Re: [gentoo-user] removing preserve rebuild.

2014-09-16 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-09-16 07:23, Joseph wrote: On 09/15/14 22:29, Joseph wrote: emerge @preserved-rebuild * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news to read news items. Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy dev-lang/python:3.1.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef

2014-09-17 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-09-16 22:43, Alan McKinnon wrote: Anyone here used ansible and at least one of puppet/chef? What are your thoughts? I've made several attempts over the years to get puppet going but never really got it off the ground. Chef I stay away from (likely due to the first demo of it I saw and

Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef

2014-09-17 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-09-17 14:07, Alan McKinnon wrote: Nagios btw has the same problem hence why I'm switching to Icinga 2 which fixes Nagios's config language once and for all. Or you can use hostgroups/templates and have all your configuration in files and in git. Depends what you like more.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ansible, puppet and chef

2014-09-17 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-09-17 10:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: That's almost exactly the same setup I have in mind. How complex do the playbooks get in real-life? The common role has about 70 tasks. It does almost everything covered in the handbook plus installs and configures additional stuff like postfix,

Re: [gentoo-user] [Security] Update bash *NOW*

2014-09-25 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-09-25 16:02, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Kerin Millar kerfra...@fastmail.co.uk wrote: On 25/09/2014 02:58, Walter Dnes wrote: [snip] ...with malicious stuff, and it could get ugly. app-shells/bash-4.2_p48 has been pushed to Gentoo stable. The same env command results in...

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?

2014-10-07 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-10-07 10:13, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not in the tree, yet, like [blocks B ] perl-core/Socket-2.13.0 (perl-core/Socket-2.13.0 is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] perl-5.20.1 - has anybody managed to upgrade Perl?

2014-10-07 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-10-07 17:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote: On 10/07/2014 10:50:53 AM, Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2014-10-07 10:13, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, dev-lang/perl-5.20.1 is in the tree (unmasked), but trying to upgrade gives me lots of blocks requiring versions which are not in the tree, yet, like

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-10-07 17:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, As a step towards exporting my portage tree over NFS I decided to move /usr/portage to /var/portage, but leave /usr/portage/packages and /usr/portage/distfiles where they are. This is how it looks now: $ grep DIR=

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving the portage tree to /var

2014-10-07 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-10-07 17:57, Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2014-10-07 17:09, Peter Humphrey wrote: Afternoon all, As a step towards exporting my portage tree over NFS I decided to move /usr/portage to /var/portage, but leave /usr/portage/packages and /usr/portage/distfiles where they are. This is how

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0

2014-10-17 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-10-18 06:17, Philip Webb wrote: I just installed Kernel 3.17.0 (gentoo-sources) noticed there are specific options for Gentoo right at the beginning. Are we really privileged to have our own place in kernel-land or have these been added by the Gentoo devs ? They are provided via

Re: [gentoo-user] kernel 3.17.0

2014-10-19 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-10-18 23:16, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: Am 18.10.2014 um 06:17 schrieb Philip Webb: I just installed Kernel 3.17.0 (gentoo-sources) noticed there are specific options for Gentoo right at the beginning. Are we really privileged to have our own place in kernel-land or have these been

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 4.7.3 -- 4.8.3

2014-11-10 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-11-10 23:23, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 18:52:09 + (UTC), James wrote: I'd have thought you needed to emerge -e world if you really want to be protected. Yea, maybe. I read the man page on emptytree. I get it actually replaces by a reinstall. Does this do more

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-13 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-11-13 17:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e. I only get the messages Nov 12 21:04:10 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.6.1' Nov 13 14:52:20 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.6.1 nearly no log anymore

2014-11-13 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-11-13 17:41, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, after upgrading from syslog-ng-3.5.6 to syslog-ng-3.6.1 my system has stopped logging, i.e. I only get the messages Nov 12 21:04:10 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng shutting down; version='3.6.1' Nov 13 14:52:20 numa syslog-ng[1392]: syslog-ng

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-03 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-12-04 02:14, lee wrote: Hi, I'd like to give Gentoo a try and want to install it in a xen VM. The server is otherwise running Debian. What would be the best way to do this? Either you can run a virtual machine using paravirtualization (PV) or full virtualization (HVM). If you

Re: [gentoo-user] installing Gentoo in a xen VM

2014-12-04 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-12-04 11:08, lee wrote: Tomas Mozes tomas.mo...@shmu.sk writes: On 2014-12-04 02:14, lee wrote: Hi, I'd like to give Gentoo a try and want to install it in a xen VM. The server is otherwise running Debian. What would be the best way to do this? Either you can run a virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Fresh gen too install - unsuccesful

2014-12-19 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-12-20 00:57, German wrote: Just a follow up to my original question. I've installed grub on /dev/SDA literally following the quide. And I just realized why I made /dev/sda1 partition obviously designed for grub? Should I have been install grub into /dev/sda1? I also have uefi system and

Re: [gentoo-user] ceph on gentoo?

