On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Second, no journalled filesystem in the whole wide world can prevent
occurences of inconsisteny in case of a power cut. None, try as they
might.
This is correct.
If the journal change still resides in the
harddrive cache while your power cut occurs,
Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked):
[I] app-misc/beagle ([EMAIL PROTECTED]/27/08)
^
This is your problem: eix is not able to detect from which repository
this version was installed. The reason is that you
Is this not in portage, not in the world file or what?
Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked):
The database is what is produced by update-eix, i.e. usually
the portage tree and your overlays (and perhaps virtual overlays).
So, as a rule, it means that you have at
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:02:38 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Redundant is where the package is still available but the /etc/portage.*
entry is no longer needed. e.g. you have dev-lib/foobar-1.1 ~x86 in
package.keyworkd but it is now stable.
Sounds reasonable,
Dale wrote:
Vaeth wrote:
Is this not in portage, not in the world file or what?
Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked):
Also, emerge -uvDNp comes out clean. Nothing to upgrade or downgrade.
Revdep-rebuild comes out clean as well.
The installed packages
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007, Kent Fredric wrote:
On 7/28/07, Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a much abused gentoo system on which I was trying to update eix.
I get quite a few errors [...]
for a start it looks like the wrong GCC, last i read eix doesnt
compile with gcc-3.4
It seems
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, James wrote:
In my /etc/conf.d/clock file I have these relevant settings:
CLOCK=local
TIMEZONE=America/New_York
CLOCK_SYSTOHC=yes
it's a dual boot (XP gentoo) workstation.
I had to set the time manually to adjust for the 1 hour shift.
I guess you mean that in this
On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Sean wrote:
I'd really like to replace the /bin/sh link to point to a smaller shell,
such as ash or dash instead of the bash default, but that apparently makes
functions.sh _very_ unhappy.
Use baselayout-2. I use /bin/sh - dash with baselayout-2 and have no
problems with
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:49:36 +0200 (CEST), Vaeth wrote:
It is always better to have a port not open than to rely on a router
to close it apparently.
If you are using NAT on the router, you have to explicitly forward that
port somewhere
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 17:29:16 +0200 (CEST), Vaeth wrote:
If you are using NAT on the router, you have to explicitly forward
that port somewhere for it to work. [...]
Except that this is not completely true [...]
So the router maintains a database of current
Matthias Bethke wrote:
Hi Vaeth, [...]
Also a chroot jail is not a security feature: There are several
ways known how to break out.
[...] But there's only one reason I can see why you'd use a
chroot environment *except* for security and that's to have more than
one set of system
Alan McKinnon wrote:
You asked me to do something. It didn't work
But it is an annoyance if you leave your computer on during the three
days you are on the road to compile a load of new packages like e.g.
a new kde version, and when you return, compiling has not even started
because your first
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Matthias Bethke wrote:
[...] that in any halfway sane router these NAT problems are not an
issue. And with many routers running Linux today so you can even get a
shell and check iptables... :)
We are obviously talking about a different price category of routers.
Most
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Stroller wrote:
The risk is that you want to install X that depends upon Y.
The ebuild for X states that version 1.2.3 of Y must be used because
there's a bug in 1.2.2.
The new version of Y fails to compile, so when X is compiled it only
has the old version of Y to
Matthias Bethke wrote:
I'd say the vast majority of chroot jails are there for nothing
else but security.
Alan Cox: chroot is not and never has been a security tool, see e.g.
http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Abusing_chroot
No disrespect to Mr. Cox but a silly argument stays a silly
Could you please use a mail client which insert correctly the fields
In-Reply-To ans Reference ?
Thanks for the hint, I was not aware of this. But unfortunately, it
appears that it is not just a question of the mail client:
I am subsribed to the list as post-only (for several reasons which I
nazgul ~ # eix gimp-print
[I] media-gfx/gimp-print
Available versions: 4.2.7 (~)5.1.0 {cups foomaticdb gimp gtk nls
ppds readline}
Installed versions: 5.1.0(20:50:45 05/02/07)(cups foomaticdb gimp
gtk -nls ppds readline)
Homepage:
mask.cc:(.text+0x1663): undefined reference to [...]
