Re: [gentoo-user] Is There a Way to Re-emerge Software and Its Dependencies?

2005-09-16 Thread Wade Brown
to downgrade them to what portage flags with x86. -- Wade Brown On 9/16/05, Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set the ~x86 use flag for ffmpeg, getting the newest version in the tree. However now I'm having issues. What I'd like to try is re-emerging ffmpeg and all it's dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] Slightly OT: favorite window manager/desktop environ?

2005-09-02 Thread Wade Brown
I suppose to make this thread complete I'll be the first (maybe only?) one to voice support for good old WindowMaker. I think the biggest reason I still use it is that I'm just stuck in a rut, I have been running it for ages and have never wanted anything better. It's definitely light weight

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I format correctly a FAT floppy?

2005-08-29 Thread Wade Brown
Easiest way would be to try mformat a: (yes, that is the actual command), I'm not sure if it's part of the basic utilities set or not, but it's about as simple as you can get regarding FAT floppies. -- Wade Brown On 8/29/05, Michael Kintzios [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Using fdisk

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a screensaver that shows emerge status?

2005-08-23 Thread Wade Brown
(configurable of course) and the last line would be relevant to your progress. As for actual screen savers, I doubt you'll find one already built for xscreensaverd, but I've been wrong in the past. -- Wade Brown On 8/23/05, Daevid Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I'm emerging 'world', sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard drive activity indicator light

2005-08-19 Thread Wade Brown
, I'm not sure it's standard specification. I have a Biostar iDeq 220T, with on board SATA RAID, and the access LED lights up fine for me in Gentoo with no cajoling to speak of. It seems more chipset specific than a standard specification. -- Wade Brown On 8/19/05, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] One machine's terminals don't say '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' anymore

2005-08-17 Thread Wade Brown
The environment variable $PS1 controls what your prompt is, assuming you're using bash. This can be set in many many places, such as ~/.bashrc, /etc/profile (controlled by something along the lines of /etc/env.d/##bash), or even as a simple export. Try searching through your /etc on your

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating installation for slow system on a big host

2005-07-27 Thread Wade Brown
Using FEATURES=buildpkg is always a great place to start on your 'big' system. For more detail than that (all one lines of it), check the gentoo-wiki site, it's full of useful information, well, sometimes. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Create_A_Build_Host On 7/27/05, Alexander Skwar [EMAIL

Re: [gentoo-user] non-sudo way for user to run shutdown -h now? (or any equivalent)

2005-07-20 Thread Wade Brown
I thought linux wouldn't allow suid shell scripts to work as suid. The reasoning is a shell script doesn't quite execute, it gets interpeted by the command on the first line. Just as a test I made a simple script modded root.root 4755 that consists of the /bin/bash line, and cat /etc/shadow.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't mount a fat32 partition

2005-07-13 Thread Wade Brown
That doesn't seem to address the issue as mounting by hand still spits out errors relative to partition problems. What's the output of fdisk -l /dev/hda? On 7/13/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: aabb wrote: Hi, Here's a strange one... I use 2 partitions for Windows 98, hda1 and hda5.

Re: [gentoo-user] error loading several modules (at boot)

2005-07-08 Thread Wade Brown
One useful piece of information would be the output of dmesg, usually module loading errors will appear in there. On 7/8/05, dini mamma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI folks I got the problem, that several modules couldnt be loaded at boot. some of them are filesystems (xfs,jfs,ntfs). and some

Re: [gentoo-user] equery caching?

2005-07-07 Thread Wade Brown
Equery, esearch, and einfo (I think) are from an index built by running eupdatedb. I'd imagine you're using esync which is just a very small script that does emerge sync eupdatedb, so doing a fresh esync would alleviate the problem you seem to be having, albeit with a bit of overkill. Just run

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild reports broken libs, should I worry?

2005-07-06 Thread Wade Brown
In this specific case, Broken means Binary Package. Binary packages are distributed with all kinds of libraries linked to so that they can minimize the amount of binary packages they need to maintain (e.g. they don't need an eclipse-gnome and an eclipse-nognome package). The program will ideally

Re: [gentoo-user] Want same ol' gentoo on new box

2005-07-06 Thread Wade Brown
Actually, you can replace your world file provided you use emerge --emptytree --deep --newuse world, and portage won't complain that packages aren't installed as the emptytree tells portage to (rightly in this case) assume nothing is installed yet, including portage itself. On 7/6/05, David

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Wade Brown
Liar! Well, we forgive you, I think =). Actually the better (Gentoo suggested) way to squelch these packages is to exclude /opt from the search path in the revdep-rebuild script. Just do EDITOR `which revdep-rebuild` and take /opt out of the SEARCH_DIRS, most anything that goes in there should

Re: [gentoo-user] Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Wade Brown
Java 1.5 is in the portage tree, though I'm not entirely sure on its masked state. I do know that some programs have issues with 1.5, and there are plenty of warnings all over the place that using a system-wide configuration of java 1.5 is potentially hazardous when building up some of the older

Re: [gentoo-user] Java java java, I miss my java

2005-06-13 Thread Wade Brown
JDK is more than likely the one you want, the difference is exactly as you said, one is supposed to be just runtime environment (what most Windows users get to view java on web pages) whereas JDK lets you build java applications on your machine. You can probably ignore that line with jre-bin

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge curiosity

2005-06-09 Thread Wade Brown
It's likely that gnome-base/gdm isn't in your world file. An easy way to check this is: grep gnome-base/gdm /var/lib/portage/world It's more than likely a dependancy of some other gnome project that hasn't upgraded its requirements to gdm. A way to upgrade dependancies is to add --deep or just

Re: [gentoo-user] why does emerge --update --deep world try to emerge stuff I never had installed in the first place?

2005-05-18 Thread Wade Brown
If you don't want to bother compiling any sound on your system, then add -alsa -arts -esd to your use flags. It's more than likely one of your packages found in the update --deep had the alsa tagged on itself by default, which requires an override described above either in /etc/make.conf or just

Re: [gentoo-user] Console background images and colored ls output

2005-05-18 Thread Wade Brown
In response to the second portion, it varies from shell to shell. Assuming you're using bash, add the following line to your ~/.bashrc alias ls='ls --color' On 5/18/05, Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to get a background image for the console like it is on the LiveCD? Also, how

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ complie error... where do I start?

2005-05-12 Thread Wade Brown
Glad to see I'm not the only one having this problem, though I'm having it on gnome-print with a very slightly different output, (ltmain.sh version 1.3.5). Likewise I wouldn't mind finding the root of this, I just haven't had the time to dive into it. On 5/12/05, Charles Read [EMAIL PROTECTED]