Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package when upgrading world

2003-11-11 Thread Doug Weimer
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 07:37, Eamon Caddigan wrote: Well, as a temporary hack, I went ahead and 'injected' the latest unmasked versions of Tcl/Tk (dev-lang/tcl-8.3.4 and dev-lang/tk-8.3.4-r1). Now, `emerge -pvuD world' doesn't try to downgrade Tcl/Tk, but `emerge -pvUD world' is still

Re: [gentoo-user] Volume full during world update - how to clean up now?

2003-11-06 Thread Doug Weimer
On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 06:47, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote: Hi, In /var/tmp/portage/ there are a lot of directories full of files (all together more than 2GB) - I asume this is because the previous emerge run was stopped due to lack of disk space, sp probably it did not clean up like usually...

Re: [gentoo-user] how to build only new packages

2003-11-04 Thread Doug Weimer
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 05:38, Erwin Lang wrote: with this command I can install a prebuild package on a pc. but I want to know how I can avoid to build the same package every week if there is no new version available (as I said, emerge --buildpkg builds a package regardless if there already

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge grabbing wrong packages

2003-11-04 Thread Doug Weimer
On Tuesday 04 November 2003 04:27, you wrote: Okay, a few days ago I emerged the 2.6 kernel to take a look at. I did NOT install it and have since un-emerged it. emerge --pretend nvidia-kernel These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done!

Re: [gentoo-user] Making .ebuild

2003-11-03 Thread Doug Weimer
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:53, raptor wrote: tring to make an .ebuild for tcng but in the make install stage I'm getting errors i.e. tcng install script tries to write outside the sandbox.. This is the problematic part of the Makefile : - install-tcc:tcc

RE: [gentoo-user] Operating System not Found

2003-11-03 Thread Doug Weimer
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 02:00, Hall Stevenson wrote: Gentoo suggests that you normally NOT have /boot mounted during normal use. If it's not, when you copy your new kernel image to /boot, it will fail. In my case, I don't use 'genkernel', but compile mine the old-fashioned way. Lastly, I run

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/kernels/default-config

2003-10-30 Thread Doug Weimer
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 02:16, Guy Van Sanden wrote: Hello everyone What does this file do? is it copied to a new source-tree when downloaded? I'm asking because Im seeing differences in a 2.4.20-r7 kernel I compiled during install, and one I compiled later from the same sources without

Re: [gentoo-user] xfree dependancy - why?

2003-10-26 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 16:27, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: I get this too on a server machine. $ emerge -Duvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r3 -3dfx -sse -mmx -3dnow +xml2 +truetype

Re: [gentoo-user] Rogue dhcp server

2003-10-26 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 16:47, Chris I wrote: Short from trying harder to find him and kicking him in the shins, can anybody think of a way to block dhcp servers, or to specify which is allowed to be used. I've tried ip and mac filtering in iptables, but it doesnt seem to be effective.

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge Telnet

2003-10-25 Thread Doug Weimer
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 23:07, Alan Watson wrote: Can anyone tell me the emerge commnd to install telnet? Both server and client. emerge net-misc/netkit-telnetd Doug -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] change grub boot message

2003-10-24 Thread Doug Weimer
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 16:40, Redeeman wrote: when grub starts, it shows a message somewhat similar to this: to edit press e, for blabla ...blabla how can i remove or change that message? thanks! From what I can tell this is hard-coded into the grub source. If you want to edit the message and

Re: [gentoo-user] Update question

2003-10-21 Thread Doug Weimer
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 15:39, Rick [Kitty5] wrote: IMO etc-update should make a backup copy of all files replaced Rick You can do this with two small changes. First, add the --backup option to mv_opts in /etc/etc-update.conf. Note: The default backup option will create a single backup named

Re: [gentoo-user] Masking errors_Unmasking a pkg

2003-10-21 Thread Doug Weimer
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 19:05, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi all, Just used a 'dep-clean' command and here is the output: Cut- #dep-clean sort: open failed: uniq: No such file or directory To fix this take a look at: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30248 Calculating dependencies

