[gentoo-user] KDE4 transparent panel
Hi all, I was fiddling with Desktop Settings, and seem to have reverted my panel back to some default. Now I've lost my semi-transparent panel and it's replaced with some baby-blue thing. I've got lots of extra themes installed and can't find the one I used to have (doh...).Plus the logout dialog went back to standard. Anyone know a theme that does this, and also actually puts the View Ignore text in Kopete's notification popups? There doesn't seem to be a transparency setting in the panel's own configuration, I reckon it's a theme thing? -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 transparent panel
On Samstag 09 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I was fiddling with Desktop Settings, and seem to have reverted my panel back to some default. Now I've lost my semi-transparent panel and it's replaced with some baby-blue thing. I've got lots of extra themes installed and can't find the one I used to have (doh...).Plus the logout dialog went back to standard. Anyone know a theme that does this, and also actually puts the View Ignore text in Kopete's notification popups? There doesn't seem to be a transparency setting in the panel's own configuration, I reckon it's a theme thing? you can change the plasma themes in the workspace settings (right click on desktop) and search around. A lot of themes with transparency have some not- so-nice looking mode when effects are turned off. (glaze for example - the bar at the bottom becomes greyish, other some kind of blue).
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 transparent panel
On Saturday 09 May 2009 10:52:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 09 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I was fiddling with Desktop Settings, and seem to have reverted my panel back to some default. Now I've lost my semi-transparent panel and it's replaced with some baby-blue thing. I've got lots of extra themes installed and can't find the one I used to have (doh...).Plus the logout dialog went back to standard. Anyone know a theme that does this, and also actually puts the View Ignore text in Kopete's notification popups? There doesn't seem to be a transparency setting in the panel's own configuration, I reckon it's a theme thing? you can change the plasma themes in the workspace settings (right click on desktop) and search around. A lot of themes with transparency have some not- so-nice looking mode when effects are turned off. (glaze for example - the bar at the bottom becomes greyish, other some kind of blue). I settled for Glassified eventually. It's not exactly what I had, but I can live with it. My top requirement is that notification popups with clickable buttons actually do have the text in them. Many third party themes out there simply do not do this, which makes the entire theme kinda pointless :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4 transparent panel
On Samstag 09 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 09 May 2009 10:52:35 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: On Samstag 09 Mai 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: Hi all, I was fiddling with Desktop Settings, and seem to have reverted my panel back to some default. Now I've lost my semi-transparent panel and it's replaced with some baby-blue thing. I've got lots of extra themes installed and can't find the one I used to have (doh...).Plus the logout dialog went back to standard. Anyone know a theme that does this, and also actually puts the View Ignore text in Kopete's notification popups? There doesn't seem to be a transparency setting in the panel's own configuration, I reckon it's a theme thing? you can change the plasma themes in the workspace settings (right click on desktop) and search around. A lot of themes with transparency have some not- so-nice looking mode when effects are turned off. (glaze for example - the bar at the bottom becomes greyish, other some kind of blue). I settled for Glassified eventually. It's not exactly what I had, but I can live with it. My top requirement is that notification popups with clickable buttons actually do have the text in them. Many third party themes out there simply do not do this, which makes the entire theme kinda pointless :-) I use glaze which is very nice too ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] 'if echo hello' in .bashrc
On 8 May 2009, at 14:38, Stroller wrote: ... if echo hello|grep --color=auto l /dev/null 21; then export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' GREP_COLOR='1;32' fi I'm afraid this thread has run away from me. I'm drinking the day's first cup of tea rubbing my eyes furiously in confusion. Wha? I'm sure I'll comprehend the discussion better when I re-read later. However, is there actually any need to parse whether the grep supports colour before setting it? Let's say we use BSD grep or Schilling grep or whatever - is there actually any harm in exporting GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' in this case? Having written the above (so I might as well now send this message) it occurred to me to test it: $ GREP_OPTIONS='--not-suported' $ grep -i rabbit Alice\ in\ Wonderland.txt grep: unrecognized option '--not-suported' Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... Try `grep --help' for more information. $ Presumably BSD grep all other greps also support the GREP_OPTIONS environment variable? Stroller
Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc
On 8 May 2009, at 21:58, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Freitag, 8. Mai 2009 19:17:28 schrieb Daniel da Veiga: On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 14:04, Dirk Heinrichs dirk.heinri...@online.de wrote: Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2009 22:53:18 schrieb Alan McKinnon: Mirrored - no problem. But how else would you boot off a striped / with /boot not on a separate partition? /boot is _always_ a separate partition, isn't it? AFAIK, that's not a rule. Most people consider it the best option, but its definetly not a rule... This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_, it definitely _is_ a rule. Could you possibly explain why, please? Stroller.
