Alan McKinnon wrote:
I don't use these at all. GKrellm kicks SysGuard's butt :-)
Wow! I hadn't seen GKrellm before. 15 minutes of config and theme
selection and I'm sold!
Thank you,
Roy
Roy Wright wrote:
Trying to switch from kde-portage to kde-testing overlays did not
progress well. What I'd like to do to recover is unmerge all the kde
4.1 stuff and start over. Does anyone know a simple way (maybe a
script) to do this? As far as I'm concerned, I'd really like to unmerge
Howdy,
Trying to switch from kde-portage to kde-testing overlays did not
progress well. What I'd like to do to recover is unmerge all the kde
4.1 stuff and start over. Does anyone know a simple way (maybe a
script) to do this? As far as I'm concerned, I'd really like to unmerge
everything
Dale wrote:
Since KDE 4 is still masked, I would think you could remove the keyword
and unmask files then do a --depclean. I would also do a -p with that
just in case.
It's just a thought.
Dale
:-) :-)
Ah, that triggered a memory and with a little checking found a problem.
When
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Tuesday 02 September 2008 17:38:01 Paul Hartman wrote:
I'm using 177.70 on a 8600m GT here, and still running into stability issues
(random crashes, X stops responding for 10 seconds and sometimes for ever).
However, performance is a lot better - far from perfect,
Roy Wright wrote:
On the negative side, the nvidia binary drivers still have major
performance issues with KDE4. This is a show stopper for me.
I'd just thought I'd let everyone know there has been good progress
here. Using the latest beta drivers (177.70) and with the settings from
Philip Webb wrote:
080828 Andrew Gaydenko wrote:
080828 BRM wrote:
Reading all those KDE4 reviews I really can not understand
why KDE4 may be more useful for me rather KDE3.
My estimate (also based on reading screenshots) is
that it is 60 % eye candy, 30 % hype 10 % useful
Philip Webb wrote:
For those who missed it :
http://www.besttechie.net/forums/Linux-Humor-t14545.html
Gentoo is definitely misrepresented. I would have used that image to
describe the Kubuntu 0710 to 0804 updater which left a broken system
that necessitated doing a new install to get 0804.
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Freitag, 15. August 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Oddly enough, 3D is very very snappy. It's the 2D stuff that cripples the
performance, and on a desktop, 2D is exactly what you want.
AFAIK the problem is that the 8XXX series doesn't really have 2d hardware
Mark David Dumlao wrote:
Hi, I noticed my numpad keys stopped working after doing a system update.
The thing is I can't pinpoint what exacly I changed since I did an emerge
-uDnav world. I'm sure its some file somewhere...
Pressing numpad keys in X doesnt seem to produce results or nothing
James wrote:
Sebastian Wiesner basti.wiesner at gmx.net writes:
KOrganizer supports standard ICal-Files. Googleing for
usa holidays ical gets me to
KOrganizer has built in support for holidays:
Settings, Configure KOrganizer, Time Date, Use holiday region.
Have fun,
Roy
James wrote:
Grant emailgrant at gmail.com writes:
How about using the internet as a
source for the photos?
It's easy, if you run kde (3.5.9)
-- control center
-- screen saver
-- Banners Pictures
-- Slide show
I'm close to getting a first release out for an app that can easily
Howdy,
I've been having a weird problem for the past month where about twice a
week when I first unlock the system in the morning, the mouse moves
really slow (about 1 second update rate) and if I press any key except
ctl-alt-delete (which reboots the box but does not display the shutdown
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have two problems related to world on my ~amd64 system. I upgraded
gcc and finished the emerge -ev system, but I can't do the same to
world because of blockage. Specifically --
!!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the
I have several Belkin UPSs which over the years have only let me down
once (we had a power substation fire which did some really funky things
to the AC for a couple of minutes, afterward my motherboard on one
computer protected by a Belkin UPS was dead). My main complaint with
the Belkins is
Albert Hopkins wrote:
I think as long as you stay away from RAID, in particular fake HW
RAID, then it would be difficult to find a SATA controller that wasn't
supported by the kernel.