2014-12-23 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2014-12-23 15:22, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Anyone here running ceph / http://ceph.com/ on gentoo? As server(s) or client or ... ? I am learning about this right now and currently on my way to a first small test cluster. Very interesting possibilities ! Stefan I tried the filesystem

Re: [gentoo-user] Picking dom0 OS for new XEN server

2015-01-21 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-22 08:32, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Pondering dom0 os for new Xen server (Xeon e5 2620 v3 cpu) . Server is for home use. (routing/firewall; dns/dhcp, mail servers, etc. etc; linux gui desktop; linux media-server; windows as separate domains). I have basic skills in debian, and gentoo.

Re: [gentoo-user] Picking dom0 OS for new XEN server

2015-01-22 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-22 09:46, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: On 22. jan. 2015 08:49, Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2015-01-22 08:32, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: Pondering dom0 os for new Xen server (Xeon e5 2620 v3 cpu) . Server is for home use. (routing/firewall; dns/dhcp, mail servers, etc. etc; linux gui desktop

Re: [gentoo-user] [Extremely OT] Ansible/Puppet replacement

2015-01-27 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-26 16:30, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Hi, I've been working on my own replacement for Bcfg2 - bossman[1] - over the past few months, and it's finally ready to be released in the wild. I would be honored if anyone on this list who's thinking of trying puppet, chef, ansible, bcfg2, etc.

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-29 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-29 09:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: sorry ... still a bit OT but maybe interesting for others as well: Yesterday I started to modify the following ansible role to fit my needs and work with gentoo target hosts: https://github.com/debops/ansible-dhcpd I modified tasks/main.yml

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge default config

2015-01-23 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-23 23:45, shawn wilson wrote: Is there a way to have default config lines that emerge updates won't touch? For instance, my /etc/ssh/sshd_config differs from the default in some places. I know this and upstream shows me the same diffs in that file over and over again. But maybe

Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating dependencies...: Any way to make it faster?

2015-01-23 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-24 05:20, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, for my embedded systems I use gentoo. Their harddisks are simple microSDcards. When updateing or emerging especially the Calculation dependencies... is a step which needs a lot of patience of the user (me ;). Is there any way to make it

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible (was: another old box to update)

2015-01-10 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-09 10:25, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: Am 08.01.2015 um 19:29 schrieb Alan McKinnon: The directory layout in the best practice page is indeed way more than you need, it lists most of the directories in common use across a wide array of deployments. In reality you create just the

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-10 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-10 23:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/01/2015 21:40, Tomas Mozes wrote: Ansible is a not a backup solution. You don't need to download your /etc from the machines because you deploy your /etc to machines via ansible. I was also thinking about putting /etc in git

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-11 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-11 09:22, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 11/01/2015 09:46, Tomas Mozes wrote: On 2015-01-10 23:11, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 10/01/2015 21:40, Tomas Mozes wrote: Ansible is a not a backup solution. You don't need to download your /etc from the machines because you deploy your /etc

Re: [gentoo-user] Usign ansible

2015-01-11 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-11 22:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: Out of curiosity, ansible-controlled files, sysadmin-controlled files means that something is managed via ansible and something is done manually? Yes Then it's clear why /etc is in git. Ideally one would not make manual changes to systems managed

Re: [gentoo-user] grub2-mkconfig vs. xen

2015-01-04 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-04 11:44, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: Hi, I have a box running a xen-domu. If I want to use grub2-mkconfig, I learned that I have to put the kernel-.config into /etc/kernels. However this does not create an entry which includes the initrd (it creates one without xen though). How do I

Re: [gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone?

2015-01-04 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-04 13:19, Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files before. Has the information previously kept in this file been moved to some other place (database?)? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-07 12:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server. The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh* I managed to compile basic stuff already ... portage, gcc etc Now I get errors at emerging packages which is bad.

Re: [gentoo-user] another old box to update

2015-01-07 Thread Tomas Mozes
On 2015-01-07 13:47, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 07/01/2015 13:52, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: I am in the process of upgrading an old (~2010) gentoo server. The customer never wanted updates ... and now he wants ... *sigh* Don't waste your time (you are already experiencing the full reason