Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain packages. But Linux is pretty good at disk caching, so I wonder if that is it? You can

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct way to remove an old gcc-version (emerge --depclean) ?

2014-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/12/2014 09:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, on my embedded system I currently ran into a problem: As adviced after a greater world update I did emerge --depclean -vp beside other stuff sys-devel/gcc was shown as candidate for removal. An old version was shown for removal

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread covici
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain packages. But Linux is pretty good at disk

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CI Continuous Integration

2014-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/12/2014 08:25, Sam Bishop wrote: Mindful of the aforementioned rabbit hole, I'll stop myself here and sum it up by saying that I don't see any reason Gentoo must be hard. Gentoo isn't hard as long as you are up to speed with how to drive it. It's a high performance race engine that you

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/12/2014 03:33, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: On 12/17/2014 04:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: firefox: - pro: you get all the USE flags - pro: you

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread Dale
cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain packages. But

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread the
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/12/14 06:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I once -- just for fun -- compiled Firefox on an Atom N450. This has no effect on the loading time of 20 seconds. ^^ And how long did it take? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 18 December 2014 08:23:59 Neil Bothwick wrote: You can change PORTAGE_TMPDIR per-package. I have it on a tmpfs and then change it for packages like LO. % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:26:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/mnt/scratch Are comments allowed in, e.g., /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf? It's just a bashrc file,so comments should be fine. -- Neil Bothwick Top Oxymorons Number

[gentoo-user] Re: akonadi-server upgrade desaster

2014-12-18 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, Mick wrote: On Wednesday 17 Dec 2014 19:13:03 Jörg Schaible wrote: Hi folks, it seems there's no way for me to upgrade my akonadi-server 1.11.0 to 1.12.x or 1.13.x. I am using an external MySQL for years, but it fails to upgrade the tables nor will it recreate them without errors if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 01:07:34PM +0300, the wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 18/12/14 06:10, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: I once -- just for fun -- compiled Firefox on an Atom N450. This has no effect on the loading time of 20 seconds. ^^ And how long did it

[gentoo-user] How to install a pkg without all dependencies?

2014-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Setup: very new install of gentoo I want to install emacs-w3m without most of the dependencies: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.17 0 KiB [ebuild N ] virtual/w3m-0 0 KiB [ebuild N ] app-emacs/emacs-common-gentoo-1.4-r1 USE=X -games 40 KiB

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install a pkg without all dependencies?

2014-12-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 18/12/2014 20:18, Harry Putnam wrote: Setup: very new install of gentoo I want to install emacs-w3m without most of the dependencies: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.17 0 KiB [ebuild N ] virtual/w3m-0 0 KiB [ebuild N ]

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install a pkg without all dependencies?

2014-12-18 Thread Poison BL.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 1:18 PM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Setup: very new install of gentoo I want to install emacs-w3m without most of the dependencies: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-admin/eselect-emacs-1.17 0 KiB [ebuild N ] virtual/w3m-0 0

[gentoo-user] Re: How to install a pkg without all dependencies?

2014-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Poison BL. poiso...@gmail.com writes: With the understanding that changes between the version it's asking for and what you've built on your end (which probably should be done with a custom ebuild when it impacts as many things as emacs tends to) might well break whatever's trying to use it,

Re: [gentoo-user] How to install a pkg without all dependencies?

2014-12-18 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Dec 18, 2014, at 20:18, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: I installed emacs outside portage from bzr sources. I'd sooner track emacs development my way. I vaguely remember some way to tell portage about that... but not enough to do it... As Poison instructed: package.provided or

Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 18 December 2014 11:53:41 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:26:42 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf PORTAGE_TMPDIR=/mnt/scratch Are comments allowed in, e.g., /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf? It's just a bashrc file,so

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the correct way to remove an old gcc-version (emerge --depclean) ?

2014-12-18 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 9:45 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, on my embedded system I currently ran into a problem: As adviced after a greater world update I did emerge --depclean -vp beside other stuff sys-devel/gcc was shown as candidate for removal. An old version was shown for

[gentoo-user] Making DVD high resolution

2014-12-18 Thread Joseph
I've used Imagination to make VOB and set in preferences resolution 1920 x 1080 HD made VOB. How do I check the VOB frame size settings? When I tried to made HD video using DVD Styler the max frame rate I can set to make DVD ISO is 720x480. How to make DVD with higher resolution? -- Joseph

[gentoo-user] Garbled manpages OR terminal corruption OR ...

2014-12-18 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, Currently I haven noticed a few manpages (for example 'man ftop'), which miss kinda second part of a sentence. For ftop: FTOP(1) General Commands ManualFTOP(1) NAME ftop - show progress of open files and file systems SYNOPSIS ftop

[gentoo-user] Re: How to install a pkg without all dependencies?

2014-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: --nodeps Nope, even that doesn't work... it fails at some point with things like: * ERROR: app-emacs/emacs-w3m-1.4.528_pre20140213::gentoo failed (configure phase): * econf failed * * Call stack: *ebuild.sh, line 93: Called

Re: [gentoo-user] Making DVD high resolution

2014-12-18 Thread Joseph
On 12/18/14 10:50, Joseph wrote: I've used Imagination to make VOB and set in preferences resolution 1920 x 1080 HD made VOB. How do I check the VOB frame size settings? When I tried to made HD video using DVD Styler the max frame rate I can set to make DVD ISO is 720x480. How to make DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] Making DVD high resolution

2014-12-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 18 December 2014 18:50:09 CET, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've used Imagination to make VOB and set in preferences resolution 1920 x 1080 HD made VOB. How do I check the VOB frame size settings? When I tried to made HD video using DVD Styler the max frame rate I can set to make DVD ISO

