[gentoo-user] [OT] binary comparison

2005-10-16 Thread Andrew Gaydenko
Hi! 'diff' is text oriented tool. I there some kind of such tool oriented to binary files/subtrees comparison? Thanks! -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] binary comparison

2005-10-17 Thread Shawn Haggett
Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! 'diff' is text oriented tool. I there some kind of such tool oriented to binary files/subtrees comparison? Thanks! 'od | diff' -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] binary comparison

2005-10-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sun, 2005-10-16 at 20:30 +0400, Andrew Gaydenko wrote: Hi! 'diff' is text oriented tool. I there some kind of such tool oriented to binary files/subtrees comparison? Thanks! Hi, Check xdelta. Used by KDE for binary diffs etc. Rumen signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-30 Thread Andreas K. Huettel
ditors and word processors failed miseraby. > > I looked at a unicode text file with a binary viewer. It turns out > that a simple text string like "1234" was actually... > "1" binary-zero "2" binary-zero "3" binary-zero "4"

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] binary comparison

2005-10-16 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:30:48 +0400 Andrew Gaydenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'diff' is text oriented tool. I there some kind of such tool oriented to binary files/subtrees comparison? cmp Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] binary comparison

2005-10-17 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 09:01:35PM +0930, Shawn Haggett wrote: 'diff' is text oriented tool. I there some kind of such tool oriented to binary files/subtrees comparison? Thanks! 'od | diff' 'cmp' Rasmus -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Machine not booting properly: profile.env cannot execute binary file

2017-10-24 Thread Andrew Lowe
bash: .: /etc/profile.env: cannot execute binary file If I tried any command, say ls, I got: -bash: ls: no such file or dir I've now rebooted the machine using a relatively recent sysrescueCD and had a look at profile.env and it's binary but I thought it should have been text In the top

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-29 Thread Walter Dnes
The real showstopper was that importing text files into spreadsheets and text-editors and word processors failed miseraby. I looked at a unicode text file with a binary viewer. It turns out that a simple text string like "1234" was actually... "1" binary-zero "2"

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
to read them. This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some binary (i.e. unreadable characters) and that causes less to consider files to be binary and show them incorrectly. Yes, that was me. I found

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-18 Thread Stroller
. My experience was that the text logfile is turned to binary on reboot - the binary characters were logged as part of the kernel's startup messages. This was repeatable and predictable. Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread Matti Nykyri
... Actually what syslog-ng produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some binary (i.e. unreadable characters) and that causes less to consider files to be binary and show them incorrectly. To work around you can use -r flag with less, or replace/remove unreadable chars from

Re: [gentoo-user] issue on binary merge

2005-09-07 Thread Sascha Lucas
your binary into data (tar) and info (text). In this info-text is every thing stored like USe, CFALGS, I'm still pretty new to Gentoo, but is this perhaps related to the feature I've read about (and maybe misremembered) regarding only packages that you explicity emerge going into world

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 26 December 2014 23:33:33 I wrote: For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: [...] Can I use the following method to restore the original text format of /var/log/messages? 1.Boot rescue system and mount main system 2.# cd /mnt

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Mick
guide gives me a headache :-( I don't know if this is a matter of changing some setting a in a config file - I haven't found any yet. It seems that upon boot up some binary data is written in the otherwise plain text logs: Dec 22 10:15:21 dell_xps syslog-ng[1526]: syslog-ng starting up

[gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, I have a lot of files with digits of PI. The digits are the characters of 0-9. Currently they are ZIPped, which I think is not the best way to do that. I read of 7zips PPMd which compresses natural text quite well...but my files are not natural text (as they are also no binary data

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-30 Thread antlists
into spreadsheets and text-editors and word processors failed miseraby. I looked at a unicode text file with a binary viewer. It turns out that a simple text string like "1234" was actually... "1" binary-zero "2" binary-zero "3" binary-zero "4"

Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?