Re: [gentoo-user] 'if echo hello' in .bashrc
On Saturday 9 May 2009, 12:15, Stroller wrote: On 8 May 2009, at 14:38, Stroller wrote: ... if echo hello|grep --color=auto l /dev/null 21; then export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' GREP_COLOR='1;32' fi I'm afraid this thread has run away from me. I'm drinking the day's first cup of tea rubbing my eyes furiously in confusion. Wha? I'm sure I'll comprehend the discussion better when I re-read later. However, is there actually any need to parse whether the grep supports colour before setting it? Let's say we use BSD grep or Schilling grep or whatever - is there actually any harm in exporting GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' in this case? Yes, because if the grep implementation in question supports GREP_OPTIONS but doesn't support --color, you'll get errors when it's run. (The assumption the author made is that if --color is supported, then GREP_OPTIONS is too, which is reasonable and is what happens for GNU grep, although I cannot speak for other implementations).
Re: [gentoo-user] 'if echo hello' in .bashrc
On 9 May 2009, at 11:41, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: ... Let's say we use BSD grep or Schilling grep or whatever - is there actually any harm in exporting GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' in this case? Yes, because if the grep implementation in question supports GREP_OPTIONS but doesn't support --color, you'll get errors when it's run. (The assumption ... is that if --color is supported, then GREP_OPTIONS is too, which is reasonable and is what happens for GNU grep, although I cannot speak for other implementations). So this keeps the .bashrc compatible with older versions of GNU grep. That hadn't occurred to me. My question is: Do BSD other greps also support GREP_OPTIONS ? Stroller.
[gentoo-user] Many dbus reject messages when starting KDE4
When I login to KDE 4.2 I instantly start getting zillions of messages from dbus rejecting send messages. It seems to affect many different components. This is a current Gentoo system. I tried on the forums but got no response. Has anyone here seen this? May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.169 (uid=1001 pid=32590 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/kmixctrl --restore ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.169 (uid=1001 pid=32590 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/kmixctrl --restore ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.169 (uid=1001 pid=32590 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/kmixctrl --restore ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.170 (uid=1001 pid=32597 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/krunner ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.170 (uid=1001 pid=32597 comm=/usr/kde/4.2/bin/krunner ) interface=org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable member=Introspect error name=(unset) requested_reply=0 destination=org.freedesktop.Hal (uid=0 pid=13436 comm=/usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no )) May 9 15:36:21 opal dbus-daemon: Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type=method_call, sender=:1.170 TIA -Robin -- -- Robin Atwood. Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst from Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling --
[gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD
Hello list, I've acquired a DVD of a concert performance which I'd like to put on the choir's Web site. It's too big, though, at nearly 1 GB, so I wondered about extracting just the audio from it and putting that up instead. Is there a Gentoo-ish way of doing this, or should I start messing about with bits of wire and other equipment? -- Rgds Peter
Re: [gentoo-user] 'if echo hello' in .bashrc
On Saturday 9 May 2009, 12:43, Stroller wrote: My question is: Do BSD other greps also support GREP_OPTIONS ? A quick google search reveals that NetBSD and FreeBSD use GNU grep, while OpenBSD uses BSD grep, which (at least according to the man page - see http://tinyurl.com/cs2unf) does not support GREP_OPTIONS. It seems that work is underway to port the BSD grep to FreeBSD and NeetBSD. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi for a comprehensive list of manual pages for many popular unices. It seems that many greps do not support GREP_OPTIONS.
