Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

2008-03-18 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 19:29 +0100, brullo nulla wrote: What output do you get from 'revdep-rebuild -p -i' ? Here it is: Evaluating package order... Warning: Failed to resolve package order. Will merge in random order! Possible reasons: - An ebuild is no longer in the portage tree. -

Re: [gentoo-user] Playsound . . . won't!

2007-09-17 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 18:27 +0100, Mick wrote: On Monday 17 September 2007, Mike Williams wrote: On Monday 17 September 2007 15:33:54 Mick wrote: This is how I understood that is should work too. If for what ever reason it doesn't rebuild the above packages itself, it should either say

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 16:22 +, James wrote: qpkg is not accessible, due to the path, unless I use: /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg Where is the best (bash shell) place to set this path once, so I do not have to type out the fully qualified pathname of the executable? I'd like it to

Re: [gentoo-user] setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 19:12 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 18:11:04 +0100, Francesco Riosa wrote: why not to do a litle jump and go with app-portage/portage-utils ? Because it doesn't appear to offer features that qpkg does, for example; listing all installed packages in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: setting path for qpkg

2005-12-15 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 20:08 +, James wrote: OK, let's say I'm looking or 'theoraenc' I just ran 'qgrep theora *' and got lots of hits, I ran 'qgrep theoraenc *' and got nothing Does this mean no (ebuild) contains theoraenc ? qpkg -i theoraencreturns emptytoo How do

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug report.

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:22 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Where Do I do a bug report I received this a moment ago when I run emerge --sync. Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8)

Re: [gentoo-user] Bug report.

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-12-20 at 15:22 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: Where Do I do a bug report I received this a moment ago when I run emerge --sync. Updating Portage cache: 88%!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild. !!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/x11-6.8) I

Re: [gentoo-user] Easy way to unmerge all of KDE?

2005-12-23 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 08:06 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: You can list all installed kde packages with qpkg -g kde-base or equery list | grep kde-base For equery, you can use: equery list kde-base/ This tells equery to list the installed packages in category kde-base. The command will

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install CPAN modules not breaking portage tree

2005-12-27 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 17:19 +0100, Paweł Madej wrote: As i have read [1] documentation portage should provide g-cpan.pl tool but on my system there is no such script. Any ideas how to install cpan perl modules via portage? I know that I can do it via cpan tool but manual [1] suggests using

Re: [gentoo-user] $PKGDIR is getting full of old cruft - script for cleaning?

2006-01-01 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 22:10 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: Hi! In my $PKGDIR, old cruft gets accumulated over time - eg. 6 versions of kernel source (suspend2-sources), multiple releases of mozilla-firefox and so on. Does anyone know of a script that cleans all that stuff? Basically, I'd

Re: [gentoo-user] BOINC and https

2006-01-11 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 23:26 +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: Statux schreef: Unmerge the BOINC from portage and download/manually install it from the site. The version in portage is very old and for some reason, it hasn't been updated. I haven't had time to try to figure out what to do about

Re: [gentoo-user] Error compiling Kde-Graphics 3.4.3-r3

2006-01-16 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 12:04 -0200, Thiago Lüttig wrote: !!! ERROR: kde-base/kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3 failed. !!! Function kde_src_compile, Line 175, Exitcode 2 !!! died running emake, kde_src_compile:make !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, NOT this status message. This bug

[gentoo-user] gentoolkit-0.2.1 stable on x86

2006-01-17 Thread Paul Varner
All: As I type this gentoolkit-0.2.1 has been marked stable on x86 and I expect it to be marked stable on other architectures in the next few days. Here is a summary of the major changes between gentoolkit-0.2.0 and gentoolkit-0.2.1. A detailed listing of the changes are in

RE: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 15:32 +, Michael Kintzios wrote: -Original Message- From: Neil Bothwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 January 2006 12:42 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package On Thu, 19 Jan 2006

