Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

[R0b0t1]

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Brendan Horan  wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have some hardware I would like to see go to a good home.
> I would prefer it to be someone working with Gentoo.
> That was my goal, but life changes :)
>
>
> I have the following :
> * HP j6750 (2x cpu PA-RSIC)
> * HP Zx2000 Itanium2 (single cpu) (custom 4ru unit)
> * IBM Power 6+ p560 (dual cpu)
> * Sun SPARC T5120 (single cpu)
>
> The systems are all in working order. With decent specs.
> All have 8gb of memory or more
> All have at least 2 disks (ranging from 32gb to 300gb)
> I have some misc spares for all of the above.
> If you want more details on any of the systems please ask.
> You can also catch me on IRC @ #gentoo-proxy-maint
>
>
> Ideally I would want to ship it to one location.
> If you then wanted to ship interstate/country from that point I don't care.
> I live in Hong Kong, no one hear but scrap metal places what this kit.
> I don't mind helping pay some of the shipping costs.
> I do not want payment for the systems, just a good home vs the scrap heap.
>
> Thanks
> Brendan
>

Hello,

I would very much appreciate it if I could claim the IBM Power server.
I have been interested in IBM's Power architecture and its supporting
hardware for quite a while now. There are not many machines sold on
the secondhand market and I do not have the funds to purchase one in
that way. The specs are mostly irrelevant as long as it has a Power
CPU, but they would be nice to know.

The use for the machine would be to experiment with the novel
architecture while maintaining it with Gentoo, which would likely
spill over into providing support for Gentoo on IBM Power.

I will try to catch you on IRC, but hopefully you receive this message as well.

Respectfully,
 R0b0t1

Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

[Lucas Ramage]

I'm sorry that you must part with your machines. But it's awesome to see
that they will go to a new home!

I would like to get my hands on an HP Zx6000 like this:




On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 8:41 PM, Johnson Steward  wrote:

> Hi Brendan,
>
> I'm in Beijing and interested in these machines, especially the SPARC.
> Though not a Gentoo Dev, In recently struggling with Gentoo BSD and,
> hopefully, have some experience with Gentoo. It would be great if I can get
> one and test the packages on that system and, hopefully, contribute to the
> not-so-popular architectures.
>
> Yours,
>
> 2017/09/06 8:20 "Brendan Horan" :
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have some hardware I would like to see go to a good home.
> I would prefer it to be someone working with Gentoo.
> That was my goal, but life changes :)
>
>
> I have the following :
> * HP j6750 (2x cpu PA-RSIC)
> * HP Zx2000 Itanium2 (single cpu) (custom 4ru unit)
> * IBM Power 6+ p560 (dual cpu)
> * Sun SPARC T5120 (single cpu)
>
> The systems are all in working order. With decent specs.
> All have 8gb of memory or more
> All have at least 2 disks (ranging from 32gb to 300gb)
> I have some misc spares for all of the above.
> If you want more details on any of the systems please ask.
> You can also catch me on IRC @ #gentoo-proxy-maint
>
>
> Ideally I would want to ship it to one location.
> If you then wanted to ship interstate/country from that point I don't care.
> I live in Hong Kong, no one hear but scrap metal places what this kit.
> I don't mind helping pay some of the shipping costs.
> I do not want payment for the systems, just a good home vs the scrap heap.
>
> Thanks
> Brendan
>
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

[Johnson Steward]

Hi Brendan,

I'm in Beijing and interested in these machines, especially the SPARC.
Though not a Gentoo Dev, In recently struggling with Gentoo BSD and,
hopefully, have some experience with Gentoo. It would be great if I can get
one and test the packages on that system and, hopefully, contribute to the
not-so-popular architectures.

Yours,

2017/09/06 8:20 "Brendan Horan" :

Hi everyone,

I have some hardware I would like to see go to a good home.
I would prefer it to be someone working with Gentoo.
That was my goal, but life changes :)


I have the following :
* HP j6750 (2x cpu PA-RSIC)
* HP Zx2000 Itanium2 (single cpu) (custom 4ru unit)
* IBM Power 6+ p560 (dual cpu)
* Sun SPARC T5120 (single cpu)

The systems are all in working order. With decent specs.
All have 8gb of memory or more
All have at least 2 disks (ranging from 32gb to 300gb)
I have some misc spares for all of the above.
If you want more details on any of the systems please ask.
You can also catch me on IRC @ #gentoo-proxy-maint


Ideally I would want to ship it to one location.
If you then wanted to ship interstate/country from that point I don't care.
I live in Hong Kong, no one hear but scrap metal places what this kit.
I don't mind helping pay some of the shipping costs.
I do not want payment for the systems, just a good home vs the scrap heap.

Thanks
Brendan

[gentoo-dev] Server hardaware give away (misc archs)

[Brendan Horan]

Hi everyone,

I have some hardware I would like to see go to a good home.
I would prefer it to be someone working with Gentoo.
That was my goal, but life changes :)


I have the following :
* HP j6750 (2x cpu PA-RSIC)
* HP Zx2000 Itanium2 (single cpu) (custom 4ru unit)
* IBM Power 6+ p560 (dual cpu)
* Sun SPARC T5120 (single cpu)

The systems are all in working order. With decent specs.
All have 8gb of memory or more
All have at least 2 disks (ranging from 32gb to 300gb)
I have some misc spares for all of the above.
If you want more details on any of the systems please ask.
You can also catch me on IRC @ #gentoo-proxy-maint


Ideally I would want to ship it to one location.
If you then wanted to ship interstate/country from that point I don't care.
I live in Hong Kong, no one hear but scrap metal places what this kit.
I don't mind helping pay some of the shipping costs.
I do not want payment for the systems, just a good home vs the scrap heap.

