Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 00:36, Simon Thelen wrote: On 15-03-15 at 00:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in Gentoo: I delete package.use and have no backup Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the long way round

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 23:49, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Correct. With most Linux package managers, everything is a package and everything has strict dependencies. You install the bits you want and the PM installs the bits it needs.

[gentoo-user] Re: lisp variant for ARM (ARM926EJ-S rev 5) ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes: I am looking for a LISP version for my embedded system. # eix -Cc dev-lisp Shows a list and common description. There is another tool/syntax, that I cannot remeber atm, but it filters for the arch type. Perhaps a younger mind will help out on the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 00:34, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: But let's consider this: what level of chaos would arise if @system were dropped? Surely the problem of tracking all deps would get so out of hand so quickly, that @system

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I don't follow. How do virtuals connect with @system? Are you suggesting separating @system out into several more narrowly defined virtuals? Essentially. I'm undecided on the wisdom of that approach. My own

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: I'm not sure how to put everything dev-java into a set; so that it will updated but not depclean out those packages. A set can be simply a list of packages in a file in /etc/portage/sets. Ok so I created this file (644):

Re: [gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-14 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:54 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy, I'm going to try to keep my cool but ya know. I built me a updated kernel, 3.18.9 to be more precise. A few weeks ago dracut was updated. It went to version dracut-041. Well, it wouldn't build anything. It spit out

[gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Today, I have many many ugly and hacked java projects on my munge system. I have spend countless hours hacking at java; so I do not wish for any dev-java codes to be removed by --depclean, but the others can be cleaned up. Why not simply

[gentoo-user] Stupid init thingy. It's on my nerve, again.

2015-03-14 Thread Dale
Howdy, I'm going to try to keep my cool but ya know. I built me a updated kernel, 3.18.9 to be more precise. A few weeks ago dracut was updated. It went to version dracut-041. Well, it wouldn't build anything. It spit out a bunch of stuff about not finding things that I know is installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 01:39, James wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: That is the process I'm using. I'm looking for an easier way Surely an admin_wizard has backups? At least of /etc/? Um, err, yeah, well, ahem. No backups on this host. I forgot -- Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:39:58 + (UTC), James wrote: Ok, so I use this syntax (in make.conf) to protect gentoo-source kernels, as I like to keep kernel codes around for quite a while: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--exclude gentoo-sources It works just fine. Today, I have many many ugly and

[gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in Gentoo: I delete package.use and have no backup Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking USE, then see all the flags that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 Mar 2015 23:03:26 James wrote: Neil Bothwick neil at digimed.co.uk writes: Today, I have many many ugly and hacked java projects on my munge system. I have spend countless hours hacking at java; so I do not wish for any dev-java codes to be removed by --depclean, but

[gentoo-user] Re: Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: That is the process I'm using. I'm looking for an easier way Surely an admin_wizard has backups? At least of /etc/? James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 23:03:26 + (UTC), James wrote: Why not simply create a set containing all the ebuilds you are experimenting with? I'm not sure how to put everything dev-java into a set; so that it will updated but not depclean out those packages. Gotta quick example? It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I delete package.use and have no backup Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 7:20 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/03/2015 00:34, Rich Freeman wrote: On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: But let's consider this: what level of chaos would arise if @system were dropped? Surely the

[gentoo-user] Re: lisp variant for ARM (ARM926EJ-S rev 5) ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
Meino.Cramer at gmx.de writes: I am looking for a LISP version for my embedded system. Hello Meino, app-emulation/armv8-fast-model It might be useful to test your lisp code for arm on this platform, for faster work, before compiling and executing natively on your more humble arm resources,

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 8:32 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: Correct. With most Linux package managers, everything is a package and everything has strict dependencies. You install the bits you want and the PM installs the bits it needs. Gentoo is one of the very few PMs that

Re: [gentoo-user] portage alternatives

2015-03-14 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: But let's consider this: what level of chaos would arise if @system were dropped? Surely the problem of tracking all deps would get so out of hand so quickly, that @system or something equivalent would immediately

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 01:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I delete package.use and have no backup Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking USE,

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 20:53, Matti Nykyri wrote: On Mar 14, 2015, at 12:47, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:33:59 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: Forget about chmod 770. Better do a chmod g+rw. :-) Tried

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Simon Thelen
On 15-03-15 at 00:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in Gentoo: I delete package.use and have no backup Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get

[gentoo-user] Subtle Denial of Medical Treatment by the Singapore Government for Mr. Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)

2015-03-14 Thread Teo En Ming (Zhang Enming)
Dear Sir/Madam, Please refer to the attached PDF document. It is a very important letter. Please read the letter very carefully, word by word. The letter details how the Singapore Government led by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has ***SUBTLY*** denied me medical treatment for