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 14:25 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: But now, qpkg does not exist anymore, and I've read it was replaced by equery. See other messages for how to get qpkg back. However, there are two problems with equery: 1. it disregards the use flags. equery depends package

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 19:15 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:30:57 -0500, Robert Crawford wrote: I too like qpkg more than equery, at least for what I usually need to do. My solution is just to put a copy of qpkg and ecat in /usr/bin, and make a backup copy somewhere for

Re: [gentoo-user] How to safely unmerge a package

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:29 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Can you tell us what qpkg and etcat are deprecated, Paul? Is it because of a lack of a maintainer or is there something fundamentally wrong with them? In the case of qpkg, there are several un-fixable bugs. In the case of etcat, its code

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge and old package

2006-01-27 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 09:33 -0200, Thiago Lüttig wrote: hey, i´m trying to solve a bug with the kdegraphics-3.4.3-r3.. as described here(This bug #83238 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83238 ) Well, when the revdep-rebuild finishes the list of packages, it can´t the

Re: [gentoo-user] trying KDE (again)

2006-02-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:04 +0930, Iain Buchanan wrote: yes, but you should be able to specify a + OR - for the x and y offset as well: -geometry WxH+Xoffs+Yoffs where W: width H: height Xoffs: x offset* Yoffs: y offset* * x is relative to the left screen edge, if positive, and

Re: [gentoo-user] equery, make.conf USE flag mismatch on amd64

2006-03-08 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 11:16 -0700, Kumar Golap wrote: Thanks now I understand the default USE flags I see, I think. And apologies for not searching the manual first. But I still do not understand why flags like mmx (or 3dnow) flags that i put in the /etc/make.conf file is not getting picked

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild error on python

2005-04-18 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 18:14 -0400, Chris Bare wrote: On Sun, 17 Apr 2005, Chris Bare wrote: I'm not sure what I should do at this point. Do I still need python 2.2.3 at all? can I safely unmerge it? Or should I force python-2.2.3-r6 to be installed? Im no Python expert but since

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-04-28 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 22:46 -0400, daniel wrote: i've been noticing lately that the output of emerge -pv is giving me some interesting output: $ emerge -pv mplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ]

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-1.2.1 fails to compile

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 17:22 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: Checked here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specificbug_status=__open__ product=content=%22gnome-extra%22%20%22evolution-data-server%22%201.2.1o rder=bugs.bug_id But there are 200 bugs listed and I'm not seeing a fix

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-03 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 11:44 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: In the calendar mode: menu:view/current_view/day_view ?? Then check again. On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 03:37 +0100, José Moreira wrote: Nope it aint here :| Qua, 2005-05-04 às 06:32 +0800, W.Kenworthy escreveu: Sometimes you get a

Re: [gentoo-user] evolution

2005-05-04 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 00:08 -0500, Canek Peláez wrote: The problem is that, at some update, the libraries that EDS depends upon were changed, and now EDS doesn't work. Run revdep-rebuid. Canek The machine that had the problems was already running a revdep-rebuild overnight. That fixed

Re: [gentoo-user] emerging x11-libs/gtk+-2.6.4-r1 had failed.

2005-05-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 19:16 -0300, Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: I Already try to use fix_libtool.sh 3.3.5 and I am still having the problem ... does any one knows what I can do next ? My make.conf is : CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu CFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe CXXFLAGS=-march=pentium3 -O3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: nfs export/remote mount problem

2005-05-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 21:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: No, it's something more nefarious than that 1) All machines have the same hosts file. None of the machines are using dhcp. 2) The FC2 client logs into both Gentoo and FC2 hosts fast 3) The Gentoo client logs into both Gentoo and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 21:35 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 10:13 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On 5/30/05, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think those binary packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-05-31 at 22:15 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Jason Stubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /etc/portage/profile/package.provided Where to look to learn about the required syntax? man portage Specifically for the package.provided file it wants the package and version that you

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: When a dependancy built by hand

