Am 23.06.2011 00:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is Gentoo
after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-)
In what way is it bad?
It is bad because
a) it is new, and new stuff is always
On 6/23/11 7:54 AM, Mick wrote:
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011 03:49:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box.
I did a qfile for this and nothing was found.
What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems?
I'd be interested to find out too.
On Thursday 23 June 2011 04:49:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box.
I did a qfile for this and nothing was found.
What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems?
Best regards,
mcc
I don't have that file on any of my
On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:16:33 Pandu Poluan wrote:
-original message-
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
From: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org
Date: 2011-06-23 07:11
I have a program that I use to create Gentoo VM appliances. I have no
idea if it
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 16:59:50 Grant wrote:
I'd like to password protect the motion webcam stream at
my.external.ip.address:port. Do I need to run apache2 in order to do
that? It seems like overkill but I don't think motion has password
protection built-in.
It's been a while since I've
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:02:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
But all this was mild compared to what I did yesterday. You know that
notice on the console when you get sudo wrong? It says the incident
will be reported
OK. But to whom? On my shell boxes it gets reported to me. And
yesterday this is
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:03:32 -0500, Dale wrote:
So why are you installing it, and all its dependencies, on the one
hand, and complaining about bloat on the other? Surely installing
stuff you don't need is the very definition of bloat.
But it installed stuff either way. Instread of ABD, I
110623 justin wrote:
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011 03:49:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box.
I did a qfile for this and nothing was found.
What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems?
dbus is creating this file during installation.
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:03:32 -0500, Dale wrote:
So why are you installing it, and all its dependencies, on the one
hand, and complaining about bloat on the other? Surely installing
stuff you don't need is the very definition of bloat.
But it installed
Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:02:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
But all this was mild compared to what I did yesterday. You know that
notice on the console when you get sudo wrong? It says the incident
will be reported
OK. But to whom? On my shell boxes it gets reported to
On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
Shouldn't it work similarly?
Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4?
I use Xen directly and as long as I can create and fill the partitions
for the
VM,
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
conversion would increase the size of the disk image that would be
shipped to him.
Yes,
2011/6/22 Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de:
Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
It is unset here (well, it's not set, actually - same thing)
On Thursday 23 June 2011 05:53:15 Dale wrote:
Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:02:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
But all this was mild compared to what I did yesterday. You know that
notice on the console when you get sudo wrong? It says the incident
will be reported
OK.
On Thursday 23 June 2011 07:18:38 Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
Shouldn't it work similarly?
Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4?
I use Xen directly and as
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:49:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
My question was why are you installing cantor if you don't need it?
Oh, I see. It was pulled in by kde-meta. I know I can have KDE other
ways but it is much easier to emerge kde-meta than to emerge some
huge amount of packages .
If you
* Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [110622 17:40]:
Todd Goodman wrote:
* Dalerdalek1...@gmail.com [110622 14:45]:
When I did that, it complained that cantor was built with no backend.
Did you get the same thing? It said this here:
WARN (postinst)
You have decided to build cantor
* Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [110622 18:35]:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote:
SNIP
No actually blas-reference fails to build unless gcc is built with the
fortran use flag enabled (since there's no fortran compiler available.)
The deps
* Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com [110622 18:59]:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Then again, I don't fly either. I have told people that if they
see me on a plane, close the lid on my coffin. That's the only
way I would get on a plane.
You haven't lived
* Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk [110622 20:37]:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:55:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Helicopters are reserved for those with a death wish
Unless the helicopter is an air ambulance, not that what I was doing to
require an air ambulance in the first place was
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 5:05 AM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote:
* Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com [110622 18:35]:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Todd Goodman t...@bonedaddy.net wrote:
SNIP
No actually blas-reference fails to build unless gcc is built with the
fortran use flag
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 08:06:09AM -0400, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com [110622 18:59]:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Then again, I don't fly either. I have told people that if they
see me on a plane, close the lid on my coffin. That's
On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking
about
building .xva which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is
similar
to/same as a stage4 (I have no idea)?