Thank you. The hardware search is being a little more difficult than I
had hoped. I'm finding:
* Internal
Howdy,
I'm looking to add three more drives to my system for a software RAID5
media volume. I've used all my motherboard SATA ports so need a SATA
controller. I don't want a hardware RAID controller (been there, burned
when controller died). 4 SATA2 ports is the minimum required. I have
both
Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4 days
now. Anyone else having problems with the list?
If you are using Thunderbird, check your junk folder. This happened to
me. I added the mail lists to my address book and everything is working
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:56:43 -0500, Roy Wright wrote:
I haven't received any mail from the gentoo-user mailing list for 4
days now. Anyone else having problems with the list?
If you are using Thunderbird, check your junk folder.
I hope you CCed this to the OP
Take a look at:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Mounting_Iso_Files
HTH,
Roy
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Michael Schmarck wrote:
Correct. UUIDs are universally unique (as the name already suggests *g*)
and thus, there cannot be a clash.
Not quite true, drives in a RAID have the same UUID.
Here's my raid5 for an xxample:
# blkid | grep mdraid
/dev/sdb1: UUID=bf59d132-8b98-7d9c-c526-af1cfb835fa3
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-04-18, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mail-mta/ssmtp, which is generally installed by default.
Or, if you need to support multiple e-mail accounts: mail-mta/msmtp.
Thank you!
The key was knowing it was ssmtp that I needed to configure. I then
found:
Howdy,
This is the first time I've played with a software raid and it looks
like I'm missing a part.
The raid5 consists of three AHCI 1TB drives (sdb1,sdc1,sdd1) assembled
as /dev/md1 and formatted ext3. The raid is just a data drive mounted
on /var/media.
Here's the array line from
Francesco Talamona wrote:
On Saturday 19 April 2008, Roy Wright wrote:
Looking thru dmesg and /var/log/messages, it looks like there are no
attempts to start the array until I manually try.
Any hints on what I'm missing?
Personal experience:
1) don't mix raidtools stuff with mdadm, use
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 17 April 2008, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
Because you didn't read the elog messages.
it is still not ok to remove /etc/conf.d/net. That is extremly
stupid.
This one caught me too, and I DID read the elog message plus the upgrade
guide. /etc/conf.d/net is
Howdy,
It's been three years since I last set up mail on my workstation which
I'm replacing after a motherboard failure. One of the pieces I'm
missing is what do I need to allow processes like portage and mdadm send
notification messages to my email account. IIRC, I had something that
just
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
I just built a new box (previous one's motherboard fried) and decided to
just start from scratch with gentoo ~x86. Tried the 2008.0 beta 1
liveCD but it didn't like my gpu (nvidia 8600GTS) so just did a stage3
install via ssh from another box using
Grant wrote:
An oc'ed cpu needs a lot more powergenerates a lot more heat. Both can
damage
the CPU AND the mobo (too much power might fry a regulator, or cook a cap).
Or it might overload the PSU - and then everything is possible. A damaged
mobo or psu can take a lot of stuff with it to
Justin Findlay wrote:
On AD 2008 April 16 Wednesday 09:28:48 PM +0200, Michael Schmarck wrote:
When I do emerge -DuvatN world, I get an error to the effect,
that there are circular dependencies. Please see below.
I'd like to know, if anyone else ran into this problem and how it
got solved.
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 24 March 2008, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
One very interesting point (IMHO) is the storage abstraction.
[snip]
I'm currently planning to implement an similar approach for Linux
(at least virtual block devices).
You might want to check out Plan 9 from Bell
Marko Kocić wrote:
I noticed that in most cases after I boot to windows, when I reboot
back to linux I can't connect.
When I reboot back to windows, net is up.
When it fails I noticed that it send DHCP requests, but doesn't get a
response.
I tried dhclient, dhcpd and pump, and the results
Howdy,
emerge sys-libs/lrmi
then from a console run: vbetest
this will display the video modes your graphics card supports.
Note I had differing results running from an xterm, so I suggest
running from a console with X stopped.
You might want to look at using uvesa:
Hilco Wijbenga wrote:
Hi all,
My Gentoo box can no longer connect to the Internet. I was downloading
something and the connection just died on me.
