Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 05:20:00PM -0400, james wrote: > > The functions being discussed in this thread belong to the > > trustees (the board of directors for the foundation) [1]. Thhey are > > definitely not part of the council's skill set [2]. > > The Gentoo social contract is fine; as long as

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Council vs Umbrella Corp ?

2020-08-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Aug 29, 2020 at 01:15:51PM -0400, james wrote: > On 8/28/20 5:10 PM, antlists wrote: > > On 28/08/2020 19:10, james wrote: > >> > >> A council member, from say England, could manage how 1/2 of what they > >> raise is spent. It could even "english centric" but must comply with > >> USA

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo accessibility re i'm blind,

2020-04-26 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Majid, On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 01:04:48PM +0100, Majid Hussain wrote: > hi there, > i'm blind and wanted to get started with gentoo. > what's accessibility like? > is there speech via orca the screen reader or sound on the minimal iso > via espeakup provided? > I red this document, >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: virtual/pam masked but required by all non-hardened profiles?

2019-10-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 07:24:00PM +0200, Hartmut Figge wrote: > William Hubbs: > > >I ran the following command as root to fix this: > > > >emerge --changed-deps y -NDuqa @world > > > >Once you run this, > > Phew. 262 packages will be emerged. Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/pam masked but required by all non-hardened profiles?

2019-10-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 03:26:32PM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > This morning emerge is complaining that virtual/pam-0-r1 is masked and > scheduled for removal in 14 days. But virtual/pam is required by > sys-apps/shadow which is part of the base profiles. > > What am I missing? I ran the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stable gcc:7.3.0 won't build with stable glibc

2019-03-31 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 01:57:31AM -, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2019-03-30, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Mar 2019 17:39:03 - (UTC) Grant Edwards wrote: > > > >> glibc 2.27 has an include file "ustat.h" which declares a library > >> function ustat(). glibc 2.28 does not have that

Re: [gentoo-user] minimal grub:2 install? [grub:0 being removed]

2019-01-31 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 08:33:39AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:57:40 -0800, Daniel Frey wrote: > > > After looking through docs I was scratching my head and it took me a > > while of searching to find a usable grub.cfg file, as permutations I > > tried never seemed to

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname problem : solved

2016-10-04 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 11:19:33AM -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > 161004 Todd Goodman wrote: > > * Philip Webb [161003 20:04]: > >> there is also /etc/conf.d/hostname , > >> wh belongs to Openrc & contains 'hostname="localhost"'. > > recently a change -- to OpenRC, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 07:41:52PM +0100, hasufell wrote: Starting with USE=-* on a server (which is a sane thing to do) has become a lot more difficult as well. No, starting with USE=-* is very dangerous. It is not recommended nor supported, in any setup, by the dev community. If you do it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-10 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 05:24:39PM -0700, walt wrote: On 10/08/2013 09:16 PM, William Hubbs wrote: to provide service supervision, which is the main feature systemd offers By supervision do you mean restarting a service after it crashes, for example? Right. This is one of the more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-10-08 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Oct 08, 2013 at 08:11:48PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 08.10.2013 02:03, schrieb walt: On 09/29/2013 04:58 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: As much as I hate systemd My Alzheimer's prevents me from remembering your reasons for hating systemd. Would you *very* briefly

Re: [gentoo-user] s6 et al

2013-10-03 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:52:36AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 09:44:35AM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:24AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: Just stumbled across some very interesting software/ideas: http://skarnet.org/poweredby.html Yes

Re: [gentoo-user] s6 et al

2013-10-03 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 09:39:27PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: I chuckle at what s6's author wrote about systemd: http://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-svscan-not-1.html Yes, I saw that too. I don't know anything about D-Bus, so I can't comment specifically about it, but I tend to agree quite a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: s6 et al

2013-10-03 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Oct 03, 2013 at 03:32:40PM +, James wrote: Well, these minimalist-- embedded distros have finely tuned kernels and that is a quintessential characteristic. If the upstream kernel is availble in source form, with some docs, then why does the (mini) distro just make provisions for

Re: [gentoo-user] s6 et al

2013-10-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Oct 02, 2013 at 12:04:24AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: Just stumbled across some very interesting software/ideas: http://skarnet.org/poweredby.html Yes, I have been looking at this for a few days, and some of the other members of the OpenRC team are interested in it as well. I am