.xva is a format specifically for Citrix Xen.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:18, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 09:54 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Any such program to build XenServer appliances (.xva) ?
Shouldn't it work similarly?
Eg. start an appliance and install using the stage4?
I use
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 20:12, Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking
about
building .xva which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is
similar
to/same as
On 06/22/2011 09:40 AM, Grant wrote:
I just upgraded to cups-1.4.6-r2 and my Zebra 2844 thermal label
printer wouldn't work until I modified the printer in the CUPS admin
interface and chose from the latest set of drivers offered for that
printer.
I've been bitten by the same problem with a
Hi,
BACKGROUND ONLY: I've got a futures trading partner who is
attempting to give up Windows if he can. I've helped him install
Gentoo on his new machine. The box is up and running and so far very
productive for him. We're struggling a bit with getting his three
monitor setup working like it
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:54:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
My question is about running nvidia-settings. I'm finding that if I
shell into his machine using
ssh -X -Y -C IP-address
and run nvidia-settings I get it displayed here, as it should be. The
problem is it is seeing my GTX 465 and
On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
either something he would have to deal with when he received it or the
conversion would increase the size of the disk
On Thursday 23 June 2011 09:12:15 Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 13:45 (+0200), Joost Roeleveld said:
Yes the stage4 should work similarly. However Pandu was asking
about
building .xva which I know nothing about, unless an .xva is
similar
to/same as a
On Thursday, June 23 at 12:32 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
On 06/23/11 07:15, Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Thursday, June 23 at 00:35 (-0400), Matthew Finkel said:
Oh, don't get me wrong, that's one reason I use qcow2 myself, but it's
either something he would have to deal with when he
On 2011-06-22 19:36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that. Except
that it's a zombie-relict from the 1950's that refuses to die because
people still programming in it are too lazy to learn a proper, more
modern language :-P
It refuses to
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:21:07PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:54:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
My question is about running nvidia-settings. I'm finding that if I
shell into his machine using
ssh -X -Y -C IP-address
and run nvidia-settings I get it
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote:
It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain niche areas
(hpc, numerical computing etc.) where modern languages doesn't cut
it... :-)
Or so the Fortran programmers with jobs to protect will tell you...
You'll be telling us there's
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:39 AM, YoYo Siska y...@gl.ksp.sk wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 05:21:07PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 08:54:01 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
My question is about running nvidia-settings. I'm finding that if I
shell into his machine using
Todd Goodman wrote:
* Neil Bothwickn...@digimed.co.uk [110622 20:37]:
It seemed ironic that a recent training helicopter crash near here
resulted in the survivor being taken off in an air ambulance helicopter.
Though most of those I know of are twin engine turbines so chances are
good
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:49:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
My question was why are you installing cantor if you don't need it?
Oh, I see. It was pulled in by kde-meta. I know I can have KDE other
ways but it is much easier to emerge kde-meta than to emerge some
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 02:10:34PM -0500, Dale wrote:
I saw a guy on a TV interview once. He said the only way a helicopter
can fly is by brute force. A airplane wants to fly but a helicopter
just wants to crash. He said that can be proven by taking your hands
off the controls. Down
On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:59:53 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly:
Am 23.06.2011 00:58, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 21:16:30 +0200, Sebastian Beßler wrote:
This new behavior is bad, but not as bad as Windows. This is
Gentoo after all and not Ubuntu ;-P :-)
In what way
On Thursday 23 June 2011 13:31:10 Daniel Pielmeier did opine thusly:
2011/6/22 Sebastian Beßler sebast...@darkmetatron.de:
Am 22.06.2011 17:31, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 15:44:40 Neil Bothwick did opine
thusly:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:41:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:08 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote:
It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain
niche areas (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where modern
languages doesn't cut it... :-)
Or so the Fortran
On Thursday 23 June 2011 13:09:53 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 05:49:45 -0500, Dale wrote:
My question was why are you installing cantor if you don't
need it?