2009-03-24 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:40:51 +, Stroller wrote: Every time you bottom post with more than a page or screenful of quoting, a top-posting is justified. No it's not, but trimming of the quoted text is. -- Neil Bothwick There are 10 types of people in this world, those who understand

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine not booting properly: profile.env cannot execute binary file

2017-10-24 Thread Dale
then the fun began. > > I got: > > -bash: .: /etc/profile.env: cannot execute binary file > > If I tried any command, say ls, I got: > > -bash: ls: no such file or dir > > I've now rebooted the machine using a relatively recent > sysrescueCD and had a

[gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-26 Thread Peter Humphrey
Hello list, For some time now I've had syslog-ng writing /var/log/messages in a binary format: # file /var/log/messages /var/log/messages: data # grep syslog-ng /var/log/messages Binary file /var/log/messages matches

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Matan Peled
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Markus Döbele wrote: I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader

[gentoo-user] Re: ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-29 Thread Grant Edwards
coding (is there such a thing as UTF-16?). I've never seen a file like that. Everybody and everything uses UTF-8 these days and has for years. UTF-8 is a superset of ASCII, and doesn't increase size of the file unless non-ascii characters are used. Converting an ASCII file to UTF-8 encoding is

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened Kernel (PaX): How to allow Text Relocations for *ONE* executable, while disallowing it for *EVERY* *OTHER* executable?

2006-04-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:19:46AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: Now, how do I allow text relocations for just ONE binary, while keeping it disallowed for every other executable (the ones which already exist and the ones, which are to come in the future)? I now would like

[gentoo-user] Hardened Kernel (PaX): How to allow Text Relocations for *ONE* executable, while disallowing it for *EVERY* *OTHER* executable?

2006-04-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
/libXcompext.so.1: cannot make segment writable for relocation: Permission denied According to the Gentoo Hardened FAQ at http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/hardened/hardenedfaq.xml#paxnoelf, that's okay - ie. the kernel setting causes the error message. Now, how do I allow text relocations for just ONE binary

Re: [gentoo-user] net-nntp/klibido

2006-05-27 Thread JimD
Ryan Tandy wrote: JimD wrote: If the above is not doable, does anyone know of a good binary news reader for Linux? What's wrong with Thunderbird? For binary news groups? I could give it a shot. However, Thunderbird sucks up tons of memory for text-only news groups with a few hundred posts

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Markus Döbele
on commercial stuff. Agreed, I'm not really willing to spend my time on a 'semi-opensource' app either. Writing an ebuild for a binary app isn't all that hard, and it might be accepted into portage (Other binary games have been accepted, after all). Good luck, Markus. -- [Name ] :: [Matan

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Walter Dnes
was written for. I can't think of anything better. BTW, what type of data is the 10 gig file? If it's text, then consider using zip or bzip2 on each of the fragments before transferring. If it's an already compressed binary format, then don't waste time attempting further compression. -- Walter Dnes

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is gnome becoming obligatory?

2017-12-12 Thread Wols Lists
is not, > AFAIK, a standalone reader. If I want to boot from a live CD, I can only > read the logs if it is a systemd live CD, or I chroot into the original > system. Unless someone knows different... If the log isn't binary, what is it? Plain text? Well, I certainly can't read it just

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine not booting properly: profile.env cannot execute binary file

2017-10-25 Thread Andrew Lowe
rescueCD > and had a look at profile.env and it's binary but I thought it should > have been text In the top line or so it mentions "ld" for some > reason. I checked the same file on the boot disk and it's text. One or > two I found on line are also text. > >  

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine not booting properly: profile.env cannot execute binary file

2017-10-24 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
ted the machine using a relatively recent > sysrescueCD and had a look at profile.env and it's binary but I thought it > should have been text In the top line or so it mentions "ld" for some > reason. I checked the same file on the boot disk and it's text. One or two > I fo

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mark Knecht
to reassemble?    Is there some better way to do this?  That's what split was written for.  I can't think of anything better. BTW, what type of data is the 10 gig file?  If it's text, then consider using zip or bzip2 on each of the fragments before transferring.  If it's an already compressed binary

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-18 Thread lee
was that the text logfile is turned to binary on reboot - the binary characters were logged as part of the kernel's startup messages. This was repeatable and predictable. Maybe I'll try it tomorrow --- it's on a server at work which I plan to reboot anyway. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons

