waltd...@waltdnes.org writes:
> Let me re-phrase my question... is there *ANY* set of circumstances
> under which any of X/xorg/wayland/mir/qt4/qt5/gtk2/gtk3/fltk USE flag
> can be set for a package *WITHOUT* requiring a gui?
Yes. X/xorg could be needed to incorporate the X Client libraries so
Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se writes:
Kernel -sources USE is a handy way to install linux-firmware
wholesale, but AIUI the standalone firmware packages would
be removed too, effectively making the USE flag non-optional, and
removing the possibility of having managed firmware packages.
(People
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org writes:
On 12/19/2012 02:01 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
If we are going to move distfiles out of the tree into, what are the
odds of getting /some/path/portage/local to move somewhere else too?
What program uses this local directory? It's not used directly by
Ryan Hill dirtye...@gentoo.org writes:
Christ on a $#@%! crutch. You can NOT auto-enable C++11 in your library based
on a configure test and then stuff flags that are not supported by previous
compiler versions into pkg-config for library consumers. Somebody sane
please fix this.
Though is
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes:
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 01:49:32AM +0300, Maxim Kammerer wrote
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Richard Yao r...@gentoo.org wrote:
mdev would need to switch to the netlink hotplug interface.
I think that's quite unlikely, since mdev is not a
Sascha Cunz sascha...@babbelbox.org writes:
You've said yourself, that some removable media might not require
signatures
in order to boot. Well, if that is the case, then isn't this defeating the
whole point of Secure Boot at that stage?
Not necessarily. As has been stated previously,
Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org writes:
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:26:22PM +1300, Kent Fredric wrote
Though of course, if anybody has custom stuff in say, /usr/portage/local/
which they make by hand, nuking /usr/portage will make you *Very*
unpopular.
Donnie Berkholz dberkh...@gentoo.org writes:
Agreed with a slight modification — once you've kept the old
{stable,~arch} version around for a reasonable amount of time (say 30
days), you should be safe pulling it.
As long as there are no open bugs on the later ~arch version breaking
other
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org writes:
What's the benefit of having /usr on a separate partition anyway? The
only somewhat reasonable explanation that I've heard is so that it can
be mounted readonly.
One benefit, especially in a large server 'farm' is that several servers
can share the same
Zac Medico zmed...@gentoo.org writes:
On 10/11/2011 10:28 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
Francisco raised a possibly valid point in his original message: though
packages may not be currently used for anything, but they could contain
un-patched security flaws.
If they contain something that's
Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn chith...@gentoo.org writes:
My point is that packages can cause downgrades through dependencies.
There is no rule against it.
Nearly all of which prevent the upgrade of the dependent package rather
forcing the downgrade of an already installed package.
Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com writes:
The fix for that is to slot things properly. You're screwed anyway if a
preserved library tries to access installed data that has either been
removed or upgraded to a new format that it doesn't recognise.
Or some awkward packages which
Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis arfre...@gentoo.org writes:
2010-11-29 01:26:19 Robin H. Johnson napisał(a):
Sebastian Pipping recently removed automatic upgrade of active version of
Python, so
python-2.7.1.ebuild does not upgrade active version of Python.
Sorry, but on one of my ~x86
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org writes:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Alex Alexander wrote:
I guess it is triggered from pkg_postrm() of python-2.6.6-r1 which
until two days ago unconditionally called the following eselect
action:
But as python-2.7 is installed into a new slot, python-2.6.x is kept,
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org writes:
I guess it is triggered from pkg_postrm() of python-2.6.6-r1 which
until two days ago unconditionally called the following eselect
action:
But python-2.7 is installed in a new slot and python-2.6.x is not
removed. So. surely python-2.6.6-r1's
Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org writes:
But could pkg_postrm() of python-3.1.2-r4 have caused the update?
It essentially executed the following code:
Yes, that is what is doing it. I am in the middle of an emerge -uD world
and I ran 'eselect python list' after 2.7.1 had been emerged and it
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org writes:
well, not quite. the way we agreed in the past was to not revbump the masked
package, but once it was unmasked, we revbump it just once at that point.
Is there somewhere which tells users when there are upgrades to
toolchain packages which are not
Thomas Sachau to...@gentoo.org writes:
Since python-3* is currently useless and not required for any package, the
dependency should by
default only pull in python-2* like this:
=dev-lang/python-2*
With that, the default way would not pull in a package, which is not needed
or used. And
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org writes:
the bug reporter can open their own bugs. gentoo developers can open any
bug.
that's about it.
Which can be a pain for other users who suffered the same bug (and are
probably on the CC list), the maintainer says to re-open if the problem
is not
George Prowse george.pro...@gmail.com writes:
I have run revdep-rebuild about 30 times and I still can't fix
it. revdep-rebuild does not fix it and libpng needs to have some
serious action before it goes stable because I booted into, basically
a completely broken machine because I had to stop
Mike Frysinger vap...@gentoo.org writes:
if you're digging around then clearly you havent done the obvious and run
revdep-rebuild ? that is pretty user-friendly.
I do not know if I had done something wrong beforehand, but simply
running revdep-rebuild did not work for me - a number of
Richard Freeman ri...@gentoo.org writes:
I think that is separate from the circular dependency issue. As long
as we have an unresolved circular dependency I think cups should be
off the list. However, I'd be the first to agree that this is a
short-term solution.
The problem is that we
Denis Dupeyron calc...@gentoo.org writes:
Some systems are configured with a random root password. After a while
you get tired of doing 'sudo command' all the time and would like to
become root but you can't because you don't know the root password.
