[gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Can someone please point me to the doco that decodes the following errors: ** Calculating dependencies... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy dev-vcs/git has unmet requirements. - dev-vcs/git-1.7.8.6 USE=blksha1 cgi curl iconv python threads

Re: [gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 10:30, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Can someone please point me to the doco that decodes the following errors: ** Calculating dependencies... done! !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy dev-vcs/git has

[gentoo-user] dracut + UUID : a problem solved

2012-06-04 Thread Philip Webb
I recently reorganised my HDD to avoid having to use initramfs . Having done so, I still have some spare space on the HDD, which seemed a good place to have a couple of other distros installed in case I want to use Flash (my Gentoo is 64-bit) or show Linux to friends. Fedora 17 (Xfce) installs

Re: [gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 06/04/12 16:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 10:30, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Can someone please point me to the doco that decodes the following errors: [snip] ... ... ... [snip] Thanks in advance, Andrew To put it simple:

Re: [gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 12:50, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 06/04/12 16:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 10:30, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Can someone please point me to the doco that decodes the

Re: [gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 06/04/12 19:15, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 12:50, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 06/04/12 16:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 10:30, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Can someone

Re: [gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Stroller
On 4 June 2012, at 13:06, Andrew Lowe wrote: ... What I was looking for is a man page/a wiki page/something in the Gentoo doco pages, but if that's all there is to it, then thanks for the info. I would have thought that `man 5 ebuild` covered this, if `man emerge` did not. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread Mick
On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote: On 2012-06-02 22:10, Michael Mol wrote: I expect the chief mechanism is at the manufacturer's end; blacklisted keys get included on shipment. Makes sense. It's also probable that the OS kernel can tell the UEFI BIOS about new keys to

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 02 Jun 2012 23:50:58 pk wrote: [snip] I'm putting on my tinfoil hat now and I'm going to pretend it's raining... :-/ Can I please join you if you have a spare hat? On a 3 year old Dell laptop manufactured by

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread BRM
From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:04 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [snip] In theory that's how key signing systems are suppose to work. In practice, they rarely implement the blacklists as they are (i) hard to maintain,

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:33 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:04 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [snip] In theory that's how key signing systems are suppose to work. In practice, they

[gentoo-user] platform independant GUI for Perl ?

2012-06-04 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I tried wxperl, which failed to compile... What GUI else is recommended to be used for platform independant applications using Perl? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards, mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] platform independant GUI for Perl ?

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:54 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I tried wxperl, which failed to compile... What GUI else is recommended to be used for platform independant applications using Perl? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Tk has a long history as a cross-platform GUI

Re: [gentoo-user] Decoding portage output

2012-06-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:06:30 +0800 Andrew Lowe a...@wht.com.au wrote: On 06/04/12 19:15, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04.06.2012 12:50, Andrew Lowe wrote: On 06/04/12 16:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: [gentoo-user] platform independant GUI for Perl ?

2012-06-04 Thread meino . cramer
Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [12-06-04 18:08]: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:54 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I tried wxperl, which failed to compile... What GUI else is recommended to be used for platform independant applications using Perl? Thank you very much in advance for

Re: [gentoo-user] Distcc advice needed

2012-06-04 Thread Daniel Wagener
On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:44:19 +0200 Samuraiii samurai.no.d...@gmail.com wrote: Hello friends, I'm in need of good advice. I have 3 computers running gentoo and want to utilise all of them for distcc compiling - the emerging computer would be everytime different. Two machines are amd64 and one

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread pk
On 2012-06-04 14:48, Mick wrote: Can I please join you if you have a spare hat? Sure, got lots of (virtual) hats... here's one: ^ (may be a bit small) ;-) On a 3 year old Dell laptop manufactured by the famous and well known Winbond Electronics /sarcasm I see this under lshw:

[gentoo-user] wxPython completly on acid ?

