Re: [gentoo-user] eselect for managing virtuals

2011-07-23 Thread Enrico Weigelt
enssl), and the package manager doesn't know much of it, just keeps certain files around. So manual revdep-rebuild runs and removals of old libs is still required. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.m

Re: [gentoo-user] What is libX11.la, and how do I build it?

2011-05-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
t of traffic about .la files and why they are very bad idea from day one in the mail archives ...) cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile:

Re: [gentoo-user] zlib and WOFF

2011-05-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* luis jure wrote: > /usr/lib64/libz.so: invalid ELF header > Could not find the zlib library which is needed to understand WOFF Do you have an multilib installation (32 and 64 bit libraries) ? cu -- -- Enrico W

[gentoo-user] eselect for managing virtuals

2011-05-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
news) that he can now switch his system. Once he does the switch, new builds will be made against the new version and remaining packages (still linking to the old library) will be triggered for update. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
nal RAM ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung /

Re: [gentoo-user] Microcode update AMD

2011-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ctly connects registers to an micro-ALU (so there're no additional load+store cycles) ... cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e game). cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- E

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simultaneously emerging multiple packages with same dependencies

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
is so fast, I can't read it anyway. I did have > a package to fail and it spit out the error for me to read. BTW: does -j / --jobs also cause a parallel make (-j parameter to gmake) ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, met

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia card problems

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Dale wrote: > You may want to check and make sure this is compiled into your kernel. > > CONFIG_SYSVIPC Are they really still using that old cruft ? ;-o cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I reset mount-count?

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
me more errors (eg. lost files - at least if /lost+found is okay) ? I just had an unpleasantly long downtime with manual intervention required. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 3620

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ary (glibc) and didn't even > find anything about nptl not being available on i386, not to mention > anything else about different features on different subarches. I don't know much about their internals, but I can easily imagine that nptl makes heavy use of newer registers which l

Re: [gentoo-user] The CHOST variable

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
more call arguments into registers which the called functions dont expect - stack corruptions will happen. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Any way to get real text console without killing X capability?

2011-02-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ving behind usuable console. That should be gone w/ KMS (admitting, I didn't really test it yet). cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobi

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-12-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
how gentoo builds the crosscompilers, but with an crosstool-ng generated toolchain it will do. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: {OT} Deliberately obfuscating my code

2010-12-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
g him about your actual project. Movie tip: "The Cube" ;-) cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-12-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
these files in a VCS if you already > have the files they are to replace under VCS? Archiving the actual (production) and default settings in separate trees, eg. to allow 3-way-merge. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:37 on Wednesday 10 November 2010, Enrico > Weigelt did opine thusly: > > > * Remy Blank wrote: > > > Put your /etc under SVN, or Mercurial, or whatever revision control > > > system du jour. Bonus p

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
> Just make sure you compiled your kernel with IA32 binary support (should > be default) The _target_ kernel has to support the IA32 ABI. The host (building) might be better off w/o it (better detection of build errors). cu -- -------

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
llation) as the building system. If you want to crosscompile, you *most likely* want sysroot too. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 362

Re: [gentoo-user] 32bit-Executables on a AMD64 system...

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
gel. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: VMware - Linux kernel yield() functionality is disabled.

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
llow easy integration into an semi-automated vcs workflow. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427

Re: [gentoo-user] Converting RCS/CVS to git

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e port. git-cvsimport just uses the cvs server command to check out individual revisions. Directly working on *,v files would require an completely separate implementation, just for the special case of importing local repos. cu -- -----------

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When ls command fails but only on $HOME

2010-11-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
the problems. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427

[gentoo-user] Gentoo in chroot on s390

2010-09-30 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I've got some RHEL instance on an z/VM (s390) and like to get Gentoo running in chroot. Did anyone already do that ? Or any HOWTO ? thx -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone:

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage internals : shadow root

2010-09-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
rner Fink and Boris Nalbach were in charge of the technical designs. That's long gone - 6.x already showed big signs of degregation, 7.x was ugly, beginning with 8.x totally unusable ;-p Take my advise: migrate to another distro. cu --

