Re: [gentoo-user] Building Xorg - internal compiler error: segmentation fault

2005-09-14 Thread Ian Clowes
Frank Schafer wrote: Hi all, Somebody on b.g.o. suggests to try building with a vanilly kernel. Did someone here make the same experience and if yes, will it run then on a gentoo-kernel? Hi Not sure if you're talking in general about sig 11 on emerge, some specific problem with Xorg.

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions? Network monitoring scripts

2005-09-14 Thread Ian Clowes
fire-eyes wrote: I'm looking for suggestions on software which could do the following 1) if our primary gateway goes down, do nothing 2) if it does go down, change the default gateway to line B 3) when the primary comes back, set the gateway back to B. I have two physical interfaces and one

[gentoo-user] Is binary emerge equivalent to source emerge?

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Clowes
Hi I've been building a box for a specific purpose by emerge-ing and playing with various packages until I ended up with something that matched what I wanted. I'd now like to rebuild the box including just the packages that turned out to be relevant. Rather than do source installs again I

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Clowes
Sascha Lucas wrote: Hi List, Machine B: - mount PGKDIR of machine A via nfs to PGKDIR on machine B - added USE-flag samba - emerge -uD --newuse --usepkg world * merges binary samba * does not merge anything else (no binary, no ebuild ) It would be nice if I understand

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Clowes
Sascha Lucas wrote: emerge -1 --usepkg --pretend --verbose pkg_spec_from_equery then the change in USE-Flags are showen and my _correct_ binarys are used. There's probably a good reason for it being the way it is, but it doesn't sound as transparent as we might like. A further

Re: [gentoo-user] Determine the original installation date

2005-09-07 Thread Ian Clowes
Vernon A. Fort wrote: With redhat/fedora, you could find WHEN the box was installed using rpm -qi basesystem. I am switching most of my boxes to gentoo and I would like to tell when the ORIGINAL install occured. Any pointers? Hi Possibly a little empirical, but on things like the mod