Re: [gentoo-user] first ebuild, looking for reviewer

2006-04-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
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. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] make -j 4 recoverable ?

2006-03-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:43:56 +0100 (CET) Meino Christian Cramer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | With make -j 4, which I could add to the make flags, compiling is a | lot faster. But some packages may fail to compile. You absolutely do not want to do make -j 4... The space matters. -- Ciaran

Re: [gentoo-user] What on Earth is Portage doing for so long?

2006-03-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
to utterly inappropriate packages being installed. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Another reason to begin USE with -*

2006-03-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
and emboss to the default USE flags does not mean that users will get Apache or Emboss. Having these USE flags in the defaults is entirely sensible and correct, and provides expected behaviour for the majority of users. Anyone claiming otherwise simply doesn't understand what's going on. -- Ciaran

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
, perhaps, where I'm concerned ;-)). Hah. Try doing bug wrangling for a week and you might change that opinion. Anyway, part of the point of using a distribution is that it spares you from having to know what's best for you. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-27 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
for you. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
what's best for them in terms of package stability. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 18:29:52 -0500 John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 04:11:08PM +, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Absolutely not. If there's one thing we've established over the | years, it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the | slightest clue

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-*, | and will flag a warning on the QA checkers. | | You mean like gcc-4.1.0_pre20060219.ebuild? Yyyyup. The -* abuse is one of the many things on QA's list of stuff we want to get fixed. However, it's considered extremely low priority on existing packages. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer

Re: [gentoo-user] What happens with masked packages?

2006-02-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
listed. Any package setting KEYWORDS=-* and nothing else is abusing -*, and will flag a warning on the QA checkers. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] What does the use flag gtk for gcc?

2006-02-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:24:39 +0100 Wolfgang Liebich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I did a query for packages using the gtk use flag. I found gcc | (3.4.4-r1) among these. Why? It's for the Java gtk frontend. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] Thought : making the build/emerge faster

2006-02-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
in the way they do, if they do, create their config.cache. confcache. It's, uh, kinda experimental right now. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuilds gone to the happy hunting-grounds

2006-02-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
-package won't do it because the ebuild doesn't exist any more. It will unless you installed said package a very long time ago. Portage keeps a copy of the ebuild in the vdb when you install something. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Wearer of the shiny hat) Mail: ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] 4/8 CPU Gentoo server

2006-02-08 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
so icky packages that force -j1, things aren't so shiny... Still, there aren't any particular problems running Gentoo on SMP systems. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:51:32 -1000 Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in | different terminal sessions at the same time? No. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 22:33:01 -1000 Beau E. Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sunday 29 January 2006 09:59 pm, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Sun, 29 Jan 2006 00:51:32 -1000 Beau E. Cox | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Can I safely emerge (different packages, non-interdependent) in | | different

Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

2006-01-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 12:41:37 +0100 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | the many ways in which parallel merges can still break. | | Please give us one example. You install a package that runs autotools and a package that provides an aclocal entry at the same

Re: [gentoo-user] Using 'world' file to clone another machine

2006-01-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 17:38:14 -0500 Michael A. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Weird, huh? Not weird at all. emerge reads target names from the commandline, but not from stdin. Chris should know this... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
channel for vim in linux? + and * , but only if you USE=vim-with-x. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] vim USE flag: vim-with-x

2006-01-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:14:01 +0100 Paweł Madej [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | for me it is used to make vim modular X compatible. Wha? No no no. If that flag is off, vim won't go anywhere near X. If that flag is on, vim will link against either modular or non-modular X. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] big problem with emerge

2006-01-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 19:13:08 +0100 Manuel Pérez López [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Yesterday I did a portage sync, and now I can not emerge anything. | Help me to correct this issue. See this lines: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119352 -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild defaults?

2006-01-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
for it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Filename modification with suffix

2005-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
*.jpg -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] help

2005-12-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:14:41 +0800 gentoo user mail list [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Cut the blue wire first, then the green wire within the next five seconds. Whatever you do, don't touch the red wire! -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) Mail: ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2005-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
apply to get what I cry for... I've tried them... | None of them put all the data into a real database... A shame | too Wrong solution. You do realise that the updating Portage cache thing is due to a Portage deficiency, and that the real cache is centrally generated, right? -- Ciaran

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage 50-51% and emerge metadata timings

2005-12-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
the IT types step in and say | it scales poorly. The scalability issues have nothing to do with us using files. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
server after MAIL FROM:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: host mail1.radix.net [207.192.128.31]: 550 5.0.0 Unauthorized Sender Sep 05 9.5 is in the tree and should be correct, anyway. Still looking for someone to maintain it... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Stable versions vanished!?