Thanks
Brendan

Re: [gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-rpg/nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon

[Gordon Pettey]

Can these package.mask notes stop saying "no alternative found" when it's
obvious five seconds of Google searching was not even performed to find an
alternative?
https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/module/shadowlords-dreamcatcher-and-demon-campaigns
has live links, and the exe even matches the sha256sum.

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Austin English 
wrote:

> # Austin English  (05 Sep 2017)
> # Download has been broken for nearly a year, no alternative found
> # Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/599390
> # Removal in 30 days
> games-rpg/nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon
>
> --
> -Austin
>
> Austin English
> Gentoo Developer
> GPG: 00B3 2957 B94B F3E1
>
>

[gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-rpg/nw*

[Austin English]

Sorry for duplicate email, didn't realize at first that more ebuilds
were failing.

# Austin English  (05 Sep 2017)
# Download has been broken for nearly a year, no alternative found
# Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/599390
# Removal in 30 days
games-rpg/nwmouse
games-rpg/nwmovies
games-rpg/nwn
games-rpg/nwn-cep
games-rpg/nwn-data
games-rpg/nwn-penultima
games-rpg/nwn-penultimarerolled
games-rpg/nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon


-- 
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Austin English
Gentoo Developer
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[gentoo-dev] Last rites: games-rpg/nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon

[Austin English]

# Austin English  (05 Sep 2017)
# Download has been broken for nearly a year, no alternative found
# Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/599390
# Removal in 30 days
games-rpg/nwn-shadowlordsdreamcatcherdemon

-- 
-Austin

Austin English
Gentoo Developer
GPG: 00B3 2957 B94B F3E1



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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] sys-boot/grub:0 (GRUB legacy) sunset planning

[Robin H. Johnson]

On Sun, Sep 03, 2017 at 10:44:20PM +0200, Hanno Böck wrote:
> I have to check whether it's feasible to replace that with grub2, but
> it will probably be complicated. The problem is that you can't build
> full grub with asan, but you also cannot build the parts that require
> external libraries (notably ncurses) without asan.
Grub2 doesn't build with ASAN, or did you just mean Grub-legacy doesn't
build with ASAN?

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[gentoo-dev] Last rites: dev-perl/XML-AutoWriter

[Kent Fredric]

# Kent Fredric  (05 Sep 2017)
# Broken since Perl 5.16 circa 2012, no longer maintained upstream
# Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/623900
# Bug: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=85991
# Removal in 30 days
dev-perl/XML-AutoWriter


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Categories for GUI stuff x11 and wayland

[Kent Fredric]

On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 16:59:39 +0200
Alan McKinnon  wrote:

> "xui" is a nice descriptive name and gets the point across in a
> reasonably unambiguous way. wayland is not X11, but it comes from a
> desire to do what X11 does without X11's problems.

And I have a few other perks of xui too.

we could in a pinch pretend it means "x/ui", if people aren't
comfortable with considering "Wayland" to be "An X". Then "X/UI" would
be "X, and things like it"

The wiki page for "X Windows System"[1] also had some interesting notes.

> X Consortium release manager Matt Landau stating in 1993, "There is
> no such thing as 'X Windows' or 'X Window', despite the repeated
> misuse of the forms by the trade rags"

Neat.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System#Nomenclature


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Categories for GUI stuff x11 and wayland

[Alan McKinnon]

On 05/09/2017 00:15, Duncan wrote:
> Kent Fredric posted on Tue, 05 Sep 2017 07:29:42 +1200 as excerpted:
> 
>> On Mon, 4 Sep 2017 15:16:46 -0400 "William L. Thomson Jr."
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Maybe just UI but that maybe to generic.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_interface
>>
>> As a side question, what does "xui" mean in this world?
>>
>> I went googling and all I could find was "X User Interface"
>>
>> And all I could find there is that's "A user interface to the X Windows
>> System"
>>
>> Are we allowed to consider Wayland and X11 are both "X Windows Systems"
>> providing "X User Interfaces", despite the underlying protocols being
>> different?
> 
> Warnock agree?
> 
> (Tho posting makes it no longer warnock.)  Thanks for the warnock 
> reference[1], BTW.  I knew of the problem but had no name for it, so you 
> broadened my vocabulary in a very useful way. =:^)
> 
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warnock%27s_dilemma
> 

"xui" is a nice descriptive name and gets the point across in a
reasonably unambiguous way. wayland is not X11, but it comes from a
desire to do what X11 does without X11's problems.

There might be a smallish snag with educating users what "xui" means as
the name is not in common use.

"display-server" also serves as that is what wayland and X11 have in
common. It's a long unwieldy name and the "-" might trip over hidden
naming assumptions.

Given a vote, I'd vote for "xui".
Second choice is to stick with "x11-" as it will take a very long time
for all users to forget what x11 is and how wayland relates

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