Re: [gentoo-user] 'if echo hello' in .bashrc
On Sat, 9 May 2009 11:15:30 +0100 Stroller strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Presumably BSD grep all other greps also support the GREP_OPTIONS environment variable? If it doesn't have support for the var then there should be no reason to pollute environment by setting it, possibly confusing the user which cares to look at it. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
/boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller: This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_, it definitely _is_ a rule. Could you possibly explain why, please? Because it eliminates the need for an initramfs (which I used until a few weeks ago), even if you've got your / on an encrypted logical volume. I simply put just enough userspace tools into /boot to be able to create the dmcrypt mapping and mount the real root fs, then run pivot_root and /sbin/init. So in the end it's the same than using an initramfs, but with less hassle. And for consistency reasons, I also use this scheme on every machine. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller: This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_, it definitely _is_ a rule. Could you possibly explain why, please? Because it eliminates the need for an initramfs (which I used until a few weeks ago), even if you've got your / on an encrypted logical volume. I simply put just enough userspace tools into /boot to be able to create the dmcrypt mapping and mount the real root fs, then run pivot_root and /sbin/init. So in the end it's the same than using an initramfs, but with less hassle. And for consistency reasons, I also use this scheme on every machine. Bye... Dirk Wasn't there a security reason for this setup at one time? If you put /boot on a separate partition, then the only time it needed to be mounted was to update the kernel or edit grub/lilo. That was what I was reading when I installed Gentoo oh so many ages ago. Is this still true? Dale :-) :-)
Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 14:46:39 schrieb Dale: Wasn't there a security reason for this setup at one time? If you put /boot on a separate partition, then the only time it needed to be mounted was to update the kernel or edit grub/lilo. That was what I was reading when I installed Gentoo oh so many ages ago. Is this still true? Of course, it needs to mounted rw for the few seconds needed to discover the LVs, ask the user for the passphrase and create the dmcrypt mapping. Then it's unmounted again and remounted ro during normal system boot. I don't consider this a security problem. If it was, I could also stop using Linux altogether, since there are also other filesystem on my system which need to be mounted rw if the system should do something useful. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
On 9 May 2009, at 13:41, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller: This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_, it definitely _is_ a rule. Could you possibly explain why, please? Because it eliminates the need for an initramfs (which I used until a few weeks ago), ... I believed you could manage without either a /boot volume or an initramfs. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. Stroller.
Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 14:46:39 schrieb Dale: Wasn't there a security reason for this setup at one time? If you put /boot on a separate partition, then the only time it needed to be mounted was to update the kernel or edit grub/lilo. That was what I was reading when I installed Gentoo oh so many ages ago. Is this still true? Of course, it needs to mounted rw for the few seconds needed to discover the LVs, ask the user for the passphrase and create the dmcrypt mapping. Then it's unmounted again and remounted ro during normal system boot. I don't consider this a security problem. If it was, I could also stop using Linux altogether, since there are also other filesystem on my system which need to be mounted rw if the system should do something useful. Bye... Dirk I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good security practice. That way no one could alter the kernel since it was not mounted. I do agree that if a person was on the system and able to get root access, they could them mount the /boot partition as well. I never was really sure why this was thought to work. I used a separate /boot because for a while I was dual booting Mandrake and Gentoo. Old habit now I guess. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD
On 9 May 2009, at 11:48, Peter Humphrey wrote: ... I've acquired a DVD of a concert performance which I'd like to put on the choir's Web site. It's too big, though, at nearly 1 GB, so I wondered about extracting just the audio from it and putting that up instead. You would use something like mplayer. I think undvd produces a separate audio track as a by-product of ripping the DVD to .avi or .mp4 You might try running that on the disk looking at what's created during the process. Stroller.
