't supply a imap server. So it's a courier problem. Can't say much more, but it seems that the imap daemon has trouble connecting to whatever authentication resource you're using (maybe courier's authdaemon?). Sorry for not being of more help... -- / Patrick Börjesson \ --- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgp1LxGRhfT09.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] daemon start up problem
On 2006-02-08 10:08, K. Mike Bradley uttered these thoughts: Hello, I am running latest Gentoo. I want to start my app as a daemon. This app has a script to do so. webservice.sh I copied this file to /etc/init.d/ I made a link: /etc/runlevels/default/webctrl --- /etc/init.d/webservice.sh If I start manually it's ok: /etc/init.d/webservice.sh start But when I re-boot I get: *WARNING: /etc/init.d/webctrl missing ... Skipping[ok] I would imagine that the init system of Gentoo expects the links in /etc/runlevels/... to have the same name as the script they link to. So to get proper behaviour: ln -sf /etc/init.d/webservice.sh /etc/runlevels/default/webservice.sh (or rc-update add webservice.sh default) Then remove /etc/runlevels/default/webctrl That should fix it... -- / Patrick Börjesson \ --- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgpTrQCW7YE8n.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid Postfix alias question...
On 06/02/01 16:32, Eric Bliss wrote: I've got a user who wants his mail both kept locally and forked off to another server. Will the following work in the aliases file, or will it create an infinite loop? bob: bob, [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm thinking it should work safely, but I can't seem to find the reference to in in the documentation, although I know it's gotta be in there somewhere. According to `man 8 local` on line 56, it seems what you're trying to do should work as you wrote it. -- / Patrick Börjesson \ --- / () The ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML Email \ /\ and proprietary formats. pgppXE6Zx35hS.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] PANIC !!!!
On 05/10/22 00:45, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Friday 21 October 2005 22:13, Jeff Smelser wrote: On Friday 21 October 2005 02:24 pm, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: but at least now you know why you should not use --deep. Why not? I use it here and I never get crashes.. One doesnt mean the other. because some apps (like, for example xine) doesn't like it, when some of their dependencies get upgraded with a --deep world (like ffmpeg or transcode), while themselves are not recombiled. xine will not crash - but some video-filters will be gone. It is just not wise: App X linked against library L. Now you do an --update --deep world. lib L gets a new version L.1.1. But X does not recompiled, and funny things can happen now. This reasoning is pretty much void when dealing with libraries, since there's often more than one application depending on a particular library. Example: App A and app B link agains library L. Run an 'emerge -u A' and app A, and library L gets upgraded. App B is fucked in the same way as you having run an 'emerge -deep world', since B is not recompiled but its dependency is. -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpZSofbEwFbv.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Mail systems
/local-mail-0.3.0/local-email.html -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpEX4dOhl4N1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Bridging problems with new baselayout - SOLVED
On 05/10/07 13:38, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: Is seems that my net.eth3 was a old script, when replacing it with a newer version my ny /etc/conf.d/net if working perfect. The easiest way to prevent this in the future is to make /etc/init.d/net.eth* symlink to /etc/init.d/net.lo since they're supposed to be the same script. -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgp4vzk1WlIeH.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] cdrecord-prodvd extrange behaivor
On 05/09/27 18:31, Uwe Thiem wrote: On 27 September 2005 17:59, Mauro Sauco wrote: On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 00:25:46 +0900, Mauro Sauco wrote [snip] # cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=1 -v -eject -dao -data myimg.iso Cdrecord 1.11a15 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2001 J¥urg Schilling TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM scsidev: '0,0,0' scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0 Linux sg driver version: 3.5.33 Using libscg version 'bero-0.5a' cdrecord: Warning: using inofficial version of libscg (bero-0.5a '@(#)scsitransp.c 1 .81 01/04/20 Copyright 1988,1995,2000 J. Schilling'). atapi: 1 Device type: Removable CD-ROM Version: 2 Response Format: 2 Capabilities : Vendor_info: 'MATSHITA' Identifikation : 'DVD-RAM LF-D521 ' Revision : 'A116' This is a different DVD burner than reported in your other emails. What have you done? Replaced the device? Actually, that's exactly what he did according to the first sentence in his last email. To quote: Just to make sure that the drive wasnt the problem , I replaced it with a completely different drive and got exactly the same behavior. -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpeKQa7VDpGb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bbgallery and template files