Howdy,
I've been experiencing something similar the past few weeks. I found
that if I
kill dhcpcd then restart it then my connection
Howdy,
Well, I had to local mask
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.4-r1
=x11-base/xorg-server-1.4
=x11-base/xorg-x11-7.3
today to keep portage from blocking. My guess
is that eventually a new version of nvidia-drivers
will be available and a new revision of xorg-server
will arrive that will support it
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
remove the blocker? the current nvidia-drivers work fine, if you
add -ignoreAbi to your X-start script (like kdm conf).
The problem is that any nvidia-driver is the blocker to
xorg-server-1.4-r1.
royw-gentoo portage # emerge -uDNpv world
These are the
Aleksandar L. Dimitrov wrote:
The
problem is however, that at work the external CRT is _left of_ my laptop,
and at home the external (DFP) is _right of_ my laptop. So I would love
to be able to manipulate xorg.conf with a script at boot time.
What I do is maintain two xorg.conf files:
Thierry de Coulon wrote:
Hello,
However, I have no sound...
What am I missing?
While not gentoo specific, this page:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems
has some good sound debugging info that helped me set up a
kubuntu system. I did try most of the commands on
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
That helps some, but in net-firewall I'm finding a lot of unstable
packages, and no really good idea which ones will be the best for a
personal firewall, let alone which ones are best supported upstream so
this doesn't happen to me again. So I'm interested in
Daniel Iliev wrote:
I have a daily cron job containing:
===
emerge --sync \
emerge -DuNf world \
glsa-check -t all 21 | mail -s GLSA report root
===
In other words it syncs the tree, fetches all the new packages and then
checks for security vulnerabilities. If glsa-chack says This
Howdy,
First I'm running ~x86 with the Xeffects overlay (Beryl- on nvidia).
When doing a emerge -uDNav world, I had missed that the kdelibs-3.5.6-r7
being updated was from portage instead of from the xeffects overlay.
This caused kicker to crash first time I'd clicked on an icon.
OK, no
Elias Probst wrote:
On Monday 30 April 2007 23:18:00 darren kirby wrote:
quoth the Roy Wright:
Also I don't understand how or where the menu structure is defined on
disk. Any good references?
Have a look in ~/.kde/share/applnk
Take also a look at ~/.local/share
Alan McKinnon wrote:
You *could* get around the problem with a complex arrangment of
symlinks, but then you'd have to maintain them. It's so much easier to
just tell revdep-rebuild to ignore the binary package altogether, using
Rumen and Neil's suggestions
So shouldn't /opt be in
Dale wrote:
I thought I was the only one that had to copy and paste it to Kwrite to
read it. Sorry to say I'm not alone here. :-( He seems, well, . . .
pissed. :/
The beryl negate feature is good for interactive viewing of
these insane color schemes (using both bright yellow and
dark
Howdy,
This is just a FYI, after upgrading my kernel to 2.6.20, my firewall
was broken. I was using firestarter but had the same problem
trying to use guarddog. Traced it down to missing the iptables
state module. There could have been other modules missing,
but I just enabled building them
Ow Mun Heng wrote:
no clue what exactly is happening and now, I'm frequently getting pissed
at it and kill it.
This is version 0.2.16 in portage BTW
I saw the same until I unmerged beagle... again.
Makes me dream of 4 cores, one for beagle, one for beryl, one for daily
emerge, and
one to
Howdy,
I'm evaluating vmware-server and would like full screen
mode to go to just one of my monitors instead of being
centered across both monitors.
If it helps, I'm running twinview 3200x1280 and ~x86.
TIA,
Roy
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David Talkington wrote:
Roy Wright wrote:
I'm evaluating vmware-server and would like full screen
mode to go to just one of my monitors instead of being
centered across both monitors.
If it helps, I'm running twinview 3200x1280 and ~x86.
This seems to be driver-dependent. Since you
Ben Kelly wrote:
I ran into a similar problem when upgrading. It looked to me like the
SATA device configuration variables had been changed or renamed. This
caused me to lose all my SATA modules when I rebuilt. After I went in
and explicitly added the new SATA drivers into the config the
Jon M wrote:
Is there something as simple as APF that works with Gentoo?
net-firewall/firestarter
HTH,
Roy
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Willie Wong wrote:
So my question is: should
I care about this flag (now or the eventual future), and if so, would
it hurt to enable it now?
