Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0-test2 results

2003-08-03 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Lewis Cawthorne wrote: heya all, new guy here... anyone know what happened to the davicom drivers in the 2.5.75 and 2.6-0-test2 kernels? I ran across this same issue. Its under the Tulip sub-category in the Network Cards section -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Re: 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Martin Gramatke
Adam Mercer wrote: No, you should be using the headers from the kernel that glibc was built against not the kernel you have installed. Where does glibc find the kernel headers when it is emerged? Does the ebuild carry it's own headers? Or does it depend on a kernel header ebuild which is

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Tom Wesley
On Saturday 02 August 2003 22:58, Adam Mercer wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:34:38PM -0500, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: Why is gentoo still using the headers from 2.4.19??? Shouldn't we be using the headers of the kernel we have installed?? No, you should be using the headers from the

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Tom Wesley wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2003 22:58, Adam Mercer wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:34:38PM -0500, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: Why is gentoo still using the headers from 2.4.19??? Shouldn't we be using the headers of the kernel we have installed?? No,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: Clarifying meaning of x86 and ~x86

2003-08-03 Thread Sebastian Hungerecker
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 19:02:39 +0200 Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Okay, I've never seen -x86 seen either. And since Gentoo is x86-optimized, you probably never will. But maybe you'll see -ppc sometime Where can I read about that? http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=33534 --

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0-test2 results

2003-08-03 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Hello, I also tried 2.6.0-test2. 1) Here the matroxfb does not switch to the correct resolution. It remails at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Documentation doesn't say that anything has changed. 2) The bubblemon WindomMaker dockapp often crashes with a floating point exeption. Except of this it

[gentoo-user] emerge -uDp world

2003-08-03 Thread Tobias Olsson
Why does portage want to emerge package which I do not have installed when I do a emerge -uDp world. I tought that the -u switch only would search for installed ebuilds. emerge -Dup world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N]

[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Thorsten Kampe
* Steven Elling (2003-08-03 07:03 +0200) On Saturday 02 August 2003 15:23, Stephane Brossier wrote: I emerge some ebuilds yesterday, and then i got a warning that I should run etc-update to merge some files. I used the -5 option which automaticall merge the files, and it seems it deleted

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:50:42 +0200 Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is in fact the point it is all about. There is no sense in updating fstab or /etc/passwd so these types of files should be always omitted. Another possibility would be to have etc-update issue a red

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 10:59:41 +0100 (WEST) those who already know more than half of it. And what does the expression the headers from the kernel that glibc was built against It means that glibc needs a -static- set of headers that -do not change- in the life of glibc. They live

Re: [gentoo-user] postfix meta-x.de ???

2003-08-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 03:56:31 +0200 Kees Bergwerf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do I receive email from that program? My messages is received here in the mailing list! I have received it myself. So I don't understand why this postfix program is sending email to ME??? I did not send

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 10:59:41 +0100 (WEST) those who already know more than half of it. And what does the expression the headers from the kernel that glibc was built against It means that glibc needs a -static- set of headers that -do not

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-03 Thread Ralph F. De Witt
On Saturday 02 August 2003 07:36 pm, Heschi Kreinick wrote: Does anyone know when the gento-sources 2.4.21 will come out? When it's ready. In the meantime you can use pfeifer-sources, which is the development branch for gentoo-sources. -Heschi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list Personal I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uDp world

2003-08-03 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! Why does portage want to emerge package which I do not have installed when I do a emerge -uDp world. I tought that the -u switch only would search for installed ebuilds. Well if an updated package has a new dependency then it will be emerged. emerge -Dup world These are the packages

[gentoo-user] pppoe configuration

2003-08-03 Thread vp_admin
Hi! I am kind of new to gentoo but I had all versions of linux installed on my box since I first came in touch with linux about 2 years ago. One problem about linux allways seemed to be the support of certain hardware and if there is an appropriate driver available for the hardware the

