Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
o, > when you find that also the newest tree gives you a working system, > you would tar up that /usr/portage instead and remove the old one. > This is the dead simple, brute force way, no overlay required. :) No, no, no that's wy too much work. Archive a portage tree by

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-05 Thread Dutch Ingraham
ions, and especially to TomWij and Samuli for their extra effort. For my future reference, could someone point me to the documentation that provides for the situation where an application installed under layman is migrated to the portage tree? I understand now the procedure seems simple, but with

[gentoo-user] Gcc 5.3

2015-12-24 Thread Alan Grimes
ctory '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-5.3.0/work/build' rm -f stage_current make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-5.3.0/work/build' Comparing stages 2 and 3 warning: gcc/cc1plus-checksum.o differs warning: gcc/cc1-checksum.o differs Bootstrap comparison failure

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 5.3

2015-12-24 Thread Stanislav Nikolov
e_current > make[3]: Leaving directory '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-5.3.0/work/build' > Comparing stages 2 and 3 > warning: gcc/cc1plus-checksum.o differs > warning: gcc/cc1-checksum.o differs > Bootstrap comparison failure! > gcc/tree-ssa-threadedge.o differs >

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Mark Knecht
ld, as soon as you have a system in a working state, tar up the entire /usr/portage tree, and then, when you find an upgrade has broken an essential package, untar the ball over your new tree, and re-emerge the old version of the package. Once a month or so, when you find that also the newest t

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Mark Knecht wrote: > At that point it's gone. I cannot put into an overlay > what I don't have. Probably most frustrating has been that I > don't know it will be removed until it's been removed. You could, as soon as you have a system in a working state, tar up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: bbgallery and template files

2005-08-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 19:48:35 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've downloaded todays snapshot of protage and extracted > gimp-perl. Placed it in my portage tree. Then unmasked it with > package.keyword file and ran `emerge -v -p gimp-perl and then without > -p. > > The build

Re: [gentoo-user] Gcc 5.3

2015-12-24 Thread Alan Grimes
/portage/sys-devel/gcc-5.3.0/work/build' > > rm -f stage_current > > make[3]: Leaving directory > '/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-5.3.0/work/build' > > Comparing stages 2 and 3 > > warning: gcc/cc1plus-checksum.o differs > > warning: gcc/cc1-checksum.

[gentoo-user] using package.provided

2006-12-21 Thread reader
This section is snipped one of Allen M. posts on the monster gentoo health thread (last paragraph is where my topic starts: [...] Archive a portage tree by all means. But if an ebuild is removed that a user want to keep, the solution is so simple it's amazing. Copy the ebuild to /usr/

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-21 Thread Benno Schulenberg
7;t know it will be removed until it's been removed. > > > > You could, as soon as you have a system in a working state, tar > > up the entire /usr/portage tree, [...] > > No, no, no that's wy too much work. On the contrary, it's very little work: ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 11:39:23 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > You could, as soon as you have a system in a working state, tar up > > the entire /usr/portage tree, > Yes, I think this is a simple answer. A bit difficult for 5-7 machines > if I do it separately for each, but not to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-04 Thread meino . cramer
Nikos Chantziaras [10-04-04 08:28]: > On 04/04/2010 08:18 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > > > >Hi, > > > >this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related > >to the consistency of the system. > > > >Simple question (and may be compli

[gentoo-user] Deleted kdevelop ebuilds

2015-02-27 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
I've been using kdevelop-4.7.0 (unstable) for a while and it was working just fine. Then about a couple weeks ago it's ebuild got deleted from the portage tree and replaced with kdevelop-4.7.1 which is broken (I have issues with remote debugging). Why does a good ebuild gets repla

[gentoo-user] Initscript execution order

2005-09-02 Thread John J. Foster
Good afternoon all, Is there a simple way to determine the order initscripts are executed, taking into account ineed, iuse, before, etc...? Perhaps something that would show a tree structure similar to emerge -auDt. Thanks, John -- Contrary to the lie machine, the world is not safer

Re: [gentoo-user] Back in the soup [circular mask problem]