Re: [gentoo-user] changing module search order for Perl and mod_perl

2003-10-21 Thread Doug Weimer
On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 10:01, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I believe the recent problems getting mod_perl to work correctly I've been having are due to the module search order. CGI.pm that comes with Perl 5.8.1 is in /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.1 while the CGI.pm installed by CGI-3.0 that is required by

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: animated gifs

2003-10-19 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 12:11, Andrew Gaffney wrote: So I don't have to go through the trouble of going over to my Windows computer and then transferring the files back, is there a small (smaller than the gimp) program that can do simple stuff like MS Paint can? There is xpaint, which has

Re: [gentoo-user] Fw: emerge command returns errors

2003-10-19 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 19:14, Alan Watson wrote: I've just finished installing from a stage 1 tar ball. I chose to run /dev/hda3 as ReiserFS. The problem is I made a mistake and omitted to install ReiserFS tools. After rebooting I ran the command: emerge -k sys-apps/reiserfsprogs The

Re: [gentoo-user] python configured for tk?

2003-10-18 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sat, 2003-10-18 at 10:14, Claus Ladekjær Wilson wrote: On starting fetchmailconf I had this error message: bash-2.05b$ fetchmailconf Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/fetchmailconf, line 9, in ? from Tkinter import * File /usr/lib/python2.2/lib-tk/Tkinter.py, line

Re: [gentoo-user] changing reiserfs partitions to ext3

2003-10-18 Thread Doug Weimer
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 17:25, Wes Gray wrote: If you end up doing this please post how it went. The question seems to be, just how complete is tar? And what options does it need to catch everything. I recently did a quick backup/restore with tar and ssh to convert two partitions (/home,/usr)

RE: [gentoo-user] login problem

2003-10-13 Thread Doug Weimer
On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 10:14, Davide Fanciola wrote: The problem is that I cannot login in text-mode console! But the X-based login (entrance) is working fine. When I say anything I type, it means : any user account present on my system... Are you prompted for a password? If not, you

Re: [gentoo-user] Find ebuild from file?

2003-10-12 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 23:55, Bryan Whitehead wrote: How do I find what ebuild is responsible for a file on my system? You can use the qpkg program from the app-portage/gentoolkit package. qpkg -f /path/to/file simple example... I want to find the owner of /usr/X11R6/bin/xcmsdb With an

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling new kernels

2003-10-12 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 22:51, a park wrote: when i emerge a new kernel to compile, does the /etc/kernel/default-config get replaced? No, emerging kernel sources basically does the following: 1. unpacks the source tarball 2. applies any patches 3. runs 'make mrproper' 4. runs 'make

Re: [gentoo-user] Find ebuild from file?

2003-10-12 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 00:27, Bryan Whitehead wrote: Thanks for the quick reply... What about finding files that are not yet installed? For example, if I'm looking for what package (ebuild) would provide a file called xrdb. In Mandrake this is simple: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ urpmf xrdb

Re: [gentoo-user] Dia (again)

2003-10-12 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 00:45, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: I have installed Dia 0.9.2- pre4, and i have now my text back, but the Cisco drawings are gone :-( Can i copy the Cisco drawings from Dia 0.9.1 to my current version? You might want to file a bug about this. I installed 0.9.2-pre4

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia problem

2003-10-12 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 11:43, Meka[ni] wrote: Already done that. Could you please check if you have that file on you source tree? I really don't what to do anymore. Did you run mrproper on the kernel tree after compiling? This will remove the version.h file. To generate it, you can run

Re: [gentoo-user] halt run as normal user

2003-10-12 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-10-12 at 13:19, Jan Meier wrote: Hi, how can i configure halt, that it can be run with a normal user account? Thanx in advance Jan There are several options, some of which are mentioned here: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=67151highlight=halt+user . I personally use

Re: [gentoo-user] checksum scanning

2003-10-11 Thread Doug Weimer
On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 14:09, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I was looking for something that was a bit more verbose. If nothing exists that does what I want it to do, I'll just write a Perl script that grabs the MD5 from /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS and compares it to the actual file. I want to be able

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked Deps.. how do I get rid of this?