Oh, I see. It was pulled in by kde-meta. I know I can have KDE
other ways but it is much easier to
On Thursday 23 June 2011 09:09:17 Indi did opine thusly:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 08:06:09AM -0400, Todd Goodman wrote:
* Indi thebeelzebubtrig...@gmail.com [110622 18:59]:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 04:30:01PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Then again, I don't fly either. I have told people that
On Thursday 23 June 2011 01:12:55 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:55:10 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Helicopters are reserved for those with a death wish
Unless the helicopter is an air ambulance, not that what I was doing
to require an air ambulance in the first place
On Thursday 23 June 2011 10:22:47 Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:02:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
But all this was mild compared to what I did yesterday. You know
that notice on the console when you get sudo wrong? It says the
incident will be reported
OK. But
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:08 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote:
It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain
niche areas (hpc, numerical computing etc.) where modern
languages
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011 08:59:53 Sebastian Beßler wrote:
d) it is an automation, and because of that a red flag for any real
gentoo user
isnt portage itself a huge amount of automation? :P
--
- Yohan Pereira
A man can do as he will, but not will as he will - Schopenhauer
On Thursday 23 June 2011 13:36:11 Joost Roeleveld did opine thusly:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 05:53:15 Dale wrote:
Joost Roeleveld wrote:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:02:39 Alan McKinnon wrote:
But all this was mild compared to what I did yesterday.
You know that notice on the console
On Thursday 23 June 2011 21:04:45 Robin Atwood did opine thusly:
On Thursday 23 Jun 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 19:16:08 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote:
It refuses to die because it's still very useful in
certain
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:45:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
If you consider spending a couple of days farting around with
fortran to be much easier... :P
I use sets for this. I want KDE but not all of it, so I have a set
with just the -meta packages I want:
I do similar, except I'm even
On Thursday 23 June 2011 21:35:21 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:45:36 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
If you consider spending a couple of days farting around
with
fortran to be much easier... :P
I use sets for this. I want KDE but not all of it, so I have a
Since upgrading my kernel to .39 my beloved splash screen has stopped
working. I have followed guidelines in wiki that someone has very kindly
written. Reverting back to older kernel the splash screen works as
expected. I've tried this on 2 machines. I have seen somewhere that a
patch is added to
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 18:46:55 Dale wrote:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 17:54:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Use a directory for package.use, it makes it far easier to
manage. All of /etc/portage/package.* are directories here.
I have done that for package.keywords and
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 17:23:44 Mark Knecht wrote:
When I removed the fortran flag it didn't change anything because (I
suppose) the KDE profile has included it as a default.
So it seems. I've just tried USE=-fortran emerge -upDvN world and the only
thing that would be remerged because of
On 6/23/2011 1:04 AM, Dale wrote:
Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 6/22/2011 2:35 PM, Dale wrote:
You have decided to build cantor with no backend.
To have this application functional, please do one of below:
# emerge -va1 '='kde-base/cantor-4.6.4 with 'R' USE flag enabled
# emerge -vaDu
On Thursday 23 June 2011 20:54:03 Alan McKinnon wrote:
I was seriously considering importing a single seater heli kit, they
are classed as ultralights and do not need a pilot's license. But
there's an obscure clause in the rules that states ultralights cannot
be flown within 50m of a
On Thursday 23 June 2011 18:23:58 pk wrote:
On 2011-06-22 19:36, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
It's a programming language. You know, C, C++, stuff like that.
Except that it's a zombie-relict from the 1950's that refuses to die
because people still programming in it are too lazy to learn a
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:06:28 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I do similar, except I'm even more of a control freak than you, so
my kde4 set contains onl;y a couple of meta-packages, the rest it
individual packages.
% wc -l /etc/portage/sets/kde4
83 /etc/portage/sets/kde4
Sad, I know
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:27:53 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
So is giving the files sensible names :)
That was what I liked about autounmask, the tree version not the
portage one. It gave them some names at least. Still felt like
looking for a needle in a haystack sometimes tho.