2006-03-10 Thread Mike Williams
ble-breaks-the-tree-broken masked. > Its probably simple enough but not apparent to me. You could add media-libs/mesa to /etc/portage/package.unmask, but that will lead you into the (also package.mask'd) modularized X. Modularized X is obviously not ready for unstable, and the version of m

Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED]eix-test-obsolete

2017-03-27 Thread J. Roeleveld
ler and >makes >> sense. > >If you use a simple script like mine you won't fall into that again: > ># cat /usr/local/bin/sync-update >emerge --sync; echo >eix-update; echo > emerge $1 $2 $3 -avuDU --jobs=24 --load-average=48 --keep-going world >ec

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage is misplaced in /usr

2011-02-05 Thread Dale
parabel for the technically affine... If you mean someone syncs against your system, I don't see how it would matter as to whether portages tree is in /usr or anywhere else. When you move the tree, change the config to point to the new location. My point was, if you don't li

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Sunday 11 March 2007 15:01:27 Steve Long wrote: > > I don't know what you mean by making Portage recognize the software > > installed this way. Do you want Portage to be able to uninstall and/or > > upgrade this software? If so, the simple answer is you it can't do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: what does the "USE flags" section of the packages.gentoo.org/package page mean?

2019-12-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 21:09:27 - (UTC), Martin Vaeth wrote: > > eix reports USE flags for all versions in the tree > > Try eix -l Nice one! -- Neil Bothwick Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. pgp4BKMqb3_Ei.pgp Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Nick Rout
putting it in the official tree. There are just some pieces of software that I want that are not even in the testing tree. The devmanual is a good place to start. If you use IRC then #gentoo-dev-help at freenode is a good place to get more help... Also, search Bugzilla and the

[gentoo-user] Re: Deleted kdevelop ebuilds

2015-02-28 Thread Michael Palimaka
On 27/02/15 19:07, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > I've been using kdevelop-4.7.0 (unstable) for a while and it was working just > fine. Then about a couple weeks ago it's ebuild got deleted from the portage > tree and replaced with kdevelop-4.7.1 which is broken (I have

Re: [gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:09:31 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:42:41 Johannes Kimmel wrote: >> Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > is there an easy way to unmerge all packages which are no longer in >> > the curre

[gentoo-user] Re: Checking sanity of system...

2010-04-04 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 04/04/2010 10:07 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Nikos Chantziaras [10-04-04 08:28]: On 04/04/2010 08:18 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, this is no security issue in sense of attacks...it is related to the consistency of the system. Simple question (and may be complicate to answer

Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted kdevelop ebuilds

2015-02-27 Thread Alan McKinnon
tomatically. Right now if I install an unstable package by > keywording a specific version and it gets deleted you get downgraded > the next time you run emerge -vauDN so you have no simple way of > going back to your working configuration since the ebuild is gone. > You can look in t

Re: [gentoo-user] using package.provided

2006-12-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 10:04:33 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [...] > Archive a portage tree by all means. But if an ebuild is removed that > a user want to keep, the solution is so simple it's amazing. Copy the > ebuild to /usr/local/portage in the correct direc

[gentoo-user] Re: btrfs and gcc 4.9

2014-11-08 Thread James
r/local/ is the only thing I do special. The /home dir is just me. So I'm trying to keep this simple and get it working on 3 old boxes.. Then I'm going to put CEPH (a distributed file system) across all three on them to run a simple Apache-mesos cluster. https://github.com/trozamon/ove

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage getting slicker?

2016-07-14 Thread Franz Fellner
ee, portage also considers the entire tree and -u tells it > > > to not remerge things that don't need updating. > > > > Um, -e is --emptytree, no? -t is just --tree. But yeah, according to his > > first email, James did leave out -N the second time around ("e

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> /mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs) >> > > Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree? > > Rgds, distfiles has a tendency to grow large over the years. IIRC nothing cleans it up automatically so havi

[gentoo-user] Attic files (app-admin/rackview) removed?

