Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-09 Thread Mick
On 8 June 2010 23:54, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/08/2010 11:42 AM, Mick wrote: It seems that the fs was well and truly corrupted.  :-( Is reiser4 prone to corruption? I know zero about reiserfs, so I'm uniquely qualified to make suggestions :) Did you do any/some/all of the steps

Re: [gentoo-user] Joomla

2010-06-09 Thread Mick
On 9 June 2010 00:06, sean tech.j...@myfairpoint.net wrote: Is anyone able to point me at a definitive write-up of Joomla on Gentoo (amd64)? Any recommend use flags or other tips from those who have set this up to get the best from this package? I can't answer directly your question, but

Re: [gentoo-user] Joomla

2010-06-09 Thread Matthias Fechner
Hi Mick, Am 09.06.10 08:05, schrieb Mick: I can't answer directly your question, but unless you have a particular reason to use Joomla, I would strongly recommend to give Drupal a try. It is a more powerful CMS with more modules than Joomla. yes you are right with your comment, I

Re: [gentoo-user] Remotely working on Gentoo systems

2010-06-09 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Wednesday 09 June 2010 02:04:28 Jake Moe wrote: On 09/06/10 09:58, Alex Schuster wrote: Jake Moe writes: j...@aus10224 ~ $ ssh -Y jhb5970 Password: Last login: Wed Jun 9 08:05:09 EST 2010 from 192.168.0.114 on pts/0 j...@jhb5970 ~ $ firefox Error: no display specified

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD-Container ?

2010-06-09 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 8 Jun, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am using k3b to burn dvds/cds. As most programs of this kind, k3b can /copy/ but not /move/ data to a DVD. Therefore, when trying to find tose files, which exactly sum up to the size of a DVD (by the way: I know DVD- sizes from a little below

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: /var/tmp/portage not empty?

2010-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 06:03:51 +, Mick wrote: Thanks I used reiser4progs to check and repair the fs. The weird thing is that I had to repeat this on the /var partition, after I zero'ed it, reformatted it and reinstalled gentoo on it. O_O How is it possible that the same directory/file

Re: [gentoo-user] Joomla

2010-06-09 Thread sean
On 06/09/2010 02:14 AM, Matthias Fechner wrote: Hi Mick, Am 09.06.10 08:05, schrieb Mick: I can't answer directly your question, but unless you have a particular reason to use Joomla, I would strongly recommend to give Drupal a try. It is a more powerful CMS with more modules than Joomla.

[gentoo-user] Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Jacques Montier
Hi all, After upgrading world, i installed python-3.1.2-r3 with already installed python-2.6.4-r1 As recommended, i ran python-updater ; so python-updater added some packages to the list as : app-office/openoffice-bin:0 dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5 ... The output is an error about

[gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread walt
On 06/09/2010 03:32 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, After upgrading world, i installed python-3.1.2-r3 with already installed python-2.6.4-r1 As recommended, i ran python-updater ; so python-updater added some packages to the list as : app-office/openoffice-bin:0 dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:32:05 +0200, Jacques Montier wrote: The output is an error about dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5 as invalid atom ! Where does that -MERGING- come from ? It's an orphaned file left in /var/db/pkg by an aborted emerge attempt. Delete it and try again. signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 09/06/2010 15:17, walt a gentiment tapote: On 06/09/2010 03:32 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, After upgrading world, i installed python-3.1.2-r3 with already installed python-2.6.4-r1 As recommended, i ran python-updater ; so python-updater added some packages to the list as :

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: Le 09/06/2010 15:17, walt a gentiment tapote: On 06/09/2010 03:32 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, After upgrading world, i installed python-3.1.2-r3 with already installed python-2.6.4-r1 As recommended, i ran python-updater ; so python-updater added some

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Jacques Montier
-- Jacques Site : http://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/ Le 09/06/2010 16:26, Dale a gentiment tapote: Jacques Montier wrote: Le 09/06/2010 15:17, walt a gentiment tapote: On 06/09/2010 03:32 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, After upgrading world, i installed