2005-06-01 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 00:03 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Is something more than creating and editing the subject file required? I don't see any difference in emerge -v -p output having created it. Maybe its not correct: cat /etc/portage/profile/package.provided --- dev-utils/cvs-1.12.11

[gentoo-user] [Fwd: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers]

2005-06-01 Thread Paul Varner
Forwarded from gentoo-dev at author's request to gentoo-user Forwarded Message From: Mike Frysinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: baselayout-1.11.12-r2 request for testers Date: 2005-05-25 22:20:02 GMT yes, it's finally that time ... after months of hearing us say 'we want to get

Re: [gentoo-user] fix_libtool_files.sh failed

2005-06-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-06-06 at 22:19 +0200, Luigi Pinna wrote: Alle 21:20, lunedì 06 giugno 2005, Paul Varner ha scritto: The parameter to fix_libtool_files.sh is the previous version of gcc that was installed. Try fix_libtool_files.sh 3.4.3-20050110 Regards, Paul I tried all

Re: [gentoo-user] 3 - ERRORS

2005-06-12 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 20:31 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Thanks for the info, but I notice that there's also a patch to portage.py attached to the bug. Is it correct to just patch it with the standard patch -p1 blah blah blah (patch syntax doesn't roll trippingly off my typing finger, but I'll

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild testing (was Re: 3 - ERRORS)

2005-06-12 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2005-06-12 at 12:07 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: In bugzilla the patch is dated 2005-05-04 18:18 PDT so it's newer than gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre2. ls -l /usr/portage/app-portage/gentoolkit/gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre2.ebuild -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1499 Apr 25 19:13

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can't install Xosview

2005-06-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 05:40 +, askar ... wrote: Hello! My this message left unanswered. I notice when I install gentoo only using live cd, xosview can not be installed with error below. It seems this problem can be solved after updating portage. In my case I cannot update portage

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 1.0.4 certificate problem

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:44 -0700, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: Except I didn't report a delay -- I reported outright failure. I very quickly get a dialog reporting Alert -- Error trying to validate certificate from sofrwarereg.sun.com using OCSP - directory lookup failure. I guess it's a local

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:24 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Maybe a better way is to emerge hard-masked gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 (cause it's only tested on x86). In it there is a new version on 'revdep-rebuild' which allows you to mask certain dirs, by using (mine): ... SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/home

Re: [gentoo-user] Lots of network collisions - can I eliminate them?

2005-09-23 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 11:12 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi all. Sorry in advance for the rash of emails today but the topics seem to be varying and hopefully folks will read only the ones they think they could help with. QUESTIONS: 1) What causes a 'collision' on a network interface? 2)

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo workstation x/kde: disk size requirement...

2005-09-24 Thread Paul Varner
On Sat, 2005-09-24 at 11:14 +0200, Jarry wrote: I want to make my notebook dual-bootable (i must keep win because of some software), and I would like to know how big partition do I need for gentoo (basic workstation install, with X/KDE). Would single (except for swap) 10 GB partition be

Re: [gentoo-user] equery not working

2005-10-03 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 16:03 -0700, Wes Gray wrote: Why doesn't equery actually show me all the installed packages? I know I have lots of versions of kde installed, but equery doesn't show them: # equery l -i kde [ Searching for package 'kde' in all categories among: ] * installed packages

Re: [gentoo-user] equery not working

2005-10-04 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:53 -0700, Wes Gray wrote: On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:50:03PM -0500, Paul Varner wrote: equery works fine for me here. Two questions, which version of gentoolkit do you have installed? What does ls -ld /var/db/pkg/kde-base/kde* show? Here is the info requested

Re: [gentoo-user] qpkg gone with gentoolkit update

2005-10-12 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 21:55 +0200, Dan Johansson wrote: On Wednesday 12 October 2005 10.04, Dave Nebinger wrote: emerge portage-utils. That will give you qpkg back (equery told me so ;-) portage-utils gave me qpkg back allright - but not with the same functions (especially --dups is

Re: [gentoo-user] Collecting USE variables

2005-10-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 13:15 -0700, Manuel McLure wrote: One question for those with more USE flag-fu than I have - does the default set of USE flags depend on the packages that have been installed into world? It seems to me that at some point I have installed a package (for example

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2 rc3 revdep rebuild

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 05:58 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: 051016 John J. Foster wrote: I've been fighting the install of OOo rc3 for a few days now. Everything is fine until running revdep-rebuild, which wants to re-install the OOo I just installed. I haven't done this with OO, but my

Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?

