Re: [gentoo-user] Portage + Package Version
On Mon May 22 2006 15:36, Leandro Melo de Sales wrote: Ok. The package in question is mysql. I what to install version 3, but I masked the oldest 4.0 and emerge search returns mysql version 5. How can I install version 3? Put =dev-db/mysql-4 in package.mask, or just emerge =dev-db/mysql-3* -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] thanks and farewell
On Fri May 19 2006 13:09, Antoine wrote: I have just finished moving the last of my boxes over to fedora, and am saying goodbye (for now at least) to the list. I would like to thank all for their great help - I know there are many things I will miss not running gentoo but I am now at a stage where I want my systems to be a little less on the edge. That's interesting. I just finished a year-long move of seven machines from Fedora to Gentoo because I was tired of being on the edge. :-) I'd used RedHat/Fedora since RH6.0. I like keeping reasonably up to date software, but Fedora's six-month release cycle and two version support was just getting too fast. Fedora Legacy wasn't much help, either. They had been disappointingly slow (don't know about now) at keeping up with older version security fixes. That said, when I wasn't dealing with upgrading, I had few problems. Enjoy. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG depends on gentoo-sources?
On Fri February 10 2006 02:59, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I just checked the .ebuild in my portage tree does not list gentoo-sources as direct dependency of gunpg-1.4.2.r3. Please do a emerge -pvt =app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r3 and give us the output (you might have to unmask gentoo-sources for a bit to give us good output). # emerge -pvt =app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r3 These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r3 -X +bzip2 -caps +curl -ecc -idea +ldap +nls +readline (-selinux) -smartcard -static -usb +zlib 0 kB [ebuild N] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.15-r1 -build -doc -symlink (-ultra1) 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB You are probably trying to use your own, possibly custom-patched, kernel instead of any of the *-sources packages. I'm using gentoo-sources, but I'm compiling kernels on a single machine and installing them manually on their target machines, thus I don't have gentoo-sources installed on the machine in question. There is a note in the gnupg ebuild that points to a bug talking about the need for (or not) kernel sources. I didn't quite follow the arguments and solution, but it had something to do with installing gpg suid root. At any rate, it doesn't make sense (to me) for gnupg to require kernel sources to build or install. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GnuPG depends on gentoo-sources?
On Sat February 11 2006 05:09, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: in one of the inherited eclasses. :/ You can use /etc/portage/package.provided (IIRC) to tell gentoo you will provide this package, rather than have portage install it. You may need to specify the virtual package (virtual/linux-sources) and not the actual package portage is trying to use, but I'm not sure... Ok. I was able to put sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6 in /etc/portage/profile/package.provided and that works. It wouldn't work without some version number attached, though. I don't know if this will work when I have to rebuild gnupg. If not, perhaps I can build it on a machine with sources and install the binary package. Well, I /sort of/ understand what is going on in the mind of the ebuild maintainer. The suid bit is only required for kernel versions less than 2.6.9, and the maintainer wants to avoid (for security reasons, I suppose) setting the suid bit for kernels at or above this version. [snip ebuild troubles] With all the trouble, perhaps a local 'suid' USE flag for gnupg is in order? Either way, GnuPG was already installed. Isn't there a difference in runtime dependencies and buildtime dependencies? Once GnuPG is installed, the kernel sources are certainly *not* needed. Sorry I couldn't be of more help. You helped plenty. Thank you Boyd and Rumen. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] GnuPG depends on gentoo-sources?
I haven't had gentoo-sources installed on one of my machines for a while, but all of sudden today it wants to install it. I masked it and emerge -u world complains that it's required by app-crypt/gnupg-1.4.2-r3, which is already installed. So why does it need gentoo-sources all of a sudden for a package that's already installed? -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: SOLVED [gentoo-user] Win4Lin NumLock issue
On Thu January 26 2006 17:41, Tom Smith wrote: Sheesh, I finally found a solution to this very annoying problem (may also help the gentleman with the UK keyboard problem (Peter Ruskin?)... I actually discovered this while playing around with QEMU, it had the EXACT same problem as WTS. I just stopped using Win4Lin and started using QEMU (tired of kernel patching and being so far behind gentoo-sources). The numlock key works fine in both for me (sort of). The only thing wrong is that if it says it's on in the Windows session, it's really off, and vice versa. The keypad numbers *do* work as expected, though. Is there more to this problem that I'm missing? -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID
On Thu September 22 2005 07:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For RAID I'm running RAID10 on an existing SCSI system - two RAID1 combined to a RAID0 but I'm open to better things. I don't have any experience with RAID10, but I've read good things about it. Filesystem of choice is XFS but what did you find? In my primitive tests, XFS showed good performance for really large files -- like raw video files in the gigabytes (as it was designed to do), but small and normal file size performance is what I needed more and it wasn't ideal. Earlier this year, I used XFS for several months on two servers and I liked it. However, through a bizarre series of power problems, I found parts of files wiped out with filler characters. That made me really nervous so I dropped it. I've had good stability with EXT3 in the past, but its performance wasn't something to cheer about. Despite the problems I had with Red Hat Linux support for ReiserFS a few years ago, I use it in most cases now. It has been stable for a while and does a great job for what I need; and of course I'm not using a Red Hat OS anymore. If you're happy with the performance, there's no need to change, but it wouldn't hurt to try some tests of your own while you're building a new server. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] SATA and RAID
On Wed September 21 2005 09:51 pm, Brett I. Holcomb wrote: 1. For SATA RAID what cards and drives do you recommend for a desktop system running Gentoo. I will be doing some audio recording on a dual AMD 1.6 with 2 gig of memory I'm running several Seagate 200GB drives with the SATA controllers on the Intel 915G boards I have. The driver is included with the kernel (ata_piix) and I've had no problems with it. Linux treats it as a SCSI device. If you're buying a separate card, you might want to check around for availability and stability of the drivers first. In my experience, audio recording has relatively low hardware requirements for today's machines, unless you're trying to do some heaving encoding/compressing on-the-fly. 2. If I went with SATA how much does using software RAID and LVM hurt me? That depends on what you mean by RAID (0, 1, 5, etc.) and what you want out of it. I have two 200GB SATA drives setup with LVM's striping and the read and write throughput is considerably faster (benchmarked and perceived) than with one drive. 3. Anything else I should know? Your choice of file system may make as much of a difference as anything. Consider running tests if you aren't married to one already. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] mail in $HOME/.maildir, why ??? (cont.)