2005-12-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
with a lead pipe. You shouldn't encounter forced downgrades in stable unless something really icky happens. You shouldn't encounter forced downgrades in ~arch unless someone commits a version that works for them and it later turns out that it's seriously broken (eg bash-3.1). -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
, but with anything higher it fails consistently. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-25 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 25 Dec 2005 14:33:04 -0500 (EST) Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 16:34:08 +0100 Harald Arnesen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | There is no ebuild, but you can download and compile vi. It is at | | http://ex

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
were removed. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] VI

2005-12-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:10:03 -0500 Philip Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | You can set Vim up to act as if it were Vi : look at its dox. Bad idea. You lose multiple undo levels and the ability to edit more than two files at once... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my

Re: [gentoo-user] i'm new of list

2005-12-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
. | | Because it is insecure on some mail readers and unreadable on others. Or, because any HTML email is either spam or written by a moron. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you with my brain) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo 100K#of users vs. others

2005-12-06 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 05 Dec 2005 22:52:56 -0700 Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | According to recent Gentoo news we crossed 100K registered users. | Does anybody have any reliable numbers how we compare to other | distros? Uh. That'd be forums accounts. Not users. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

2005-12-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:25:07 - Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Which USE flag will make that +xterm_clipboard | | This is a dependency flag which I guess can be flipped by first | emerging x11-apps/xclipboard. Er. No. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (I can kill you

Re: [gentoo-user] Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

2005-12-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 09:30:35 -0600 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Does it mean that the flags displayed are the only ones I can adjust? USE flags are not the same as Vim's internal feature flags. Adding a USE flag for every single Vim feature flag would be silly. -- Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Still not getting how to influence compile flags with emerge

2005-12-02 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 02 Dec 2005 19:55:47 + Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 16:25:07 - Michael Kintzios | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Which USE flag will make that +xterm_clipboard | | | | This is a dependency flag which I guess can be flipped

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why is Gentoo so slow when internet is out?

2005-11-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
'top' tell you anything useful? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (The one that looks before leaping) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 26 Nov 2005 14:06:02 +0100 Holly Bostick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Am I doing things wrong, or is this a valid enhancement request for | b.g.o? Unlikely to happen... Dependency resolution doesn't work that way. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (The one that looks before leaping

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: changing CHOST in stage3

2005-11-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
from scratch, hence building up from a stage 1. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: masked package woes

2005-11-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
in the tree... [EMAIL PROTECTED] net-analyzer 0 0.45 $ cvs log jffnms cvs log: nothing known about jffnms -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: changing CHOST in stage3

2005-11-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 15:34:27 -0500 Allan Gottlieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | At Tue, 22 Nov 2005 13:17:27 + Ciaran McCreesh | [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | The only way you can safely change CHOST is by making new stages | through catalyst. There're various scripts which *sometimes* fix | your

Re: changing CHOST in stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] default stage3)

2005-11-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
* fix your system after a CHOST change, but they're not reliable... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
not a good idea because you'd end up with random, hard to trace memory corruption... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 *** [SOLVED]

2005-11-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
at... Consider using boost::shared_ptr instead. You don't have to worry about delete or exception-checking then. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] *** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption (fast): 0x081fb2c1 ***

2005-11-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
some dynamic memory allocation somewhere. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?

2005-11-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
the problems with circular dependencies. [ Note: looks like I'm missing half this thread because certain jackasses are posting HTML messages to the list. You'd think people would've learned by now... ] -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Look! Shiny things!) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
in Portage itself was changed. See the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpHWB90ogx0k.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] what made portage go fast again?

2005-11-01 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 01 Nov 2005 06:57:59 -0600 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | A really really dumb bit of code in Portage itself was changed. See | the gentoo-portage-dev list archives if you want technical details. | | Is that the same reason it was sticking at 50% or so? Yup

Re: [gentoo-user] Optimal time to 'emerge world'?

2005-10-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
in the day (~UTC0500) when things are really quiet, but apart from that there's no real timing. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpqTOd6ix3iT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] How to get debug information if system crashs randomly?