2005-10-17 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 19:14 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: But man 5 portage doesn't say anything about /etc/portage/env.d, and it doesn't say anything much about what precisely you can put in /etc/portage/bashrc either: The /etc/portage/bashrc file can be (ab)used to do all kinds of things with

Re: [gentoo-user] Should emerge --sync be so slow?

2005-10-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-10-20 at 18:48 +0400, Andrew Kirilenko wrote: I do have portage on the separate partition, but this caching process is _DAMN_ slow. I remember times when it was really, really fast. WTF? http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108412 Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org

Re: [gentoo-user] module-rebuild script

2005-10-24 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 23:32 +0300, Petteri Räty wrote: John Green wrote: As a check, I then ran module-rebuild list again, and it listed the same three modules as before. This is the way it is supposed to work at the moment. module-rebuild list is meant to give you a list of modules that

Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for qpkg... please!?!?

2005-11-02 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 23:24 -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: Silly me, I went and RTFM'd before doing anything. TFM says, and I quote... Unimplemented Options changes depends glsa - use glsa-check for the time being. stats Guess it's time for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 20:02 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I'm trying to learn equery since qpkg is being laid to rest. However I'm finding the hints that appear when you syntax is wrong very confusing. I have opened bug #113423 Does the following make more sense to you: $ ./equery files --type

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-23 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 23:34 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It appears here that the symbols themselves must be quoted as well as the package like this: equery files --type =vim-6.2 Which is what I meant to convey with the error message. What about

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is this a bug in equery

2005-11-24 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 08:01 +0100, Mariusz Pękala wrote: Not precise enough. You need to enclose only those characters, like: equery files --type =vim-6.2 or you may use backslash, like: equery files --type \=vim-6.2 Saying that you MUST enclose the entire argument would

Re: [gentoo-user] Cleanup kde-3.4

2005-12-07 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 17:46 +0200, Catalin Grigoroscuta wrote: Isn't qpkg deprecated? Does anybody know the equivalent un-deprecated replacement of this command? Neil Bothwick wrote: As posted yesterday: qpkg -I -nc -g kde-base | xargs emerge --prune The replacement is equery.

[gentoo-user] Re: Problems rebuilding gtk+ (and many other packages), due to not found /usr/lib/libXCBRenderUtil.la

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 12:15 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: So all you seem to need is to remerge pango before gtk+. The problem here is that revdep-rebuild is absolutely clueless when in comes to ordering the rebuilds Try: http://pastebin.ca/raw/383456 Actually emerge -e is being

Re: [gentoo-user] convert rpm to ebuild

2007-05-10 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 22:29 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 22:16:59 Florian Philipp wrote: 1. This page provides no way to handle a binary-only rpm, just sources. Yet, sources are no problem since they should be available as a tarball or in portage itself while

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: two identical /etc/sudoers -- only one works

2007-05-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:14 -0700, maxim wexler wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls / ls: cannot open directory /: Permission denied [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ What does 'ls -ld /' and 'ls -ld /etc' return? Both of them should look like: drwxr-xr-x 20 root root 4096 May 29 04:40 / drwxr-xr-x 56 root

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 04:20 +0200, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: But at least it will never use the horrible hack that revdep-rebuild uses with --package-names because of the lack of support for the =category/package-version:slot syntax in portage-2.0* which it still supports.. :) Hey, I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] FW: mail-mta/exim (is blocking mail-mta/ssmtp-2.61-r2) (more info added)