Re: [gentoo-user] Native 32 and 64-bit linux Flash 10 Preview Release available

2010-09-24 Thread Enrico Weigelt
a's way of placing it's cache directly into user profiles (instead of separate dirs under $TEMP) is the wrong approach, but that's another story. BTW: if you wanna catch videos and other media you came along while surfing, just use a proper proxy (eg. wwwoffle) for that. cu -- --

[gentoo-user] Paper: Normalized source code repositories

2010-09-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
to exact that information yet. http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/normalized_repository.pdf cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
certian embedded targets. cu [1] http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm/normalized_repository.pdf -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: static-libs

2010-09-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
between processes. Not the recommended way. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 275

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
but yet quite different concepts behind), which just happens to work smoothly w/ oss-qm. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931

[gentoo-user] automatically updated certain packages

2010-09-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hould *not* be updated. Is there any easy way to do it ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
en are not upstream-capable, instead of _generic_ fixes. Again: OSS-QM ;-p > However it is always problematic to depend on another team and have to > wait for bugfixes. You must be able to bugfix yourself. Is that > addressed by the oss-qm? Yes, that's exactly the primary

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ading product managers convinced some day ;-) cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
manage with your current level of > technical expertise. Let him try - learning by doing :) cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
g the actual code pages, and the MMU only has to maintain one physical copy of them. PIC tends to be a little bit larger and slower than non-PIC (more indirect addressing), but on most today's machines the impact on real workloads is questionable. cu -- --

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
a little bit advocacy here and there - I don't have the resources to build up real community structures all alone. Of course, anybody's welcomed to join in. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: w

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
trol which packages should be updated fully automatically, w/o triggering updates of others that I want to approve explicitly. Once I've ported a buch of more packages to sysroot'ed builds, I'll migrate to Briegel[1]-built images. cu [1] https://sourceforge.net/p/briegel/ -- ---

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
t it would be possible to support GNU-style ELF libraries entirely from userland alone). cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
It's based on crosscompiling from ground up. It's not really a distro, but more a generic build system, as a basic building block for distro generation. But beware that it's based on very different concepts than traditional distro build systems. cu -- -----

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
evs (along w/ other distro's maintainers) to adopt the oss-qm project, the stack would only start at the ebuild level (since everything beyond will be provided by oss-qm and checked/tested eccessively) ;-) cu -- -- Enri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Shared libraries in Gentoo

2010-09-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
table approaches we'd start afresh on a "green grassland" (w/o all the historical burdens). cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email:

Re: [gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-08-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
list: https://sourceforge.net/p/oss-qm/home/ cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge 32bits on 64bits platform

2010-08-20 Thread Enrico Weigelt
packages to be fully crosscompilable in sysroot, and here's yet some work to do (essentially, that's what oss-qm is doing all the day ;-p). Ah, and this approach can also supersede crossdev (at least most of it) and provide a fine tool for managing tiny containers which don't need

Re: [gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portier

[gentoo-user] Automatically make backups of removed packages

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there any global option (eg. make.conf) to tell portage always to do backups of uninstalled or overwritten packages ? thx -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931

Re: [gentoo-user] how to remove HAL

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
#x27;t clean up the buildtime-only deps. But if I remove one of them (eg. cabextract), they don't get pulled in again (that's indicating the depending ebuilds are written properly). Is this a bug ? cu -- ---------- Enr

Re: [gentoo-user] How to build a time machine on Gentoo

2010-08-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
lf them are zero sized.. > which > quite justifies my agony) Make multiple copies on different media (eg. different servers). cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone:

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
x27;t really add security. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Lin

Re: [gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
;s inside the virtual servers, but cant get to the host system. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 --

[gentoo-user] Increasing security [WAS: Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice [Solved?]