Here's a few references that might help:
http://xcb.freedesktop.org/wiki/
http://xcb.freedesktop.org/wiki/Features
Howdy,
I was installing djmount (from b.g.o.) and it kept failing. Looked like
a parallelization issue, so tried changing MAKEOPTS from -j2 to -j1,
which let the package compile. I'm running a hypterthreaded P4 and
this is the first package to have problems with -j2 in over a year.
Is there
Richard Fish wrote:
mkdir -p /etc/portage/env/cate-gory
echo export MAKEOPTS=-j1 /etc/portage/env/cate-gory/package
You can also set variables for specific package versions or even -rX
releases. See /usr/portage/profiles/base/profile.bashrc.
-Richard
Great! Thank you Richard!
The more
Howdy,
The other week I unmasked the nvidia beta drivers, then unmasked
X 7.1. Well and good.
Until I tried to run google earth. This was a first for me. Totally
unresponsive
system, spawning ksysguard processes about every other second. Couldn't
ctrl-alt-Fn, couldn't keep the focus in a
Howdy,
~x86, kde user. kopete-3.5.5-r1 will not compile. Already a bug report
on it.
I'd like to just ignore this version instead of having it fail every
time I run an update.
I don't use kopete so don't really care about it.
Tried unmerging it. Update world insists on reinstalling it. Tried
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 18 Oct 2006 13:35:28 -0500, Roy Wright wrote:
If you are using the split ebuilds, you have installed a meta package
that contains it. either unmerge the metapackage and emerge the programs
you want, or do
echo kde-base/kopete-3.5.5-r1 /etc/portage/profile
Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
I'd try using one of the available vnc servers in portage (like for
example x11vnc or tightvnc) and see how it goes.
Linux Format (Oct 2006) magazine recommends x11vnc for the server.
HTH,
Roy
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Howdy,
The past couple of nights my revdep-rebuild cron job has been
reporting the following:
-
royw-gentoo royw # revdep-rebuild -pv
Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
Checking reverse dependencies...
Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a
Harm Geerts wrote:
Personally I'd remove the files and run revdep-rebuild to restore the libs I
broke by deleting them :)
Deleting the files solved the issue. revdep-rebuild completed normally
afterwards.
Thank you,
Roy
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Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
well, I got my new razr today - and I am not too happy. Compared with my old
Sony Ericson, bluetooth is crippled and everything seems to be a lot more
complicated. While it is easy to put files onto the phone or fetch them with
kdebluetooth with the SE, it seems
Shain Lee wrote:
Hi ,
What models of servers are currently supported for gentoo 2006 version . Is
that version , perfect with the Servers ?
Few days back i tried to install gentoo 2006 , for my DELL Optiplex 170L
machine .( my development pc ). It wont come into the installation GUI , it
filezilla on sourceforge can do sftp. Used it a lot before switching
workstation to gentoo 1.5 years ago.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/filezilla/
Have fun,
Roy
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Martin S wrote:
I suppose, I just thought it did something beautifull.
Martin S
Actually, just mounting as a hard drive is beautiful! Doesn't require
special or proprietary software. Works with any tool that can access
a hard drive.
Have fun,
Roy
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Daniel D Jones wrote:
Anyone know if this is a known issue or a possible fix?
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132651
BTW, b.g.o. is your friend! :-)
Have fun,
Roy
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Jakub Łukomski wrote:
hi, i recently upgraded xorg-x11 to 7.0-r1. after the upgrade
everything works fine, except one thing.
1600x1200 resolution stopped working (it worked fine in 6.8).
I had a similar problem. I run dual 21 monitors both at home and the
office (I physically move
the system
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
But good apps _do_ add themselves to the menus, if they contain
a .desktop file that goes into /usr/share/applications/ . If your
favourite apps don't do this, report a bug to them, upstream.
What I'd really love would be for the ebuild to elog which menu folder
James wrote:
The biggest problem is I'm looking for a tool, gui, or automated
approach to discover documents (html, xml, doc-book etc) that
go with the myriad of software pacakges. I do not need a
tool to parse my directories, I'm looking for a tool that saves
me time by producing a unified
James wrote:
Boy this is interesting.
beagle: /etc/beagle /usr/lib/beagle /usr/share/beagle
/usr/lib/beagle show a mulitude of *.exe *.dll files
these are microsuck files (yuck)
Beagle is a mono application. Mono is the open source implementation
of C# which is a derivative of java
Hans-Werner Hilse wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 03:07:44 -0500 Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Beagle is a mono application. Mono is the open source implementation
of C# which is a derivative of java aimed specifically at windoze by M
$.
wrong. C# is a dialect one can use
Roy Wright wrote:
James wrote:
Ah, that brings up a follow up question. If many of the ebuild packages
have built in documentation, then is there a tool/package/web_interface
that allow the document perusal without individual(admin) interaction?
