Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:33:34 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of this msg. -- The first conflict is --- snipped long

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 07, 2014 10:36:35 PM Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Which operating systems does you Hadoop systems run on top of? We use RedHat, although we make a fair amount of custom RPMs. It's just too much having to deal with Gentoo while maintaining high performance filesystems and

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread wraeth
On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 08:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: I notice a few perl blockers. You could try the following: # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') # perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v And then retry to update world. I've been encountering some perl blockages myself, and this cleared

[gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

2014-08-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
Howdy, I've been having trouble with USB mice on my laptop, with the mouse pointer and the scroll wheel not responding all the time. It's not until I click either button that the mouse starts responding again. The output taken from /var/log/messages shown below does not seem out of the ordinary:

Re: [gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Friday, August 08, 2014 10:30:55 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, I've been having trouble with USB mice on my laptop, with the mouse pointer and the scroll wheel not responding all the time. It's not until I click either button that the mouse starts responding again. The output

Re: [gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

2014-08-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/08/2014 10:46 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Friday, August 08, 2014 10:30:55 AM Alexander Kapshuk wrote: Howdy, I've been having trouble with USB mice on my laptop, with the mouse pointer and the scroll wheel not responding all the time. It's not until I click either button that the mouse

Re: [gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

2014-08-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 08 August 2014 11:11:29 Alexander Kapshuk wrote: On 08/08/2014 10:46 AM, J. Roeleveld wrote: ---8 Alternatively, disable USB powersaving: # for i in /sys/bus/usb/devices/*/power/autosuspend; do echo 2 $i; done # for foo in

Re: [gentoo-user] re: trouble with USB mouse on laptop

2014-08-08 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On 08/08/2014 11:41 AM, Peter Humphrey wrote: I'm sure Joost is right. I was setting up power saving on my Thinkpad last month, and I noticed the same as you. I think I set AUTOSUSPEND_USBID_BLACKLIST in /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/usb-autosuspend.conf to prevent the mouse being switched off

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/04/2014 08:00:55 PM, Stroller wrote: It transpires that sys-apps/most is in portage. Emerging this package should fix it, if you intend to continue using it as the PAGER. most is the best manpager I've found found - the default syntax highlighting is perfect for man pages. Hi,

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-08 Thread Philip Webb
140808 Helmut Jarausch wrote: does anybody know how to tell 'most' to scroll when I use my mouse wheel? IIRC it's KDE which does it for me : Most runs in a Konsole. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-08 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 08/08/2014 11:52:30 AM, Philip Webb wrote: 140808 Helmut Jarausch wrote: does anybody know how to tell 'most' to scroll when I use my mouse wheel? IIRC it's KDE which does it for me : Most runs in a Konsole. I'm using icewm where my mouse wheel generates button4/5 events. Is there a

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-08 Thread Jacques Montier
Hello, I use Terminator with XFCE and scroll works fine with mouse wheel. Cheers, *--* *Jacques* 2014-08-08 11:52 GMT+02:00 Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net: 140808 Helmut Jarausch wrote: does anybody know how to tell 'most' to scroll when I use my mouse wheel? IIRC it's KDE which does

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread covici
J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:33:34 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of this msg. -- The first

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Clusters on Gentoo ?

2014-08-08 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On Fri 08 Aug 2014 02:29:55 AM EDT, J. Roeleveld wrote: If you already make custom RPMs, why not build binary packages for a Gentoo based cluster? I was mistaken last night (probably a little tired, been driving all day) - we use RedHat for the support and because the software we run usually

Re: [gentoo-user] Python and man problems

2014-08-08 Thread Mick
On Friday 08 Aug 2014 11:00:06 Jacques Montier wrote: Hello, I use Terminator with XFCE and scroll works fine with mouse wheel. Some terminals do, some don't. AFAIK it is not configurable in each case, but if anyone know how to get to work with urxvt please share. -- Regards, Mick

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread Rich Freeman
On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:23 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I notice a few perl blockers. You could try the following: # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') # perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v And then retry to update world. I've been encountering some perl blockages myself,

