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

2005-11-28 Thread Scott Stoddard
Neil Bothwick wrote: This thread is all about compiling kernel modules, which must be specific to either the running kernel or the intended kernel. Most packages take the latter option, using the symlink, which causes problems if the symlink is updated during an emerge -u world. IMO exactly

Re: [gentoo-user] Succinct compilation of system info...

2005-11-28 Thread Scott Stoddard
Harry Putnam wrote: What is the standard or common way to compile a detailed yet succinct listing of system info. Are there tools that do this? Or maybe one of those 16 inch cmdlines with 2 dozen pipes... :) Well, if you're talking about all hardware then I tend to prefer sys-apps/lshw

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

2005-10-18 Thread Scott Stoddard
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 10:41:32 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | We are writing remote systems management software for Linux systems | and are looking for a standard way to obtain a remote systems | distribution name and release version. The lsb_release -ir commands | seems