For example, man pages are auto loaded and ready
Bruno Lustosa wrote:
Just as an update.
I downgraded my Xorg to 7.0-r1 so I could use the binary nvidia
drivers, and the Java problem also went away.
Seems to be an issue with the new Xorg.
Just a follow up. I was experiencing the problem with xorg 7.0. I tried
lots of permutations, firefox
I just read this in the developer's guide:
http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html
|~app-misc/foo-1.23| Version 1.23 (or any |1.23-r*|) is required.
I was wondering if this would work in package.keywords, package.mask, etc.
so tried it. It does appear to work...
Howdy,
I'm curious if there is a way to conditionally package mask.
Let me give todays example.
Running ~x86.
gimp-2.3.9 is installed.
gimp-perl-2.2_pre1 has this RDEPEND =media-gfx/gimp-2.2*
So naturally wants to downgrade gimp to 2.2.11-r1.
What would be nice is to be able to mask:
Hani Duwaik wrote:
Have you tried the suggestion outlined at:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=3chap=3
Yes, that is just normal package masking. Maybe I should elaborate.
I like to update daily. When the occasional blocker or cyclic dependency
hit, I'd like to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anytime I have to login to a site A window pops up from KDE wallet
offering to save it or whatever. I never want this but I see no
button or choice to tell KDE never to show it again for any site.
Close as it gets is a button saying `never for this site'
How to turn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Control Center, Security Privacy, KDE Wallet, Wallet Preferences,
Enable the KDE wallet subsystem.
This is starting to turn into a regular mystery. I don't have a
wallet icon in panel anywhere
Alexander Skwar wrote:
Bruno Lustosa wrote:
[ebuild R ] dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.2.10-r2 USE=alsa nsplugin -X
-browserplugin -doc -examples -jce -mozilla
[ebuild R ] dev-java/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.06-r2 USE=alsa nsplugin
-X -browserplugin -mozilla
Hm, why do you have nsplugin enabled for
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
Is there a good, graphical ssh-enabled file system browser that I
could set up on my wife and son's machines that would allow them to
move files back and forth between machines without them having to
understand ssh and escape characters? They use a lot of spaces in
their
Bruno Lustosa wrote:
Hello.
I find this most weird. Whenever I try to open firefox and then open a
tab with a local Java applet, not only does firefox die, but it causes
the X server to die with signal 8.
I thought X clients shouldn't bring the X server down, but this is
clearly what's
Devon Miller wrote:
KStars (http://edu.kde.org/kstars/) has a command line mode for image
generation.
It should not be difficult to script that to generate an image, then
set it as the background.
dcm
You can do the scripting using DCOP to change the background.
Here's an intro:
Mohammed Hagag wrote:
i just want to know if any one here have built a full desktop with
gcc-4.1.1 without problems ?
i have some problems with xf86 video drivers and some other ebuilds.
i did a bootstartp from normal stage3 and i'm doing emerge -e world
now but some important packages did not
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
I'm watching this topic with curiosity, I have switched to ~x86
recently and after it all (and a few debugging) I have all my packages
testing now, but have not switched to the new GCC for fear of things
breaking beyound my knowledge on how to fix it. So, if people start
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 in make.conf. Do not set x86 or ~x86 in
make.conf's USE.
Thank you everyone! That and some fiddling with package.mask/unmask got the
ball rolling.
Have fun,
Roy
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Howdy,
My originally stable (x86) system has a lot of testing packages (via
package.keywords)
and I'm looking to switch to a pure testing system. I thought all that
was necessary
was to change x86 to ~x86 in make.conf's USE variable. No joy. emerge
--info still
shows stable x86. I'm an
Philip Webb wrote:
Your question is a bit confusing, but in general
you can have as many desktop/window managers installed as you want
use any 1 of them as when you wish.