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
escaping a container ;-o). This also brings several other benefits, eg. easier backups, quick migration to other machines, etc. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 e

[gentoo-user] automatic wlan restart

2010-08-13 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ile physical link down) ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linu

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 07/12/10 11:00:00, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > do you have the process accounting deamon running ? > > No, and I've never done so. Thats why the logfile is missing ;-) If you dont have that daemon running (and so nobody write to that logfil

Re: [gentoo-user] logrotate fails since a few days

2010-07-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ssing ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skyp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: mysql

2010-07-11 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hmm. perhaps you could move away /etc/mysql and /var/lib/mysql to some place, re-emerge the mysql package and so try if the fresh installation runs. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc upgrade

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
offee ;-) BTW: regularily emerging world could be a fine testbed. Maybe I'll set up an chroot or container for that on some idling boxes ... cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:52:35 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: > > > is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has > > something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me > > via email. > > There is the --quiet o

Re: [gentoo-user] Update single packages w/o dependencies

2010-07-10 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Dale wrote: > Enrico Weigelt wrote: > >Hi folks, > > > > > >is there an emerge option for building just a single package w/o > >its dependencies (if deps are required, it should fail) ? > > > >I'd like to set up an automatic update for cert

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
7;s free to try it or simply ignore it. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 --

[gentoo-user] Update single packages w/o dependencies

2010-07-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild + minimal output

2010-07-09 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there an option to revdep-rebuild to only do output if it has something to rebuild ? This should be run via cron to notify me via email. cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
* Willie Wong wrote: > What the heck is the OSS-QM? Already posted it to the list several weeks ago: http://www.metux.de/download/oss-qm-project-2010050101.pdf cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- h

Re: [gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-08 Thread Enrico Weigelt
rything's done within the source, and the sources live in a common vcs infrastructure. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +4

[gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 322157] [mail-filter/procmail] new ebuild + autocreate maildirs]

2010-07-07 Thread Enrico Weigelt
u are receiving this mail because: --- You reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - End forwarded message - -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email:

[gentoo-user] [bugzilla-dae...@gentoo.org: [Bug 326991] Testing release of sys-libs/zlib-1.2.5.3 from unofficial sources (???)]

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
reported the bug, or are watching the reporter. - End forwarded message - -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit

[gentoo-user] zlib ebuild from OSS-QM

2010-07-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
few words: the main idea is to solve problems at the source, provide generic downstream branches (which get rebased onto upstream) instead of single (often unncessarily distro-bound) patches. cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt==

Re: [gentoo-user] Safe to install libpng-1.2.44?

2010-07-04 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ckage management can do an smooth upgrade (w/o temporary breaks until revdep-rebuild finished) cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.met

[gentoo-user] Portage tree from git

2010-06-27 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, is there yet a way to get the portage tree directly via git ? IMHO this should be more traffic efficient than rsync in the long run (especially when syncing often). cu -- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service

[gentoo-user] FYI: Rules for distro-friendly packages

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Hi folks, I'm currently collecting a set of rules which upstream developers should follow to make distro maintainer's life easier. Comments welcomed :) cu -- ----- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://ww

Re: [gentoo-user] p7zip-4.65-r1 considered obnoxious

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
gs which naturally would be upstream's job) ;-o cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/publi

Re: [gentoo-user] Questions regarding the usage of multiple locales

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
or compiling to new .po files using msmerge: http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/manual/gettext.html#Updating BUT: these files would become dynamic data, which is not handled (eg. automatic removed on uninstall) by portage. cu -- ------

[gentoo-user] Atheros WLAN loosing link

2010-06-25 Thread Enrico Weigelt
-- - Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/OpenSource_QM_Taskforce Patches / Fixes for a lot dozens of

Re: [gentoo-user] Anything better than procmail?

2010-06-12 Thread Enrico Weigelt
dont like in procmail ? cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http://wiki.metux.de/public/Open

[gentoo-user] binary dependencies [WAS: libpng12 is missing]

2010-05-29 Thread Enrico Weigelt
for changed usedflags). cu -- --------- Enrico Weigelt== metux IT service - http://www.metux.de/ - Please visit the OpenSource QM Taskforce: http:/

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
still believe in that synthetic religion of men-made-global-warming ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de sk

Re: [gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
wn. o_O In our house, that's the job of my grandpa (former fire inspector). Of course he gets reminded by his speaking watches (yes, plural!) ;-o cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ c

[gentoo-user] fat libraries [WAS: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> no, but with static exes you have to recompile everything >>> everytime a security bug is found. >> That's the job of the distro buildsystem.