Re: [gentoo-user] Syslog-ng is writing binary

2014-12-27 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Binary file /var/log/messages matches Yet: # head /var/log/messages Dec 21 03:10:02 wstn run-crons[29014]: (root) CMD (/etc/cron.daily/man-db) [...] Can I use the following method to restore the original text format of /var/log/messages? 1. Boot rescue system and mount main

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread Alan McKinnon
that, since they were located in .../lib directories, they contained mysterious binary information which couldn't be manipulated with an ordinary text editor. Now that I've looked, I'm embarrassed! Well, thanks for teaching me something. Guess what? I did the same thing two months ago :-) After

[gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera

2006-07-27 Thread Stuart Howard
Hi folks I have misplaced some fonts or at least I think I have, I use Opera for a browser but since the xorg migration the transfers page has no text and the progress bar shows boxes instead of text. This I presume is a font issue and probably happended during the upgrade does anyone know which

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened Kernel (PaX): How to allow Text Relocations for *ONE* executable, while disallowing it for *EVERY* *OTHER* executable?

2006-04-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Skwar wrote: Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:19:46AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: Now, how do I allow text relocations for just ONE binary, while keeping it disallowed for every other executable (the ones

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened Kernel (PaX): How to allow Text Relocations for *ONE* executable, while disallowing it for *EVERY* *OTHER* executable?

2006-04-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Rumen Yotov wrote: Because chpax uses the old ELF-header markings and paxctl uses the new ones (binaries compiled with PIC PIE, binutils 2.16.X). So you use chpax or paxctl depending on the binary. Alright. That's an explanation I can live with. Is there a way to find out beforehand if chpax

[gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-08 Thread W.Kenworthy
Is anyone confirm that modular xorg (7.0-r1) works with the unison file syncroniser? I am getting an error both from stable, and ~x86 unison as well as a pre-built binary from the developer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unison work Uncaught exception Gpointer.Null Killed by signal 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild and gcj

2007-01-24 Thread John Blinka
, they contained mysterious binary information which couldn't be manipulated with an ordinary text editor. Now that I've looked, I'm embarrassed! Well, thanks for teaching me something. John -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread Vincent Launchbury
On 06/23/10 08:22, Mick wrote: PS. I just looked at earlier (stable) versions of these files here: http://drupal.org/project/skinr [...] and they do not have the binary characters at the end - so this could well be a problem with the development versions. Perhaps it was just a corrupt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Binary install distro

2011-11-11 Thread Dale
Grant Edwards wrote: The next thing you do is configure it to boot into text mode with all the kernel messages visible. Then you've got something that's almost tolerable. cough cough Care to share how you did that little trick? I like to see the stuff scrolling up myself

[gentoo-user] Re: syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 17/02/15 20:26, lee wrote: Hi, how do you read the log files when using syslog-ng? The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. As others said, it's probably a bug and /var/log/messages is actually

Re: [gentoo-user] basic grub question

2016-06-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 15 Jun 2016 13:00:33 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > That's why I said "switch to nouveau", using that instead of the > > binary drivers should avoid the conflict. > > Can I use uvesafb and noveau at the same time? I've not tried it, but as both

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread Jan Sever
to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some binary (i.e. unreadable characters

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
the log files when using syslog-ng? The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread Peter Humphrey
too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some binary (i.e. unreadable characters) and that causes less to consider files

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-17 Thread Mick
? The log file seem to be some sort of binary that doesn't display too well in less, and there doesn't seem to be any way to read them. This was discussed earlier on this list... Actually what syslog-ng produces is plain text. There seemed to be a bug that creates some binary (i.e

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE menu missing

2009-06-08 Thread Mick
: WARNING: 'klinkstatus_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'klinkstatus_part.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'text/x-c++' kbuildsycoca: WARNING: 'kcertpart.desktop' specifies undefined mimetype/servicetype 'application/binary

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with mutt and mimetypes

2011-03-21 Thread Michael George
and firefox-3.6.13. I now have mutt-1.5.21-r1 and firefox-3.6.15. mutt -nF /dev/null -Q mailcap_path gives me: mailcap_path=~/.mailcap:/usr/share/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap I have nothing for the tag text/html in my muttrc file

Re: [gentoo-user] Hardened Kernel (PaX): How to allow Text Relocations for *ONE* executable, while disallowing it for *EVERY* *OTHER* executable?