2007-05-31 Thread Paul Varner
results. The use of --emptytree has already been removed in the the 0.2.4 versions of gentoolkit. 2007-03-07 Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] * revdep-rebuild: Change ordering algorithm to use --deep instead of --emptytree on the advice of zmedico So that one is already completed

Re: [gentoo-user] slow vmware guest

2007-06-20 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 21:35 -0300, Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman wrote: Has anyone found a solution to a linux guest under a linux host where the guest's clock ticks slowly or quickly depending on different factors? The solution that has worked for me is to ensure that the timer frequency for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about package.provided

2006-06-01 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble with the package.provided feature. I've build a new version of Jack that is not available in portage. It was my understanding that I could tell emerge to not emerge lower version of Jack by placing the

Re: [gentoo-user] sudden portage error list index out of range

2006-06-09 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 17:40 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: At the same time the previous error started I also got this second error with layman: lightning ~ # layman -s pro-audio * Running command /usr/bin/svn update /usr/portage/local/layman/pro-audio... /usr/bin/svn: symbol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

2006-06-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Looks like I'll be masking =evolution-2.6.0 /rant http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241 Masking the following fixed it for me =x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme-2.14.2 I haven't had the time to investigate further or file a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] VNC server / windows viewer

2006-10-12 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 14:14 -0400, Mark Shields wrote: On a related note, I'm looking for something similar, but I want a user to be presented with an xdm (or gdm) login. Just one remote connection, one resolution. Short answer. 1. Emerge xinetd, if not already installed 2. add a vnc file

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to list sizes of installed packages?

2006-12-06 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 21:56 +, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2006-12-05, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's nasty. Why do some equery commands accept regexes and others dont? Because some equery commands search for packages (ideally suited for a regex), and others by design

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Why does gcc depend on gtk+?

2007-01-08 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 22:34 +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Sunday 07 January 2007 20:31, Richard Fish wrote: bullet ~ # equery depends gtk+ equery depends is broken. It shows possible _dependancies_, without taking USE flags into account. Apparently this is finally fixed in svn

Re: [gentoo-user] Where has gensync moved to?

2007-01-17 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 14:11 +0100, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, # equery f gentoolkit-dev | grep 'gensync$' /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.6.2/deprecated/gensync /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-dev-0.2.6.2/deprecated/gensync/gensync where has it moved to? From the ebuild: * The

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild questions...

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 08:32 -0400, Dave Nebinger wrote: So revdep-rebuild is currently running on the box but I'm wondering how often the revdep-rebuild needs to be run... Any suggestions from you folks out there in gentoo land? I'm thinking about building a cron script to run early in the

Re: [gentoo-user] telnet into embedded devices

2005-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:39 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 00:59:17 + (UTC) James wrote: 1. If this is not what's happening, what is to cause telnet to react so slowly? probably dns - most servers do a reverse dns lookup when a client connects, and if the lookup does

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild reports broken libs, should I worry?

2005-07-07 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:49 -0700, Wade Brown wrote: In this specific case, Broken means Binary Package. Binary packages are distributed with all kinds of libraries linked to so that they can minimize the amount of binary packages they need to maintain (e.g. they don't need an eclipse-gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] Realplayer unsupported scheme?

2005-07-08 Thread Paul Varner
On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:37 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: I understand that there's a security update out for Realplayer. But when I try to emerge it, this happens... [m1800][root][~] emerge --ask realplayer These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating

Re: [gentoo-user] equery

2005-08-30 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 23:45 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote: equery seems crazy. I have gentoolkit-0.2.0, and just reemerged it for good measure. $ equery depends vim [ Searching for packages depending on vim... ] Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

2005-09-11 Thread Paul Varner
What is going wrong here? It can't be my implementation of rsync (latest stable), or the US pool would fail as well. It could be the servers in the European pool, but... all of them? Or am I simply using the wrong SYNC= in /etc/make.conf? My default is rsync.europe.gentoo.org, and I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Weird problem with emerge sync