[gentoo-user] Re: /boot or not /boot
Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 15:13:35 schrieb Stroller: I believed you could manage without either a /boot volume or an initramfs. Yes, of course you can. If you don't use an encrypted root fs, for example. That's the main reason I use it on my laptop, and on other machines because root fs is on a logical volume. If you don't this you can do fine without. However, I like the flexibility of having all (except 32M for /boot) filesystem on logical volumes, so all my machines are setup this way. Bye... Dirk signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] 'if echo hello' in .bashrc
Etaoin Shrdlu shr...@unlimitedmail.org wrote: On Saturday 9 May 2009, 12:15, Stroller wrote: On 8 May 2009, at 14:38, Stroller wrote: ... if echo hello|grep --color=auto l /dev/null 21; then export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' GREP_COLOR='1;32' fi I'm afraid this thread has run away from me. I'm drinking the day's first cup of tea rubbing my eyes furiously in confusion. Wha? I'm sure I'll comprehend the discussion better when I re-read later. However, is there actually any need to parse whether the grep supports colour before setting it? Let's say we use BSD grep or Schilling grep or whatever - is there actually any harm in exporting GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' in this case? Yes, because if the grep implementation in question supports GREP_OPTIONS but doesn't support --color, you'll get errors when it's run. My grep is called match and it does not look at environment variables. There are few commands that have codumented (by POSIX) environment variables for options. I think of e.g. make, that needs this in order to pass options to sub-makes. A safe method in shell scripts is to use lower case variable names. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
On Saturday 09 May 2009 15:13:35 Stroller wrote: On 9 May 2009, at 13:41, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: Am Samstag, 9. Mai 2009 12:20:46 schrieb Stroller: This is Gentoo, so you as the user define the rules. And for _me_, it definitely _is_ a rule. Could you possibly explain why, please? Because it eliminates the need for an initramfs (which I used until a few weeks ago), ... I believed you could manage without either a /boot volume or an initramfs. Perhaps I'm misunderstanding. I think you are. The need for an initramfs has nothing to do with whether /boot is a separate partition of not. grub is equally happy loading the kernel from (hd0,0)/vmlinux or (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinux It has everything to do with making necessary kernel modules available at boot time. The kernel cannot load block device and filesystem drivers that are on the device it needs to read (chicken and egg). However, it can get them from a ram disk which is all an initrd is and which grub supports. Simply compile the drivers into the kernel. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD
Peter Humphrey schrieb: Hello list, I've acquired a DVD of a concert performance which I'd like to put on the choir's Web site. It's too big, though, at nearly 1 GB, so I wondered about extracting just the audio from it and putting that up instead. Is there a Gentoo-ish way of doing this, or should I start messing about with bits of wire and other equipment? The way I do it usually: mplayer dvd://1 -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound.ac3 [wait] a52dec -o wav sound.ac3 sound.wav oggenc sound.wav e voila: sound.ogg is a rather small audio file at ~128kbit/s (or was it 160?) You'll need media-video/mplayer USE=dvd a52 media-libs/a52dec media-sound/vorbis-tools signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] really old box for a firewall
On Tuesday 28 April 2009, Yahya Mohammad wrote: Help would be appreciated, even if it's along the lines of turning the old box into a boat anchor, as it's not fit for purpose. I would say it's more efficient to use your old box as a boat anchor :) and get a cheap low power consuming embedded box like the popular WRT54GL or NSLU2. Those would be more reliable and you'd probably make up the cost in energy savings in a few months. I'd second that unless the OP wants to learn how to install/configure Gentoo, in which case an old box would be a slow protracted process. BTW, is it possible to install Gentoo in a NSLU2? I thought that there was a problem with glibc ... -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
[gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware
Hello. I have laptop running Gentoo and VMware Server on it. I need Nokia PC Suite to manage my Nokia mobile phone. Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win on my laptop? - I'd want avoid this if possible... -- Sergey
Re: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware
Sergey A. Kobzar wrote: I have laptop running Gentoo and VMware Server on it. I need Nokia PC Suite to manage my Nokia mobile phone. Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win on my laptop? - I'd want avoid this if possible... I don't, but I will suggest an alternative, which is trying gammu or gnokii. Both have GUIs (wammu and gnocky respectively) and claim to support most Nokia phones. RobbieAB.
Re: [gentoo-user] Ripping audio from a video DVD
On Saturday 09 May 2009 18:48:32 Florian Philipp wrote: The way I do it usually: mplayer dvd://1 -dumpaudio -dumpfile sound.ac3 [wait] a52dec -o wav sound.ac3 sound.wav oggenc sound.wav e voila: sound.ogg is a rather small audio file at ~128kbit/s (or was it 160?) You'll need media-video/mplayer USE=dvd a52 media-libs/a52dec media-sound/vorbis-tools Thank you both. I'll look into those ideas tomorrow (it's evening here after a long week of short nights and much adrenalin). -- Rgds Peter
Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