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 01:55:49PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-09-28 6:36 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: So this brings us back to the essential technical problem that still needs to be solved on your machines: /usr needs to be available (and not only for BT

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 01:21:30PM -0500, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Tanstaafl tansta...@libertytrek.org wrote: On 2013-09-28 4:17 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 19:04:41 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: I suppose that what

[gentoo-user] systemd installation location

2013-09-29 Thread William Hubbs
All, I can clarify one part of the systemd issue, because I have been involved in this part of the issue for months. Again, I am not trying to start a dispute here, just providing a clarification. The choice to install all of the systemd binaries in /usr is not an upstream choice. It was a

Re: [gentoo-user] some of the stuff in /usr that's become a problem

2013-09-29 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 09:21:01PM -0500, Daniel Campbell wrote: /usr/lib/udev. /usr/lib/systemd. were both placed in /usr despite objections from a number of folks. So claims that udev and systemd are not responsible are not true. Udev is installed in / in gentoo. I am a

Re: [gentoo-user] separate / and /usr to require initramfs 2013-11-01

2013-09-28 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 07:32:20PM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:57:06PM -0500, Dale wrote: Bruce Hill wrote: On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 05:33:02PM -0500, Dale wrote: I'm hoping that since I use eudev, I don't have to worry about this. If I do, this could get

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 11:52:29PM -0700, Keith Dart wrote: Re 20130814084336.1c295d16@dartworks.biz20130814084336.1c295d16@dartworks.biz20130802203646.GA3926@linux1, William Hubbs said: For the folks who lost /etc/conf.d/net, was it the stub file that came with OpenRC, or had you modify

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-15 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 12:12:05AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 15:04:38 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: For the folks who lost /etc/conf.d/net, was it the stub file that came with OpenRC, or had you modify it? I've tried the update on two systems, both with modified

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 08:43:36AM -0700, Keith Dart wrote: Re , William Hubbs said: All, This message is an announcement and a reminder. OpenRc-0.12 will be introduced to the portage tree in the next few days. If you are using ~arch OpenRc, the standard disclaimer applies

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 02:40:54PM -0500, »Q« wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:24:01 +0100 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 08:43:36 -0700, Keith Dart wrote: I just got around to upgrading to it. When I did my /etc/conf.d/net file disappeared, and my network

[gentoo-user] OpenRc-0.12 is coming soon

2013-08-02 Thread William Hubbs
All, This message is an announcement and a reminder. OpenRc-0.12 will be introduced to the portage tree in the next few days. If you are using ~arch OpenRc, the standard disclaimer applies: remember that you might be subject to breakage. I do not know of any breakage personally. It does work

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-24 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:46:12PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 12:12:56AM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo users and so a fraction of Linux users are the only ones lucky enough to be able to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-23 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 09:49:19AM +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote: Feel free to remove PA if you don't need it. I really don't see any scope for Lennart to make all of alsa redundant anytime soon (unlike udev...) Of course from many threads from a pro audio user called Ralf, Gentoo users

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:25:50AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-05 4:11 PM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 02:38:21PM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: Just dealing with one server and my Linux router, they've been updated to sys-fs/udev-200 and are both still

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Eth0 interface not found - udev that little slut!!!!!

2013-04-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 02:04:35PM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote: Is changing it back to eth0 and eth1 like pulling teeth? No, it isn't. There are several ways to name your interfaces. They are discussed on the freedesktop.org wiki page linked in the news item. William pgp6UzYmzHCN8.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-05 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 09:07:00AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-04 5:13 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I gets so bad that people are starting to make shit up to be worried about, instead of just reading the simple document that is right in front of their eyes that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-05 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 01:32:23PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: But what confuses me about that linked page is that from what I've heard from others here, option 1 - which is the option I think I'd prefer - requires more than just symlinking 80-net-name-slot.rules to /dev/null...? Apparently you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-05 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 01:41:28PM -0500, William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 01:32:23PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: But what confuses me about that linked page is that from what I've heard from others here, option 1 - which is the option I think I'd prefer - requires more than just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-05 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 02:38:21PM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote: Just dealing with one server and my Linux router, they've been updated to sys-fs/udev-200 and are both still using the same /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file they've had for over a year, which was working with udev-171.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-05 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 02:58:02PM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: I'd still like to know why the contents of my current rules file differs so much from the examples I've seen... ie, the two extra items that are in mine ('DRIVERS==' and 'KERNEL=='), and the missing one ('ACTION==')... and whether

