On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in
Gentoo:
I delete package.use and have no backup
Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the
long way round -
On December 27, 2014 at 10:19 AM Andrew Savchenko birc...@gentoo.org wrote:
Please stop insults and offensive language. I just sent replies to
the list, this is verifiable by mail headers.
My apologies to you sir.
If you have mail problems, check your MTA or whatever you are
using to
On March 19, 2012 at 9:13 AM Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 22:48:54 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
And for the Lennart fanboi, his coding is
so questionable that Lennartware has become derogatory slang. (Of
course, you already know
On March 18, 2012 at 2:30 AM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:57 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
initramfs side of things. I did have to use one
On March 18, 2012 at 3:54 AM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
I recall reading on this list a week or two ago that kernel
autoassembly of 0.90 arrays was deprecated. :(
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:wq
Works on my computers.
And mine. But 'deprecated' means 'this may go away in the future'.
My
On March 18, 2012 at 6:22 AM pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
On 2012-03-18 04:11, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
Am I eternally confused?
I have no idea... besides, eternity is a long time... ;-)
su - change user ID or become superuser
It's not _only_ to become root (maybe theoretically
On March 18, 2012 at 8:47 AM Volker Armin Hemmann
volkerar...@googlemail.com wrote:
Am Sonntag, 18. März 2012, 08:01:59 schrieb Bruce Hill, Jr.:
On March 18, 2012 at 3:54 AM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
I recall reading on this list a week or two ago that kernel
autoassembly
On March 18, 2012 at 2:52 PM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org
wrote:
[snip]
Ok, I have never used genkernel, and have no desire to...
I have no idea what dracut is or how to use it...
I have a remote
On March 18, 2012 at 8:36 PM Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote:
Hope somebody can see a way out.
MW
I'd probably swap my computer shop and all it's latest-and-greatest to live
where you are, and leave all the computers, 'smart' phones, etc. in town.
Just me, the wife, the
On March 17, 2012 at 4:00 AM Andrea Conti a...@alyf.net wrote:
This news item is to inform you that once you upgrade to a version of
udev =181, if you have /usr on a separate partition, you must boot
your
system with an initramfs which pre-mounts /usr.
[...]
Happy Computer Users,
On March 17, 2012 at 7:59 AM Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote:
Hello Bruce,
Thanks for the heads up.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 12:11:23AM -0400, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
This item just appeared after eix-sync:
udev-181 is being unmasked on 2012-03-19.
Why is he in such a hurry
On March 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hello, Nikos.
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 08:25:48AM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Happy Computer Users, systemd is on your horizon.
No, we don't. I hope systemd
On March 17, 2012 at 9:45 PM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
But again, remember that I'm biased: I keep an overlay to run Gentoo
systems with only systemd; no OpenRC, no baselayout, no SysV. You guys
can try it if you want:
On March 17, 2012 at 9:11 AM pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote:
That's what gives you permission to use 'su' as a member of the 'wheel'
group ('su' is controlled by 'pam').
Best regards
Peter K
Am I eternally confused?
su - change user ID or become superuser
It's not _only_ to become
On March 17, 2012 at 10:20 AM Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
wrote:
Android != Linux (in context of userspace)
To get a phone shipped with a running Linux (in the usual definition of
Linux, not Richard Stallman's) you need that Nokia one that will never
again see the light of day.
On March 17, 2012 at 8:43 PM Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com wrote:
snip
initramfs side of things. I did have to use one to bring up my server
with / on a RAID6, not because I needed it long term but in the short
term I couldn't determine how mdadm was numbering the RAID so that I
could
On March 17, 2012 at 10:57 PM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
On March 17, 2012 at 8:48 PM Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 17/03/12 13:53, Alan Mackenzie wrote
This item just appeared after eix-sync:
HTPC ~ # eselect news read
2012-03-16-udev-181-unmasking
Title udev-181 unmasking
AuthorWilliam Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org
Posted2012-03-16
Revision 1
udev-181 is being
On March 14, 2012 at 1:22 PM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
Alan, the vast majority of Linux users right now are phone users.
At least, that's how I see it.
Again, think about phones. And tablets. And TVs. And
[insert-here-cool-gadgets-from-the-future].
Right now Linux
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On March 17, 2012 at 12:19 AM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/separate-usr-is-broken
Happy Computer Users (for now), systemd is on your horizon.
Houston, we have a problem!
You can always try Walter's et. al. mdev
On March 14, 2012 at 2:41 PM ZHANG, Le r0be...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
my question might seem silly, but I have reason for it:
I have heard there is way to auto-reboot linux after kernel
panic using kernel.panic=time
On March 13, 2012 at 3:10 AM Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 13 Mar 2012 05:36:38 ro...@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
I recently decided to update my AMD64 box from 2.38 to the new 3.2
kernel.
I used genkernel all to compile the upgraded kernel but when I go to
boot
I get the
On March 13, 2012 at 1:36 AM ro...@cs.wisc.edu wrote:
I recently decided to update my AMD64 box from 2.38 to the new 3.2
kernel.
I used genkernel all to compile the upgraded kernel but when I go to boot
I get the following error.
Loading modules
Determining root device
!!Block device
On March 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
snip
Fringe programs will not require udev, or it will be optional; but
the moment a fringe program reaches critical mass to become
maistream, the probability of it needing udev (directly or
indirectly) will increase.
On March 13, 2012 at 5:22 PM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 2:54 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
On March 13, 2012 at 4:27 PM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
snip
Fringe programs will not require udev
On March 13, 2012 at 5:49 PM Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com
wrote:
Just what I was saying: I said (right there) the probability of it
needing udev (directly or indirectly) will increase. I did not say it
would *need* udev for sure; just that the probability of it needing
udev would
On March 13, 2012 at 6:13 PM Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote:
Anyone else seeing this?
No bugreport yet, and I rebuilt and revdeped
Stefan
There is a stabilization request for it:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=407559
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Happy Penguin Computers`)
126 Fenco
On March 12, 2012 at 8:56 AM Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi Alan!
I thought more or less that I have to unmask packages, or making any
configurations to unlock the update to gnome3.
If I run now:
tamer@office ~ $ emerge -pav gnome
These are the packages that would be
On March 12, 2012 at 10:04 AM Tamer Higazi th9...@googlemail.com wrote:
and it still didn't bring me the desired result :(
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R] gnome-base/gnome-2.32.1-r1 USE=cdr cups dvdr ldap
policykit -accessibility -mono 0 kB
Total: 1 package (1
These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in #gentoo
are worse.
What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it?
Today's update output:
server ~ # emerge -aDjNquv world
[ebuild N] virtual/shadow-0
Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] No
On March 12, 2012 at 2:30 PM Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote:
Don't forget you're using Gentoo; you're implicitly not very far
removed from the skill levels of the developers themselves.
--
:wq
Maybe you're not, but it only takes me a few minutes being around chithead
and
On March 12, 2012 at 2:50 PM Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:05 PM, Bruce Hill, Jr.
da...@happypenguincomputers.com wrote:
These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in
#gentoo
are worse.
What is the purpose of virtual
On March 12, 2012 at 3:19 PM Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12/03/12 20:05, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote:
These virtual apps are irritating me, and the fanboi answers in
#gentoo
are worse.
What is the purpose of virtual/shadow and why would I want it?
Paul's answers covers
On March 11, 2012 at 11:16 PM Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote:
Not exactly your typical remote machine, but the principle is the
same. I have a dedicated HTPC machine next to my 50 plasma, connected
by 50 feet of ethernet cable to my computer den. I use the TV as a
monitor when
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