2005-09-11 Thread Paul Varner
On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 16:49 +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: Is it worth going unstable with rsync for this? meaning, will using an unstable rsync cause me any real problems, even as it (hopefully) solves this (relatively minor) annoyance? I have not seen any stability issues with 2.6.4 or higher

Re: [gentoo-user] Question regarding trick portage.mask situation

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 21:20 -0400, Matthew Cline wrote: I've been having serious problems with newer versions of gentoo-sources (basically 2.6.12-r9 and 2.6.12-r10), so I have downgraded to 2.6.12-r4, which is rock solid for me. So, I thought to add something like this atom to

Re: [gentoo-user] equery problem.

2006-06-16 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2006-06-15 at 21:45 -0400, David Corbin wrote: I'm trying to upgrade my KDE stuff following the information on this wiki page. http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Update_KDE_3.3_to_KDE_3.4 When I run equery d kde as it suggests, I get: Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice again

2006-06-29 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 23:32 +0200, Mick wrote: Thanks. The strange thing is that lately Opera and FF-bin are not re-emerged when I revedep-rebuild, only OOo-bin does. Anyway, its not a problem from what I read in these links. That is because the ebuilds install a file in /etc/revdep-rebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Evolution icons missing under KDE but nut under Gnome

2006-07-07 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:37 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: On 6/13/06, Paul Varner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 19:44 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: Looks like I'll be masking =evolution-2.6.0 /rant http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=133241 Masking

Re: [gentoo-user] revdev-rebuild uing wrong 'ebuilds' ...

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:40 +0200, Marc Koschewski wrote: It wants to emerge the 'emerge.txt ENV.txt ldapdump.1146827010 ldapdump.1146827010.raw wlan0.txt' ebuils which are, however, just files within root's home directory. Thus emerge bails out with the above error. Maybe someone could have a

Re: [gentoo-user] gtk+ emerge error

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 10:52 -0700, Grant wrote: but the following command returns nothing: equery check x11-libs/xextproto I'm not sure what that's supposed to do. Unfortunately, you just hit a bug in equery. Run: equery check xextproto That commands verifies that all of the files

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone know why sys-apps/qtparted went masked

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 18:04 -0400, John J. Foster wrote: A couple days ago I noticed this: garbanzo:/root # emerge -auvDNt world These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies | !!! Packages for the following atoms are either all !!!

Re: [gentoo-user] How to emerge bugzilla w/ postgresql

2006-07-26 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 16:08 -0700, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: I am creating a new gentoo server, and I am in the handbook section to specify USE variables. No matter how I errange my USE variable in the make.conf, emerge --update --pretend bugzilla -- wants to use mysql [ebuild N]

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild alternatives?

2006-08-02 Thread Paul Varner
On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 18:18 +, James wrote: What are the sanctioned and experimental alternatives to revdep-rebuild. There are no sanctioned alternatives. An experimental alternative that you can look at is udept written by Ed Catmur. You can download an ebuild for use in your overlay at

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 19:05 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: Hi list! I just noticed that /etc/init.d/domainname has disappeared in baselayout 1.12, but I can't find what is supposed to replace it. So, in short: How am I supposed to set my YP domain name with the new baselayout? It is now

Re: [gentoo-user] YP domain name in baselayout 1.12

2006-08-14 Thread Paul Varner
On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 23:14 +0200, Fredrik Tolf wrote: That does lead me to another question, though -- the interface-boundedness of these settings makes me a bit suspicious. Will /etc/init.d/net.* start rewriting /etc/resolv.conf and/or /etc/yp.conf for me or something like that, and will the

Re: [gentoo-user] CHOST recursive problem

2006-09-04 Thread Paul Varner
On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 05:18 +0200, Meino Christian Cramer wrote: Hi, due to my installation fault half a year ago, I have to change CHOST from i386* to i686* to be able to install gcc-4.1 Co. since a better CPU as i386* is needed. I am running an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core