2003-10-09 Thread Doug Weimer
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 09:32, Paul K. Dickson wrote: Yes, I have to unmerge both, then I type 'emerge -u xfreewhatever, and it emerges XFT along with it, then the conflict is back again. Quite irritating:) 'emerge -u xfree86' for all ebuilds 4.3.0-r1 are now blocking xft and they wont bring it

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked Deps.. how do I get rid of this?

2003-10-09 Thread Doug Weimer
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 14:59, Doug Weimer wrote: 'emerge -u xfree86' for all ebuilds 4.3.0-r1 are now blocking xft and they wont bring it in as a dependency. Your virtual file might be bringing it in. Take a look at /var/cache/edb/virtuals and find the line with virtual/xft in it, do you have

Re: [gentoo-user] nforce2 audio

2003-10-07 Thread Doug Weimer
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 21:34, a park wrote: i'm trying to set up my gigabyte nforce2 with sound. i'm using the 2.4.20-gaming kernel and have emerge nforce-audio and have placed the name of the driver in the /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel2.4 file. when i run update-modules command i get the

Re: [gentoo-user] genkernel problem

2003-10-07 Thread Doug Weimer
On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 08:51, SMS WebMaster wrote: I installed vanilla-source and now when I want to compile it (after coping .config to /etc/kernels/default-config) My question is why genkernel said : config type: non-gentoo (default) The non-gentoo (default) message is simply the

Re: [gentoo-user] file manager suggestion

2003-10-03 Thread Doug Weimer
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 05:16, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 13:57, Klaus Neumann wrote: FileRunner is my favorit. Is thee an ebuild for this? It doesn't appear to be in portage yet, but an ebuild for the latest version is here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15329

Re: [gentoo-user] NFS vs. samba

2003-10-03 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 08:33, Marshal Newrock wrote: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Janne Johansson wrote: If the laptop's not plugged in, after about 10-20 seconds rpc gives up with destination unreachable and the filesystem just doesn't mount. Yup. If you are worried about the delay, you can

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -Uvp hosed

2003-09-28 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 12:46, Shawn wrote: Calculating world dependencies Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 2096, in ? if not mydepgraph.xcreate(myaction): File /usr/bin/emerge, line 996, in xcreate if portage.db[/][vartree].dbapi.match(x): File

Re: [gentoo-user] nvidia use flag?

2003-09-25 Thread Doug Weimer
On Wed, 2003-09-24 at 17:18, James Hanna Jr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there anyway to get Gentoo to NOT install nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx when I emerge -upD world? I uninstalled them and it wants to reinstall them, which always results in an error since

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc-problem?

2003-09-22 Thread Doug Weimer
On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 13:54, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: On Monday 22 September 2003 17:36, Michael W. Holdeman wrote: snip checking for C compiler default output... configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables yes, check your CFLAGS, bet you made a mistake. This is the

Re: [gentoo-user] A bit of scripting...

2003-09-21 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 00:48, bob bob wrote: Any of you guys any good as scripting? I'm trying to do a smarter version of this : ls -lR /lib/modules/*/kernel/ /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.4 ... /lib/modules/2.4.20-gentoo-r6/kernel/arch/i386/kernel: total 28 -rw-r--r--1 root

Re: [gentoo-user] A bit of scripting...

2003-09-21 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 01:22, Doug Weimer wrote: If you only wan the files you can use find with a -type of f: find /lib/modules/*/kernel/* -type f -printf %f\n |sed 's/.o//g' I need to correct a small mistake here actually, s/.o//g isn't quite right. Use s/\.o//g instead. With only .o

Re: [gentoo-user] rar file decompressor?

2003-09-21 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:00, Mark Knecht wrote: Hi, What tools can I use to decompress a rar file under Gentoo? $ emerge -upv unrar These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild N] app-arch/unrar-3.2.2 Doug signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Alt-Left/Right arrows on the console.