Re: [gentoo-user] pppoe configuration

2003-08-03 Thread Andrew Gaffney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: now back to the subject of my email. When installing gentoo I could setup the adsl-connection (provider is the german telecom) on the installation-environment (The one which is only temporary and only exists in the core) without the slightest hassle. I just set up the

Re: [gentoo-user] Virtual mail howto unable to get phpmyadmin working

2003-08-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Jim Bailey -- I have tried using the exact syntax used in the Code listing 8.3: Configuring phpMyAdmin down to using '$password' exactly and adding the correct mysql password in clear text inplace of the above.[1] You have to enter the exact pwd in clear text into

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-03 Thread Chris I
On 2003.08.03 08:47, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: Personal I think we should not persue a 2.4.21 kernel, but should be working on a 2.6 kernel so that it will be ready when it reach release status. Since we are progressing so slowly on 2.4.21 I think resources would be better spent on 2.6. I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Where does ./configure scripts find libs and headers

2003-08-03 Thread Matthias F. Brandstetter
-- quoting Andy -- Where does ./configure script of application find headers and libs. And how can I change this paths? I think you have to give more information -- what application you want to compile, what headers and libs are needed and so on. Some ./configure scripts are

[gentoo-user] window focus in fluxbox

2003-08-03 Thread Andrew Gaffney
I have fluxbox as my WM. When I'm using Mozilla, if I switch windows by using Mozilla's 'Window' menu, the new one comes to the front, but the old one still has focus in the background until I click in the new one. Is there a way to have focus transferred to the new window when it comes to the

[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Heribert Slama
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 14:33:58 +1200, in gmane.linux.gentoo.user, David Friggens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...etc-update...] This is IMO the most very frustrating part of the way Gentoo works. 50*ACK :- [..] I've always found it more than satisfactory. etc-update automatically merges

[gentoo-user] Enabeling hyperthreading

2003-08-03 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Hello, I've got a Pentium4 mPGA478 and I'd like to enable hyperthreading. The output of dmesg tells me, that hyperthreading is disabled and smp motherboard not found. My motherboard is a Fujitsu-Siemens D1527 with hyperthreading support. According to /proc/cpuinfo the cpu should also support

[gentoo-user] How to unmerge gnome?

2003-08-03 Thread Frank Hellmuth
Hi As an open minded KDE user, I take a look at gnome from time to time. But now I'm running out of disk space, so I decided to remove gnome. After trying emerge -C gnome and seeing still a lot of gnome-base packages installed I unmerged these by hand by emerge -C packagename. But now a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmerge gnome?

2003-08-03 Thread Riyad Kalla
Frank, I *think* that qpkg program from gentoolkit (emerge gentoolkit) will show you deps... I could be wrong, but something in that toolkit did it. Best, -Riyad Frank Hellmuth wrote: Hi As an open minded KDE user, I take a look at gnome from time to time. But now I'm running out of disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 09:27, Heribert Slama wrote: This is IMO the most very frustrating part of the way Gentoo works. 50*ACK :- Glad to know I'm not alone. ;-) How do I recognize trivial changes? Only upt to 3 lines affected? Then there are no trivial changes;-) There aren't any

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmerge gnome?

2003-08-03 Thread Frank Hellmuth
Am Sonntag, 3. August 2003 19:11 schrieb Riyad Kalla: Frank, I *think* that qpkg program from gentoolkit (emerge gentoolkit) will show you deps... I could be wrong, but something in that toolkit did it. Thanks Ryiad for your quick reply! qpkg gnome -q -U what was I'm looking for (hopefully

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.6.0-test2 results

2003-08-03 Thread Ian Tindale
Tried 2.6.0 beta 2 but couldn't get em8300-libraries or em8300-modules to happen at all. A total no-go. Went back to 2.4.21 because viewing films on the Dxr3 plugged into the telly is now an accepted part of family life. Anyone else with a Dxr3 find the same probs in compiling the em8300 stuff

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabeling hyperthreading

2003-08-03 Thread Alexandru N. Barloiu
start by compiling kernel with smp support. On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 19:54, Michael Gruetzner wrote: Hello, I've got a Pentium4 mPGA478 and I'd like to enable hyperthreading. The output of dmesg tells me, that hyperthreading is disabled and smp motherboard not found. My motherboard is a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmerge gnome?