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 21:38:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 08:59:53 Sebastian Beßler did opine thusly:
b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations. Without
autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to do. With
autounmask it shows what needs
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:34:17 Mike Edenfield wrote:
Odds are one of your 1.5quadrillion USE flags is pulling in FORTRAN when
you don't even need it.
It may not be. I have only four USE flags in make.conf, and still I have the
same fortran requirement as Dale.
--
Rgds
Peter
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 17:23:44 Mark Knecht wrote:
When I removed the fortran flag it didn't change anything because (I
suppose) the KDE profile has included it as a default.
So it seems. I've just tried USE=-fortran emerge -upDvN world and the only
thing
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 14:25:21 Indi wrote:
IMO the USE line in make.conf really should only contain the universal
stuff you can't live without, specifying everything else on a per
package basis is what makes it possible to run a system which is at once
full-featured and lean.
My method
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 16:50:10 Dale wrote:
If you use KDE like me, be prepared to put the thing back tho. Some KDE
packages depend on things that seem to need it enabled.
Looks like it's only packages that are pulled in by kdeedu-meta. Do you need
all those?
--
Rgds
Peter
Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 6/23/2011 1:04 AM, Dale wrote:
Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 6/22/2011 2:35 PM, Dale wrote:
You have decided to build cantor with no backend.
To have this application functional, please do one of below:
# emerge -va1 '='kde-base/cantor-4.6.4
John wrote:
Since upgrading my kernel to .39 my beloved splash screen has stopped
working. I have followed guidelines in wiki that someone has very kindly
written. Reverting back to older kernel the splash screen works as
expected. I've tried this on 2 machines. I have seen somewhere that a
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:37 Dale wrote:
Maybe we have something different then. I don't have blas-reference on
here anymore either. My point was, disabling fortran to remove it only
lead to other stuff being required. I think there is more on here now
than there was before. So,
Joost Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org [11-06-23 17:52]:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 04:49:57 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
Hi,
I found a file /etc/machine-id on my linux box.
I did a qfile for this and nothing was found.
What purpose is that file and can I delete it without problems?
On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:06:00 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations.
Without
autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to
do. With autounmask it shows what needs to be done.
That is probably the most evil of
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 16:50:10 Dale wrote:
If you use KDE like me, be prepared to put the thing back tho. Some KDE
packages depend on things that seem to need it enabled.
Looks like it's only packages that are pulled in by kdeedu-meta. Do you need
all
On Thursday 23 June 2011 22:47:54 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 20:54:03 Alan McKinnon wrote:
I was seriously considering importing a single seater heli kit,
they are classed as ultralights and do not need a pilot's
license. But there's an obscure clause in the
On Thursday 23 June 2011 17:28:15 Dale did opine thusly:
John wrote:
Since upgrading my kernel to .39 my beloved splash screen has
stopped working. I have followed guidelines in wiki that
someone has very kindly written. Reverting back to older kernel
the splash screen works as expected.
On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:30:04 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:37 Dale wrote:
Maybe we have something different then. I don't have
blas-reference on here anymore either. My point was, disabling
fortran to remove it only lead to other stuff being
On 6/23/2011 6:22 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 16:50:10 Dale wrote:
If you use KDE like me, be prepared to put the thing back tho. Some KDE
packages depend on things that seem to need it enabled.
Looks like it's only packages that are pulled in by kdeedu-meta. Do
On 6/23/2011 6:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:06:00 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
b) it breaks the way portage displays his informations.
Without
autounmask the display of emerge shows what he is going to
do. With autounmask it shows what needs to be done.
That
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I install with kde-meta. It pulls about all things KDE in with that. For
me, it is better to use kde-meta than to do it any other way. Even with
kde-meta, I think there is a few that I still had to emerge manually.