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [15-03-14 09:20]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild gives me this: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy kde-base/solid:4. (dependency required by @preserved-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread German
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:33:59 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: Forget about chmod 770. Better do a chmod g+rw. :-) Tried it, it also doesn't stay permanently. OK, no solution :( The correct solution is a udev rule, but

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild gives me this: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy kde-base/solid:4. (dependency required by @preserved-rebuild [argument]) emerge itself can be called without that

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [15-03-14 09:48]: On 14/03/2015 09:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild gives me this: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy kde-base/solid:4. (dependency

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread German
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 01:16:32 +0100 waben...@gmail.com wrote: waben...@gmail.com wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 15:16:28 -0400, German wrote: after searching, I found the following solution to chmod tty1, like so: chmod o+rw /dev/tty1 and

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 09:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild gives me this: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy kde-base/solid:4. (dependency required by @preserved-rebuild [argument]) emerge itself can be

[gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild gives me this: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy kde-base/solid:4. (dependency required by @preserved-rebuild [argument]) emerge itself can be called without that error. How can an argument to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Damaged CD medium

2015-03-14 Thread Mick
On Saturday 14 Mar 2015 00:24:30 Mick wrote: On Friday 13 Mar 2015 22:24:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 17:54:01 + (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: IIRC, there are ebuilds for ddrescue, photorec, and testdisk. There's also app-cdr/dvdisaster. Thank you all. dd and

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 11:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [15-03-14 09:48]: On 14/03/2015 09:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild gives me this: emerge: there are no ebuilds to

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: Forget about chmod 770. Better do a chmod g+rw. :-) Tried it, it also doesn't stay permanently. OK, no solution :( The correct solution is a udev rule, but it appears that something may be overriding that when you login. A kludgy solution

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 08:36:16 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild gives me this: emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy kde-base/solid:4. (dependency

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org [15-03-14 13:48]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 08:36:16 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild gives me this:

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [15-03-14 10:39]: On 14/03/2015 11:10, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com [15-03-14 09:48]: On 14/03/2015 09:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 14/03/2015 14:50, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Alan, ...finally... :) I found the one application, which creates all this mess: media-sound/sonic-visualiser I removed that one (emerge -C) and everything works. It seems, that that package is in conflict with the 'rest of the world'

Re: [gentoo-user] Make the user the member of portage group or not?

2015-03-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Freitag, 13. März 2015, 10:08:16 schrieb German: Question is in the subject line. Another question I have is there any point to use other frambuffer device ( I currently use efifb) and I am thinking to use fb for my radeon r4 graphics in hopes

Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...

2015-03-14 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 13:51:03 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Andreas K. Huettel dilfri...@gentoo.org [15-03-14 13:48]: Am Samstag, 14. März 2015, 08:36:16 schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: Hi, emerge hits me: Whiletrying to reolve

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Tom H
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 8:14 PM, waben...@gmail.com wrote: waben...@gmail.com wrote: Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk wrote: On Friday 13 March 2015 23:28:32 Neil Bothwick wrote: I have this in /lib/udev/rules.d/50-udev-default.rules: SUBSYSTEM==tty, KERNEL==tty[0-9]*, GROUP=tty,

[gentoo-user] depclean portect a class of ebuilds ?

2015-03-14 Thread James
Howdy, Ok, so I use this syntax (in make.conf) to protect gentoo-source kernels, as I like to keep kernel codes around for quite a while: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=--exclude gentoo-sources It works just fine. Today, I have many many ugly and hacked java projects on my munge system. I have spend

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Mar 14, 2015 at 6:08 AM, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 01:16:32 +0100 waben...@gmail.com wrote: waben...@gmail.com wrote: So it seems that after login you first have to chmod 770 the tty before you do a su - user (user have to be in group tty of course).

[gentoo-user] lisp variant for ARM (ARM926EJ-S rev 5) ?

2015-03-14 Thread Meino . Cramer
Hi, I am looking for a LISP version for my embedded system. I tried CLISP and the compilation of the ffcall-package fails do to some (embedded?) assembler codes... Does anyone know of a Lisp variant (near CLISP), which successfully compiles on ARM architecture (ARM926EJ-S rev 5)? Best

Re: [gentoo-user] Screen: Cannot open your terminal '/dev/tty1' - please check [Update]

2015-03-14 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Mar 14, 2015, at 12:47, German gentger...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 10:33:59 + Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 14 Mar 2015 06:08:34 -0400, German wrote: Forget about chmod 770. Better do a chmod g+rw. :-) Tried it, it also doesn't stay permanently.