2003-09-21 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 11:58, Carlos wrote: Hey people, When I'm on the console and press Alt+Left or Right arrows it switches to the previous/next virtual terminal. I find this pretty annoying since I like to use those key bindings to switch irssi's windows. Is there any way to disable

RE: [gentoo-user] cron environment

2003-09-21 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 20:48, Gregory Symons wrote: I believe it gets the full environment the the user has; i.e. when it launches the shell, the shell does its normal initialization and sources the global environment and whatever the user has in his .profile/.bashrc/.insert init file here.

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable spell checker in Evolution?

2003-09-19 Thread Doug Weimer
On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 08:29, Angel Gabriel wrote: How can i get the spell chcker working in evolution? In evolution 1.4.4 the spell checking option is at Tools-Composer Preferences-Spell Checking. The evolution ebuild checks for the USE flag spell before installing the gnome-spell package. If

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl

2003-09-12 Thread Doug Weimer
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 07:08, Collins Richey wrote: On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 23:17:00 -0400 donnie berkholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 19:02, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: snip dream but some other programs compline about error while loading shared libraries: libGLU.so.1:

Re: [gentoo-user] opengl

2003-09-12 Thread Doug Weimer
On Fri, 2003-09-12 at 09:50, Svein Harald Soleim wrote: Calculating dependencies - !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy virtual/opengl have been masked. !!!(dependency required by kde-base/kdebase-3.1.3 [ebuild]) !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct. What do you have in

Re: [gentoo-user] MySQL-4.0.15 -- when?

2003-09-11 Thread Doug Weimer
On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 10:20, Matthias F. Brandstetter wrote: Hi all, just wanted to ask when the new MySQL-4.0.15 ebuild will be out, does somebody know? Just because of this password / buffer overflow vulnerability of prior versions... Not sure about the 4.0.15 ebuild, but the

Re: [gentoo-user] How many packages in system not world?

2003-09-09 Thread Doug Weimer
On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 07:44, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: snip Thanks. I simplified that to: emerge -Oevp system | grep -c ebuild It seems it cannot be done any faster e.g. from a file. Take a look at /etc/make.profile/packages . From the intro documentation: # An initial * marks a package

Re: [gentoo-user] PERL and 'mail notification'

2003-09-07 Thread Doug Weimer
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 08:01, Jason Stubbs wrote: snip # Can I combine the following two lines in any way? # $mail_body = @$mail-body(); does not work. $mail_body_ref = $mail-body(); @mail_body = @$mail_body_ref; @{$mail-body()} works here. If you want, you can also use foreach(@{$mail-body(})

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel - depmod problems

2003-09-04 Thread Doug Weimer
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:14, Mark Knecht wrote: snip QUESTION #1 - Is it a requirement that I need to rebuild xfree each time I build a new kernel? (Time consuming, but done.) I've never had a problem using X11 after compiling a new kernel, but I can't say for certain whether or not this is

Re: [gentoo-user] new kernel - depmod problems

2003-09-04 Thread Doug Weimer
On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:51, Mark Knecht wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-04 at 20:42, Doug Weimer wrote: If you are recompiling a kernel it is best to move the old module tree out of the way before running 'make modules_install'. It was, and this could be part of the problem. Thanks. I guess I

Re: [gentoo-user] Eroaster, problems with ebuild

2003-09-03 Thread Doug Weimer
On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 18:08, Ernie Schroder wrote: Is anyone else getting this? # emerge -Uv eroaster --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options. Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of 1) app-cdr/eroaster-2.1.0-r2 to / !!! File is corrupt or incomplete.

Re: [gentoo-user] problem pinging

2003-09-02 Thread Doug Weimer
Tom, I would guess that your problem is due to having both devices initialized when only one is actually connected. Due to the change to a static ip, eth0 will be initialized whenever the nic drivers are loaded, regardless of whether or not eth0 is actually connected to the network. To test this