2016-06-07 Thread James
Hello, So I used rackview many years ago. It's ok, simple to use. It has been tree-cleansed. ok. So I went to the (gentoo) attic:: https://sources.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/gentoo-x86/app-admin/ rackview/?hideattic=0 rackview-0.09-r3.ebuild seems to have been removed from the

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Joost Roeleveld
> > > the filesystems have been mounted. > > > > > > Some sort of early boot rules file would need to be used to handle > > > things like setting up symlinks for block devices to avoid breaking > > > some users' fstabs. > > > > Yes,

[gentoo-user] Re: Any vbox made gentoo vm appliances available for dload

2011-11-27 Thread Harry Putnam
"Albert W. Hopkins" writes: > On Sat, 2011-11-26 at 17:01 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Creating a gentoo vm has always been a serious pita to me. I'm sure >> there will be those who claim its `simple'. >> >> Simple or not, I want to bypass it

Re: how to share a directory tree with files in it with multiple users (Re: [gentoo-user] local shared directory)

2016-04-23 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 04/23/2016 10:42 AM, hw wrote: > > Has it become entirely impossible to share a directory tree and the > files in it with multiple users when Linux is involved? This should be > a very simple thing to accomplish. > It was never possible. It's ridiculous, but t

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread Alan E. Davis
Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. I want to have a record of my specimens and preparations, in a format that can be retrieved in various ways, sorted, and printed. A record, like a card file. Nothing compilcated, don't need a server. I'm thinking emacs data base. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-19 Thread Pandu Poluan
> > You can copy the ebuild to your own private overlay > > > > ( /usr/local/portage ) make your changes there, and bump the version > > > > number slightly. > > > > > > No need to bump the version number, overlays take priority over the > > > standard

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Deleted kdevelop ebuilds

2015-03-01 Thread Fernando Rodriguez
On Sunday, March 01, 2015 3:01:09 AM Michael Palimaka wrote: > On 27/02/15 19:07, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: > > > > I've been using kdevelop-4.7.0 (unstable) for a while and it was working just > > fine. Then about a couple weeks ago it's ebuild got deleted

[gentoo-user] EAPI-6 dev-python ebuilds

2016-03-21 Thread James
Hello, I'm looking for some EAPI-6 examples or ebuild templates to to review. Is there a simple way to parse the portage tree for EAPI=6 examples regardless if they are testing, stable or still just beta in a git repo somewhere? Maybe a particular dev has already revised a group of ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI-6 dev-python ebuilds

2016-03-21 Thread David M. Fellows
On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:50:02 + James wrote - > Hello, > > I'm looking for some EAPI-6 examples or ebuild templates to > to review. > > > Is there a simple way to parse the portage tree for EAPI=6 examples > regardless if they are testing, stable or st

Re: [gentoo-user] Short cut for unmerging all packages that are not longer in the tree

2009-10-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:58:17 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > depclean only removes packages that it knows for a fact are no longer > > needed. > > This means > > > > - not in world > > - not linked to by anything > > - not depended on by anything >

Re: [gentoo-user] Openrc service crash

2023-04-08 Thread Michael
add a delay in rc.conf as well, so you don't directly edit > the init script. > > Regards, > Arve The gatling webserver is rather simple with no logging or debugging options that I have found. The rc.conf log does not capture gatling's internal code crash, so I'm non

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge Problems...

2011-01-31 Thread Dale
ine in make.conf on the second rig. This is my rsyncd.conf on the main rig: # Simple example for enabling your own local rsync server [gentoo-portage] path = /usr/portage comment = Gentoo Portage tree exclude = /distfiles /packages If you want to include distfiles, just remove it from the excl

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-19 Thread nunojsilva
On 2019-12-19, Thomas Schweikle wrote: >>> > On 2019-12-18, (Nuno Silva) < >>> > nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt> wrote: >>> > >>> > > The EAPI problem is in a package that is pulled as a dependency of >>> > > portage. >>> &

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-21 Thread Mark Knecht
. Probably most frustrating has been that I > > > don't know it will be removed until it's been removed. > > > > You could, as soon as you have a system in a working state, tar > > up the entire /usr/portage tree, [...] > > No, no, no that's wy

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > > >> /mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs) > >> > > > > Why do you separate the distfiles from the portage tree? > > > > Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Stéphane Guedon
distfiles has a tendency to grow large over the years. IIRC nothing > cleans it up automatically so having it separate is just a simple > safety mechanism to not run out of disk space after emerge -fDuN > @world, etc. > > I do it also. > > - Mark It is also because the portage