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes

2013-04-01 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 01:44:18PM -0500, Dale wrote: Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: On 2013-03-31, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) wrote: On 2013-03-31, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Pandu Poluan wrote: Since it's obvious that upsteam has this my way or

[gentoo-user] OpenRC stable pushes

2012-12-07 Thread William Hubbs
I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable. The team had been testing from the previous stable, 0.9.x series all the way through 0.10.x. We found out recently that releng needed the new openrc stable because of the cds/isos being broken. There hadn't been bugs reported,

[gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC stable pushes

2012-12-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:24:54AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable. The team had been testing from the previous stable, 0.9.x series all the way through 0.10.x. We found out recently that releng needed the new openrc stable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [gentoo-dev] OpenRC stable pushes

2012-12-07 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 04:58:00PM +, Mick wrote: On Friday 07 Dec 2012 16:41:27 William Hubbs wrote: On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 09:24:54AM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: I want to explain about the recent openrc's going directly to stable. The team had been testing from the previous

Re: [gentoo-user] A systemd-only Gentoo system

2012-03-20 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 06:19:35PM -0600, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: Hi; I've been running systemd in Gentoo since September from 2010, and it works great for me: all my machines run it at this point. Right now, we are getting really close to the point where we will be able to uninstall

Re: [gentoo-user] Can no longer use symlinks in /etc/init.d with openrc-0.9.8.4 ?

2012-03-18 Thread William Hubbs
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 08:31:21PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:14:19 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: What I meant was, I rely on ls to remind me (or other sysadmins) that the file is special and should not be edited willy-nilly. I don't want a well-meaning but

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-06 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 06:06:35PM -0500, Dale wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: I'll spend some time I don't have reading the archives, then see. Well, they are about to move some openrc things to /usr or at least that was the way it was leaning earlier. The thread is titled rfc: using

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo wiping out Gtk 2 support from packages that support it?

2011-07-09 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Alan and all, On Fri, Jul 08, 2011 at 05:19:46PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: easy. Two USE flags: gtk2 and gtk3 in ebuild: DEPEND= gtk2? (x11-libs/gtk+:2) gtk3? (x11-libs/gtk+:3) This doesn't account for all possible use flag settings. If I had neither flag set, neither

Re: [gentoo-user] rc runlevel act strangely

2011-06-19 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 10:36:47PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 19 June 2011 16:38:35 Dale wrote: I don't know when it got added but it is on mine. This is in the help page: rcManage /etc/init.d scripts in runlevels It works something like

Re: [gentoo-user] setting locale

2011-05-31 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 07:19:16AM -0400, David Relson wrote: Why not use echo ... ?? Since the does an append, the original file contents are still available for reference. Since the added line is at the end of the file, the new value will be used instead of the old value. In this

Re: [gentoo-user] Install issue

2011-05-30 Thread William Hubbs
Hi all, this issue is being worked currently. The bug you want to follow is http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597 William pgp10T4IhBQ71.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] Speech-synthesizer ?

2011-05-21 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 07:47:47PM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, can someone recommend a speech synthesizer, which parameters like voice (child/adult/male/female...and other) are configurable and which is -not- festival? Have you looked at espeak? Does it allow this type of

Re: [gentoo-user] grub menu and the new openrc

2011-05-17 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Dale, On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 09:20:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: So do I need to create a runlevel called dalesboot and then just put the same stuff in it as is in the normal boot level? I have to say, that is weird. A runlevel should be used by both the system and available to the user

Re: [gentoo-user] Pre OpenRC update question...