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I wonder what 3.0 will be like
Newer... ;-)
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Alan McKinnonalan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
SNIP
I wonder what 3.0 will be like
Newer... ;-)
Newer problems right? :-P
Dale
:-) :-)
On Thursday 23 June 2011 22:57:16 Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:27:53 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
So is giving the files sensible names :)
That was what I liked about autounmask, the tree version not the
portage one. It gave them some names at least. Still felt like
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:37 Dale wrote:
Maybe we have something different then. I don't have blas-reference on
here anymore either. My point was, disabling fortran to remove it only
lead to other stuff being required. I think there is more on here now
than
On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:41:04 Alan McKinnon wrote:
I could just two birds one stone:
http://www.hover-bike.com/
Hmm. I'd like to see one more figure: dBA!
--
Rgds
Peter
On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:48:11 Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 23 June 2011 23:30:04 Peter Humphrey did opine thusly:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 23:35:37 Dale wrote:
Maybe we have something different then. I don't have
blas-reference on here anymore either. My point was, disabling
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 07:16:08PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 19:23:58 +0200, pk wrote:
It refuses to die because it's still very useful in certain niche areas
(hpc, numerical computing etc.) where modern languages doesn't cut
it... :-)
Or so the Fortran programmers
I've been reading the monthly security bulletin from sans.org for
several years. During that time I've noticed some recurring themes,
including multiple appearances from Adobe products like Flash.
Another recurring theme is ftp servers (of which there are dozens)
like this month's report:
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 07:13:46AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.mask.
No non-matching entries in /etc/portage/package.unmask.
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:56:19 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
I thought the old behavior was portage would tell me why it's not going
to do anything, vs. the new behavior of portage will tell me why it's
not going to do anything, plus offer to fix it for me.
Not quite. The old behaviour was that
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:31:38 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Because the behaviour changed to something that is the exact opposite
without any warning. Portage always used to tell what it will do. Now,
simply by leaving the relevant options at the default, it tells me
what it should do. How
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 20:01:30 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:
1) what's the difference between package.keywords and
package.accept_keywords?
The latter is the new name for the former.
--
Neil Bothwick
Last words of a Windows user: = Why does that work now?
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On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:15:04PM -0500, Dale wrote
Todd Goodman wrote:
My solution is to force -R in make.conf
Let me make a note of that, in make.conf of course. ;-)
Years ago, I changed to starting my USE line with -* and adding what
I needed, either in /etc/make.conf or in
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 23:18:48 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
My method is to put a USE flag into make.conf if it's described in
use.desc; otherwise it goes into package.use if it's in use.local.desc.
I use that as a general rule too, although there is the situation where a
flag moves from local
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:54:14 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote:
It's one package (cantor) that has one dependency (R) that is optional
(USE=-R) that falls squarely into the if you aren't sure if you need it
then you probably don't category. So for most users, no, you don't need
to build gcc with
I just happened to run into a situation where rsync would have been
really handy to have on board while booting a minimal install iso.
I was surprised to find rsync was not amongst the onboard tools.
Isn't rsync a pretty basic tool to be missing from a bootable install
disc?
I realize I can
walt w41...@gmail.com writes:
I've been reading the monthly security bulletin from sans.org for
several years. During that time I've noticed some recurring themes,
including multiple appearances from Adobe products like Flash.
Another recurring theme is ftp servers (of which there are
On 06/23/11 19:54, walt wrote:
I've been reading the monthly security bulletin from sans.org for
several years. During that time I've noticed some recurring themes,
including multiple appearances from Adobe products like Flash.
Another recurring theme is ftp servers (of which there are
Hi
This device is a 2GB USB MP3 player, and is detected by the kernel as having
no partition; it is VFAT formated, it is not automatically detected by KDE,
but mounting it (in root account) is straightforward; I've copied a bunch
of mp3 files to it and the device plays them normally.
Where would
On 06/24/2011 01:16 AM, Dale wrote:
Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Wednesday 22 June 2011 17:23:44 Mark Knecht wrote:
When I removed the fortran flag it didn't change anything because (I
suppose) the KDE profile has included it as a default.
So it seems. I've just tried USE=-fortran emerge -upDvN
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