2003-08-03 Thread Frank Hellmuth
Am Sonntag, 3. August 2003 19:31 schrieb Frank Hellmuth: Thanks Ryiad for your quick reply! qpkg gnome -q -U what was I'm looking for (hopefully :) Hmmm... Now I've unmerged all dependencies shown by the above command, but emerge world still wants to install the gnome deskop environment.

[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Heribert Slama
On 03 Aug 2003 10:19:26 -0700, in gmane.linux.gentoo.user, Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] I hate to take up bandwidth offering nothing new, but hopefully the gods will be reading this and understanding that some/many/most of us have great concerns about this set of tools. An

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Heschi Kreinick
How do I recognize trivial changes? Only upt to 3 lines affected? Then there are no trivial changes;-) There aren't any trivial changes! If a 1-line change can bring your machine down, then EVERY single line must be chacked with the greatest of care. Spoken like someone who recently

Re: [gentoo-user] kdelibs Build Failure During Upgrade

2003-08-03 Thread Steven Elling
On Sunday 03 August 2003 00:29, Steven Elling wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2003 04:05, Tom Wesley wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2003 01:23, Steven Elling wrote: snip Has anyone else seen this? Why is the build trying to use '/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.2.2/libstdc++.la'

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmerge gnome?

2003-08-03 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:47:07 +0200 Frank Hellmuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... Now I've unmerged all dependencies shown by the above command, but emerge world still wants to install the gnome deskop environment. Any further hints? Do you have the gnome USE flag set? Try USE=-gnome

Re: [gentoo-user] How to unmerge gnome?

2003-08-03 Thread Frank Hellmuth
Am Sonntag, 3. August 2003 20:02 schrieb Ian Truelsen: On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 19:47:07 +0200 Frank Hellmuth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmmm... Now I've unmerged all dependencies shown by the above command, but emerge world still wants to install the gnome deskop environment. Any further

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Steven Elling
On Sunday 03 August 2003 05:50, Thorsten Kampe wrote: Just another point: is the -5 useful at all? I mean, has anyone used that in a senseful way? If you really want to overwrite, you could have done 'CONFIG_PROTECT=-* emerge -u whatever', right? Yes, -5 is useful. When there are a

[gentoo-user] mozilla firebird confusion

2003-08-03 Thread Anupam Kapoor
hi all, on my gentoo installation, there seems to be 4 mozilla-firebird ebuilds. most of the names are intuitive. but can you tell me the difference between net-www/MozillaFirebird and net-www/mozilla-firebird ? tia anupam -- ...mathematicians do it smoothly and

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 10:56, Heschi Kreinick wrote: How do I recognize trivial changes? Only upt to 3 lines affected? Then there are no trivial changes;-) There aren't any trivial changes! If a 1-line change can bring your machine down, then EVERY single line must be chacked with the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Magnus Nordseth
Mark Knecht: This presumes that I have enough background to: 1) Know that it can be changed 2) Know what some options are 3) Feel confident that the change won't somehow cause the whole thing to break my machine. I fail on all three counts! ;-) ;-) Then I think you would be better off

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Steven Elling
On Sunday 03 August 2003 06:33, Spider wrote: thats the point of being root. It allows you to do stupid things without getting in your way. And that is fine. I wouldn't have it any other way. But, I digress. passwd should be updated, at least until we get a very solid account management

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 11:40, Magnus Nordseth wrote: Then I think you would be better off with another distro. You're welcome to your opinion, but you're also 3 emails behind. Gentoo runs fine for me. Thanks, Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Heschi Kreinick
I agree completely that fstab needs at times, like recently, to be updated. However, for all the smart tools around here, I think it amazingly dense that etc-update -5 will replace a working partition number like /dev/hda6 with something like /dev/boot! It certainly should be able to find out