On Sat, 09 May 2009 08:15:09 -0500, Dale wrote: I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good security practice. That way no one could alter the kernel since it was not mounted. That's a bit of a red herring IMO. If anyone can alter your kernel they can mount the filesystem. The argument about protecting the kernel from corruption is similarly spurious, since you always have a spare copy in /usr/src/linux anyway. The main reason for doing this was because some BIOSes could work past cylinder 1024 of a drive, so you needed to ensure the kernel was on a filesystem fully within that area. If it were a security issue, then the Gentoo handbook would have recommended this practice for all architectures, not just x86-based ones. -- Neil Bothwick If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: /boot or not /boot (was Re: [gentoo-user] can't stop the panic on eeepc)
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sat, 09 May 2009 08:15:09 -0500, Dale wrote: I was talking about with just a plain file system. I read in a install guide somewhere when I was installing ages ago that having /boot on a separate partition, and not always mounted, was a good security practice. That way no one could alter the kernel since it was not mounted. That's a bit of a red herring IMO. If anyone can alter your kernel they can mount the filesystem. The argument about protecting the kernel from corruption is similarly spurious, since you always have a spare copy in /usr/src/linux anyway. The main reason for doing this was because some BIOSes could work past cylinder 1024 of a drive, so you needed to ensure the kernel was on a filesystem fully within that area. If it were a security issue, then the Gentoo handbook would have recommended this practice for all architectures, not just x86-based ones. That was my thoughts as well. You have to be root to get to the kernel and alter/copy it and if you are root, you can mount it anyway. No real point. I do get the old BIOSes tho. That was a issue for a good while. Dale :-) :-)
[gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time
Hi! I have a gentoo installed, but I wasn't updating it since late 2007, I suppose. Today I've run emerge --sync. It worked! It's great ;) But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update is required. But it is confused by dependencies: colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p39 [3.1_p17] USE=-examples% - plugins% [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] [ebuild U ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.6-r2 [1.2.17] [ebuild N] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 USE=-nocxx [ebuild N] app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 [ebuild U ] app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1 [1.0.7] USE=-vim-syntax% [ebuild U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.19 [0.1.15] [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.5 (is blocking app-shells/ bash-3.2_p39) colinux ~ # How to get it out? Regards, Alexey.
Re: [gentoo-user] Nokia PC Suite on VMware
2009/5/9 Sergey A. Kobzar sergey.kob...@mail.ru: Hello. I have laptop running Gentoo and VMware Server on it. I need Nokia PC Suite to manage my Nokia mobile phone. Does anybody have Nokia PC Suite working on VMware or I need setup Win on my laptop? - I'd want avoid this if possible... I think vmware server cannot by default access USB devices plugged into the host, but you can possibly edit the vmx file to enable it. I think it is something like: usb.present = TRUE usb.generic.autoconnect = FALSE But i don't have vmware server to test it. PC Suite worked fine for me in vmware workstation. Depending on exactly what you need to accomplish with PC Suite, there may be alternative methods of doing it without windows.
Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time
On Sun, 10 May 2009 03:58:41 +0300 Alexey Luchko luc...@gmail.com wrote: But then I've got the following collision. Obviously, a portage update is required. But it is confused by dependencies: colinux ~ # emerge portage --pretend --tree These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p39 [3.1_p17] USE=-examples% - plugins% [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.11 [2.1.2.2] [ebuild U ] dev-python/pycrypto-2.0.1-r6 [2.0.1-r5] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.6-r2 [1.2.17] [ebuild N] app-arch/lzma-utils-4.32.7 USE=-nocxx [ebuild N] app-admin/eselect-news-20080320 [ebuild U ] app-admin/eselect-1.0.11-r1 [1.0.7] USE=-vim-syntax% [ebuild U ] app-misc/pax-utils-0.1.19 [0.1.15] [blocks B ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.5 (is blocking app-shells/ bash-3.2_p39) colinux ~ # How to get it out? Try masking newer bash which blocks older portage, unmasking it after the newer portage is in place. If you have app-portage/gentoolkit installed, you can find out which specific versions of bash it depends on using the following command: equery depgraph --depth 1 portage | grep bash Otherwise you can use portage --tree or just look for DEPEND and RDEPEND vars in the ebuild itself, which can be found in /var/db/pkg. -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to recover a portage that wasn't in use for very long time
On Sun, 10 May 2009 07:54:34 +0600 Mike Kazantsev mike_kazant...@fraggod.net wrote: Otherwise you can use portage --tree or just look for DEPEND and RDEPEND vars in the ebuild itself, which can be found in /var/db/pkg. I mean emerge --tree, of course ;) -- Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Loop-AES
Hi, loop-aes and aespipe are part of the gentoo-portage. Is ciphers, which is also offered via loop-aes.sourceforge.net also part of portage? I dont find it... Or any other way to choose different cipher-algorithms to be used with loop-aes? Thank you very much for any help in advance! Have a nice weekend! Kind regards, mcc -- Please don't send me any Word- or Powerpoint-Attachments unless it's absolutely neccessary. - Send simply Text. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html In a world without fences and walls nobody needs gates and windows.