This is a known issue with eix-0.9.8 and gcc-3.* with an easy fix.
I resynced this morning, but nothing has changed.
Resync once more. The patch was included in the tree today
without a revbump.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
The testign version is better, but sort of strange. For
gentoo-sources it gave a nice readable list. However for rt-sources it
didn't.
rt-sources is from some overlay, and probably you are using
OVERLAY_CACHE_METHOD=none
which cannot read SLOT-data calculated in eclasses.
You might
I'm running grub 2 it seems
No. You are running grub 0.97-r9 (which is a legacy grub):
Don't be confused by the description in eix:
eix knows only one description per package (not one per version),
and it takes this description from the version with the highest
version number (which is grub 2).
[I know that the headers are wrong; sorry for that]
I try the same on a relatively young gentoo server I'm managing and
* dev-python/snakeoil
Available versions: yellow~0.3.6.4 ~0.3.6.5 ~0.3.7/yellow
[...]
It's unkeyworded, however
Did you verify with portage that it is unkeyworded?
[ebuild N] app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.4
[ebuild N] app-arch/unzip-6.0-r1 USE=bzip2 unicode
[ebuild N] app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5
[ebuild N] dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.7 USE=nls -common-lisp
[ebuild N] app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.75.2
[ebuild N]
Lately it seems that eix disregards the content of
/etc/portage/package.keywords.nowarn
From the ChangeLog:
*eix-0.22.1 [...]
- use /etc/portage/package.nowarn instead of
/etc/portage/package.*.nowarn; the latter is now obsolete.
If you want continue to use it, set
I haven't searched layman for packages in a long time (actually had to
google how to do it), and am getting an error I can't seem to solve...
Unfortunately, you have not written the actual error
which should appear probably a few (probably one) lines before:
problems arised with cachefile
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Rafa Griman wrote:
gawk: cmd. line:3: error: Unmatched [ or [^: /[^[:space:]]/
Your gawk is broken. This happens if you emerged gawk with
current gcc and aggressive FLAGS like -DNDEBUG or -flto.
Not sure whether it is a bug of gawk or gcc.
I guess I'm missing some settings specific to this? I have 3 overlays
installed via layman, and this eix takes ridiculously long to index
through them, I don't know why.
The portage tree is indexed quickly.
There is usually not much you can do there. This typically happens with
overlays that
in package.mask:
*/*::init6
eix-test-obsolete find over 27,000 packages under this heading:
Redundant in /etc/portage/package.mask:
... considered as REDUNDANT_IF_MASK_NO_CHANGE
The reason for this is the following:
Since the category and package is */*, your mask can match every
package -
I also get 376 matches from Not installed but in
/etc/portage/package.mask which are surely the packages in my overlays
masked by */* but not installed. Do you know the name of this test so I
can disable it in eixrc?
REDUNDANT_IF_IN_MASK (or in /etc/portage/package.nowarn: in_mask)
I think
# gcc-config 2
* Switching native-compiler to x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-4.7.3 ...
/usr/bin/python2.7: error while loading shared libraries: libgcc_s.so.1:
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
This is a bug in gcc-config: It removes the old link too early
so that the tools needed
Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote:
So in /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc I have set
KEEP_VIRTUALS=true
REMOTE_DEFAULT=1
With the current default setting of separate databases for the
local eix cache (normally /var/cache/eix/portage.eix) and
for the remote eix cache (/var/cache/eix/remote.eix),
Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote:
So, if I understand correctly, I _don't_ need any settings, and I should
remove both KEEP_VIRTUALS and REMOTE_DEFAULT, and just use the -R option
You don't need KEEP_VIRTUALS.
