Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the
nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through
many possible categories.
I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/package-name in NetBSD pkgsrc and FreeBSD
ports, though FreeBSD is wsitching to a
Having package data in /var/db/pkg/category/package-name carries the
nuisance factor that finding a package involves a fishing expedition through
many possible categories.
I am spoiled by having /var/db/pkg/package-name in NetBSD pkgsrc and FreeBSD
ports, though FreeBSD is wsitching to a
Thanks to those who responded for the suggestions.
I didn't think I sent this same message a second time. If I did, it was
accidental.
Using equery and other portage commands may be better than looking directly at
/var/db/pkg/category/package-name, sort of like the new pkgng in FreeBSD
Who or what decides to name a hard drive /dev/sda vs /dev/sdb?
How does it decide what order to enumerate the drives on my computer?
When in the boot process does is a disk given a name like /dev/sda?
Thank you,
Chris
I believe it depends on how the drives are connected.
/dev/sda would
Excerpt from Frank Steinmetzger:
I found my old USB Gentoo which has memtest installed (and which I used
for my first test also). I let it run for two passes, both successful.
So the RAM seems fine.
Temperature? - check for dust puppies clogging the heatsinks, cooling etc.
It's a netbook
Excerpt from Stroller:
My experience has been the opposite, that even the cheapest USB network
adaptors have worked.
Maybe I've just been lucky and this is not the norm, but from what I've seen
USB network adapters don't work with Linux is the sort of thing that might
have been
from luis jure l...@internet.com.uy:
on 2013-07-20 at 09:51 William Kenworthy wrote:
You have to map the drive so grub can find it:
no, i don't think that's the problem.
the problem is that with GPT disks you need a BIOS Boot Partition since
they don't have a MBR.
I've also created aliase for kde awesome (.bashrc):
alias kde=startx kde
alias awesome=startx awesome
Means whenever i want to start kde or awesome i only have to execute
kde or awesome. By default (startx) it would start kde.
I've wondered how to run X simultaneously or concurrently with
That is interesting. I have the exact same problem. Tried to save it to the
desktop and it saved to my home directory.On the second try I typed in the
directory that I wanted to save the file. Instead of output.pdf, I put
/home/ill/Desktop/output.pdf.
It's not a fix but it works.
I think
On the issue of whether ZFS can be shipped with the Linux kernel, FreeBSD
includes ZFS with the kernel, binary and source.
So does that mean it would be OK for Linux too?
FreeBSD has a different license (BSD) than Linux (GPL 2 or 3).
I am not a lawyer!
Tom
I will be buying a new printer and am considering three members of the
HP 8600 class
HP officejet pro 8600 (N911a)
HP officejet pro 8600 plus (N911g)
HP officejet pro 8600 premium (N911n)
The first two are listed on the hplip site as having full support
from Walt:
On 09/02/2013 08:17 PM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
Given my ill luck with HP LaserJet M1212nf MFP, I don't want to buy
anything more from HP, unless I get this printer working, and then
I'd need toner.
My ill luck was with FreeBSD and NetBSD, and hplip makes assumptions
on Linux
from Philip Webb:
My ancient printer's ink cartridge has finally dried up
the mobo in my regular computer accepts only USB.
I don't do much printing, but occasionally need a few pages.
The local store has an HP Deskjet 2510 on sale this week.
Does anyone have thoughts or
Joseph syscon780 at gmail.com writes:
I'm upgrading the system and running out of disk space to compile webkit-gtk
I'm not sure you have usb3, but if you do and you have a usb3 stick,
it's useful for this temporary expanded space need and so much more. Sure
it probably will not run as fast
I do. Why, does it have its own info reader? Personally I've never had to bite
the bullet and had to learn how to use info.
Regards
Peter
I tried to learn info and never did well, always lost my place and had to hit q
to get out.
Reading the info file as plain text worked better.
systemrescuecd?
Too complicated. What I mean by this is that the user upon booting
has options!!! Do you kick into a graphical environment, do you copy
everything to memory, do you. you get the idea. The problem is
that these are first year students in a common first year, they
Is there a way to make Gentoo or other Linux allow extra time when root is on a
USB device? Any way to say just a second or more like 15 seconds before
aborting with the message that root partition does not exist?
In this case it's an IDE hard drive in a USB enclosure.
FreeBSD seems to handle
Thanks to Joost Roeleveld and Brian Hesdorfer for helpful answers.
Even before getting the new email, I googled on linux boot root delay and found
the answer where previous Google search failed to yield results.
That was an old Linux, Slackware 13.0 with kernel 2.6.29.6 where I remember
trying
from Bruce Hill:
To whoever controls this list...
I just arrived home to find my mailbox spammed with hundreds of messages from
this luser Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org
What is the explanation for this please?
