Re: [gentoo-user] nagging USE flag question

2009-05-19 Thread Kevin Coetzee
Ric de France wrote: 2009/5/19 Kevin Coetzee kdcoet...@gmail.com mailto:kdcoet...@gmail.com Adam Carter wrote: The time has come to edit make.conf on my new gentoo-netbook. But one thing has always bothered me: What's the point of specifying a

[gentoo-user] chronyd troubleshooting

2009-05-19 Thread Mick
A couple of days ago chronyd stopped functioning. This is all that the logs tell me but I don't know what I can do to fix it: = May 19 06:25:13 lappy chronyd[6756]: chronyd version 1.23 starting May 19 06:25:14 lappy chronyd[6756]:

[gentoo-user] query dependency on a slotted package

2009-05-19 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, how can I find which packages depends on sys-devel/gcc:4.2 (Unfortunately, equery seems to ignore the slot) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] query dependency on a slotted package

2009-05-19 Thread Justin
Helmut Jarausch schrieb: Hi, how can I find which packages depends on sys-devel/gcc:4.2 (Unfortunately, equery seems to ignore the slot) Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. qgrep -v sys-devel/gcc:4.2 signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] query dependency on a slotted package

2009-05-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 May 2009 11:19:57 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote: how can I find which packages depends on sys-devel/gcc:4.2 emerge --depclean -pv sys-devel/gcc:4.2 -- Neil Bothwick A good pun is its own reword. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Re: Why still postgres 8.2?

2009-05-19 Thread James
Konstantinos Agouros elwood at agouros.de writes: yes I know I could use ~ in package.keywords. But is there a good reason why postgres is still @8.0 and not at least 8.2? Dunno However, now that Oracle owns mysql, maybe, just maybe, postgresql will get a little bit more attention,

[gentoo-user] What has bash_compleion done to me, and I to it?

2009-05-19 Thread felix
I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine. Then I read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and pretty handy. But somewhere along the way, bash completion has screwed up, and now various things which used to work before bash completion no longer work. Such

Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_compleion done to me, and I to it?

2009-05-19 Thread Xavier Parizet
On Tue, 19 May 2009 08:24:57 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine. Then I read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and pretty handy. But somewhere along the way, bash completion has screwed up, and now various things

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why still postgres 8.2?

2009-05-19 Thread Aaron Clark
James wrote: However, now that Oracle owns mysql, maybe, just maybe, postgresql will get a little bit more attention, across the net and here at Gentoo My prediction is that Oracle is going to do every thing it can to cause Mysql to lanquish.. That probably doesn't matter

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

2009-05-19 Thread bn
Alan McKinnon ha scritto: On Monday 18 May 2009 22:14:43 bn wrote: If you use Ubuntu, you've got to accept their eccentric questionable attitude to passwords, esp that they don't have a separate root password. I find that a piece of cheap popularisation contrary to UNIX principles. Huh?

Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_compleion done to me, and I to it?

2009-05-19 Thread felix
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:37:10PM +0200, Xavier Parizet wrote: Which version of bash-completion do you use ? app-shells/bash-completion-1.0-r3 Try as root : eselect bashcomp enable --global base and eselect bashcomp enable --global gentoo to get some basics... As a normal user, remove the

Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_completion done to me, and I to it?

2009-05-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 May 2009, at 16:24, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: I used to not know about bash completion, and all was fine. Then I read a bit about it and gave it a try, and all was still fine, and pretty handy. But somewhere along the way, bash completion has screwed up, and now various things which

[gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Jarry
Hi, is there some software for live partition backup/copying/cloning with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton Ghost or OO DiskImage in windows-world? Some of them should have linux version (e.g. clonezilla), but I did not find anything in portage... Jarry --

Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_completion done to me, and I to it?

2009-05-19 Thread felix
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:51:43PM +0100, Stroller wrote: After reading other posters negative comments in this thread, I just gave up on it. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/179589 Heh ... I added a comment to that thread and hoped it owuld eventually be solved, but I

[gentoo-user] MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine?

2009-05-19 Thread Grant Edwards
Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)? All of the info I find about split MythTV systems implies that the backend is a dedicated MythTV server. It seems like a

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Dienstag, 19. Mai 2009 18:59:06 schrieb Jarry: is there some software for live partition backup/copying/cloning with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton Ghost or OO DiskImage in windows-world? What's wrong with dd? Bye... Dirk signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine?

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +, Grant Edwards wrote: Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)? All of the info I find about split MythTV systems implies that

[gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread felix
In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Jarry
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: is there some software for live partition backup/copying/cloning with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton Ghost or OO DiskImage in windows-world? What's wrong with dd? Nothing. But this is what I expect from such a software: 1. backup of

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. So today

[gentoo-user] Re: MythTV backend on non-dedicated machine?

2009-05-19 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2009-05-19, Michael Sullivan msulli1...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:04 +, Grant Edwards wrote: Does anybody have any experience with running a MythTV backend on a non-dedicated machine (a machine that's also used for software development, web-browsing, e-mail, etc.)? ...

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 May 2009 19:50:59 +0200, Jarry wrote: Nothing. But this is what I expect from such a software: 1. backup of partition in use (sync disk, snapshot of partition) 2. smart copying (only sectors with data) 3. automatic partition recovery (including partition-table) Then use LVM and

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:01 -0700, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: So, what is the proper way to recreate a proper world file? If depclean can finally run one of these days when gentoo gets back in sync, is staring with an empty world file as good as anything else? No, starting with your existing

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 19:32:01 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into emerge without the benefit of --oneshot. So

Re: [gentoo-user] What has bash_completion done to me, and I to it?