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread Michael
; what the differences are. jinja was a nice example, because there was a > > collision of the same package with itself! The only difference was the > > PYTHON_TARGET. I hoped someone could explain how I could force > > equivalency in that simple case. > > You need to

Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

2011-09-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
early boot rules file would need to be used to handle > > things like setting up symlinks for block devices to avoid breaking > > some users' fstabs. > > Yes, which means "udev" would need to be split into: > * devd (which controls the /dev-tree) > * p

Re: [gentoo-user] Excessively simple flatfile database

2007-11-10 Thread Bryan Whitehead
Sounds like you want to use a spreadsheet. You try OpenOffice? On Nov 10, 2007 6:55 PM, Alan E. Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree. I want to have a record of my > specimens and preparations, in a format that can be retrieved in various &g

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-04-26 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 26. April 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote: > · fire-eyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Over a whole system this can > > add up to a few dozen more MB of space usable. > > This Depends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage > tree

[gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
The 23/11/11, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I also got "random memory corruption" when compiling large packages with > simple kernel configurations and no "out-of-tree" modules present on the > system. > > Do you have any evidence to proof that this randomness is actu

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: XMMS: Bye, Bye Gentoo

2006-12-01 Thread Richard Fish
really isn't a big deal. You'll just need to copy the ebuild to your local overlay and preserve the distfiles. Portage makes it really simple to manage packages outside of the main portage tree. And if you have a problem with the ebuild, it is fairly easy to find someone willing to hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

2014-06-05 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 5 Jun 2014 16:15:11 +0200 "Dutch Ingraham" wrote: > If you could point me to the proper command set to make the switch, > I'd appreciate it. Remove the overlay (`layman -d mate`) and then do a world upgrade. It is as simple as that, as it'll upgrade all thos

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update --deep world installs unwanted packages

2006-08-08 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:52:45 + Andrew Syrewicze wrote: > Daniel da Veiga wrote: > > On 8/8/06, Andrew Syrewicze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hey eveyone. This is probably a really simple question. I've used debian > >> for many years and recnetly mad

Re: [gentoo-user] howto update portage/packages without an internet connection

2006-08-15 Thread Daniel da Veiga
On 8/15/06, Matthias Guede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ryan Tandy wrote: > Jed R. Mallen wrote: >> hello, >> >> i've got a gentoo box with no internet connection at home. >> i have broadband at the office, but running WinXP. >> >> can i download

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating a LFS system with Portage

2006-09-19 Thread Richard Fish
On 9/19/06, Alon Keren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My aim is to have the ability to regularly build and maintain completely customized Linux systems. This should be possible by using your own local portage tree (probably based initially on Gentoo's tree) that you update somewhat ma

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo healthy?

2006-12-20 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
t > running digests, etc., and being a user I'm not all that interested in > that stuff. The structure isn't any different from the tree. In fact most of what's required in the tree doesn't need to be in an overlay. If you have PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage&qu

[gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread eroen
hat there's nothing to update. And it does that every time, even >directly in succession and with the caches warm. > >Is it just me? You don't say when your baseline was, but the complexity of resolving the package tree has increased quite a bit over the last year due to new feat

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-04 Thread Dan Farrell
On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 04:37:48 + (UTC) James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Iliev ilievnet.com> writes: > > > > Close. You can't use win32codecs on amd64 at all, unless you are > > > using a 32 bit binary program with them. Simple as that. So VLC

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-18 Thread waltdnes
/usr/local/portage ) make your changes there, and bump the version > > > number slightly. > > > > No need to bump the version number, overlays take priority over the > > standard tree when there are equal version numbers. > > > > I knew I forgot something so s

Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild for Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-25 Thread Alec Shaner
Markus Döbele wrote: Can't the rest be automated too? I mean creating the directories and to check first if portage is installed? Would be easier for the users. Then a link should be created in PATH thet you can type laby everywhere. Once the ebuild is officially in the portage tree,

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail fails to do CNAME lookup for lists.gentoo.org