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, wra...@wraeth.id.au wrote: On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 08:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: I notice a few perl blockers. You could try the following: # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') # perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v And then retry to update world. I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, J. Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:33:34 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of this msg. -- The first

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:33:34 PM gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due to conflicts. The entire (long) emerge output is at the end

[gentoo-user] anyone using ldoce5viewer (Longman 5 viewer)

2014-08-08 Thread behrouz khosravi
Hello everyone. I attempted to install ldoce5viewer on my machine, the build process has no complaints, but when I try to start it, it shows: need to run '$ make' in order for the program to work Is anyone using this package on gentoo? Thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/08/2014 15:11, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, Aug 08 2014, wra...@wraeth.id.au wrote: On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 08:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: I notice a few perl blockers. You could try the following: # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') # perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v And

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread Mick
On Friday 08 Aug 2014 16:21:56 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 08/08/2014 15:11, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, Aug 08 2014, wra...@wraeth.id.au wrote: On Fri, 2014-08-08 at 08:23 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: I notice a few perl blockers. You could try the following: # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, Alan McKinnon wrote: This new dynamic dep stuff allows portage a degree of freedom in selecting such providers and sometimes it decides to use the one you don't have. To satisfy that decision, it must then uninstall what you have. This I understand I suspect the root

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread gottlieb
On Fri, Aug 08 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:23 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I notice a few perl blockers. You could try the following: # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') # perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v And then retry to update world. I've been

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 August 2014 18:21:08 CEST, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: On Fri, Aug 08 2014, Rich Freeman wrote: On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 2:23 AM, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: I notice a few perl blockers. You could try the following: # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*') # perl-cleaner

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 08 August 2014 18:50:28 J. Roeleveld wrote: I always run perlcleaner and python updater after each update. Hmm. I run them when perl or python has been updated. Have you found them to be needed at other times? Incidentally, several months ago I said I would run python-updater before

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 August 2014 19:30:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Friday 08 August 2014 18:50:28 J. Roeleveld wrote: I always run perlcleaner and python updater after each update. Hmm. I run them when perl or python has been updated. Have you found them to be needed at other

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/08/2014 19:46, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 8 August 2014 19:30:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Friday 08 August 2014 18:50:28 J. Roeleveld wrote: I always run perlcleaner and python updater after each update. Hmm. I run them when perl or python has been updated. Have

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 8 August 2014 20:13:15 CEST, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/08/2014 19:46, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 8 August 2014 19:30:16 CEST, Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Friday 08 August 2014 18:50:28 J. Roeleveld wrote: I always run perlcleaner and python updater

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 08 Aug 2014 19:46:03 +0200, J. Roeleveld wrote: Hehe, would be nice if a developer would actually list the best way and sequence to update Gentoo with the least expected issues. Whatever works for you today. Everything is a variable. -- Neil Bothwick The trouble with doing

Re: [gentoo-user] Automounting USB drives

2014-08-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 6 Aug 2014 11:29:12 -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote: It can be done with udev rules. See webpage http://www.tuxradar.com/answers/526#null The suggested udev rule is... Thank you for the link, that is great info! I'm pleased you find it useful. I actually wrote that but wasn't

Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

2014-08-08 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/08/2014 21:18, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 8 August 2014 20:13:15 CEST, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/08/2014 19:46, J. Roeleveld wrote: Hehe, would be nice if a developer would actually list the best way and sequence to update Gentoo with the least expected issues.

[gentoo-user] Re: Recommendations for scheduler

2014-08-08 Thread Martin Vaeth
On Tuesday, August 05, 2014 06:33:59 AM Martin Vaeth wrote: When you are at it you should probably also encrypt the communication schedule-0.15 is finally able to use encryption, hence the current mild security risks will practically vanish, even if listening to a world-wide port.

[gentoo-user] Versioned world dependencies and subslot rebuilds

2014-08-08 Thread Bryan Gardiner
Happy Friday gentoo-user, I'm setting up a chroot for doing some Haskell work. This chroot is so that I can test my package against old versions of my dependencies. I thought I would be okay with putting the following in my world file: =dev-haskell/cabal-1.16* ~dev-haskell/mtl-2.1.1