On Mon August 29 2005 04:19 pm, A. Khattri wrote: And last question: I have access to one Debian box (which uses mbox format). After logging there I get either message No mail, or You have new mail. But I do not get any similar message on my Gentoo box. Why? Can I somehow activate it? Not with maildirs you dont. I'm not so sure this is true. I've been using Maildirs for 8 years and I get these messages on my Fedora Core machines, but I haven't bothered seeing why I don't on Gentoo. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin
On Thu August 25 2005 09:47 pm, John Jolet wrote: I've purchased the win4lin product, (the home version) to test out certain windows apps I need to run. They claim that gentoo has a patched kernel available for this. Does anyone know anything about this? I have a modified gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r11 ebuild that I've been using as an overlay and it's been working fine for me for months. I'll be happy to share if anyone is interested. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] win4lin
On Fri August 26 2005 01:21 pm, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I have a modified gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r11 ebuild that I've been using as an overlay and it's been working fine for me for months. I'll be happy to share if anyone is interested. Yes please. Ok. You can get the ebuild tree sys-kernel/win4lin-sources from here: http://www.logicetc.com/~rbickers/win4lin-sources.tar.bz2 Also, it appears the base and extras for that version are no longer available, so you'll need to put them in /usr/portage/distfiles; the rest of the needed sources can still be fetched. http://www.logicetc.com/~rbickers/genpatches-2.6.11-14.base.tar.bz2 http://www.logicetc.com/~rbickers/genpatches-2.6.11-14.extras.tar.bz2 Let me know if anything is broken. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Firewall howto?
On Fri August 26 2005 06:36 pm, James wrote: I've decided to take the plunge and build my first, full featured firewall on Gentoo. Any other ideas or recommendations on documents or firewall install config on gentoo or a gentoo derivative are most welcome? I've had good luck using Shorewall (shorewall.net). It should work the same on any Linux with netfilter/iptables. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Migrating Users - BEST way
On Thu July 21 2005 10:56 pm, Ow Mun Heng wrote: I would like to know what would be the best or most proper method for migrating a user database from flat files /etc/passwd etc on a Redhat System to a newly set up'ed gentoo box. Do I just copy and paste the relevent details into the Gentoo Box, (which most likely will work after I take into account the uid starts difference (1000 on gentoo and 500 on redhat). I've been doing the same thing. I've migrated two FC3 machines to Gentoo and have four to go. I copied the regular users from the FC3 /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow and pasted them into Gentoo. I did not copy any system users over. I also set UID_MIN to 500 in /etc/login.defs. Just make sure you don't already have any users on Gentoo over 500. I haven't had any problems yet, but maybe someone else can tell if I've overlooked anything. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PHP 5 and MySQL 5
On Sat July 9 2005 12:16 am, Colin wrote: Are these in Portage? Masked versions are fine. PHP: http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-php;name=php MySQL: http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=dev-db;name=mysql -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Heads-Up sys-lib/ss breaks Apps
On Fri July 8 2005 01:38 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote: Which is a huge bummer since most of us don't go checking the ebuilds for these specific lines. How I wish It would just abort and BLAST the Einfo on the screen for me to see the next day and decide to do it manually. I have this concern as well. Also, when emerging multiple packages, the helpful and sometimes necessary output at the end of each merge is easily missed as the next package begins. It would be nice to at least have these messages logged somewhere. Are they? Can they be without patching portage? -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems
On Sat June 25 2005 09:53 am, Michael Sullivan wrote: Are you running a Win4Lin patched kernel (eg, win4lin-sources)? Yes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ uname -a Linux baby 2.6.11-win4lin #1 Fri Jun 24 15:34:04 CDT 2005 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux You should also have vnetd running as a result of running the Win4Lin service (remember to add Win4Lin to your default startup). Can you start/restart the Win4Lin service without errors and is vnetd running? Those are the only two things I've seen cause that error. -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Win4Lin problems
On Fri June 24 2005 04:35 pm, Michael Sullivan wrote: I was trying to install Win4Lin and Windows 98 on my computer, but it gave me this output (including error): MERGE_NL: dos: ERROR: Win4Lin drivers are not loaded or not available for use. Cannot run DOS or Windows. Either Win4Lin is not fully installed on your system, or the drivers cannot load, or too many simultaneous users. Are you running a Win4Lin patched kernel (eg, win4lin-sources)? -- Ron -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
