Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Michael A. Smith
El Nino wrote: AybOwan! is there a way to accelerate the fetching part of emerge by using prozilla or some other tool? Someone else answered that question directly, so I'll try the indirect approach. Another way to speed up emerges is to download while you compile: emerge -fq foo

Re: [gentoo-user] accelerate emerge

2006-02-28 Thread Michael A. Smith
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 17:27 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: I have a different interpretation. I assume you know about FEATURES=parallel-fetch? How long has this been around? I couldn't find any mention of it in the man files. Where is it documented? Thanks, Mike --

[gentoo-user] New Tagline (Was )

2006-02-05 Thread Michael A. Smith
Uwe Thormann wrote: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Where unsubscribe is a 12-reply thread. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] problem emerging UT2004

2006-02-03 Thread Michael A. Smith
Steve B. wrote: Hey everybody, This is kind of stupid problem, but I just can't seem to figure this one out. I can't emerge UT2004. I set my CD_ROOT to my cdrom (/media/hdc) and the first CD copies fine, but it never gives me time to umount and mount the second CD. It simply tries (and

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Abhay Kedia wrote: I manually set correct time using sites like worldtimezone.com. Then, I shutdown the system and boot after a few hours. What I see is that Gentoo sets the system time to the same one at which I halted it. For example if I shutdown 4 hours ago at 14:00 hrs and boot at 18:00

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Phil Sexton wrote: Could someone expound on these 3 commands? I don't really understand the man and info pages on these. gcc -v gcc --version (I thought the previous two were the same.) cat /proc/version gcc -v tells you what programs are invoked by gcc. gcc being a collection of

Re: [gentoo-user] Wrong time on reboot. Not a CMOS battery problem.

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Uwe Thiem wrote: The device hwclock connects to *is* the BIOS clock. Uwe Let me rephrase. A physical device has to have a software representation for software to connect to it. I'm trying to suggest that something is wrong with that interface. Clearly Abhay's BIOS clock doesn't jive with

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again.... (Now at howto install kde)

2006-01-27 Thread Michael A. Smith
Ian wrote: Thanks Benno! Now how do I install kde 3.4.3? The main reason for doing this is that I dont want arts. Just set USE=-arts in make.conf Then emerge whatever KDE stuff you want. Arts will stay away. -Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

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

2006-01-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Jeff wrote: I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file to make my 'clone'? Thanks

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

2006-01-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Michael A. Smith wrote: Jeff wrote: I'm sure this one's been asked a million times too... Machine A, runs Gentoo/KDE and a handful of other apps I've collected over the year. I would like Machine B to have the same exact packages. How would I use Machine A's /var/lib/portage/world file

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

2006-01-25 Thread Michael A. Smith
Chris White wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2006 06:03, Michael A. Smith wrote: Correction. emerge --ask `cat /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst` Correction, Correction: `emerge --ask $( /tmp/welcome_to_my_world.lst)` Way to decrease entropy, Chris. Why don't you email the whole list and tell

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-20 Thread Michael A. Smith
Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't that a superfluous use of cat? Why

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing KDE...Again....

2006-01-20 Thread Michael A. Smith
3.5 is still keyworded, iirc. If you remove kde from /etc/packages.keyword, it should install 3.4.3. This command will insert a # before each kde line. (It also makes a backup). sed -i.bak s/kde-/\#\ kde-/ /etc/portage/package.keywords KDE is slotted, and I'm not sure what happens when you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync vs emerge -sync

2006-01-19 Thread Michael A. Smith
Charles Marcus wrote: Richard Fish wrote: On 1/18/06, Charles Marcus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may be the ultimate dumb question, but no amount of googling could satisfy my ignorance... Is there any difference? If not, why are the double hyphens almost always specified? -- is the GNU

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael A. Smith
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing lynx? No, it wants both of them. I do have lynx but that's probably for HTML-text

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael A. Smith
Uwe Thiem wrote: *** begin snippet *** RDEPEND==net-zope/cmf-1.4.7 app-text/htmltidy app-text/wv dev-libs/libxslt app-text/xlhtml app-text/unrtf dev-python/docutils www-client/lynx || ( app-text/pdftohtml app-text/poppler ) ***

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world?

2006-01-17 Thread Michael A. Smith
Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Michael, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 09:47:44, you wrote: Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Uwe, on Tuesday, 2006-01-17 at 15:53:20, you wrote: If I understand the ebuild of portaltransforms correctly it wants either pdftohtml or lynx. Maybe you can get away by installing