Re: [gentoo-user] How To set compile time options in emerge
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 01:36:50 +1300 Oumar Ndiaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed php-4 via emerge but I am having problems getting php to work with mysql. After many research I have concluded that php-4 is not compiled with the -with-mysql option. I need to recompile php-4 with the -with-mysql option and reinstall it. How do I do that with emerge or some other ways? Just edit /etc/make.conf, and then add mysql to USE. Also, emerge gentoolkit, so that in future you can just enter: 'equery u somepackage' and then it will describe all USE flags available for that package. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Source Code?
On Thu, 12 Jan 2006 23:40:30 -0600 Raj Swaminathan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody tell me where i can obtain open source code for gentoo. Im particularly looking for code for programs in /bin and /sbin. I am on a project to find out how different distros implement a few of these programs. So far i have only been lucky with OpenSolaris and FreeBSD. Every Linux distribution I can think of uses the same GNU coreutils, fileutils, etc. Hit www.gnu.org. That said, some distributions may apply a few patches, but this is still minor. They're all GNU. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo installer suggestions
On Sun, 8 Jan 2006 02:09:14 -0700 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For those developing the graphical gentoo installer... Might I suggest a search box at the bottom of the extra packages screen, to be able to search for packages? Probably a good idea to drop a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and post to their mailing list. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] eix, can I trust it at all?
On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 18:18:40 +0100 Petr Kocmid [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Please somebody explain to me the following event: (snip) You didn't update the eix database. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] The Grand Remerge
On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 01:21:04 +0100 Matthias Bethke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It started on Wednesday: after syncing, I had about 150 ebuilds marked as remerge. I thought, WTH, let portage have its way and remerge everything while I sleep. So I did---and today it's the same! 151 ebuilds and all of them for remerging the same version. Here's some of them: [ebuild R ] x11-terms/gnome-terminal-2.10.0 ... [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 That's my private laptop doing these funny things. The one desktop and eone server I run with Gentoo at work don't do anything like this. My date is set correctly and it doesn't look like I had anything in /usr/portage with wrong dates either, that's the only reason I could think of so far. Could you please paste the command line you used to generate this list? -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 00:29:57 -0700 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, so I get the output below when trying to merge after a sync today. My guess is that the openmotif package was made into two separate packages, correct? To the portage developers, how could this be handled? Perhaps emerge could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then automatically unmerge the original package? Not really a question to the portage developers -- just unmerge openmotif (the blocker) and continue as normal. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] xcompmgr?
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 21:35:09 -0500 Michael W. Holdeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I need xcompmgr? I have a running ~x86 up to date system using kde-3.5.0. I setup transparency using teh howto on teh wiki, and it is really beautifull.. BUTT, totally unusable as it is soo slow and crashes all the time. It crashes x. My system is Dell 8600, with an nvidia 5200Go card. All drivers are up to date including teh nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx. For real transparency, yes, you need it. If you have enabled GLX and Composite at once, and run a GLX program, then X will crash. This is likely the cause of your problems. The difficulty is, for the moment, you have to sacrifice either GLX if you want to use Composite reliably. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:41:22 +
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If would be nice is portage had a means for developers to handle these
types of conflicts in the ebuild. A similar thing happened recently
with xpdf/poppler, it happened with some FTP servers and the ftp-base
package not long ago. I realise it is not possible to handle all
conflicts, but with some instances, like this one, the conflict is
expected. even if there were just a means to print a message if a
package hits a block, something like
if_blocked_by('openmotif')
ewarn You must unmerge openmotif before proceeding
An error message like that doesn't really tell the user anything that he
doesn't already know.
It would be more useful if some information was provided:
if blocked_by =x11-libs/openmotif-1.2.3 ; then
eblockinfo Due to changes with blah, it is recommended that
eblockinfo you foobar. See http://bugs.gentoo.org/123456.;
fi
But then, at what point would this information be echoed to the user?
It would have to be during the same pre-merge phase that the blocking
errors appear. Then again, I don't really see any gaping problems with
the current system; once someone has encountered their first pair of
blocking packages, they then understand how to fix blockers in future.
I doubt it's worth the effort.