2006-04-16 Thread Alexander Skwar
Willie Wong wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 11:19:46AM +0200, Penguin Lover Alexander Skwar squawked: Now, how do I allow text relocations for just ONE binary, while keeping it disallowed for every other executable (the ones which already exist and the ones, which are to come in the future

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} cdrdao's toc2cue question

2008-09-28 Thread Grant
I patched cdrdao to recognize certain CD-TEXT types for its toc file creation with the info here: http://www.lackhead.org/2007/05/patch-for-cdrdao-122-cd-text-causing-crash/ but toc2cue fails to execute on such a toc file with a series of these: ERROR: CD/cdda.toc:36: Invalid CD-TEXT item

Re: [gentoo-user] repair damaged pdf?

2011-04-14 Thread Mick
to install layman and overlays, you can send me the file off-list and I take a look. One good thing about PDF is that its structure is stored uncompressed (AFAIK it only compresses text and binary data with zlib since version 1.2). This means that it might be at least partially recoverable

Re: [gentoo-user] I don't seem to have a system log. Help, please!

2015-02-09 Thread Rich Freeman
On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:06 AM, Matthias Hanft m...@hanft.de wrote: And (from what I have heard) if you use systemd instead of openrc, there are no syslog files at all - you have to export them (from some binary database) manually to some human- readable format. But I don't know much about

Re: [gentoo-user] Machine not booting properly: profile.env cannot execute binary file

2017-10-25 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
and, say ls, I got: > > > > -bash: ls: no such file or dir > > > > I've now rebooted the machine using a relatively recent sysrescueCD > > and had a look at profile.env and it's binary but I thought it should > > have been text In the top line or so it mentio

[gentoo-user] problems with mutt and mimetypes

2011-03-21 Thread Michael George
:/usr/share/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mutt/mailcap:/etc/mailcap:/usr/etc/mailcap:/usr/local/etc/mailcap I have nothing for the tag text/html in my muttrc file. I have text/html; firefox %s in my ~/.mailcap file. I have the following in /etc/mailcap: text/html; /usr/bin/lynx -force_html '%s

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2?

2005-06-20 Thread Mark Shields
Perhaps his answer isn't clear enough. SOMEONE has to compile the source for Gentoo; to my knowledge, Portage doesn't store an pre-compiled binaries. Read the wikipedia entry for Gentoo, which states: Gentoo does not use binary packages as package management systems like RPM, instead employing

Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo Healthy? (The Return)

2007-07-05 Thread Kent Fredric
the developer hadn't linked it against a bunch of stuff I didn't have. I can take a text-only basic system, emerge gimp, and emerge will pull in and build, in the right order, all the necessary X libraries, GTK, etc, etc. I end up with a functional TWM desktop. emerge bbkeys emerges blackbox

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Markus Döbele
a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a big problem for this system? No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Nick Rout
with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a big problem for this system? No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We have Java, Unreal Tournament 2k3/2k4, Doom 3, Neverwinter Nights... All kinds of binary-only apps. But all of them are closed-source (Except

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-23 Thread Frank Schafer
sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader? Is this a big problem for this system? No, Portage can handle binary apps just fine. We have Java, Unreal Tournament 2k3

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-23 Thread Markus Döbele
. August 2005 22:52 schrieb Matan Peled: Markus Döbele wrote: I created a tar.gz Version of this game too. I'm sorry that its not possible to compile it with the demo version of the compiler. What are gentoo users doing with other binary packages? Like Acrobat Reader

Re: [gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+found. How do I sort them?