On 05/08/27 18:35, Harry Putnam wrote: Mike Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Getting it done this morning is another matter, going several months without an update is likely to put you a long way back, meaning lots to compile. Thankfully you can just leave it going in the background. I almost always run This appears now to have been a rather hefty understatement. I'm not sure what time this morning I started on this but its now 6:34 where I am and its still running strong. This seems a bit long Is this a normal amount of time for an update world to run (something like ten hours so far)? Definitely if you've kept off an update for more than a month! Things like OpenOffice, KDE, glibc, and all the other behemoths take a while (like up to a couple of hours, depending on CPU) to compile each. So 10 hours is definitely not something to worry about. -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpdCNC25ZX9V.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On 05/07/23 13:38, Jules Colding wrote: emerge --sync emerge -vauDN today gave me the following error. [snip] I'd think that the developers would rather have that information posted to http://bugs.gentoo.org/ instead... -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpsoTSNZPCHa.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On 05/07/23 14:50, Holly Bostick wrote: Jules Colding schreef: emerge --sync emerge -vauDN today gave me the following error. [snip] Well, since I just (literally, 10 minutes ago) emerged mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2, and had no problems on a 32-bit system, I must suspect that this is a 64-bit issue. In that regard, I see at least one thing in your emerge info that has been called into question for 64-bit users in recent threads: CFLAGS=-march=k8 I am, of course, not a 64-bit user, so I don't know anything about this, but I have seen several responses to similar questions that suggest that the correct flag is march=amd64 Looking at gcc's info page, there is no amd64 target. The only ones I can find that seems reasonable are k8 and athlon64. I use k8 myself and haven't had _any_ problems with it. Oh, and despite what Patrick said, I think you were right to post here first-- no need to clog up b.g.o with what might be a configuration problem and waste developer's time closing an invalid bug. I really don't see how this could be a configuration problem, since it would have complained about an erroneous compilation flag if it was the k8 thing that was at fault... And missing files (which the compilation error points at) sounds pretty much like a valid bug to me... I think it's always wise to try to make sure that it really is a bug before posting it. Of course, but looking at the ordinary response from developers to these kind of emails, I'd guess that b.g.o is where they want the report, not here... And it seems to me that if there is a bug, it might be a *documentation* bug (because the other person who mentioned using march=k8 said that that was the recommendation of the docs, but that seems to no longer be the case, if people using this flag are regularly receiving compilation errors). Documentation bug? Not recommended by the docs any more? You might want to actually try to find information about the subjects you respond to. Straight out of the AMD64 Gentoo Handbook: AMD64 users who want to use a native 64 bit system should use -march=k8 Combining that cite with the information from the gcc info page, I'm pretty sure it's not a documentation bug. -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpXnDevvfSnn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge mozilla-firefox-1.0.6-r2
On 05/07/23 20:19, Richard Fish wrote: Patrick Börjesson wrote: I'd think that the developers would rather have that information posted to http://bugs.gentoo.org/ instead... To me, Holly, and I'd bet many others, the instead... in that line could only be read as telling the OP that he has posted to the wrong place, and that we do not welcome such things here. Ok, reading my original post again I can see your point ;) Plus, the OP message was very much of the here is the output of a failed build, what does it mean variety. Many such posts come from people who don't know how to recognize the actual source of the build failure. Whether it says missing file, unresolved symbol, locking failed, or compiler bug, they simply do not know what it *really* means (and sometimes, not even what line contains the real problem). Ok, I might have read a bit too much into the fact that he posted the output of emerge info. Not very usual in this list (from what I've seen in the last couple of years) since most people who don't know what line in the build failure is relevant mostly don't give much information either concerning arch and other information that might be important to help finding the cause. Although... I would suggest that the OP give a more explicit question, since I was really not sure if it was a anyone seen this before?, I'm a n00b, please solve this for me! or a where should I take this to get it solved? question. Now, I don't mean to offend any users here. I don't expect everybody running Gentoo to be a programmer or linux expert. So I will say it clearly: if a user encounters an error in emerge that he doesn't know what to do with, it is entirely appropriate to post here first. Agreed Of course, but in this case it wasn't an oversight... The poster explicitly said that using march=k8 seemed to no longer be the recommendation of the docs. That implies at least _some_ looking into the subject before posting... No, Holly said that her advice was based on recent threads. A recent thread on this list involving gzip on by an amd64 user suggested trying different march options. Now, it was _bad_ advice (sorry Holly, but it was!), but Holly did say she doesn't use amd64 and wasn't sure. Ok. I just make it a point of trying to find a bit more information, than just previous threads in a user mailinglist, about the things I suggest. But I'll try being more forgiving towards those who might not next time ;) Since I'm myself using the specified platform and have had at least a bit experience with it Good. Please help educate those of us who don't have or know the amd64 platform very well! :-) Ehm... now let's not take this overboard ;) I'm by no means an expert (or even near experienced) on this arch. I'm just saying I might have at least some information that might be more relevant than a 32 bit only person might have... Also, since the originator had posted the emerge info output, I assumed that he/she was at least a bit familiar with how bug handling is handled by Gentoo. Maybe, but I still think it was pretty clear that the OP was not sure whether the problem was an actual bug or not. Maybe, but I'm still inclined to give short (and sometimes uninformative) answers to questions that doesn't really give enough information regarding both the experience level of the person, and especially what he/she wants help with. -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpdswVpJHBjf.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] portage: sendmail blocked by ssmtp...]