One way around that is 'sudo su -' which
Branko Badrljica bran...@avtomatika.com writes:
2. About using bugzilla- how the heck was I supposed to use it without
net access ?
If openrc did not start your networking, what was preventing you
starting it yourself? Even if the upgrade also corrupted both
sys-apps/net-tools and
Robert R. Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
3) perform the bugfix with a version bump and upgrade to the latest EAPI
Options 1 and 2 are how most updates are done, the user can mask the latest
version or upgrade. Option 3 allows the user to continue using the previous
version while they
Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* dismiss any technical criticism as being a 'corner case'.
And not appreciate that addressing the 'corner cases' is very important
and not to be dismissed. I have been a software developer (though not a
Gentoo one) for 30 years, and learnt that lesson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò) writes:
USE=cxx should do just fine, it will disable the C++-related parts,
whatever they are. Sincerely I'd quite like to enable it on my vserver's
build chroots too.
Should that be USE=-cxx? The help for USE=cxx says that this builds
support for
Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 23:01:38 Graham Murray wrote:
It looks to me as though you are intending to remove the capability to
set up complex network environments.
No I'm not.
I'm making it easy for simple configs AND complex ones. Just not through
Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wednesday 23 April 2008 21:46:18 Robin H. Johnson wrote:
See my attached example from work, we use a lot of the various options
on stuff.
No, we won't support that. However, we will bring back ip ranges for the last
ocet like so
1.2.3.4-10/24
It
Piotr Jaroszyński [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it's time to add a more general flag for enabling visibility support
in packages as currently there is only a kde specific one
(kdehiddenvisibility) and I don't think it makes sense to add a new one for
each package that needs it.
Some
Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If say you have nfs mounts, one network cable and then unplug the cable
you get this :-
netplug calls net.eth0 stop
net.eth0 stop calls netmount stop
netmount stop tries to unmount the nfs mounts
At this point, the process freezes for a LONG
Mike Auty [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Could you please describe the problem you faced? From the detail you
gave, it sounds as though you might not have moved /etc/conf.d/cryptfs
to /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt.
I had a problem. I moved /etc/conf.d/cryptfs to /etc/conf.d/dmcrypt, but
none of the
Jorge Manuel B. S. Vicetto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
for a virtual pointing to packages foo and bar, only one of them needs
to be stable before the virtual can be marked as stable, right?
So your above comment should read if a virtual points to packages foo
and bar, and [either foo or bar
Ulrich Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I would also strongly favor if both gnupg-1 and gnupg-2 could be kept
in different slots.
And maybe an eselect (or similar) to select whether external programs
which call use gpg-1 or gpg-2.
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Caleb Cushing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
right now were 12 going up probably from all the sites saying
negative things. funny sabayon a gentoo fork and overlay is in 8. I
know these statistics aren't 100% accurate (given how they're
generated) but maybe they mean something.
Maybe part of the
Roy Marples [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
H, just how many features should a config file have beyond the
setting of variables?
In the case of networking, the ability to define the functions for the
various hooks. In most systems these will not be needed, but where
policy routing etc is used
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This feature is not available in stable portage, which is why its not
documented. And yes there are many other features that lack
documentation.
But should it not be documented in the ebuild man files which come
with the versions of portage which *do*
Daniel Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ethereal, as far as anyone can tell, is no longer being developed[3] as all
the core developers have moved to Wireshark[4].
To make this transition as painless as possible, a package move has been
setup
so Ethereal users should automatically upgrade
Chris Gianelloni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 16:16 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
Is there an equivalent of (or replacement for) the command line
tethereal? This can give more useful information than tcpdump and can
be run in real-time on servers over an SSH connection
Martin Schlemmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Stupid question though ... does the gcc test thingy list __3dNOW__ on
nocona ? I would think that it does, as there is no -march=nocona (or
whatever) yet.
There is an -march=nocona (which I think was introduced in gcc 3.4)
which works for both 32bit
Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There's a newer way to control the same thing that userlocales controlled,
but I didn't understand it when it was posted here.
Though, AFAIK, there is no way of retaining the old behaviour, of
building all locales, when the local userlocales flag was not set.
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The only downside afaik, for bashrc is that you can't do per package
FEATURES as FEATURES is a python-side var. But you shouldn't need
per package FEATURES by design; FEATURES are for portage, not your
ebuild.
From the perspective of a user, not a
Fabian Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What I'd like portage do to is to create a symlink to the latest version
of a package's documentation. Just omitting the version number would of
course not work as slotted packages may have multiple versions of docs
installed. The first format coming
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Again, would anyone know what will happen to ~x86 gcc?, Will it become
gcc40 or just use the stable x86 gcc for everyone? (except those who are
already playing with gcc40 at their own risk)
Even if ~x86 does change to gcc40 then gcc is slotted so we can
continue to
Paul de Vrieze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is also needed for third party apps that were linked against
libstdc++.so.5. As long as those applications do not depend on other
libraries that are linked against a newer c++ lib things are totally ok.
But unfortunately is does happen. For
Michael Cummings [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The funny thing about no more activity upstream is this: why would
there be? Except for bug fixes, it does a simple job, and it does it
damned well: it parses your emerge log and gives you just the output
you want and need. Don't abandon a tool just
R Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
the only thing i know of that needs LT is Xen, and they're already
working on NPTL support.
Also the (user space) driver from Epson for the Stylus Photo R800
printer needs Linuxthreads. While much of this is available in source
code form, it includes a couple
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