Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mark. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 08:29:47AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: Run something like emerge --noreplace =gentoo-sources-2.6.38-r1 That's just the job. Thanks. HTH, Mark -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-26 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Nick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 05:00:49PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: As a matter of interest, do you know how to configure a framebuffer console to fill up a wide screen (say, to a width of 170 characters) as contrasted with the 128

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable only for those packages where you need extended documentation. @Alan Mackenzie: What Neil is saying can be achieved by setting package specific USE flags in the file

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 08:30:58 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:16:39 +0100, Mick wrote: It's rarely desirable to enable doc globally. It is best to enable only for those packages where you need extended documentation. @Alan Mackenzie: What Neil is saying can be

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:49:35 +0100, Mick wrote: What I'm saying is that you should have -doc in /etc/make.conf and enable it on a per-package basis. The doc flag builds extra documentation that general users don't need, man/info/html pages are included by default (at least, that's how it

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Neil. A happy Easter to everybody who celebrates it, and a very good day to everybody else! On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:07:15AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 08:49:35 +0100, Mick wrote: The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile (amd64/10.0/desktop), so

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Stroller
On 25/4/2011, at 11:07am, Neil Bothwick wrote: ... The doc USE flag is disabled by default on my make.profile (amd64/10.0/desktop), so although it won't need to be set as -doc in /etc/make.conf, it will need to be set as doc in the packages that need it in /etc/portage/package.use. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 13:18:22 +0100, Stroller wrote: Maybe I should disable doc, but it seems wrong to me, to miss out on all this potentially useful information (which admittedly I never use). The potentially useful information is installed anyway. USE=doc enables the potentially useless

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 04:44:05PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to remove the older 2.6 python package. I had to (or, at least, did) run emerge -uND @world. Funnily

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 8:03 AM, Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de wrote: SNIP Call me a clinging cry-baby if you like, but until I'm confident about my new kernel, I'd like to hang on to the old one, including its sources. It'd also be nice to run --depclean in the meantime.  Do I have to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-25 Thread Mick
On Monday 25 April 2011 16:03:21 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Mick. On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 03:12:15PM +0100, Mick wrote: On Monday 25 April 2011 13:11:53 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Once it completes you can run --depclean which will ask you to remove the older 2.6 python package. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wrote: What do you get when you run: # eselect python

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:44:05 Mick wrote: On Sunday 24 April 2011 14:25:58 Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, Mick. On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 09:17:45AM +0100, Mick wrote: On Saturday 23 April 2011 21:06:25 Alan Mackenzie wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 08:46:30PM +0100, Mick wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Stroller
On 24/4/2011, at 4:44pm, Mick wrote: ... At this stage you should only run: python-updater -v Nothing else. Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread David W Noon
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:40:02 +0200, Stroller wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]: On 24/4/2011, at 4:44pm, Mick wrote: ... At this stage you should only run: python-updater -v Nothing else. Doing this today I've had

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:17:23 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. Those would be jinja and sphinx. They are notorious for their circular dependency, which requires USE='-doc' to bypass. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Reinstall Gentoo? [Was: Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!]

2011-04-24 Thread Mick
On Sunday 24 April 2011 21:30:33 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 21:17:23 +0100, David W Noon wrote: Doing this today I've had a couple of packages that needed to be emerged with USE=-doc when they failed. Those would be jinja and sphinx. They are notorious for their circular