2005-10-30 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
? There should be a cutoff or trip_points file in there too... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpuo8TLQHUDP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] (masked by: missing keyword)

2005-10-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 08:17:07 -0400 sean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Specifically I am trying to install openoffice 2.0 on my amd64 | system. I have unmasked it, but the keyword is still blocking me. Unmasking it won't do you any good. It won't work. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this? -- SOLVED

2005-10-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
is that the cvs pull happened mid-commit, after some files had been committed but before the manifest recommit. It's a pretty narrow time slot but it can happen occasionally. Usually an emerge sync will fix it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this?

2005-10-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:54:14 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I agree it is necessary when doing something in your overlay. It seems | most people who post to bugs.gentoo.org do not post a digest file. | Perhaps they should. Oh please no. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim

Re: [gentoo-user] Um...Who can fix this?

2005-10-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:16:50 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 01:02:14 +0100 | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | | On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:54:14 +1300 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] | wrote: | | I agree it is necessary when doing something in your overlay. It | | seems most

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update

2005-10-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
: CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK=/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp75ZiisVUdF.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng can't be removed by rc-update

2005-10-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005 14:25:48 -0400 Dave Nebinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | No, I don't think it is silly Oh, I do for /etc/init.d | but based on a discussion on gentoo-dev recently I was under the | impression it was not enabled by default That was collision protection. -- Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
to dignify LSB by adding that kind of nonsense... You can get the current release using: cat $(portageq portdir)/metadata/timestamp assuming the user isn't running off CVS rather than rsync. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
frustration. Sure. Put together a proposal that doesn't involve LSB, persuade the other big name distros that it's a good idea and maybe we'll consider it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
package emerge sync -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpCCsCfdO7bQ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
by sneakily changing stuff in response to mailing list questions and not bothering to announce the fact. You're all crazy, anyway. There's no ing in the description. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting distribution name and release version

2005-10-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
actually thinks it'll protect them. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpzlayTT7rFP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:19:55 -0300 Matias Grana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I'm trying to compile vim with +clipboard support. One can do this | by passing --enable-clipboard to configure. There's no USE flag for | this feature. Incorrect. USE=vim-with-x. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
it by default. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpHRi4F6qGtA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:54:58 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh schrieb: | So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss | support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're | installing science apps, you'll probably want

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
which have a 3dfx USE flag do not require 3dfx support. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpdkOD0bJNWL.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
will not want it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpwjVMowamHH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
and kidnap all the world's goats. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpwfMMurADEq.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-16 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:03:44 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | So, for things with optional emboss support, by default the emboss | support will be enabled. Which makes sense, because if you're | installing science apps, you'll

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
(for example postgresql) and suddenly found that | the next emerge --newuse world spits out a list of packages it will | rebuild with a new flag. Currently, yes. In future portage releases, no. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] os-headers differ from kernel version

2005-10-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
to the sys-kernel/linux-headers package, which it | seems the most recent is 2.6.11-r2. Why the difference? Does it | matter? Your os-headers should be of the same or an earlier version than your kernel. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel on sparc won't unmount initrd

2005-09-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
the config file from the livecd. Genkernel on sparc is only supported for the purposes of livecd creation. Don't use it. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpJevyyswzba.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] Ideas for a mini-FAQ/HOWTO

2005-09-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 10:25:40 -0400 Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | It may be simpler to look at | http://www.freehackers.org/gentoo/gccflags/flag_gcc3.html for the Except that it's oh so very wrong... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] other packages

2005-09-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
on bugzilla with a REVIEWED tag. * Stuff in the tree. * Stuff off developer overlays. * Stuff in maintainer-wanted with no REVIEWED tag. * Stuff off random russian websites. * Stuff off the forums. Expect to have to fix stuff. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] many packages are available in gentoo?

2005-08-29 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
things, so we don't need separate foo-1, foo-2 and foo-3 packages, and b) we don't need to do a zillion foo, foo-python, foo-perl etc packages because of USE flags. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http

Re: [gentoo-user] why gentoo doesn't have long description?

2005-08-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
the post. Q. What is the most annoying thing you can do on mailing lists? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgplG4zUpcn8w.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:45:52 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 02:41:31 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | /dev is a managed filesystem. You shouldn't be tinkering with it | manually. | | You shouldn't need to tinker with it manually, but sometimes you need

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
do that. Instead, fix your udev rules. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp6nKvS4T4wM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] where to put mknod?