On 05/07/22 14:23, Jarry wrote: I'm rather new to this portage-world, and I've lost track of all softwares I installed. Can portage somehow list all packages which have been installed? # emerge gentoolkit $ equery list -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgp8cJpJmqCvp.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] portage: sendmail blocked by ssmtp...
On 05/07/21 10:48, Jarry wrote: I wanted to emerge sendmail (for a few reasons I don't want to use other MTA), and I see, that it is blocked by ssmtp. Because I did not installed it, it must have been emerged as a dependency of some other package. Q1: Is it possible to find, which package depends on ssmtp and caused ssmtp to be emerged? I want to unmerge ssmtp and emerge sendmail, but I don't want to break some dependencies on my system. In manual there is BIG WARNING that portage does not check dependencies when unmerging... Q2: How can I get list of all packages, installed on my comp, with their dependencies? If you want you can enable the mailwrapper use flag, which enables multiple MTAs to be installed at the same time. Then you just edit /etc/mail/mailer.conf to switch which MTA to be used... Or you just emerge -C ssmtp emerge sendmail and everything should be fine. -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpkRSsB6RIW4.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] OT: keys that don't create keycodes
On 05/07/19 17:31, Petr Kocmid wrote: On Tuesday 19 of July 2005 08:56, Iain Buchanan wrote: It seems that every multimedia keyboard out there (especially the usb ones) have some or all extra keys that just aren't visible outside of Winblows. I have a couple of them! I've tried all the usual ways of detecting them - xev and others that do a similar thing but they just don't register as keypresses in any standard way. I would like comments on why, and what methods, if any, may be available to detect such keys. Surely with the plethora of cheap multimedia keyboards out there, there is some way. In X, once you analyze scan codes generated by those keys with xev, you can assign keycodes locally wih xmodmap. In keyboard maps, you can reuse some exotic Fn key names available from historical mainframe terminals, unused on PC platform, such as F26 and Shift+F26 and so, I can't now remember the exact number limit for function key names, depends on how x libraries built. Works great for KDE, which recognizes these names well for shortcuts. I think the originator is rather pointing out the problem that the newer keyboards (e.g. those with the F-Lock key) doesn't even generate a scancode. So xev for example won't even register a keypress when one of those extra multimedia keys is pressed by the user... I had the same problem when I bought a new keyboard, but I just couldn't find a solution for it so I returned it and went back to one of my old IBM-clicky-click keyboards ;) -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpw7mN7zHWUM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Omit certain parts of portage tree during sync
On 05/07/03(Sun) 10:48, Fred Moyer wrote: I run a couple of gentoo boxes which are mostly servers. Is there a way to omit certain portions of the portage tree from emerge sync so that the sync will go faster? For example I would likely omit any X and games based sections on my server syncs. You can probably use RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM (which you can define in /etc/make.conf). This is the relevant section from /etc/make.conf.example: # RSYNC_EXCLUDEFROM is a file that portage will pass to rsync when it # updates # the portage tree. Specific chunks of the tree may be excluded from # consideration. This may cause dependency failures if you are not # careful. # The file format is one pattern per line, blanks and ';' or '#' # lines are # comments. See 'man rsync' for more details on the exclude-from # format. -- Regards, Patrick Börjesson PGP signature: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x21792A5D PGP fingerprint: 74AF D4EF 6BDE CF77 16BE 6A29 CDB8 7607 2179 2A5D pgpwwwsoNqRZS.pgp Description: PGP signature