2013-03-24 Thread Sascha Cunz
ving the same problem, here's exactly what I did to solve this: - Create a local overlay - copy the mail-mta/netmail directory from portage tree - wget http://www.ckdhr.com/ckd/qmail-103.patch to the files directory. - copy netmail-1.06.ebuild to netmail-1.06-r1.ebuild - insert "e

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: emoticon display with Thunderbird

2013-04-24 Thread James
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > Stroller. > [1] http://thommck.wordpress.com/2011/12/15/youve-got-emoji-smilie-characters-discovered-in-a-font/ > [2] http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/ > [3] https://github.com/android/platform_frameworks_base/tree/master/data/fonts >

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Re: how to share a directory tree with files in it with multiple users (Re: [gentoo-user] local shared directory)

2016-05-07 Thread hw
Michael Orlitzky schrieb: On 04/23/2016 10:42 AM, hw wrote: Has it become entirely impossible to share a directory tree and the files in it with multiple users when Linux is involved? This should be a very simple thing to accomplish. It was never possible. It's ridiculous, but there

Re: [gentoo-user] speedup remote portage

2020-02-27 Thread William Kenworthy
, >> being a laptop trying to update/install when out and about is both very >> slow and network intensive through a vpn - again, it works but is even >> slower to the point of not always being practical >> >> Is there a way to localise/speedup portage scanning parts o

Re: [gentoo-user] A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-10 Thread Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov
On 3/10/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hello Everyone, I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the Portage tree at all. I would like to c

[gentoo-user] mailman 2.1 replacement? (Python 2.7 issue)

2020-09-06 Thread Matthias Hanft
Hi, I'm using mailman (stable 2.1.33) for several mailing lists. Since there seems to be only a Python 2.7 version, mailman is now masked and will soon be removed from the tree. I have already copied the mailman ebuild to a local overlay, but that's surely not the best idea in th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-meta 4.2 upgrade

2009-02-11 Thread Alan McKinnon
sted and either inserted in the tree or an overlay. i.e. waay too complex for what is really just a simple list. > So I could create a set called network and put things like Kppp, > ppp, wireshark and all the networky things in there for my use alone. Yes > I > assume that the

Re: [gentoo-user] modifying locally an ebuild

2005-08-31 Thread Holly Bostick
e it was updated without changing the version >> number), or will the newer ebuild always win out, whether it's in >> overlay or main Portage? > > > The overlay takes priority, even if the file date in the main portage > tree is newer. OK, now that I'm think

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --update --deep world installs unwanted packages

2006-08-08 Thread Andrew Syrewicze
Nick Rout wrote: On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 17:52:45 + Andrew Syrewicze wrote: Daniel da Veiga wrote: On 8/8/06, Andrew Syrewicze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hey eveyone. This is probably a really simple question. I've used debian for

Re: [gentoo-user] netqmail fails to do CNAME lookup for lists.gentoo.org

2013-03-24 Thread Pandu Poluan
this last mail went through smoothly and without any trouble in log > files. > > Since I got private mails from others having the same problem, here's exactly > what I did to solve this: > > - Create a local overlay > > - copy the mail-mta/netmail directory from portage

[gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-03 Thread James
Daniel Iliev ilievnet.com> writes: > > Close. You can't use win32codecs on amd64 at all, unless you are > > using a 32 bit binary program with them. Simple as that. So VLC > > cannot use 32 bit binary codecs, unless someone made a vlc 32-bit > > binary and put

Re: [gentoo-user] Why is KDE part of the system set?

2011-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
ts/desktop/kde/make.defaults. However, emerge -p system doesn't pull in any KDE packages here, although it does include qt, so this must be covered by another of your USE flags, which requires something that in turn requires KDE. Run it again with --tree to see what's really going on. -- N

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: A helping hand with virtual machines, please.

2011-11-23 Thread J. Roeleveld
help me make a good choice. >> >> Please, disparage with details! ;-) > > I've already said "random memory curruption". "random" is the key word > explaining why not much details can be given. :) I also got "random memory corruption" when compiling la

Re: [gentoo-user] Partitioning strategy...?