Whether you prefer REMOTE_DEFAULT or not is up to you.
This has nothing to do
Thanasis thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote:
on 07/10/2013 09:38 AM Martin Vaeth wrote the following:
This has nothing to do with the necessity to call eix-remote add
after eix-sync
With eix-0.29.0 which just entered the tree, eix-sync will
by default do this for you, so you usually do not need
pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
Seriously, boot-critical would be something that the system cannot *boot
without*, which belongs in /. Everything else should be in /usr, i.e.
non-boot-critical. How hard is it to start *non-boot* (system) critical
*after* boot (things like sshd)? I do that
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote:
And my counterarguments:
1. The iptables-restore syntax is uglier and harder to read.
2. You get better error reporting calling iptables repeatedly.
3. The published interface will never change; iptables-restore reads an
input language whose
5. You can't script iptables-restore!
Well, actually you can script iptables-restore.
For those who are interested:
net-firewall/firewall-mv from the mv overlay
(available over layman) now provides a separate
firewall-scripted.sh
which can be conveniently used for such scripting.
shawn wilson ag4ve...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote:
1. The iptables-restore syntax is uglier and harder to read.
I don't get this - the syntax is [...]
What am I missing or how is this uglier?
Argument separation (e.g. if you
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote:
On 10/13/2013 06:08 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote:
5. You can't script iptables-restore!
Well, actually you can script iptables-restore.
For those who are interested:
net-firewall/firewall-mv from the mv overlay
(available over layman) now provides
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote:
[...]
If you have a million rules and you need to wipe/reload them all
frequently you're probably doing something wrong to begin with.
I don't know how this is related with the discussion.
The main advantage of using iptables-restore is avoidance
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote:
Port knocking is cute, but imparts no extra security.
It does, for instance if you use it to protect sshd and
sshd turns out to be vulnerable; remember e.g. the
security disaster with Debian.
A better, secure way to achieve the same goal is with
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
Thanks, Martin! I was about to create my own preprocessor, but I'll check
out yours first. If it's what I had planned, may I contribute, too?
Sure, patches are welcome.
William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote:
If you are going to go to this bother ... why not use shorewall, create
When I checked for scripts creating rules, none fulfilled my needs.
(I do not know whether I checked shorewall at this time).
For instance, instead of dropping most packets, I
Michael Orlitzky mich...@orlitzky.com wrote:
On 10/14/2013 07:49 AM, Martin Vaeth wrote:
Using yet another service with possible holes to protect a sshd?
In this case, I would like port knocking at least for this OpenVPN.
The sensitive parts of OpenVPN are audited regularly, and it uses SSL
Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote:
Like passwords, these sequences should better not stay the same for
too long...
Forced changing of passwords
I agreee: To do this to protect *other* users will not work.
It's a different thing if you use it for protection of your own data...
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
No, no problem whatsoever. emerge @preserved -rebuild is my preferred
method, I find it vastly superior to sub-slot operators which
It is neither superior nor inferior.
It is an unrelated mechanism which will have less to do
once subslot
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--ignore-built-slot-operator-deps=y
A different user interface would be preferrable [...]
Could you open a bug report for portage and make a properly formulated
proposal about this?
Done. http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=490350
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
You know what? I'm not convinced.
What I'm seeing is a rather large towering edifice of complexity to deal
with a problem that is not the general case.
I find it funny that perhaps you did not realize that you repeated
the main argument *in favour
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems to me that you didn't read the whole post fully, and have
cherry-picked a part that you think bolsters your position.
I do not think that I have a position here.
Subslots solve some problem. If they cause inconveniences
like portage
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
You don't have to keep explaining subslots to me
But not every reader knows the details - this is not a private
conversation.
What I have maintained all along is that I don't see the solution as
tested to be production-ready
It has been in ~arch
Marc Joliet mar...@gmx.de wrote:
One of those questions stands out to me right now: the one on understandable
error messages. As some recent posts to this ML demonstrate, it seems to
be one area where portage is visibly falling (staying?) behind right now.