2009-05-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 May 2009, at 18:04, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 05:51:43PM +0100, Stroller wrote: After reading other posters negative comments in this thread, I just gave up on it. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/gentoo/user/179589 Heh ... I added a comment to that thread

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Tue, 19 May 2009 10:32:01 -0700 fe...@crowfix.com wrote: In a previous thread, I learned about keeping world simple with --oneshot. I realized how mine had gotten so bloated -- when I update, I edit the --pretend output and feed that directly into emerge without the benefit of --oneshot.

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Stroller
On 19 May 2009, at 18:32, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: ... So today I started a cleanup project. I began by moving world to world-bloated and running emerge --depclean -p just to see what would happen. The answer is ... a loop! It appears you no longer have a world file (because you moved it,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:07:33 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday 17 May 2009, Mick wrote: Thanks Graham, On Saturday 16 May 2009, Graham Murray wrote: Here are some samples. [8] The more I try to use VPN the more I love SSH! http://bugs.gentoo.org/87920 Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread felix
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and world will not be bloated at all. Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants to. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Jarry
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 19:50:59 +0200, Jarry wrote: Nothing. But this is what I expect from such a software: 1. backup of partition in use (sync disk, snapshot of partition) 2. smart copying (only sectors with data) 3. automatic partition recovery (including partition-table)

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
fe...@crowfix.com schrieb am 19.05.2009 20:25: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and world will not be bloated at all. Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants to.

Re[2]: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Sergey A. Kobzar
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 9:28:44 PM, Jarry wrote: Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 19:50:59 +0200, Jarry wrote: Nothing. But this is what I expect from such a software: 1. backup of partition in use (sync disk, snapshot of partition) 2. smart copying (only sectors with data) 3.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Michael Higgins li...@evolone.org wrote: My next step is to get on the phone with the folks who have access to the checkpoint VPN device to see if they can tell me what fails. Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working connection to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up world

2009-05-19 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Dienstag 19 Mai 2009, fe...@crowfix.com wrote: On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 07:55:23PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Oh, and why that --pretend and feed into emerge' crap? Just do -a and world will not be bloated at all. Because I don't always want it to upgrade everything it wants to.

Re: [gentoo-user] more eee900a ?s

2009-05-19 Thread maxim wexler
I haven't tried toggling the wireless, but the sleep key and power button can be used with ACPI and sys-power/hibernate-script. % cat /etc/acpi/events/sleep I did an emerge of acpi but it didn't create anything in /etc. Did you make them by hand? Maxim

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working connection to a Checkpoint VPN. Thanks, Paul. I've already the solution, as I'm not so much trying to get something accomplished (access

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Michael Higgins wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working connection to a Checkpoint VPN. Thanks, Paul. I've already the solution, as I'm not so much

[gentoo-user] portage2paludis question

2009-05-19 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, When the portage2paludis script completes it says I need to create /var/db/pkg/.cache and directories beneath it named after /etc/paludis/repositories. Under /etc/paludis/repositories there are gentoo.conf, installed.conf and layman.conf. Question: are these new dirs named gentoo

Re: [gentoo-user] portage2paludis question

2009-05-19 Thread Mike Kazantsev
On Tue, 19 May 2009 14:38:21 -0700 (PDT) maxim wexler bliss...@yahoo.com wrote: When the portage2paludis script completes it says I need to create /var/db/pkg/.cache... If you enable caching, you'll have to create '.cache' subdir (default name) in every used repository. ...and directories

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 May 2009 20:28:44 +0200, Jarry wrote: Then use LVM and tar. Otherwise, trying to backup an in-use partition can result in inconsistencies. I'm using OO DiskImage with WinXP, and never had any inconsistency while doing backup of live partition. I'd like to have the same

Re: [gentoo-user] more eee900a ?s

2009-05-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:29:15 -0700 (PDT), maxim wexler wrote: I haven't tried toggling the wireless, but the sleep key and power button can be used with ACPI and sys-power/hibernate-script. % cat /etc/acpi/events/sleep I did an emerge of acpi but it didn't create anything in /etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] How to IPSEC M$oft VPN client setup

2009-05-19 Thread Michael Higgins
On Tue, 19 May 2009 22:08:10 +0100 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 19 May 2009, Michael Higgins wrote: On Tue, 19 May 2009 13:57:21 -0500 Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Based on a brief googling I didn't see anyone who has a working connection to a

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 23:56:48 Neil Bothwick wrote: it's a live CD, and that's the only safe way to do a whole disk backup. Well, no. I have a small rescue partition on each of my Gentoo boxes, not necessarily on the physical disk to be backed up. Quite useful from time to time, such as when

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 May 2009 00:31:32 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: it's a live CD, and that's the only safe way to do a whole disk backup. Well, no. I have a small rescue partition on each of my Gentoo boxes, not necessarily on the physical disk to be backed up. Quite useful from time to time,

Re: [gentoo-user] partition-based backup/cloning tool...

2009-05-19 Thread Jacob Todd
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 06:59:06PM +0200, Jarry wrote: Hi, is there some software for live partition backup/copying/cloning with raw/smart copying capabilities, like Acronis TrueImage, Norton Ghost or OO DiskImage in windows-world? Some of them should have linux version (e.g. clonezilla),

Re: [gentoo-user] portage2paludis question

2009-05-19 Thread maxim wexler
Question: are these new dirs named gentoo OR gentoo.conf and so on for the other two? Maxim Went ahead and named them just gentoo etc no .conf. And paludis --sync worked! But the dirs are empty. Would it have worked if I had added .conf to the dir names? mw