2011-05-16 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 06:47:59AM -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: On last question/confirmation - There are a few updates other than just the baselayout/OpenRC updates pending... can I still emerge those now, prior to the baselayout update, like normal? Yes, as long as they do not have a

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken -- egg (NFS tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread William Hubbs
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 11:36:29AM -0400, Willie Wong wrote: There's no big harm, except that you may end up rebuilding a bunch of packages. One way to get a lot of hands-on control on precisely what USE you want it via the -* flag. But be VERY careful if you are going to use it. A USE

Re: [gentoo-user] How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-13 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 04:21:41PM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Friday 13 May 2011 03:30:27 Manuel McLure wrote: Just ran into a gotcha with my main server upgrade to openrc/baselayout2 - it appears that the old ifconfig network syntax no longer works. I kept getting the message:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-13 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Mick, On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 08:27:16PM +0100, Mick wrote: Here's mine if you want to compare with my previously sent output: $ cat /etc/env.d/02locale LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 *snip* This is all you need. LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 Or, If you are running a multi user system and do not want to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How's the openrc update going for everyone?

2011-05-11 Thread William Hubbs
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 03:33:02PM +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 05/11/2011 03:16 PM, Marius Vaitiekunas wrote: /etc/env.d/02locale. Here, it looks like this: LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 LANG=en_US.UTF-8 It is not recommended that you set LC_ALL in startup files at all, just lang.

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/conf.d/net syntax under new baselayout?

2011-05-10 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Walter, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 08:19:10PM -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: config_eth0= The quote on the line below this should be moved up, so it looks like: config_eth0= 192.168.123.249/29 broadcast 192.168.123.255 mtu 1454 169.254.1.3/16 broadcast 169.254.255.255 routes_eth0= Same here:

Re: [gentoo-user] heads-up: 2011-05-01 baselayout news

2011-05-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 06:36:58PM +0100, Mick wrote: I've unmasked the latest available after reading the changelogs: sys-apps/baselayout-2.0.2 sys-apps/openrc-0.8.2-r1 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295613 You are correct about the versions. William pgpoZK7YWDjzo.pgp

Re: [gentoo-user] Rooted/compromised Gentoo, seeking advice

2010-08-09 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 05:30:40PM -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 1:20 PM, Bill Longman bill.long...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/09/2010 01:08 PM, Robert Bridge wrote: On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: There have been discussions on

Re: [gentoo-user] Official document for stabilization policy/guideline

2010-03-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 09:30:18AM +0100, Justin wrote: On 01/03/10 16:39, Lie Ryan wrote: I've found a few people referencing to a 30-day stabilization policy which basically says a package must be at least 30-days-old to be considered for stabilization, but is there any document that

Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread William Hubbs
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 03:56:13PM -0500, stosss wrote: On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:28 AM, pk pete...@coolmail.se wrote: ubiquitous1980 wrote: http://lists.debian.org/debian-security/2006/07/msg00059.html With sudo su - the man pages do not have ESC throughout. ?I have learned sudo su

Re: [gentoo-user] Manual pages (man pages) have ESC all through them when having used sudo.

2010-02-28 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 12:16:14AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: sudo su and su have a fundamental difference, vital in corporate networks: The former uses the user's password for authentication and sudoers for authorization. The latter uses knowledge of the root password for authorization

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-05 Thread William Hubbs
On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 03:52:15PM -0800, walt wrote: On 02/04/2010 01:29 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: ...Gentoo now supports multiple package managers, so portage is not required either. I seem to be falling behind. What other package managers does gentoo support? There are two other

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout2/openrc question

2010-02-02 Thread William Hubbs
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 11:03:10PM -0500, David Relson wrote: Is it safe to delete sysvinit and emerge openrc-0.6.0-r1? Am I likely to get myself into troubleif I do this? If so, how much and how deep? The latest version of sysvinit, 2.87-r3, is the one you should be running with openrc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems setting up sshd on an installation kernel

2009-12-10 Thread William Hubbs
Hi Neil and all, On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 02:23:13PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:36:41 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: The machine I was installing on was a laptop with no available desk top to place it on. Therefore I decided to get SSH up and running as early as

Re: [gentoo-user] Confused about moving to ~x86 and the openrc-migration doc page...

2009-11-11 Thread William Hubbs
-2 and openrc, and whether I need to do what that page says. If you have moved from x86 to ~x86, you definitely need to do this. baselayout-1 is x86 and baselayout-2/openrc are ~x86. -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org pgpyX4XuyC1mh.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: What happened to boot.msg?