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Jacques Montier
Le 09/06/2010 15:33, Neil Bothwick a gentiment tapote: On Wed, 09 Jun 2010 12:32:05 +0200, Jacques Montier wrote: The output is an error about dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5 as invalid atom ! Where does that -MERGING- come from ? It's an orphaned file left in /var/db/pkg by an

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Dale
Jacques Montier wrote: -- Jacques Site : http://sites.google.com/site/jacquesfr35/ Le 09/06/2010 16:26, Dale a gentiment tapote: Jacques Montier wrote: Le 09/06/2010 15:17, walt a gentiment tapote: On 06/09/2010 03:32 AM, Jacques Montier wrote: Hi all, After

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-09 11:08 AM, Dale wrote: If I recall correctly, there are a few programs that can run with python 3. Thing is, there are still a LOT of them that can't run with it and must have python 2. If you switch to python 3, you will have a mess on your hands. If nothing actually requires

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD-Container ?

2010-06-09 Thread meino . cramer
Helmut Jarausch jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de [10-06-09 17:14]: On 8 Jun, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, I am using k3b to burn dvds/cds. As most programs of this kind, k3b can /copy/ but not /move/ data to a DVD. Therefore, when trying to find tose files, which exactly sum up

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Tanstaafl writes: So... for those of use who have already installed it (and thankfully I did actually read the notes about not switching to it), should me uninstall it then mask it? Or just leave it alone? For the sake of simplicity, I just leave it alone. I'm guessing it won't hurt

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:21:17 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: So... for those of use who have already installed it (and thankfully I did actually read the notes about not switching to it), should me uninstall it then mask it? Or just leave it alone? For the sake of simplicity, I just leave

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD-Container ?

2010-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:49:13 +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: sounds interesting, but seems the task to find the files afterwards for deletion remains. A move into a container would much more simpler and straight forward. ISTR mkisofs has an option to report the size of the filesystem is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2010-06-09 12:28 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:21:17 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I'm guessing it won't hurt anything, again as long as I don't stupidly switch to it? Right. And if a script specifically wants Python 3, it is there for it to use. Cool, thanks guys...

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 09.06.2010 12:32, schrieb Jacques Montier: Hi all, Hi, dev-lang/-MERGING-python:2.5 I get this also sometimes when I have a emerge running and use python-updater at the same time. Then waiting for the emerge to stop normaly helps. Greetings Sebastian

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: DVD-Container ?

2010-06-09 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 08.06.2010 19:26, schrieb meino.cra...@gmx.de: On the other hand: A iso-image-file on the harddisk would be nice, but that filesystem isn't made for moving files back and forth... You could use udf both for the image-file and the dvd. Greetings Sebastian

[gentoo-user] Howto get rid of USE qt3support

2010-06-09 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
Hi, there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde packages are complaining about qt3support and I don't want it. qt3 left my system a couple of years ago! so this is starting to get really annoying 8-(

Re: [gentoo-user] Howto get rid of USE qt3support

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Rudmer van Dijk rudmer.van.d...@casema.nl wrote: Hi, there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde packages are complaining about qt3support and I don't want it. qt3

[gentoo-user] equery depends gives nonsense results

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
I wanted to see which packages depend on x11-libs/qt-webkit, so I did: equery depends x11-libs/qt-webkit I got lots of results; but almost none of them mention qt-webkit *anywhere* (except for one package: qtscriptgenerator). I don't understand. Why does it print all the rest? Anyone can

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto get rid of USE qt3support

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/09/2010 11:27 PM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde packages are complaining about qt3support and I don't want it. qt3 left my system a couple of years ago! so

Re: [gentoo-user] equery depends gives nonsense results

2010-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:52:55 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: I wanted to see which packages depend on x11-libs/qt-webkit, so I did: equery depends x11-libs/qt-webkit I got lots of results; but almost none of them mention qt-webkit *anywhere* (except for one package:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Howto get rid of USE qt3support

2010-06-09 Thread Rudmer van Dijk
On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/09/2010 11:27 PM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde packages are complaining about qt3support and I