2011-11-25 Thread Mark Knecht
On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 11:51 AM, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 10:17:07AM -0800, Mark Knecht wrote >> On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 9:53 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: >> >> >> /mnt/distfiles ext3/4 (shared via nfs) >> >> >> > >> >

Re: [gentoo-user] Pratical question about portage tree

2005-09-28 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:57:57 +0800 W.Kenworthy wrote: > Here's another way I started using (~1 month) and it seems both simple > and problem free. Run http-replicator on the machine with good net > access, then point the rest at it. Its a distfile caching proxy and > best of a

[gentoo-user] Re: EIX and sunrise overlay

2006-07-09 Thread Stefan Schweizer
Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I just found out about sunrise overlay and I've added a few overlays > into my tree. cool :) > Seems that eix doesn't know about it. How can I inform eix about it? > > when I do a update-eix --dump I do see that I didn't exclude any trees. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Python3.4 to python3.5 in ebuilds

2016-01-18 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
_targets_python3_3 python_targets_python3_4 > python_targets_python3_5)) > > Yet there are some that are still unhappy with 3.5. This makes me > really annoyed and I was wondering if it was possible to write a > simple script to add python_targets_python3_5 where needed. Would this > brea

Re: [gentoo-user] mailman 2.1 replacement? (Python 2.7 issue)

2020-09-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 10:59:42 +0200, Matthias Hanft wrote: > On the other hand, there seems to be a mailman 3 version > (which is not yet in the portage tree), but I could > install it manually of course (though that sounds pretty > complicated?!), and there are some update doc

Re: [gentoo-user] KVM on AMD ... why doesn't it just work?

2013-10-02 Thread Kerin Millar
I would suggest "make mrproper" to clean the source tree. Ensure that the .config has been backed up because it will be deleted as a result. I had no module "kvm" because one was built as module and one into the kernel. I now did mrproper and recompile both kvm and kvm_amd into th

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE-meta 4.2 upgrade

2009-02-11 Thread Dale
book page) > but required that a full-blown ebuild be written. Which then had to be > manifested and either inserted in the tree or an overlay. i.e. > waay too complex for what is really just a simple list. > > >> So I could create a set called network and put things like Kpp

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage performance dropped considerably

2014-01-26 Thread hasufell
ommand to make it stop and print an >> error message when encountering a conflict rather than look for a >> solution. Then you can 'help' out by manually resolving any >> conflicts by adding package versions to /etc/portage/package.mask >> . Preferably try this *af

[gentoo-user] Re: Re[4]: Re: Portage, git and shallow cloning

2018-07-06 Thread Martin Vaeth
ture. > unless you stick --force in your pull Unfortunately, it is not that simple: git pull --force only works if the checked out tree is old enough (in which case git pull without --force would have worked also, BTW). The correct thing to do if git pull failed is: git update-index --r

Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Hartman
e that don't use package managers. > I almost always install into my home directory for programs that > aren't in portage (or make my own ebuild if it is a simple one). Or > depending on what program it is, create a user for it and run it under > that user account so it can

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't locate Net/IMAP/Client.pm

2015-02-28 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
ge. > > > sunflo ~ # find /usr -name Client.pm > /usr/lib64/perl5/5.20.1/CPAN/HTTP/Client.pm > sunflo ~ # > > > Any ideas? > > The module above probably comes from the pkg below: equery -q b /usr/lib/perl5/5.20.1/CPAN/HTTP/Client.pm dev-lang/perl-5.20.1-r4 Looks like t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Reducing disk usage

2007-05-03 Thread Csányi András
pends largely on the "type" of files. I've got my portage >> tree on a reiserfs, and in comparison to ext3, it saves couple >> 100 (one-zero-zero) megs! >> >> > > back in the good old days, when 10gb was big for a harddrive, I saved 2GB by > using

[gentoo-user] Re: trying to upgrade some old, never upgraded image for an embedded system …

2019-12-18 Thread nunojsilva
ssage is pretty clear. You need to upgrade portage first. Try > `emerge -1 portage`. This should take care of the EAPI message. The EAPI problem is in a package that is pulled as a dependency of portage. Unless there's a simple hack to solve this, you will need to use older ebuilds or s

Re: [gentoo-user] Merging separate /usr back into / - one last time...

2013-12-06 Thread godzil
copy file if they are already existing, and are the same. It's quite usefull when using a copy over a network, or even locally when spurious error can occur and especially when the filesystem is live and file may be modified during the copy. To copy large file tree rsync is, for me,

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommend C source browser/editor?