They remind me of the type of error
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/11/2013 09:46, Martin Vaeth wrote:
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
You don't have to keep explaining subslots to me
But not every reader knows the details - this is not a private
conversation.
Then please [...] describe
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 06/11/2013 14:54, Martin Vaeth wrote:
(I am guessing this only from the outputs which are posted):
When portage detects that it cannot resolve something after
backtracking, it dies.
That by itself is good info.
The conflict that portage
Kfir Lavi lavi.k...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm doing some development and have a local portage tree.
Can I have also local distfiles directory?
In theory, there is something like RO_DISTDIR, but recently
there were some bug reports that it is not working.
You can also use trickyfetch and the related
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
Now, my question is how to have grub2 offer me a choice of kernels from all
those that are present in /boot (a separate ext2 partition). Not only that,
but pass different softlevel selectors to them.
In my opinion you should decide for either
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
properly; now all I need to do is make grub use the plain old 80x25
Thanks, but I'm using a manually written grub.cfg
Then it is completely trivial: Just do *not* insert code
which sets graphics like insmod {vga,vbe,gfxterm},
loadfont unicode,
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
I have my lxde/openbox environment mostly setup. One thing I miss
is feature rich tabbed terminal session.
I suggest that you try tmux (or screen) - this is far superiour to
multitab since you can easily also put it to the background or
access it remotely.
Volker Armin Hemmann volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
you know - I don't give a rat's ass about 'pig' or not, because:
I have enough ram. Ram is cheap. 16gb of DDR 1600 ECC costs what? 160€?
Cheap.
What kind of argument is this?
I do not consider it cheap to spend 160 bucks only to waste
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:
On 01/27/2014 12:26 AM, William Hubbs wrote:
No, starting with USE=-* is very dangerous.
That's nonsense imo
No, William is completely right.
and I use that setup on multiple servers/routers without any issues.
No one doubts that it is *possible* to
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
USE=-* ${USECPU} ${USEOTHER}
If you want to look at it that way, what I've
really done is to replace the default USE flag set with my own defaults
... *including* the defaults specified in individual ebuilds.
About the default flags in profiles one may
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/01/2014 13:59, Tanstaafl wrote:
If the problem is really this potentially serious, why start from
scratch, when Paludis is already very mature? Is it pure politics
(someone just doesn't like Ciaran)?
No-one likes to admit it, but I think
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
I suggest that you try tmux (or screen) - this is far superiour to
multitab since you can easily also put it to the background or
access it remotely
Screen and tabs are different solutions to different problems. When
working with multiple SSH sessions
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:
Many defaults gentoo sets do not have anything to do with default
codepaths upstream has tested.
I disagree: The USE-enabling in ebuilds usually follows upstream.
IIRC there was even a policy for gentoo developers which strongly
suggested this.
As above,
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
To go back to the OP's original point, having hostnames on
the tabs also makes it obvious which sessions I have open.
If you use an appropriate prompt as I have recommended
(which modifies [hard] status line) you see the sessions
in the tabs of tmux -
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
I haven't used tmux for a while, I tried it and went back to screen, but
does it really show the titles of all sessions?
On the hardstatus line you see in tmux all sessions
with their numbers and their hardstatus line.
[More precisely, you see all
Andrew Savchenko birc...@gmail.com wrote:
Another challenge is to make dependency resolution parallel
It's a challange but won't solve the problem: On fast processors
portage's speed is not so much a big issue. Moreover, the factor
you can obtain this way is in the (unrealistic) best case at
Greg Turner g...@malth.us wrote:
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 2:55 AM, Martin Vaeth mar...@mvath.de wrote:
On fast processors
portage's speed is not so much a big issue.
What kind of processor have you got, and where can I get one?
I run gentoo on i3 (double core), c2 (double core), athlon
Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote:
I was thinking: is it feasible, to precalculate the dependency tree?
