Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:38:05 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: I'm running a stable gentoo installation and getting a block on vmware-player: [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.0.118166 [2.0.5.109488] 61,559 kB [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 478 kB [blocks B ]

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each vmware package depends on a specific modules version. In order to update vmware-player, you must first update vmware-modules,but that version is blocked by the existing player. There are two alternatives Unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Alan Mackenzie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Dirk, Hi, List! On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: - Update the grub.conf to pass the correct root. (btw, does anyone use anything other than grub these days?) Yes. I use LILO. My lilo.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Dale
Dirk Uys wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Each vmware package depends on a specific modules version. In order to update vmware-player, you must first update vmware-modules,but that version is blocked by the existing player. There are two

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:13:23 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: ps. Will it be ok if I upgrade portage to an unstable version while It's not unstable, it's testing. running a stable portage tree? There's no such thing. There is one portage tree with different ARCH settings for individual ebuilds. Some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Transferring an existing install to new disk

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 14:53:04 Neil Bothwick wrote: ... boot your existing Gentoo setup as usual, then follow the handbook to install on the new disk. You do not have to boot from a live CD to install Gentoo, [any] suitable working Linux environment will do the job, and an existing

Re: [gentoo-user] Crossdev won't go away

2008-11-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:25:31 Matthias Bethke wrote: Hi Peter, on Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:50:32AM +, you wrote: I'm still having a bit of bother with crossdev. If I emerge -upDvtN world I get this warning (omitting the N makes no difference): !!! The following installed

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:14:44AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Some of the testing ebuilds require a later portage Why ? I'm running a mixed system here with sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 without any problem¹. What kind of changes in ebuilds explains the use of

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:40:29 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: Some of the testing ebuilds require a later portage Why ? Because some of them require a later EAPI than portage 2.1 provides. You'll be told if you try to install such a package. -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto compile Xgl on Gentoo (to have dual seat box)

2008-11-13 Thread noro kamen
2008/11/12 b.n. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anybody know how to compile Xgl on Gentoo box ? Xgl has been discontinued: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl Can't you do the same with AIGLX in Xorg? So it seems to be funny now ... there is too many obsolete projects Xnest, Xephyt, Xgl, Xegl

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Moore
On 12:40 Thu 13 Nov , Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:14:44AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: Some of the testing ebuilds require a later portage Why ? I'm running a mixed system here with sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 without any

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing lyx-1.6.0

2008-11-13 Thread Andrés Becerra Sandoval
2008/11/12 Dirk Heinrichs [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Am Mittwoch, 12. November 2008 15:11:08 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What's your experience ? Works fine for me. Bye... Dirk For me it is working all right ... try a reinstall ! -- Andrés

Re: [gentoo-user] understanding --depclean

2008-11-13 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 11:13:00 -0600, Dale wrote: That may have been the case some time ago, but depclean is much safer now. Notice that the warning at the start of its output has disappeared now? That is true but let's say a person updates python but

Re: [gentoo-user] Asus Eee Gentoo install - no CD drive

2008-11-13 Thread Joseph
On 10/06/08 08:01, Grant wrote: I'm very familiar with installing Gentoo via LiveCD, but I'm not sure how to go about it without a CD drive. I'm sure there are many exotic options to choose from, but I'd rather not have to learn too much new stuff to get this done. Can anyone recommend a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Wallis
On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root: lspci Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up different to everyone else? Dan

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 13 November 2008 23:05:09 Dan Wallis wrote: On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root: lspci Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up different to everyone else?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root: lspci Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up different to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root: lspci Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own user as when I run it as root. Or have I got my system set up different to everyone else? maybe,

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dan Wallis
On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root: lspci Why as root? I get exactly the same output when I run it as my own

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/2008, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as root: lspci Why as

Re: [gentoo-user] Atheros chip with airodump-ng

2008-11-13 Thread Simon
Airodump-ng shows an empty table. I've seen the empty results also... The problem seems to be intermittent. But the location seems to be in relationship to the problem also; At home, I got blank results once out of a hundred scans I done... at my friend's place, I got only blank results

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan Wallis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/11/2008, Volker

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Dale
Dirk Uys wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not really. For an enduser --verbose isn't very helpfull. Don't know if I qualify as an end-user, but I find: Kernel driver in use: very usefull. I noticed that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem

2008-11-13 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
On Freitag 14 November 2008, Dirk Uys wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 13 November 2008, Dan Wallis wrote: On 13/11/2008, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Dan