/shrug
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Re: [gentoo-user] OT: printing lots of file.doc files
On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 20:44:05 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Kind of a strange request, but I have been given a work assignment that forces me to keep many documents in .doc format. If I have a dir full of these, but I use to lp/lpr style printing, how do I print a passel of .doc files without going into OO to load and print each one individually? Command line of a simple script will do, but googling has produced nothing. I did not find anything under KDE to acheive this, but, my searching for a KDE method is, well lacking ideas? app-text/wv might be usable -- it can convert docs to PDF or postscript. If the quality isn't that great (I've never tried it) or the documents are quite complex, I think you're going to have to find a way to do it from within OpenOffice. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning up crufty packages
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 16:51:47 -0500 Ernie Schroder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Justin Hart wrote: There's an easy way to clean out packages that are no longer required, and were not explicitly emerge'd in, right? -- Justin W. Hart # emerge -depclean --pretend will give you a list of orphaned packages. USE WITH CARE It is not fool proof. Although I'd still recommend caution, emerge -uDN world beforehand will make things substantially more reliable. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] imapsync dependency not merged
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 18:36:58 -0700 Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mental note to package maintainer... The merge of imapsync should have included dev-perl/Net-SSLeay. [18:20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] # imapsync-ssl Can't locate Net/SSLeay.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i686-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/IO/Socket/SSL.pm line 17. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.6/IO/Socket/SSL.pm line 17. Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/imapsync-ssl line 299. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/imapsync-ssl line 299. Well spotted. Could you file a bug assigned to [EMAIL PROTECTED], please? Thanks, -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] What to backup?
On Mon, 02 Jan 2006 12:17:59 -0600 Anthony E. Caudel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm using rsnapshot for backups and am very satisfied with it. However I'm uncertain just what to backup. Currently I'm backing up: /home/tony/ /etc/ /var/lib/mysql/ (for some databases) Is there anything else I should be backing up? I suspect there are some more things in /var that should be included. /var/lib/portage. You'll have your world file, in case you lose everything, so you'll be able to rebuild your system with the same packages. -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] how to use EXTRA_ECONF?
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:19:55AM -0300, Matias Grana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sure I can set it by hand for one emerge, but I'd like to set EXTRA_ECONF to --enable-clipboard forever. You could try using /etc/portage/bashrc, see portage(5). Use at your own risk. Hope that helps, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, vim, recruiters Gentoo Linux pgpWmiOkdVzjA.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] encrypt/decrypt a file(s)
On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 05:19:22PM +0200, Norbert Kamenicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regatta wrote: Hi Is there any program that I can just right click in a file or folder in gnome and just encrypt it with password or decrypt the file or the folder ? emerge gnupg RTFM gnupg prepare scripts for tasks u like bind scripts to mouse/keyboard events in gnome You may also want to try seahorse. It does this thing with a nautilus plugin, I think. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgp0k6Chlerub.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] resolution from command line
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 11:34:43PM +0300, Panos Laganakos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, i was looking for a command that can inform me of my current console resolution. Try 'resize' with no arguments. Hope that helps, Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgpEHQasfI1yM.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Pentium M and kernel module processor.o
Marc, On Mon, Apr 25, 2005 at 12:51:37PM +0200, Marc Schlienger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a notebook with Intel Pentium M processor (Dell Latitude D800) and experienced the following problem: There is a strange sound (beep-beep-beep ...) which seems to come from the processor. Currently I'm using kernel 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 but this sound is also there with every other kernel I tried. And I tried many kernels. I then realized after playing arround with the kernel config that the kernel module processor is the source of the problem. As I need this module to be able to change the processor speed it is no solution not to compile this module into the kernel or not to use it as module. I heard of a processor module from Intel but couldn't find it yet for 2.6.x kernels. Any suggestions? Well, you should be safe to change it to another setting that doesn't cause the problem. Intel SpeedStep, A.K.A Frequency Scaling should work regardless -- presuming you have that driver (it's under Power Management - CPU Frequency Scaling IIRC). Apart from that I can't really suggest much. Tom -- Tom Martin, http://dev.gentoo.org/~slarti AMD64, net-mail, shell-tools, recruiters, vim Gentoo Linux pgpT1QQLNZQsK.pgp Description: PGP signature