I thought that's what the portage cache does, as far as it can.
Well, AFAIK, portage needs to kind of simulate everything going on in an
ebuild to get the list of
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
Dropping the aliases into ~/.zshrc is the easy option, that way to get
your aliases and a superior shell.
That's what I've done so far.
If you have a complex bash configuration file which you want to keep,
source your .bashrc (or whatever you use)
meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
while trying to use eix I got constantly this error:
error while reading from database: end of file
It seems that your eix database was truncated (out of disk space?).
Have you tried to recreate it with eix-update?
in beta testing phase:
https://github.com/vaeth/schedule/
You can install it from the mv overlay (available over layman).
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
https://github.com/vaeth/schedule/
What are the features it currently has already
This is hard to answer, since at a first glance the whole thing
does not even look like a scheduler: It looks more like a means to
communicate with some server, but after
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
Depends on the specific requirements.
If you want:
In a sense, most you require can be done with my mentioned schedule
tool, although perhaps the usage is not in the way you expected.
I reorder your points for a clearer explanation:
- have schedules
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
A useful addition to your schedule-tool would be to store the
scripts in a way that makes editing simpler
Since it is an arbitrary script in an arbitrary language,
I think this is not in the scope of this project to do this.
In most cases I used it so
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
With the kind of schedules I am working with (and I believe Alan will
also end up with), restarting the whole process from the start can
lead to issues.
Finding out how far the process got before the service crashed can become
rather complex.
I am not
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
These schedules then also can't be restarted from the beginning
when they stop halfway through without risking massive consistency
problems in the final data.
So you have a command which might break due to hardware error
and cannot be rerun. I cannot see
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
So you have a command which might break due to hardware error
and cannot be rerun. I cannot see how any general-purpose scheduler
might help you here: You either need to be able to split your command
into several (sequential) commands or you need
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote:
No, it wouldn't, since jobs just finishing and wanting to report their
status cannot do this when there is no server. You would need a rather
involved protocol to deal with such situations dynamically.
It can certainly be done, but it is not something which
On Tuesday, August 05, 2014 06:33:59 AM Martin Vaeth wrote:
When you are at it you should probably also encrypt the communication
schedule-0.15 is finally able to use encryption, hence the current mild
security risks will practically vanish, even if listening to a
world-wide port.
schedule
Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org wrote:
I haven't bothered with it either, I really like being able to do:
PORTDIR=$REPOS/gentoo-x86 PORTDIR_OVERLAY= emerge -1 whatever
Why don't you do emerge -1 whatever::gentoo
Moreover, you can use PORTAGE_REPOSITORIES for temporary overrides
of
Mike Gilbert flop...@gentoo.org wrote:
I'm not sure if the portage team has decided what to do long-term.
The long-term plans are to drop PORTDIR and PORTDIR_OVERLAY
completely, the reason being that it is not flexible enough:
With repos.conf you can specify details for every repository,
you
Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote:
The following installed packages are not in the database:
virtual/-MERGING-perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML
portage generates such a directory or file in /var/db/pkg
when it is merging the package. When portage exits
(even uncleanly), this entry should be
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:
With rsync I believe you can exclude categories:
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync
That is uninformed.
I think he is right.
check the --depth option of git. You can even clone specific tags with
--depth=1.
Every tag
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:
Martin Vaeth:
hasufell hasuf...@gentoo.org wrote:
With rsync I believe you can exclude categories:
http://www.gentoo-wiki.info/TIP_Exclude_categories_from_emerge_sync
That is uninformed.
I think he is right.
check the --depth option of git. You can
Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote:
Now that 5.1 is in Portage (masked), you should keep in mind that
emerging it will result in the 5.1 libraries being used, even if you
keep 4.9 (or 4.8) as the default compiler.
If you should really get problems with this, you can manually
remove the
meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
A novice asks the master Emerge:
Is there Zen also in every upgrade, which will serve to Gentoo?