I didn't get these spams. Are you sure they are from Andrew Savchenko?
from Michael Vetter:
just for fun I am reading about alternatives to portage. So far the most
interesting I found are: paludis and pkgsrc.
paludis mostly because it seems to come from some gentoo-like enviroment
and pkgsrc because of the nice thought to have the same pkg files for
multiple
Best way I ever found to learn how things really work under the hood is
to build a Linux From Scratch and pay close attention to every single step.
Not that you'd ever actually *use* that system - there's no sane package
management for a start - but after building an LFS, the content of
N one is forcing you (unless you have a UEFI board), and more than anyone
is telling you not to use a 2.4 series kernel.
Neil Bothwick
This brings a question to mind: Does anybody know what Linux kernel was the
first to support GPT?
Slackware 13.0, released in 2009 with kernel 2.6.29.6, did
All that has been said on this thread supposes that the hard drive is still
readable and writable.
But the original post stated this was a failed drive.
Then you might not be able to dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdx .. or whatever else.
You would be stopped by bad sectors.
Or a hard drive might
* Fernando Rodriguez frodriguez.develo...@outlook.com [150829 12:59]:
On Friday, August 28, 2015 2:24:37 PM Rich Freeman wrote:
Those who wish to use git can do so, and I'd encourage people to try.
It really does have a lot of advantages. Oh, and it makes it really
easy to contribute
> I think USB 3.0 is cheaper and more common.
> Only seen the occasional eSATA port on laptops and afaik, eSATA requires a
> seperate powersupply. USB can supply the power for the drive as well.
> Joost
USB hard drives, in my experience, come with and require AC power adapter, are
not powered
> I've got 16 3TB WD Reds running 24/7 for a little over 3 years.
> Only had 1 failure (Smart complaining) in that time.
> I find that decent odds.
> Joost
I bought a WD Green 3 TB hard drive in May 2011, warranty was then 3 years. It
went bad with errors after 34 months.
I was able to get
> I keep getting a warning that Flash needs to be upgraded. I went to
> packages.g.o and there doesn't seem to be a newer version than what I
> have. What gives? I'd upgrade if there was one available but there
> isn't or I can't find it one. I found a bug report on the version I
> have
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 21:58:05 +0100, Miroslav Rovis wrote:
> > On 170225-09:19-0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
> > > Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host
> > > Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram
> > [ some cca. 80k text cut here ]
> > Go
You (Dale) seem to have corrected the multipart/alternative problem, except one
message (Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: downgrading glibc) where
multipart/alternative went through.
I would never design an email client to send multipart/alternative by default,
and might design an email client
> Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="5A3B7F546928893D6B2B7B3A"
> X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.2 cv=HvEGIwbS c=1 sm=1 tr=0
> a=ZNQZ+YIiQ1SmzuxDAKl+CA==:117 a=ZNQZ+YIiQ1SmzuxDAKl+CA==:17
> a=x7bEGLp0ZPQA:10 a=ISoD08LcTzsA:10 a=xqWC_Br6kY4A:10 a=KeKAF7QvOSUA:10
>
from Ian Zimmerman:
> I think I have written here previously that I want to move my _server_
> to FreeBSD. I am still thinking about that. But now I hit an
> obstacle. For a long time, I have put my local kiddie scripts in
> /usr/local. For better or worse, they are written in my dense style
> On 2018-12-03, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > I see also the suggestion
> > $ ssh -Y
> > but what would be the syntax for specifying where
> > is a different computer on the same local network?
> Does it have an IP address?
> Grant Edwards
I see wh
Daniel Frey wrote:
> I've been trying to clean up my machines (pruning world file, etc) and
> am making progress.
> I ran into one issue, that being on my server (mythtv, file, etc) I am
> normally in text/ssh mode but occasionally I need X for something.
> Does anyone have
One thing I noticed with sysrescuecd switching from Gentoo to Arch was no more
gcc, meaning you can't build any additional software.
But then the use of squashfs always was an annoyance.
Tom
I was just looking through gentoo/setup.py and find something that arouses my
curiosity.
I see
if platform.system() == 'Linux':
x_c_helpers.update({
'portage.util.file_copy.reflink_linux': [
'src/portage_util_file_copy_reflink_linux.c',
> You're missing the point! As soon as something works as most users want, or
> becoming used to at any rate, the KDE devs will /improve/ their
> software by breaking its most desired functionality - sometimes irrepairably.
> LOL!
> Konqueror was the best file manager ever, with multiple
from Philip Webb:
> I suspect Fetchmail is somewhat neglected : is there an alternative ?
> Otherwise, thanks for the various responses.
> I now understand what's going on & will defer Python 2.7 till year-end.