2006-09-26 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
, if there's corruption later on file won't notice. Or is there one that could distinguish a text file from a binary? Of course, file does this to some extent. A MIME type of text/* is generally text, while anything else is binary. But, file's output (by default) isn't a simple binary or text string

Re: [gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+found. How do I sort them?

2006-09-27 Thread Robert Persson
mentioned, the file utility is useful for identifying the type of file. Keep in mind though that is only looks at the first few bytes of the file, if there's corruption later on file won't notice. Or is there one that could distinguish a text file from a binary? Of course, file does

Re: [gentoo-user] How many people use KDE?

2006-01-22 Thread Paul S. Bains
Uncompiled code is not loaded into ram because it is only text. The exception is when you are editing it..! Unless I've been compiling all these years for no reason...:) Code must actually be compiled into a binary and called in one way or another to be loaded into ram. If you mean

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
that at least for one binary no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary. Bummer! How do I find out? ??? Are you running with the -q option? Normally in the assigning file to packages stage it will produce error text like file not owned by any package is broken. Maybe check your output again

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild

2007-01-01 Thread Uwe Thiem
it on that box for a long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary. Bummer! How do I find out? ??? I agree. ;-) Are you running with the -q option? No -q option here. Straight revdep-rebuild. Normally in the assigning file

Re: [gentoo-user] terminal spreadsheet - sc fork

2014-11-04 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
. I ran make. I got the familiar gcc screens of text output. But there's nothing installed in ~/.local. Should there be a make install command somewhere? There's actually no 'install' command in the Makefile. You should be able to run it by executing the 'scim' binary in src/. It doesn't create

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [WAS: keyboard stops working] Recent kernels block the loading of non-GPL kernel modules

2015-08-19 Thread Rich Freeman
on the GPL exports. What makes it illegal? Quote the text of the relevant statute or court case. Copyright law makes everything illegal. Downloading the source and reading it is illegal. Why wouldn't it be illegal? The copyright holders have made it clear that you have no license to do so. If I

[gentoo-user] A pair of bash scripts to rebuild pkgs after a kernel upgrade.

2016-01-15 Thread Gregory Woodbury
ilds get the correct sources and .configs to look at. There are some status update displays since they should be run from a text console or terminal window. The "rebuild-kern-set" is the main script that checks the setup and runs the emerge The "make-kern-set" does the work of

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera

2006-08-04 Thread Stuart Howard
I have discovered that if I emerge the previous package opera-8.54 then the fault goes away ie. all text is displayed normally but when I return to opera 9 then the fault returns. I guess there is no point raising a bug as it will almost certainly be my system not the package. Is there a list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage screwup

2013-04-20 Thread Mick
out it was a problem with recent gtk+ package. Usually portage is very good at the package versions it offers and as long as you don't mix stable and testing trees too much you should have a working system most of the time. I just resync'ed and can see that app-text/poppler-0.22.2-r2 is stable

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-05-04 Thread lee
Rich Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes: On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 6:41 PM, lee l...@yagibdah.de wrote: To me it is one of the good reasons, and an important one. Plain text can usually always be read without further ado, be it from rescue systems you booted or with software available

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera : Solved

2006-08-04 Thread Stuart Howard
ps. Firefox has come on a long way since last I used it. On 04/08/06, Stuart Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have discovered that if I emerge the previous package opera-8.54 then the fault goes away ie. all text is displayed normally but when I return to opera 9 then the fault returns. I guess

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: about the 2007.1

2007-11-08 Thread Graham Murray
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Gentoo needs an easy to use, graphical installation CD, period. What I would do is lower(simplify) the goals of what that installation CD accomplishes. Once you get a drive prepared, kernel installed and the basic tools installed (binary or compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] The NPTL difference

2005-05-16 Thread Matan Peled
City 3000 Unlimited, for example, doesn't work with nptl. Some other binary apps too, perhaps. nptlonly makes the ebuild not build a non-nptl libc, which means you can't fall back on linux threads like so: LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.5 foo -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location

[gentoo-user] [OT] Secure web document

2005-06-14 Thread Stuart Howard
that this documentation cannot escape out of our control. What I am wondering is, can a document be published to a website [for example] in such a way that it can be viewed and read but it cannot be either copied, downloaded, printed or the text extracted from it? Not in the spirit of open source I admit