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 13:56:03 -0500 Steven Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think passwd should be updated by etc-update. Neither Do I. But that doesn't mean that you shouldn't get it, since portage -shouldnt- try to be smart on what files are suggested to update and not, but

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 13:04:01 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) The headers that were present when glibc was compiled (regardless of what kernel was used to compile it and what kernel one is using now)? -- I wouldn't dream of doing that! So, a) is the

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabeling hyperthreading

2003-08-03 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Alexandru N. Barloiu wrote: start by compiling kernel with smp support. This is what I tried first. Sorry, I forgot to mention that. On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 19:54, Michael Gruetzner wrote: Hello, I've got a Pentium4 mPGA478 and I'd like to enable hyperthreading. The output of dmesg tells me,

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003, Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 13:04:01 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) The headers that were present when glibc was compiled (regardless of what kernel was used to compile it and what kernel one is using now)? --

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabeling hyperthreading

2003-08-03 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Michael Gruetzner wrote: I've got a Pentium4 mPGA478 and I'd like to enable hyperthreading. The output of dmesg tells me, that hyperthreading is disabled and smp motherboard not found. My motherboard is a Fujitsu-Siemens D1527 with hyperthreading support. According to /proc/cpuinfo the cpu

[gentoo-user] Re: 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Martin Gramatke
Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 13:04:01 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) The headers that were present when glibc was compiled (regardless of what kernel was used to compile it and what kernel one is using now)? So, a) is the answer to my

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firebird confusion

2003-08-03 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Anupam Kapoor wrote: hi all, on my gentoo installation, there seems to be 4 mozilla-firebird ebuilds. most of the names are intuitive. but can you tell me the difference between net-www/MozillaFirebird and net-www/mozilla-firebird ? tia anupam There are three Mozilla Firebird

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uDp world

2003-08-03 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Tobias Olsson wrote: Why does portage want to emerge package which I do not have installed That's easy. Simple answer: use flags. Emerge ufed and run it to select and deselect use flags to your liking. Turn off gnome (and maybe gtk,gtk2) if you don't wish to use it and it won't install new

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Ian Truelsen
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 22:03:20 +0200 Spider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 13:04:01 +0100 (WEST) Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) The headers that were present when glibc was compiled (regardless of what kernel was used to compile it and what

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-03 Thread Dhruba Bandopadhyay
Ralph F. De Witt wrote: On Saturday 02 August 2003 07:36 pm, Heschi Kreinick wrote: Does anyone know when the gento-sources 2.4.21 will come out? When it's ready. In the meantime you can use pfeifer-sources, which is the development branch for gentoo-sources. -Heschi -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Spider
begin quote On Sun, 03 Aug 2003 22:39:25 +0200 Martin Gramatke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A not so good evening. This does not really enlighten me. Frankly I'm not sure its even within my power to enlighten you. What does 'were present' mean? it means, present. As in being located in

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS problems

2003-08-03 Thread Brian Richardson
On July 31, 2003 12:30 pm, Christopher Egner wrote: Now I would assume the (everyone) means what it says, everyone can access it. However when I do: mount fanny:/vol/data/home /mnt/home I get: mount: RPC: Authentication error; why = Client credential too weak Are there settings that might

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.19 headers?

2003-08-03 Thread Spider
If the kernel headers are updated, say from 2.4.18 to 2.4.19-r1, as is my case, do I need to rebuild glibc, or anything, to avoid unpleasantness? That should not be necessary, I assume whoever was responsible for that will have tested it thoroughly. The problems you may percieve are not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-08-03 at 12:54, Heschi Kreinick wrote: It requires me to remember which partition is which. Possibly fine for programmers and hardware techs, but not so nice for users. This is the core of the problem. You're asking for specialized treatment for fstab. It might be doable.