[gentoo-user] silly daylight saving [WAS: Running xsane]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
g but useless hassle. I really wonder if there's some hidden lobby which benefits from this crap or it's really just stupidity ;-O cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49

[gentoo-user] Rethinking binfmts [WAS: How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?]

2010-02-17 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ries (no distinction at all), everything's relocatable, entry points are executed in the from leafs to root of the dependency tree. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 706648

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
k agnostic. http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/plumb.html cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 70

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-16 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ed as an directory, eg. containing some "ctl" file accepting additional commands, etc). cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-15 Thread Enrico Weigelt
the filesystem. > And with minimal memory, I don't want to have a ram-disk gobbling up the > memory I have. Why not simply using tmpfs ? Or an specific synthetic filesystem ? 9P makes this really easy, and network agnostic. cu -- -----------

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> don't waste your time - dbis is already there... >> dbus lets me access my network interfaces via filesystem ? > > no, it is ported to different ar

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > phonon: because phonon is part of qt? And qt is more than > just a toolkit? What is it then ? An own OS ? ;-o cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > Another service? Yes, a service that will be started only on-demand. > Great - but then shut up about dbus. Who the frak are you to tell me shut up ?! cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT s

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Plan9 and how its done there. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > don't waste your time - dbis is already there... dbus lets me access my network interfaces via filesystem ? cu -- -- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone:

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
at wouldn't be needed with static executables. Of course this could be minimized by proper prelinking techniques (some kind of JIT for dynamic linking ;-), but that's another topic for its own. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt,

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >>> so how do you propose that a network connection manager tells >>> a broweser or mail app that they are offline? >> use the filesystem ? >> >&

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
arch/date integration driver into the semantic-desktop framework ? Why does this have to happen in a MUA ? Why not in an separate service ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Has semantic-desktop really become compulsatory for kmail?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
thing I never understood about dbus is why does an IPC deamon depend on X ? And to phonon, why does an audio api depend not just on X, but also Qt ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
sing small tailored ones and moving the redundant complexity to their own services, we perhaps won't need it at all, but would be fine with small static binaries (which can startup much faster). cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt,

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
vent a new one. Perhaps as a filesystem. 9P makes this *very* easy. > Multimedia buttons. One of the most confounding things on modern hardware are > multimedia buttons. Volume is easy - make it adjust the sound server. man 1 plumb cu -- ----

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
ng proxy) ? cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme --

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
faces. cu -- ------ Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Op

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
atever the user configured > it > to do with the notification. man 1 plumb > Just to bring this back to your original statement of Unix philosophy. IPC on > modern desktops conforms exactly to the Unix philosophy. On dbus, everything's a file ? cu -- ----

Re: [gentoo-user] How the HAL are you supposed to use these files?

2010-02-14 Thread Enrico Weigelt
n is interested in the such information, why not just using the filesystem ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-02-05 Thread Enrico Weigelt
Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 3 Jan, Enrico Weigelt wrote: >> Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm looking for a working and maintained compressed filesystem. >>> I'd like to use it for backing up my root and my /usr filesystems, >&g

Re: [gentoo-user] "checking for working mkstemp....." taking forever

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
hough. Did you change CHOST maybe? python folks can't write configure.in files (-> AC_TRY_RUN() causes headaches) ... that's also why it's not crosscompile'able ;-o file a bug to python folks, it's not gentoo's fault. cu -- --------

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Does Firefox call Google?

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
e-home as "privacy". Is there an option to build without that crap ? cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481

Re: [gentoo-user] Compressed Filesystem

2010-01-02 Thread Enrico Weigelt
venti+fossil or git. cu -- ---------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ cellphone: +49 174 7066481 email: i...@metux.de skype: nekrad666 -- Embedded-Linux / Portierung /

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