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary

2005-11-30 Thread Phil Sexton
Ernie Schroder wrote: I've recently done 11 months worth of updates on this box and have about 40 hours of build time on it in the last 10 days. I want to use it, not watch more text fly by on the console. Try compiling it at a lower priority. I just put this in my /etc/make.conf file

Re: [gentoo-user] unison and the modular X

2006-05-08 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Tuesday, May 9 2006 12:48, W.Kenworthy wrote: Is anyone confirm that modular xorg (7.0-r1) works with the unison file syncroniser? I am getting an error both from stable, and ~x86 unison as well as a pre-built binary from the developer. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ unison work Uncaught

Re: [gentoo-user] I have 146,000 files in lost+found. How do I sort them?

2006-09-25 Thread Richard Fish
an appropriate file extension, deleted or moved? Or is there one that could distinguish a text file from a binary? sys-apps/file will give you the 'file' command, which does exactly this. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost Labyrinth

2005-08-22 Thread Matan Peled
... It requires a commercial basic compiler =/ A binary package is our only choice. - -- [Name ] :: [Matan I. Peled] [Location ] :: [Israel] [Public Key] :: [0xD6F42CA5] [Keyserver ] :: [keyserver.kjsl.com] encrypted/signed plain text preferred -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypting everything

2009-07-05 Thread Dirk Heinrichs
Am Sonntag 05 Juli 2009 19:53:20 schrieb Alex Schuster: Right :) I didn't want my LUKS key to be in clear-text The LUKS key isn't stored as cleartext, it's encrypted. even if it's in a binary file on some server which probably no one will ever see and identify as a boot partition. I have my

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is a git based tree going to save me bandwidth and time?

2010-08-03 Thread Florian Philipp
. rsync uses delta-encoding to minimize data transfers. Not necessarily true: Many (all?) public gentoo mirrors deactivate delta-encoding in order to limit CPU-utilization. I would also guess that git's delta encoding has a much finer granularity because it works on lines (in text files) while

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing pulseaudio

2013-04-19 Thread Kevin Chadwick
making a dummy package on binary distros to fool the system into thinking it is installed and so not removing lots. I suggested he use Gentoo but I think he saw it as too much work. -- ___ 'Write programs that do one thing and do

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-bin for stupid user

2013-09-29 Thread Bruce Hill
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 04:44:29PM +0200, Alain Didierjean wrote: I'm in trouble for having stupidly unmerged gcc and gcc-config ! What's the easiest way, if any, to grab and install a binary gcc allowing me to emerge... gcc ! We're talking about amd64. Did you unmerge all gcc, or upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/02/2014 23:32, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: And you always can run other legacy logger alongside the journal, and have both things; binary logs for fast retrieval, and text logs if you so desire. Please do not use that phrase legacy in this context. Classic syslogging is not legacy

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/02/2014 23:32, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: And you always can run other legacy logger alongside the journal, and have both things; binary logs for fast retrieval, and text logs if you so desire. Please do

[gentoo-user] Re: new scanner : partial success

2017-05-03 Thread Ian Zimmerman
On 2017-05-03 15:13, Philip Webb wrote: > It appears that the driver set-up includes a binary blob > & that it can't be done simply by picking the correct SANE_BACKENDS item > (the old scanner simply need 'plustek' to be chosen). > So can anyone advise me how to get my new

[gentoo-user] Re: Sudden auto-unmount of an encfs-partition ... why?

2017-05-21 Thread Ian Zimmerman
by no means a cryptologist (I even cant spell this > correctly...or...? ;) The binary may link to gpg, and the package may depend on it (I haven't checked), but the way I use it is definitely symmetric cryptography. I know enough to be sure of that. -- Please *no* private Cc: on mailing lists and news

Re: [gentoo-user] binary packages: how to ...