[gentoo-user] Re: Howto get rid of USE qt3support

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2010 01:17 AM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: On Wednesday 09 June 2010, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: On 06/09/2010 11:27 PM, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: Hi, there is a new qt and kde available, but it still has the annoying USE flag qt3support... is there a way to get rid of it? a lot of kde

[gentoo-user] Re: equery depends gives nonsense results

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2010 01:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge --depclean -pv x11-libs/qt-webkit Thanks for the tip! Didn't know --depclean can be used for that. Compared to that: x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.3 pulled in by: app-cdr/k3b--r1 app-text/kchmviewer-5.2 dev-python/PyQt4-4.7.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends gives nonsense results

2010-06-09 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 06/10/2010 01:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge --depclean -pv x11-libs/qt-webkit Thanks for the tip! Didn't know --depclean can be used for that. Compared to that: x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.3 pulled in by:

[gentoo-user] Re: equery depends gives nonsense results

2010-06-09 Thread Nikos Chantziaras
On 06/10/2010 01:59 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Nikos Chantziarasrea...@arcor.de wrote: On 06/10/2010 01:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: emerge --depclean -pv x11-libs/qt-webkit Thanks for the tip! Didn't know --depclean can be used for that. Compared to that:

[gentoo-user] What settings for nVidia G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] video card?

2010-06-09 Thread Walter Dnes
I'm converting an older Dell E521 AMD K8 machine from XP to Gentoo. I intend to use it with an HDHomerun ATSC tuner, for recording and playback. I don't know if it supports AGP, but I am including... * AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support * NVIDIA nForce/nForce2 chipset support ...in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: equery depends gives nonsense results

2010-06-09 Thread Marc Joliet
Am Wed, 9 Jun 2010 17:59:08 -0500 schrieb Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Nikos Chantziaras rea...@arcor.de wrote: On 06/10/2010 01:14 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: [...] I have the exact same kind of results as you, and have no idea why. I'm using

[gentoo-user] Two gcc versions installed

2010-06-09 Thread Daniel D Jones
eix gcc shows: Installed versions: 4.3.4(4.3)!s(10:56:18 AM 02/27/2010)(gtk mudflap nls nptl openmp -altivec - bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -fortran -gcj -hardened -libffi -multilib - multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla) 4.4.3-r2(4.4)!s(08:29:19 PM

Re: [gentoo-user] What settings for nVidia G72 [GeForce 7300 LE] video card?

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Walter Dnes writes: I'm converting an older Dell E521 AMD K8 machine from XP to Gentoo. I intend to use it with an HDHomerun ATSC tuner, for recording and playback. I don't know if it supports AGP, but I am including... * AMD Opteron/Athlon64 on-CPU GART support * NVIDIA

Re: [gentoo-user] Two gcc versions installed

2010-06-09 Thread Beau Henderson
I usually keep the last version of GCC around until I've managed to rebuild the entire world with the newer one, just in case. If you've run the tasks mentioned after the newer version was installed, it should probably be safe. On 06/10/10 10:34, Daniel D Jones wrote: eix gcc shows:

Re: [gentoo-user] Two gcc versions installed

2010-06-09 Thread Alex Schuster
Daniel D Jones writes: eix gcc shows: Installed versions: 4.3.4(4.3)!s(10:56:18 AM 02/27/2010)(gtk mudflap nls nptl openmp -altivec - bootstrap -build -doc -fixed-point -fortran -gcj -hardened -libffi -multilib - multislot -n32 -n64 -nocxx -nopie -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla)

Re: [gentoo-user] Two gcc versions installed

2010-06-09 Thread William Kenworthy
Did you run fix_libtool_files.sh 4.3.4 after switching gcc versions with gcc-config before trying depclean? BillK On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 03:05 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: Daniel D Jones writes: eix gcc shows: Installed versions: 4.3.4(4.3)!s(10:56:18 AM 02/27/2010)(gtk mudflap

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Strange python-updater error

2010-06-09 Thread Dale
Tanstaafl wrote: On 2010-06-09 12:28 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 18:21:17 +0200, Alex Schuster wrote: I'm guessing it won't hurt anything, again as long as I don't stupidly switch to it? Right. And if a script specifically wants Python 3,