[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-06 Thread walt
On 05/06/2013 04:37 PM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > Am 07.05.2013 01:22, schrieb walt: >> On 05/05/2013 01:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> >>> There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build >>> files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a >>> shame.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Hampicke
Am 07.05.2013 01:22, schrieb walt: > On 05/05/2013 01:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build >> files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a >> shame. > > You should become familiar with the 'ebuild' comm

[gentoo-user] Re: Delays while building Libre Office.

2013-05-06 Thread walt
On 05/05/2013 01:38 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > There doesn't appear to be any action in emerge which unpacks the build > files (or even the entire source) of a package for perusal. This is a > shame. You should become familiar with the 'ebuild' command, which I use very often when trying to deb

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Randolph Maaßen
2013/5/6 Alan McKinnon > On 06/05/2013 20:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:34:20PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > >> emm - no. Wear leveling does not need any spare blocks. A lot of drives > >> do have spare blocks, but those are never the same size of the or

Re: [gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-06 Thread Michael Mol
On 05/06/2013 03:15 PM, Silvio Siefke wrote: > Hello, > > > i run @world update. By calibre 0.9.29 broke the Process with follow message: > > > calibre successfully installed. You can start it by running the command > calibre > > There were 1 warning(s): > > * Setting up completion failed wi

[gentoo-user] Calibre Update Problems

2013-05-06 Thread Silvio Siefke
Hello, i run @world update. By calibre 0.9.29 broke the Process with follow message: calibre successfully installed. You can start it by running the command calibre There were 1 warning(s): * Setting up completion failed with error: install: der Aufruf von stat für „/var/tmp/portage/app-tex

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 06/05/2013 20:36, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:34:20PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> emm - no. Wear leveling does not need any spare blocks. A lot of drives >> do have spare blocks, but those are never the same size of the original >> size (at least not on d

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:34:20PM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > emm - no. Wear leveling does not need any spare blocks. A lot of drives > do have spare blocks, but those are never the same size of the original > size (at least not on drives you can buy for a sensible amount of > money). Mo

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 06.05.2013 13:00, schrieb Hinnerk van Bruinehsen: > On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:50:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote: >> On 5 May 2013, at 17:16, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: >>> ... The data on a SSD is not >>> necessarily stored linar so it's not said that a new partition is using >>> the same memory

[gentoo-user] Re: Nautical Gentoo hardware suggestions?

2013-05-06 Thread James
Stroller stellar.eclipse.co.uk> writes: > > … sci-geosciences/opencpn is in portage [1] > > However, much of the time, the Gentoo_nav_hadware will be > > on a 17 foot boat (damp and salty if not wet) … So I'm looking > > for marine grade hardware onto which installation of Gentoo is > > reaso

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Paul Hartman
On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Randolph Maaßen wrote: > I'm so damn lucky > > I dd'ed the SSD onto an external drive and worked at first on the image with > qemu. A simple recreation of the partition brought the system back to live > on the image. I tried the same on the real machine and Gentoo w

Re: [gentoo-user] Recover on SSD

2013-05-06 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 07:50:52AM +0100, Stroller wrote: > > On 5 May 2013, at 17:16, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: > > ... The data on a SSD is not > > necessarily stored linar so it's not said that a new partition is using > > the same memory cells as the old one. > > … > > For a HDD I'd advis

Re: [gentoo-user] Using date/time variables in cronjobs?

2013-05-06 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 05 May 2013 19:21:18 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > For example, I want to keep 17 hourlies, and 30 nightlies, so I have > two cron jobs set up, the hourly, and the nightly. Each backs up to a > separate dir. So each time your backup fails, you reduce the number of available backups by one. I