Did the novice ask the correct question about the life, the world,
and everything? Your mantra should be
emerge -NaDu @world
(--with-bdeps=y in
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 26 Apr 2015 06:49:09 + (UTC), Martin Vaeth wrote:
nvidia legacy drivers?
In the latter case you are doomed...
I also had to throw out recently an nvidia card because of this.
Was nouveau not an option.
No. It seems, nouvau is lost without
meino.cra...@gmx.de meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
But the same script states:
[I] x11-base/xorg-server
Available versions: 1.12.4-r4(0/1.12.4) [m]1.15.2-r2(0/1.15.2)
The [m] means that you masked newer versions of xorg-server locally.
If you remove that local mask, the blockers should be
Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org wrote:
That's why kernel makes sure that no floating point instructions
sneaks in using CFLAGS, you may see a lot of -mno-${intrucion_set}
flags when running make -V.
So it should be sufficient that the kernel does not use float
or double, shouldn't it?
I
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
If you're willing to wait an hour, it might be able to come up
with a list of ways you could resolve a conflict, but basically
all of them will be wrong, eg suggestion #1, uninstall everything.
Really, this is a flippant response to a serious issue,
walt w41...@gmail.com wrote:
it tries to read from the floppy and prints an error message to the console
No. The kernel does not do this. It is either udev or some other
part of your init system which does this.
mount at a bash prompt, and then spams the screen
with errors about /dev/fd0.
Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote:
Moreover, I didn't check before the rebuild, but after
the rebuild there is no 5.20.1 in @INC.
Sure about this?
I checked this, of course.
But now I realize that the path is *added* to @INC
(even to the perl -V output!) when I re-create it...
Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org wrote:
Minor updates (5.x.y - 5.x.y+1) do not need any rebuilds
or reinstallations of modules.
This is at most partially correct:
At least, after the update, the install directories change;
here from
/usr/lib/perl5/{vendor_perl,}/5.20.1
to
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
So instead of my spew of ascii information files, I'm now composing
'man pages' mostly using txt2man.
If you want to avoid learning *roff, there is also e.g. pod from perl
which gives you simple basic markup functionality and can output in
man page format
hw h...@gartencenter-vaehning.de wrote:
there are quite a few TeX/LaTeX packages available.
emerge texlive with USE=latexextra
print labels on label printers
texdoc labels
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Pod leaves me with too many choices. Can you narrow it down?
pod (and pod2*) is part of perl. Very likely it is already installed.
man perlpod (or perldoc pod::perlpod if the former does not work
on your system).
eix latex returns too many choices. What
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
There is no dir '/var/portage' on my system. Yet this command works fine:
PORTAGE_PROFILE=/var/portage/profiles/default/linux/arm/13.0/armv7a eix -c
--system
Strange, to say the least.
Not at all strange: Again, PORTAGE_PROFILE points to a
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
Martin Vaeth martin at mvath.de writes:
James wireless at tampabay.rr.com wrote:
# PORTAGE_PROFILE=/usr/portage/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/eapi
This is not a directory. [...]
How do I determine [...]
Choose the directory to which you would put
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
# PORTAGE_PROFILE=/usr/portage/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a eix -c --system
No matches found.
Obviously, this profile contains no @system packages.
Which appears natural for an embedded profile...
hw h...@gartencenter-vaehning.de wrote:
texdoc labels
This seems to be for pre-defined labels like you get them in A4 size?
I have no experience with it; for my purposes a simple manual setting
was always enough. There are of course more (La)TeX packages for labels,
probably most already
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
This is why I was looking for a 'tool' or script that would allow me
to easily browse the default package listings for the different
arch types with a default profile.
If you only want to see the @system set of $PROFILE, use
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
# PORTAGE_PROFILE=/usr/portage/profiles/arch/arm/armv7a/eapi
This is not a directory. If PORTAGE_PROFILE is not a readable
directory, eix falls back to the symlink
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