2012-06-04 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, something really strange happened: I installed wxPython and it compiles fine. I also installed the demo files and additionally tried some examples of the web. Beside the very basic hello word example (which only opens a bare window) the followiong happens: There is NO window shown at all.

[gentoo-user] genkernel initramfs and grub2-mkconfig

2012-06-04 Thread morlix
Hello, does anybody of you know how to get the grub2-mkconfig script to correctly detect initramfs and set the kernel parameter root= to /dev/ram0 or just don't set the parameter at all. I'm using genkernel and want to use my generated initramfs, but everytime grub2-mkconfig gets called it sets

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel initramfs and grub2-mkconfig

2012-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:40 PM, morlix mor...@morlix.de wrote: Hello, does anybody of you know how to get the grub2-mkconfig script to correctly detect initramfs and set the kernel parameter root= to /dev/ram0 or just don't set the parameter at all. I'm using genkernel and want to use my

[gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard on fresh install

2012-06-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 1 June 2012, at 09:33, Harry Putnam wrote: ... I am running thru a kvm switch, but don't really have the option without a fair bit of juggling to try it with everything hooked direct. I have tried plugging a keyboard direct, with no result.

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel initramfs and grub2-mkconfig

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 04.06.2012 21:10, schrieb Paul Hartman: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 1:40 PM, morlix mor...@morlix.de wrote: Hello, does anybody of you know how to get the grub2-mkconfig script to correctly detect initramfs and set the kernel parameter root= to /dev/ram0 or just don't set the parameter at

[gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard on fresh install

2012-06-04 Thread Harry Putnam
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de writes: On 01.06.2012 10:33, Harry Putnam wrote: On a fresh install on older dell P4, I've been unable to get the usb keyboard to respond. It responds at the grub screen, but once past there... no response SNIP Anyone have ideas on this?

[gentoo-user] GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works

2012-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I've emerged system and world with gcc-4.7.0 and LTO. I'm posting from it right now :-) It's a KDE system with 1043 packages installed. I've posted details on how to do this (including info on how to disable LTO for specific packages that don't work with it) here:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: no keyboard on fresh install

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes: On 1 June 2012, at 09:33, Harry Putnam wrote: ... I am running thru a kvm switch, but don't really have the option without a fair bit of juggling to try it with everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread BRM
From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:33 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:04 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [snip] In theory that's how key signing systems are

Re: [gentoo-user] GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works

2012-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: I've emerged system and world with gcc-4.7.0 and LTO. I'm posting from it right now :-)  It's a KDE system with 1043 packages installed. I've posted details on how to do this (including info on how to disable LTO for

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works

2012-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/06/12 00:21, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: I've emerged system and world with gcc-4.7.0 and LTO. I'm posting from it right now :-) It's a KDE system with 1043 packages installed. I've posted details on how to do this

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works

2012-06-04 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@gmail.com wrote: Did you use gold or the standard linker? The standard one.  I didn't actually think about the importance of this.  Does gold work better with LTO? I don't know much about it, but AFAIK gold is supposed to be several

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread Michael Mol
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 5:13 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:33 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:04 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol

[gentoo-user] Re: GCC 4.7 and LTO: it works

2012-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 05/06/12 01:37, Paul Hartman wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@gmail.com wrote: Did you use gold or the standard linker? The standard one. I didn't actually think about the importance of this. Does gold work better with LTO? I don't know much about it,

Re: [gentoo-user] Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread William Kenworthy
On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 10:34 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:33 AM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 10:04 PM, BRM bm_witn...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com [snip] In theory that's how key

[gentoo-user] Re: Lockdown: free/open OS maker pays Microsoft ransom for the right to boot on users' computers

2012-06-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 02/06/12 05:26, William Kenworthy wrote: http://boingboing.net/2012/05/31/lockdown-freeopen-os-maker-p.html and something I had not considered with the whole idea was even bootable cd's and usb keys for rescue will need the same privileges ... We were chipping our Playstations and XBOXes,