I use mpop and msmtp.
I tried to set up fetchmail many years ago. One
> Mick has a good point. I have two or three of the cheaper USB external
> enclosures and only one of them was somewhat fast, it is USB 2.0 after
> all. The other two logged a lot of errors in messages file about
> resetting something. It was resetting so often that moving data to or
> from
On 4/15/20 1:40 PM, Andreas Stiasny wrote:
> On 15.04.20 17:50, Rich Freeman wrote:
>> Jumping from
>> 3.18 you're somewhat more likely to run into issues - your biggest
>> headache though will be dealing with the 30,000 prompts you get from
>> make oldconfig and making sure you set all the new
> from n952162:
> > And really unless you REALLY care about your CFLAGS you get 99% of the
> > benefit just sticking with the original stage3 and just rebuilding
> > anything you change USE flags for. Over time it will all get rebuilt
> > anyway using your preferences.
> If I understand that
> With getmail having been deprecated, I can't pull it in on my fresh
> install, so I *HAVE TO* go with fetchmail. I tried following example at
> https://www.linode.com/docs/email/clients/using-fetchmail-to-retrieve-email/
> but it errors out at the first line...
> [i3][waltdnes][~] fetchmail
> >> - Unmerge all python and python-setuptools versions
> > No, don't do that!!!
> > Unmerging all python version will leave you with a non-working portage.
> Indeed -- I've done that. It's not fun. You certainly won't do it a
> second time.
> Grant
How did you recover? You
> Would "fetchmail" work as a drop-in replacement for getmail here? Are
> there any better, simpler solutions?
> Walter Dnes
I generally use mpop, and msmtp to send mail.
I suppose you could use mutt; I also have Steffen Nurpmeso's s-mailx on the
back of my mind, having used nail when I was
> > That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and
> > managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc
> > versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate
> > versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes but
> > I
> I got a message from him. At least we will know he is OK. All his
> machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore.Â
> So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch.Â
> Miss the guy but glad he is OK and nothing happened to him.Â
> Dale
> :-)Â :-)Â
When you
> I got a message from him. At least we will know he is OK. All his
> machines was switched to Arch Linux and he wasn't using Gentoo anymore.Â
> So, he unsubscribed and got active with Arch.Â
> Miss the guy but glad he is OK and nothing happened to him.Â
> Dale
> :-)Â :-)Â
When I sent
> I think fdisk couldn't handle GPT at first. I guess that's why gdisk
> came along. Then I think the fdisk folks added support for GPT and
> since then it handles both. That's my understanding of it. If
> possible, you may want to check the time stamps on the info you have
> found. I suspect
from the...@sys-concept.com:
> Manual approach might be confusing and prone to errors.
> I will try Gparted as you suggested but I was wondering if it will allow
> me to combine/join partitions. On most modern system I think there is:
> 1 - boot partiton
> 2 - swap if needed
> 3 - root partition
On Sat, 16 Jan 2021 12:01:48 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Gentoo.
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 16:06:38 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 22:15:25 -, Grant Edwards wrote:
> > > On 2021-01-13, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > > > I think bringing up a new Gentoo system
> > That's what I did: I found a 2017 stage3 with a still older glibc and
> > managed to upgrade to a 2020 gentoo while masking the last glibc
> > versions. That was tricky because I had to git-checkout intermediate
> > versions of the portage tree in order to deal with the EAPI changes but
> > I
Excerpt from Michael:
> Right, on UEFI MoBos the ESP partition used by the UEFI firmware to locate
> and
> run *.EFI executables must be FAT32. Such .EFI executables stored on the ESP
> may be OS boot managers/loaders, or other UEFI compatible applications. The
> boot manager loaded by UEFI
I am looking to compile the Linux kernel and send the work and output to
another directory, thereby leaving the kernel source tree directory clean.
If I build gcc or other software using configure script, I can go to another
directory and run, for instance, ~/builds/gcc-8.3.0/configure
from netfab at Fri, 14 May 2021 11:59:37 +0200:
> Le 14/05/21 à 11:47, Thomas Mueller a tapoté :
> > I am looking to compile the Linux kernel and send the work and output
> > to another directory, thereby leaving the kernel source tree
> > directory clean.
>
Can Portage be used as a package manager with anything other than Linux?
I like some features of Portage; think it might be better than FreeBSD ports or
NetBSD pkgsrc, or is just a case of the grass being greener on the other side?
I like the option "--with-bdeps=y", wish FreeBSD's synth and
from Laurence Perkins:
> Some of the higher-end UPS models do have diagnostic modes for simulating
> various events to make sure the connected systems behave as desired. A very
> few of the consumer-grade ones do as well. But how to do it is model
> specific,
> so you'll have to dig up the
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