Re: [gentoo-user] Enabeling hyperthreading

2003-08-03 Thread Michael Gruetzner
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: Michael Gruetzner wrote: I've got a Pentium4 mPGA478 and I'd like to enable hyperthreading. The output of dmesg tells me, that hyperthreading is disabled and smp motherboard not found. My motherboard is a Fujitsu-Siemens D1527 with hyperthreading support. According to

[gentoo-user] xmodmap problem

2003-08-03 Thread Jorge Almeida
I have a nasty keyboard problem. I had KEYMAP=us in /etc/rc.conf, and changed it to KEYMAP=pt-latin1. I didn't use the US layout without changes (I need accents and stuff like that), and I don't want to use the portuguese layout (which is a crap). What I did before, and would like to keep

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Sean Johnson
I don't know how feasible it'd be, but I think if the files that are getting updated could be contextually grouped that that could help quite a bit. So instead of having the list of 25 config files, there are sections A B and C where A is something like system files, be very careful here, B is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Collins Richey
On 03 Aug 2003 11:17:55 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ Lot of stuff snipped ] I agree with a lot of stuff on both sides of the argument. I have raised this issue in the past. 1) the current etc-update is a big improvement over past versions. 2) Yes, Gentoo is a distro for those

[gentoo-user] Realtek 8139 not detected at bootup

2003-08-03 Thread Mark Fisher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Im trying to install gentoo on a new box for a m8. While ive installed gentoo many times previously, I havent come across this particular kind of problem. The box is a Shuttle sv24 with an on-board realtek 8139 NIC. The LiveCD [with no special

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo-sources

2003-08-03 Thread Norberto BENSA
gabriel wrote: On August 2, 2003 07:44 pm, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: Does anyone know when the gento-sources 2.4.21 will come out? the answer is, as always: when it's ready. Next question: when will it be ready? :-) I'm using pfeifer-sources-2.4.21-pre4 for now. Norberto -- $ man women

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtek 8139 not detected at bootup

2003-08-03 Thread William Kenworthy
Most bios allow you to allocate an IRQ for legacy drivers. Try and allocate IRQ11 to the realtek, and the bios should move the USB elsewhere. This seems to happen occaisionally on older boards - newer ones tend to work fine. BillK On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:30, Mark Fisher wrote: -BEGIN PGP

Re: [gentoo-user] cups-1.1.19-r1, etc.

2003-08-03 Thread Ernie Schroder
On Saturday 02 August 2003 06:28 pm, Collins Richey wrote: On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 22:20:48 +0100 Peter Ruskin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 Aug 2003 22:21, Collins Richey wrote: New versions of cups, ghostscript, gimp-print, foomatic... have been released. Has anyone tried them,

Re: [gentoo-user] Realtek 8139 not detected at bootup

2003-08-03 Thread Denny Schierz
hi, try to disable the pnp option in the bios, in most cases it solves the problem. On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 02:30, Mark Fisher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Im trying to install gentoo on a new box for a m8. While ive installed gentoo many times previously, I havent

Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread David Mallwitz
On Sunday 03 August 2003 05:36 pm, Ian Tindale wrote: I'd like some sort of flag system which says to etc-update: I've chosen to alter this file myself before, at some point in time or I've never touched this file in my life before, in fact, I didn't know it even existed. Of course, it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Sunday 03 August 2003 20:33, Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 12:50:42 +0200 Thorsten Kampe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is in fact the point it is all about. There is no sense in updating fstab or /etc/passwd so these types of files should be always omitted. Another

[gentoo-user] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1

2003-08-03 Thread blade-
Hi all, I am updating world at the moment, it is upgrading kernel headers from sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19 to sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1. I have vanilla-sources 2.4.21, why does it use 2.4.19 headers, and if it is a security fix or something as i saw something about a kernel

[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Heribert Slama
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 15:54:37 -0400, in gmane.linux.gentoo.user, Heschi Kreinick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a few remarks on selected issues: [..] ... So people will have to check their configs after they're updated, and really, how much more time does it take to merge them by hand than