While you can't run the DE's simultaneously,
you can usually use eg Gnome-oriented apps on KDE vice versa.
Actually
Maurice E Johnson wrote:
Yeah... quite a few.
pgaccess
gnomedb
mysqltcl
mysqltcl-python (dev)
mysqlnavigator
many, many more...
Better to write your own... too easy not to.
DataVision (ebuild on b.g.o). Java based.
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Sebastián Ferrara wrote:
El Fri, 21 Apr 2006 10:10:59 +0530
Abhay Kedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Hello All,
I just saw this image showing settings related to user account in
KControl http://www.kbfx.org/staticpages/images/screenshots/7.png
When I check for the same under kcontrol on
Abhay Kedia wrote:
On Friday 21 April 2006 12:44, Sebastián Ferrara wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ eix kdeadmin
* kde-base/kdeadmin
Available versions: 3.3.2 3.4.1 ~3.4.2 3.4.3 ~3.5.2
Installed: none
Homepage:http://www.kde.org/
Description:
Dan Johansson wrote:
I have a strange problem with my KDE setup. Xorg sends output to both of my
monitors and I can move the mouse between my monitors (only one mousepointer
is visable). KDE shows the same picture on both monitors but I can only click
in one of them (if I try to click on the
OK, I'm having a hard time trying to figure out how to do something
really, really simple.
I have all of the files unpacked. Now I just want to create a directory
and copy them there.
Here's the normal, non-ebuild bash commands:
mkdir /usr/share/castpodder
cp -f -R *
Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Tue, 04 Apr 2006 00:50:54 -0500 Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| mkdir /usr/share/castpodder
| cp -f -R * /usr/share/castpodder
dodir /usr/share/castpodder
cp -f -R * ${D}/usr/share/castpodder
will work. Or insinto and doins -r, if you prefer.
Thank
Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 17:13 -0700, Grant wrote:
I'm using PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 in
/etc/make.conf and it helps but not enough.
meetoo! I've noticed it helps with cpu allocation, but not with the
disk. If you're emerging something like sources, or openoffice,
Lord Sauron wrote:
On 3/30/06, Roy Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The wiki instructions for installing Xgl worked too.
I'm extremely interested in Xgl. I didn't know it was hanging around
Gentoo. Can you send me the link?
Then I discovered what gnome-window-decorator does
Howdy,
Writing my first ebuild and would like to have it reviewed. Is there a
forum or list or volunteer?
The ebuild is for CastPodder 4.0 (http://www.castpodder.net/) which has
an open request in
bugs.gentoo.org:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114430
TIA,
Roy
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Nick Rout wrote:
waiting for the ebuild, which is not attached to the bug yet.
Should be soon. I'm trying to get all of the overhead set up right
(metadata.xml at the moment).
Thank you,
Roy
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Howdy,
After playing with the Kororaa Xgl Live CD, then with Xorg 7 entering
ebuild testing,
I decided to give Xgl a try.
The xorg 7 upgrade went extremely smooth. Big THANK YOU to those
responsible!
The wiki instructions for installing Xgl worked too.
Then I discovered what
Richard Fish wrote:
I would bet a write-protect switch got flipped. Otherwise, yes, i
think you have to replace it. I can't imagine how the other guy could
have damaged it from your description of the events though.
-Richard
You might want to try it on another computer before giving it
Michael Stewart (vericgar) wrote:
Roy Wright wrote:
This has me wondering if there is a utility to help manage the use
flags. I'd like
to know:
* Which use flags I have set that are not used by anything I have
installed.
* Which use flags are deprecated.
* Which use flags are new
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
The -pv output of emerge shows this. A flag that was not available in your
current version but it available in the one you are installing, will be
colored yellow and postfixed with '%'.
Great. So something like the following in my
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
The last line will delete the .old files you just created when it
syncs /usr/portage/profiles.
Nice catch! Thank you.
Changed the directory for the old files to /var/portage/profiles. That
should be safe.
echo Save old use.desc
mkdir -p
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Plus, it's /completely/ trivial to add -* to your USE or (using the great
euse tool) euse -D useflag. Or, for those type A personalities out
there, tweak your /etc/portage/package.use.
Another tool is ufed (use flag editor). Nicely combines flag name, set
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