2020-07-15 Thread Ashley Dixon
> this, in case you have it already. This forces the "unRAR" LICENSE on p7zip, as opposed to the Lesser GPL: app-arch/p7zip ebuild: LICENSE="LGPL-2.1 rar? ( unRAR )" Unfortunately, as [1] describes, this licence is non-free and GPL-incompatible. The full text i

Re: [gentoo-user] Java wants cups?

2022-04-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 2 Apr 2022 12:06:22 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > You can't. cups is more unwanted/unnecessary bloatware weasling its > way in just like systemd and sphinx. I also have cups as a requirement > for app-text/ghostscript-gpl as well as for google-chrome, which I use > 99%

Re: [gentoo-user] depclean and DuN world loop

2006-12-22 Thread Daniel Iliev
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 11:54:24 +0200, Daniel Iliev wrote: Calculating world dependencies . . done! [nomerge ] mail-client/squirrelmail-1.4.8 USE=crypt mysql nls spell ssl vhosts -filter -ldap -postgres [binary N] perl-core/DB_File-1.814

Re: [gentoo-user] Missing font in Opera

2006-07-30 Thread Stuart Howard
Howard wrote: I have misplaced some fonts or at least I think I have, I use Opera for a browser but since the xorg migration the transfers page has no text and the progress bar shows boxes instead of text. This I presume is a font issue and probably happended during the upgrade does anyone

Re: [gentoo-user] reading php file code in text editor

2010-06-23 Thread roundyz
= and so on. When I view the file using a text editor I see a number of lines which are shown as binary characters ... should it be like this? = $dimensions = !empty($node-height) !empty($node-width) !empty

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng-3.4: time_sleep() deprecated or not?

2013-07-10 Thread Bruce Hill
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:32:16PM +0100, Mick wrote: The new version runs a couple of useful checks on the syntax of the configuration file - who would have thought that I had a duplicate directive in there! O_o Hmm ... I just tried 'less /var/log/syslog' and I now get a binary file

Re: [gentoo-user] OT Best way to compress files with digits

2014-10-31 Thread Ralf
PPMd which compresses natural text quite well...but my files are not natural text (as they are also no binary data). With what practical way of compression is it possible to compress the files (file by file) as much as possible? Thank you very much in advance for any help! Best regards

Re: [gentoo-user] syslog-ng: how to read the log files

2015-02-22 Thread lee
reading software, usually a combination of cat, grep and less. systemd does it all with journalctl. There are good reasons to not use systemd, this isn't one of them. To me it is one of the good reasons, and an important one. Plain text can usually always be read without further ado, be it from

Re: [gentoo-user] Where can I download the gentoo binary for Ximian Evolution 2?

2005-06-20 Thread Hareesh Nagarajan
On 6/20/05, Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps his answer isn't clear enough. SOMEONE has to compile the source for Gentoo; to my knowledge, Portage doesn't store an pre-compiled binaries. Read the wikipedia entry for Gentoo, which states: Gentoo does not use binary packages

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: recompiling vim linked to libncursesw

2005-07-27 Thread Andreas Claesson
text', check what's inside with hexedit and see that LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH ACUTE is encoded with this hex: C3 A1 (which is not 00 E1 from unicode chart from http://www.unicode.org/charts/) I think this is just the way these characters are represented in utf-8. Yes, it is. 00E1 hex

Re: [gentoo-user] Use split to break up a 10GB file binary?

2011-06-20 Thread Mick
to transfer over the net using rsync, and then use cat to reassemble? Is there some better way to do this? That's what split was written for. I can't think of anything better. BTW, what type of data is the 10 gig file? If it's text, then consider using zip or bzip2 on each

Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo speed comparison to other distros

2013-03-15 Thread Kevin Chadwick
I didn't miss anything. I get what some are saying. The reason for my question is this. Gentoo allows a person to customize the OS to the specific hardware it is being run on. Redhat and other binary distros don't allow this, unless you compile your own packages which is no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Debian just voted in systemd for default init system in jessie

2014-02-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
the journal; you can configure it so it doesn't stores its binary logs, but it's still running. And you always can run other legacy logger alongside the journal, and have both things; binary logs for fast retrieval, and text logs if you so desire. And just like journald many (if not most or even

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