[gentoo-user] OT: Gimp printing

2003-08-03 Thread Ernie Schroder
Hi All, I have some layouts in tiff and jpeg format that I want to print full size with gimp. They are about 10 1/2 inches square and gimp will not let me print to a scale that would not fit between my margins. I can overcome this by cropping the images and taping them together but

[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Heribert Slama
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 16:26:55 -0600, in gmane.linux.gentoo.user, Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] 4) There really needs to be a standard mechanism that notifies users when a critical config file update is necessary and prompts the user to make the changes manually. [..] The

[gentoo-user] Re: etc-update and fstab...

2003-08-03 Thread Heribert Slama
On Sun, 3 Aug 2003 13:56:03 -0500, in gmane.linux.gentoo.user, Steven Elling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] I don't think passwd should be updated by etc-update. For one, would a system administrator edit the passwd file to add or delete a user, system or daemon account or replace it

Re: [gentoo-user] sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1

2003-08-03 Thread Renat Golubchyk
Hi! On Monday 04 August 2003 03:08, blade- wrote: Hi all, I am updating world at the moment, it is upgrading kernel headers from sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19 to sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.19-r1. I have vanilla-sources 2.4.21, why does it use 2.4.19 headers, and if it is a security fix

[gentoo-user] pyzor spamassassin

2003-08-03 Thread Jonathan Nichols
Anybody managed to get the two working fine from the ebuilds? I'm having problems with pyzor right now.. spamd[20383]: [debug] Found Razor2 part: part=0 noresponse spamd[20383]: [debug] leaving helper-app run mode spamd[20383]: [debug] Razor2 results: spam? 0 highest cf score: 0 spamd[20383]:

[gentoo-user] Error building kdelibs-3.1.3

2003-08-03 Thread D.J. Bolderman
I'm trying to upgrade kde 3.1.2 to 3.1.3, but something goes wrong with kdelibs: /bin/sh ../../libtool --silent --mode=link --tag=CXX g++ -Wnon-virtual-dtor -Wno-long-long -Wundef -Wall -pedantic -W -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -ansi -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -Wcast-align -Wconversion

Re: [gentoo-user] Error building kdelibs-3.1.3

2003-08-03 Thread Kurt V. Hindenburg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 03 August 2003 11:09 pm, D.J. Bolderman wrote: | I'm trying to upgrade kde 3.1.2 to 3.1.3, but something goes wrong | with kdelibs: I upgraded tot 3.1.3 last week. I didn't have any problems compiling. CFLAGS=-march=athlon -O2 -pipe

[gentoo-user] eth0 problems after installing gentoo 1.4rc4

2003-08-03 Thread Farrell Farahbod
first, i have used linux for close to five years, but this is the first time i have tried any distro other than redhat. :) i know a fair amount about linux, and i have compiled programs before, but i am not an expert, as you will probably realize by the end of this email :) so on to the problem.

[gentoo-user] emerge error

2003-08-03 Thread Stephen Turner
hey im having trouble, ive been rsyncing for 3-4 days now and still come up with a bad perl package which seems to stop me from updating, :( ive run this box for quite some time so not sure if that matters anyways i attatched the output if you need one where i also try to emerge -U let me know,

Re: [gentoo-user] eth0 problems after installing gentoo 1.4rc4

2003-08-03 Thread Dan Foster
Hot Diggety! Farrell Farahbod was rumored to have written: first, i have used linux for close to five years, but this is the first time i have tried any distro other than redhat. :) i know a fair amount about linux, and i have compiled programs before, but i am not an expert, as you will

[gentoo-user] Bzip problem

2003-08-03 Thread Robert Arroyo i Andreu
Hello, I have a problem with unpacking bzip2 packages. # emerge -u portage Calculating dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) sys-apps/portage-2.0.48-r5 to / md5 src_uri ;-) portage-2.0.48-r5.tar.bz2 Unpacking source... Unpacking portage-2.0.48-r5.tar.bz2 to