On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:31, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
Hi folks:
A few months back, I went through a phase where I built several
computers via the gentoo installer disk, they work, but they are not as
well optimized as I would like. I have successfully destroyed 5 of them
trying to fix
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From: Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 8:22 AM
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On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:31, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
Hi
I believe you're looking for the 'php' USE flag. dev-lang/php is not a USE
flag it's the php package.
As I stated previously, mmx is not set by default, so '-mmx' is redundant.
On Wednesday, 31 May 2006 21:59, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
[Timothy A. Holmes]
Raymond - the dev-lang/php use flag
Hi,
On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:29:49 -0400 Timothy A. Holmes
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Raymond - the dev-lang/php use flag is there to pull in the PHP stuff
as BASE requires it.
What makes you think there's
a) a slash-notation in USE flags
b) this specific USE flag?
dev-lang/php really looks like
On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:29:49 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
Raymond - the dev-lang/php use flag is there to pull in the PHP stuff as
BASE requires it.
dev-lang/php is not a valid USE flag, php is.
If a program installed via portage requires php, portage will install it
as a dependency of
On Wed, 31 May 2006 08:29:49 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
Raymond - the dev-lang/php use flag is there to pull in the PHP
stuff as
BASE requires it.
dev-lang/php is not a valid USE flag, php is.
If a program installed via portage requires php, portage will install
it
as a
On Wed, 31 May 2006 09:53:05 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
I am rapidly getting the idea that either leaving the system alone, or
just wiping it out and starting over is going to be preferable to trying
to repair this one, since no one can seem to tell me if it can be done.
My original
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From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 10:41 AM
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 09:53:05 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
I am
On 5/31/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil -
I understand your suggestion -- I used the installer as an attempted
shortcut after having done several (5+) installs via the basic disk and
the handbook. I have paid for that error in spades - believe me --
since then I have done
On 5/31/06, Timothy A. Holmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neil -
I understand your suggestion -- I used the installer as an attempted
shortcut after having done several (5+) installs via the basic disk
and
the handbook. I have paid for that error in spades - believe me --
since then
On Wed, 31 May 2006 10:46:18 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
I was hoping to
rescue the additional time for the snort install etc by being able to
just recompile stuff rather than have to start over from the beginning,
the system is currently running, so I may just end up putting off the
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From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:57 AM
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 10:46:18 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
I
On Wed, 31 May 2006 12:01:05 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
the problem before was an incomplete understanding of how the USE Flags
worked, and a mis-understanding of some advice that I was given. The
procedure that I used last time was:
rebuild the kernel
Fine
Set use to USE=-*
Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
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From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 11:57 AM
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On Wed, 31 May 2006 10:46:18 -0400, Timothy
Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
I have read the wiki document about the USE flags, and I refer to that
chart routinely as I am trying to construct these statements.
http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/use-index.xml
This is the document that I have been using, if there is a better one
available on the web, I am
Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
At this point then, I am going to actually build a second box for snort
perhaps using the hardened sources (I am not in the least comfortable
with running hardened on a production box).
Wrong. The correct sentiment should be I am not in the least
comfortable with
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From: Ryan Tandy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2:11 PM
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Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
At this point then, I am going to actually build
Ra
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From: Ryan Tandy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2006 2:08 PM
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Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
I have read the wiki document about the USE
[Timothy A. Holmes]
Randy:
That may be, however, I have seen far to many complaints about
instability in the hardened systems to be comfortable using them in a
production environment. Another user here in my area is working to
[Timothy A. Holmes]
OOPS _- that should be RYAN --
Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
OOPS _- that should be RYAN -- SORRY -- I got fumble fingered
Everyone does it the first time. :)
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Ryan Tandy wrote:
Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
At this point then, I am going to actually build a second box for snort
perhaps using the hardened sources (I am not in the least comfortable
with running hardened on a production box).
Wrong. The correct sentiment should be I am not in the least
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
Neil:
the problem before was an incomplete understanding of how the USE Flags
worked, and a mis-understanding of some advice that I was given. The
procedure that I used last time was:
rebuild the kernel
Set use to USE=-*
Emerge -e world
I broke my system
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 31 May 2006 14:33:38 -0400, Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
I will be most interested to read it, but the manpage reader is horrible
to try to work from
If you use KDE, press Alt-F2 and type '#portage' to get an HTML version
of the man page. Or you could use
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Timothy A. Holmes wrote:
Ryan - -
Thanks for the links -
Is that info also accessable on the web some place, since I cant print
from linux based systems, and especially cant under the live CD?
I will be most interested to read it, but the
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