2005-08-21 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
| esplain. /dev is a managed filesystem. You shouldn't be tinkering with it manually. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpSvLkuR6EjI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: C++ code on Gentoo

2005-08-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
system. The author claims it works on SUSE. It works by coincidence only. He's got some invalid memory allocation or deallocation code. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] unsuscribe

2005-08-17 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:46:39 -0400 Michael Crute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Why dont we just change it so that unsubscribe in the subject line | unsubscribes you (like every other mailing list on the internet)? We did that already. Read the subject line more carefully. -- Ciaran McCreesh

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: bash details

2005-08-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Bash Scripting Guide, but it's neither advanced nor particularly good. The devmanual [1] has a fair bit of related information, but it mostly focuses upon the ebuild environment. [1]: http://dev.gentoo.org/~plasmaroo/devmanual/ -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: bash details

2005-08-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
a special (encrypted)key | or another form of chicanery (biometric generated | key). Yup. It also lacks an example showing how you can make a mysql-driven ecommerce website which sells books to preschool children who have credit cards. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] how to access mounted dir with non-root?

2005-08-12 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
are (mode ~umask 0777). Other mode bits of the created directory depend on the operating system. For Linux, see below. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-Distro

2005-08-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
trademark restrictions to do with shipping modified binaries. Anything Mozillaish comes to mind... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgplOhDsLfpMg.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re-Distro

2005-08-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 16:36:07 +0100 Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 15:38:03 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | 2. Various packages have licences which prohibit either | redistributing the source, or redistributing the package in binary | form, or redistributing

Re: [gentoo-user] Does openoffice really require pam?

2005-08-11 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 20:32:26 +0200 Alexander Skwar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I don't really want to install pam just because of OOo. Does OOo | *REALLY* require pam? No, but tcsh does, and openoffice's build system requires tcsh. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges

2005-08-04 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
teach you rely on GUIs | and crap like that. If you're going to learn Linux, why not start with a distribution which caters for newbies when making design decisions, rather than one which assumes that its users know what they're doing? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools

Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption

2005-05-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
time. When it actually works we might start to think about it, but that'll be several years off. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpud99q3L8X9.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Insulting People or Projects On The List [Was: Re: [gentoo-user] Reiser4, encryption]

2005-05-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 31 May 2005 11:26:31 -0400 fire-eyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Could we consider not insulting people or projects which people work | very hard on? Does that extend to Windows ME, or only to projects which have a fan-base? -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-28 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
| is /media/floppy and /media/cdrom. /media considered silly. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgpFUTJiDwAz1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Programs not in /var/lib/portage/world

2005-05-26 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
if they were merely pulled in as a dependency of some other package. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgptUPTHWvHr1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CFLAGS CPU optimization question.

2005-05-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
resolution status on | any bug submitted by a guy with -finline-functions or -funit-at-a-time | or ... No, you'll get an INVALID resolution. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] VIA C3 Processor

2005-05-24 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Tue, 24 May 2005 18:58:53 +0200 Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Should be fine. Just remember that it is *not* an i686, despite what | the marketing docs claim. | | what does this means for the cflags ? CHOST of i586- and CFLAGS of -march=c3. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-23 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
we ignore them. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm pgp3X13Aklymr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo, LWS and Slackware for linux learner?

2005-05-22 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
install for you. Meh, that's pretty wrong. You can think of ebuild.sh as something that basically just automates the build of a single package if you like. However, emerge is a whole different kettle of fish. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
get up to will tell you that what I just said was wrong and that 64 bit is just plain faster. It's not, and things are not as simple as the marketroids would like you to believe, but because of limitations in amd64 you're still better going for 64 bit userland and kernel. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions about supported hardware for Gentoo.

2005-05-20 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 20 May 2005 11:28:46 -0400 (EDT) A. Khattri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Fri, 20 May 2005, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | Note that people who have only read the marketing material and who | don't realise what various non-x86 archs get up | | I know you're very into alternate archs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean

2005-05-19 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
not very easy. cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | wc for a rough idea of why. You can knock it down a hell of a lot using a trie and then compressing, but it's still a fair bit of data. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean

2005-05-18 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
, | although I'm not sure they are equivalent? eupdatedb is something else. You want to reinstall slocate to get updatedb back -- it used to be part of system, but we removed it because it's not a critical tool. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail

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