2009-10-23 Thread William Hubbs
. -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org pgploveSww1g1.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-07 Thread William Hubbs
/init.d/xdm restart -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org pgpFSAMQLwpiH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-06 Thread William Hubbs
you want to add is gentoo=nox. nox alone is for use on the live cd only, but gentoo=nox works everywhere else. -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org pgptuqw4Zm0nS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] URGENT: Dead Keyboard after emerge --update world --deep

2009-10-06 Thread William Hubbs
On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 09:30:29PM +0200, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Dienstag 06 Oktober 2009 19:50:36 schrieb William Hubbs: Actually, what you want to add is gentoo=nox. nox alone is for use on the live cd only, but gentoo=nox works everywhere else. Then explain why nox alone always works

Re: [gentoo-user] how to clean up /usr/portage/distfiles?

2009-09-01 Thread William Hubbs
tool to help with this task? Yes, there is a tool called eclean which will handle this. It is in the gentoolkit package, so emerge gentoolkit and you should have it. Thanks, -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org pgpjvVEyXT2oD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo sites go down too much!

2009-08-13 Thread William Hubbs
with no problem, and I'm also on irc with no problem,. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkqETG8ACgkQblQW9DDEZTi55wCeO+wWI8NRl6MyLVqBXVmE1lB1 rAsAn0g8TlzA8qVuukzMgHuAYG0h6pGJ =3oVO

Re: [gentoo-user] HOWTO stick a package

2009-07-11 Thread William Hubbs
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[gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-07 Thread William Hubbs
portage tree. So, what I'm trying to figure out is how popular festival is and what it is being used for. If you use festival, can you reply to this thread and give me an idea of how important this package is to you and how often you use it, etc? - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead

Re: [gentoo-user] festival usage (possibly OT)

2009-07-07 Thread William Hubbs
, that is being worked on, but we are using espeak, speakup and espeakup for the speech. If you haven't played with espeak, it is a small, light weight, multi lingual speech synthesizer that is much more responsive than festival. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading from kernel 2.6.24-rc6 to latest kernel

2009-05-18 Thread William Hubbs
is already compiled for you. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkoRlvYACgkQblQW9DDEZThkyQCfc7F/1/rGuhVFq2xxtb57fmc7 AT4AnRQSLghiBHkREKly3le7rGN8fYsA =z+CH -END PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gentoo older versions

2009-05-02 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 10:14:45AM -0700, Nitin Kanaskar wrote: Ok - I am not clear about the terminology - packages, versions... But i need to install gentoo 2004/2005 - if this is right. I am a graduate student doing research on

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-29 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daniel, On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 05:17:04PM -0400, Daniel Barkalow wrote: I don't know about mutt, but there's a flag in alpine to color quoted text. It might be possible to get your screen reader to use different voices for different colors

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, I don't normally get involved in these threads, but I want to point out another reason for top posting. As a blind computer user, sometimes it is more convenient to top post, because I don't know of a way to make my screen reading software skip

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

2009-04-28 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Neal and all, On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 07:39:29PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be possible to have your mailer hide

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)

2009-02-21 Thread William Hubbs
to install over an ssh connection if you can get to the box that way. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead willi...@gentoo.org -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmgVB4ACgkQblQW9DDEZTiXGQCghh2O3vc/9b2qFpoP3OjQMm0G 3JAAn3G2nIT/jvsiMdZQMiCeh3rekh/J

[gentoo-user] Installing gentoo (was gentoo installer and handbook)

2009-02-21 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again James, I am moving this thread to gentoo-accessibility, so can we continue discussion there? On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 02:27:13PM -0500, James Homuth wrote: -Original Message- From: William Hubbs [mailto:willi...@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to set package.use for layman overlays

2008-05-18 Thread William Hubbs
is from the main tree or an overlay. - -- William Hubbs gentoo accessibility team lead [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkgwNqgACgkQblQW9DDEZThN8wCfbUn2iBi9tpxVy68si4LB9xPT PwwAmwW6OaR/MmSkC7ytWYmp5q8iMx/j =M5JR -END PGP SIGNATURE

Re: [gentoo-user] Right recipe for gentoo-user procmail

2005-09-30 Thread William Hubbs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Dave, On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 07:54:53PM -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: Just set up the following recipe for postfix/courier-imapd/procmail: :0 * ^(From|Cc|To).*gentoo-user $HOME/.maildir/.Gentoo.User/new/ Close, but not quite. Here is