Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 01.02.2013 03:41, schrieb Philip Webb: Firefox 17.0.2 requires alsa-lib , which I don't want as I don't use sound; this is still the case with USE=-alsa. I want to test what happens if I try to compile it without that dep, so I copied the ebuild to

[gentoo-user] List of base system packages

2013-02-01 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
So I finally got an SDHC card for my Raspberry Pi. I'll be preparing a base system on my desktop before booting the Pi with it (I know there's a stage3 available, but don't want to use it). How do I get the list of packages which are required for a complete successful boot? -- Nilesh Govindrajan

[gentoo-user] Unable to change data mode on remount

2013-02-01 Thread Michael Mol
So, after my borked udev upgrade, I had some data corruption; I found one email containing half of another while in Thunderbird. Either I hit a software bug, a hardware bug or an unsafe unmount. Of the three, unsafe unmount is by far the most likely, so I added data=ordered to my fstab entries for

Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to change data mode on remount

2013-02-01 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Feb 1, 2013 3:02 PM, Michael Mol mike...@gmail.com wrote: So, after my borked udev upgrade, I had some data corruption; I found one email containing half of another while in Thunderbird. Either I hit a software bug, a hardware bug or an unsafe unmount. Of the three, unsafe unmount is by

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:07:24 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: What about not using the local overlay and simply do emerge --nodeps firefox and see what happens? I know, crude but simple :) Because every emerge @world will want to install ALSA. You may find it will not compile without

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:07:24 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: What about not using the local overlay and simply do emerge --nodeps firefox and see what happens? I know, crude but simple :) Because every emerge @world will want to install ALSA. SNIP Don't add it to

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 04:42:38 -0600, Dale wrote: What about not using the local overlay and simply do emerge --nodeps firefox and see what happens? I know, crude but simple :) Because every emerge @world will want to install ALSA. Don't add it to the world file then, just upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 04:42:38 -0600, Dale wrote: What about not using the local overlay and simply do emerge --nodeps firefox and see what happens? I know, crude but simple :) Because every emerge @world will want to install ALSA. Don't add it to the world file

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Michael Hampicke
2013/2/1 Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:07:24 +0100, Michael Hampicke wrote: What about not using the local overlay and simply do emerge --nodeps firefox and see what happens? I know, crude but simple :) Because every emerge @world will want to install ALSA.

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:35:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Don't add it to the world file then, just upgrade it manually each time. Then portage will want to depclean it. It is always best to try to use the methods portage provides instead of trying to be clever than it. When you start working

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:35:06 -0600, Dale wrote: Don't add it to the world file then, just upgrade it manually each time. Then portage will want to depclean it. It is always best to try to use the methods portage provides instead of trying to be clever than it. When

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:59:43 -0600, Dale wrote: work AROUND portage with a lot of things. This would include depclean. Which is why I think you shouldn't try to work around portage. It provides a clean way of doing this, overlays, use them. Then you have to update those too. As I

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 06:59:43 -0600, Dale wrote: work AROUND portage with a lot of things. This would include depclean. Which is why I think you shouldn't try to work around portage. It provides a clean way of doing this, overlays, use them. Then you have to update

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 01 Feb 2013 07:32:24 -0600, Dale wrote: Then you have to update those too. As I said, either way in the long term, you have to work at overriding portage defaults. But an overlay is working with portage, the other options are trying to trick it. I'm not saying it is. I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] List of base system packages

2013-02-01 Thread Dustin C. Hatch
On 2/1/2013 03:17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I finally got an SDHC card for my Raspberry Pi. I'll be preparing a base system on my desktop before booting the Pi with it (I know there's a stage3 available, but don't want to use it). How do I get the list of packages which are required for a

Re: [gentoo-user] List of base system packages

2013-02-01 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Dustin C. Hatch admiraln...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/1/2013 03:17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I finally got an SDHC card for my Raspberry Pi. I'll be preparing a base system on my desktop before booting the Pi with it (I know there's a stage3 available, but

Re: [gentoo-user] local overlay problem

2013-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
130201 Michael Hampicke wrote: What about not using the local overlay and simply do 'emerge --nodeps firefox' and see what happens? Philip wants to find out if he can compile FF without alsa-lib. To just test this case, 'emerge --nodeps ff' is perfect. If he finds out that ff would infact

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-01 Thread Stefan G. Weichinger
Am 2013-01-31 19:54, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: sshd.service, ssh@.service, systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service, and systemd-update-utmp-shutdown.service have auditd.service in their After= field; several others have plymouth services. After= is just for ordering of units, is not a

Re: [gentoo-user] systemd-197-r1 starts gdm-3.6.2

2013-02-01 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Stefan G. Weichinger li...@xunil.at wrote: Am 2013-01-31 19:54, schrieb Canek Peláez Valdés: sshd.service, ssh@.service, systemd-update-utmp-runlevel.service, and systemd-update-utmp-shutdown.service have auditd.service in their After= field; several others

Re: [gentoo-user] List of base system packages

2013-02-01 Thread William Kenworthy
On 01/02/13 23:52, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 2/1/2013 03:17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I finally got an SDHC card for my Raspberry Pi. I'll be preparing a base system on my desktop before booting the Pi with it (I know there's a stage3 available, but don't want to use it). How do I get

Re: [gentoo-user] List of base system packages

2013-02-01 Thread Nilesh Govindrajan
On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 5:01 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 01/02/13 23:52, Dustin C. Hatch wrote: On 2/1/2013 03:17, Nilesh Govindrajan wrote: So I finally got an SDHC card for my Raspberry Pi. I'll be preparing a base system on my desktop before booting the Pi with it (I

[gentoo-user] imapproxy init script doesn't exit

2013-02-01 Thread Grant
Has anyone tried the up-imapproxy from portage? It seems to be working fine here and the log doesn't indicate any problems, but Gentoo's init script doesn't exit: # /etc/init.d/imapproxy start * Starting up-imapproxy ... I tried switching to 'foreground_mode yes' in /etc/imapproxy.conf with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox no-sound problem (was local overlay problem)

2013-02-01 Thread Philip Webb
130201 Philip Webb wrote: Thanks for all the replies : I will explore further report back. I tested the suggestions : (1) rename the local ebuild '-r99', copy the regular Manifest delete the 17.0.2 line, recreate it, try to emerge ; this fails with the same msg as I reported in Bug 454330 :

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox no-sound problem (was local overlay problem)

2013-02-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
On 02.02.2013 04:54, Philip Webb wrote: checking for alsa... Package alsa was not found in the pkg-config search path. ... configure: error: Need alsa for Ogg, Wave or WebM decoding on Linux. Disable with --disable-ogg --disable-wave --disable-webm. This looks like the next path

[gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

2013-02-01 Thread Dale
Howdy, I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it