2021-08-07 Thread n952162
fantastic. The first is handled by a simple tool that I developed, using a vi-macro to invoke on a symbol ... I could conjure it up from somewhere, but not today. It will search a directory tree.  It doesn't use an index, but in my experience, the performance was acceptable. (there's

[gentoo-user] Python3.4 to python3.5 in ebuilds

2016-01-18 Thread Stanislav Ch. Nikolov
3.5. This makes me really annoyed and I was wondering if it was possible to write a simple script to add python_targets_python3_5 where needed. Would this break anything, and if no, why can't the maintainers or some portage-tree admin do it? Of course there might be some other barri

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge --sync

2016-10-24 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Mon Oct 24 10:44:24 2016, Jorge Almeida wrote: > My use case is basic: 2 home computers, I do emerge et. al. on the > faster one and produce binary packages to be used on the other one, > which doesn't even need distfiles, just portage tree plus binary > packages. I copy st

Re: [gentoo-user] portage: fixed or not???

2005-11-07 Thread Qian Qiao
; latest security updates) you need to update your system regularly. Since > Portage only checks the ebuilds in your Portage tree you first have to > update your Portage tree. > > Code Listing 2: Updating the Portage tree > # emerge --sync > > When your Portage tree is updated, you

how to share a directory tree with files in it with multiple users (Re: [gentoo-user] local shared directory)

2016-04-23 Thread hw
ged to the same user. Or what would I need to do? Has it become entirely impossible to share a directory tree and the files in it with multiple users when Linux is involved? This should be a very simple thing to accomplish.

[gentoo-user] Re: A question regarding non-Portage software...

2007-03-11 Thread Steve Long
Michael [Plouj] Ploujnikov wrote: > On 3/10/07, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I will begin by stating my problem. I have the source code (in >> *.tar.bz2 format) for a couple of pieces of software that are not in the >> Portage tree at all. I would like to compi

[gentoo-user] Re: to install portage on other gentoo installs

2014-02-14 Thread eroen
o > installs from my system instead downloading from mirrors? > > Thanks in advance! Setting up a local rsync mirror for a portage tree is fairly simple, you share the working tree at /usr/portage on a local server to the network and make sure the server is up-to-date before syncing

Re: [gentoo-user] docbook-sgml-utils and jade...

2005-06-12 Thread Steve [Gentoo]
d have expected, assuming this is a simple issue that packages should now be dependent on openjade and not jade, that the portage tree would have been updated to reflect this? Is this planned? I wonder why it seems to have taken so long? Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Find ebuilds that use a flag

2009-03-13 Thread Nick Fortino
James wrote: Hello, I need to be able to find which packages use a particular flag. "gpac" to be specific: Enable GPAC support when exporting to 3GPP format. Any simple/global tools to find and list each and every package available on Gentoo that has this flag as a option? The

Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

2007-02-02 Thread Steve Dibb
all, unless you are using a 32 bit binary program with them. Simple as that. So VLC cannot use 32 bit binary codecs, unless someone made a vlc 32-bit binary and put it in the tree. Steve -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Something weird and I'm confused. BIOS and SATA is empty

2011-11-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 06 Nov 2011 13:21:33 -0600, Dale wrote: > > Odd thing. I never noticed they were symlinks. A simple `sudo cp ...` > > does the right thing here. Did you use `cp -a`, maybe through an > > alias? > > I do use -av out of habit. That habit started when I was copy

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
; > > You can copy the ebuild to your own private overlay > > ( /usr/local/portage ) make your changes there, and bump the version > > number slightly. > > No need to bump the version number, overlays take priority over the > standard tree when there are equal version numbers. > I knew I forgot something so simple >.< Thanks! Hmmm... so, @waltdnes, you should modify the procedure a bit, there... Rgds,

Re: [gentoo-user] Progress on s/udev/mdev/

2011-11-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
> > You can copy the ebuild to your own private overlay > > > > ( /usr/local/portage ) make your changes there, and bump the version > > > > number slightly. > > > > > > No need to bump the version number, overlays take priority over the > > > standard

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