Re: [gentoo-user] Making DVD high resolution

2014-12-18 Thread Joseph
On 12/18/14 19:10, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 18 December 2014 18:50:09 CET, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've used Imagination to make VOB and set in preferences resolution 1920 x 1080 HD made VOB. How do I check the VOB frame size settings? When I tried to made HD video using DVD Styler

[gentoo-user] BluRay reproduction

2014-12-18 Thread Fábio Emilio Costa
Hello! Someone had already played BD Video discs I bought a Pioneer BD player/recorder and I want to play BD films on it, but the things I found in net were (a) badly documented, (b) confusing and/or (c) Ubuntu oriented. Any tips? Already tried to put bluray on USE flags and all the things I

Re: [gentoo-user] Making DVD high resolution

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Cook
On 12/18/2014 01:31 PM, Joseph wrote: On 12/18/14 19:10, J. Roeleveld wrote: On 18 December 2014 18:50:09 CET, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: I've used Imagination to make VOB and set in preferences resolution 1920 x 1080 HD made VOB. How do I check the VOB frame size settings? When I

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-18 Thread Fábio Emilio Costa
Need some help (taking the topic that is about this): already build bumblebee and implemented everything (runned glxgears with optirun and things gone okay). However, I'm with some problems to play some games, like Shatter and Anomaly, that has 32-bit only versions (my ARCH=~amd64). I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-18 Thread J. Roeleveld
On 18 December 2014 19:40:27 CET, Fábio Emilio Costa fabiocosta0...@gmail.com wrote: Need some help (taking the topic that is about this): already build bumblebee and implemented everything (runned glxgears with optirun and things gone okay). However, I'm with some problems to play some games,

[gentoo-user] sysctl not executed at boot time

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Schwartzkopff
Hi, It seems that my sysctl.conf is not executed at boot time. If a apply a sysctl -p after boot, it adjusts a lot of parameters I added to syscl.conf. A rc-update shows the the sysctl server should start a boot time. Any ideas? Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Michael Schwartzkopff -- [*] sys4 AG

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Am 18.12.2014 um 20:03 schrieb J. Roeleveld: I don't remember the package I need to build so optirun can run correctly those games. Any help? I would start with the packages with 'compat' in the name. Unless someone knows specifically For optirun you don't need any particular 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-user] BluRay reproduction

2014-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 16:37:15 -0200, Fábio Emilio Costa wrote: Someone had already played BD Video discs I bought a Pioneer BD player/recorder and I want to play BD films on it, but the things I found in net were (a) badly documented, (b) confusing and/or (c) Ubuntu oriented. You need to

[gentoo-user] No burners are currently available

2014-12-18 Thread Joseph
When I start Xfburn I get a message: No burners are currently available Possibly the disc(s) are in use, and cannot get accessed. How to check which program is using the DVD drive? ps fax is not showing that any program is using it. -- Joseph

Re: [gentoo-user] No burners are currently available

2014-12-18 Thread meino . cramer
Joseph syscon...@gmail.com [14-12-18 21:16]: When I start Xfburn I get a message: No burners are currently available Possibly the disc(s) are in use, and cannot get accessed. How to check which program is using the DVD drive? ps fax is not showing that any program is using it. --

[gentoo-user] Identifying a file by a block number...how?

2014-12-18 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, with sysctl vm.block_dump=1 one can enable the logging of IO to the harddisk/flashmem/... into dmesg. The logs report the block number of the file in question... but not the filename itsself. Is there any other way as examine each single file of the filesystem to find the file to which

Re: [gentoo-user] No burners are currently available

2014-12-18 Thread Joseph
On 12/18/14 21:20, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Joseph syscon...@gmail.com [14-12-18 21:16]: When I start Xfburn I get a message: No burners are currently available Possibly the disc(s) are in use, and cannot get accessed. How to check which program is using the DVD drive? ps fax is not showing

[gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
After reading a few google hits of gentoo documetation about virtual pkgs. I still didn't get it. In my case I'm trying to avoid problems with a self built emacs (25) not done thru portage. I'm not looking to discuss the pros and cons of doing in this thead, but want to understand how it will

Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying a file by a block number...how?

2014-12-18 Thread Poison BL.
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:24 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, with sysctl vm.block_dump=1 one can enable the logging of IO to the harddisk/flashmem/... into dmesg. The logs report the block number of the file in question... but not the filename itsself. Is there any other way as

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Nils Holland
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 07:06:32PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: Well, that knocks down most of the unwanted pkgs but still as you see: emerge -vp emacs-w3m [ebuild N ] virtual/emacs-24 0 KiB [ebuild N ] virtual/w3m-0 0 KiB [ebuild N ]

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 19:06:32 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: I didn't want to have the confusion of another version of emacs installed so resorted to use of: /etc/portage/profile/package.provided: like so: app-editors/emacs-24 To tell portage about my home rolled emacs Well,

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 12/18/2014 07:06 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: After reading a few google hits of gentoo documetation about virtual pkgs. I still didn't get it. In my case I'm trying to avoid problems with a self built emacs (25) not done thru portage. What are you trying to do, just get emacs-25 installed

Re: [gentoo-user] virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Matti Nykyri
On Dec 19, 2014, at 2:06, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Can anyone say what that package actually does? virtual/emacs-24 installs a directory emacs-24 under /var/db/virtual/ and it takes around 10sec. This dir is only used by portage to figure out what you have in your system.

[gentoo-user] CFLAGS for athlon 5350 apu?

2014-12-18 Thread German
Couldn't find those in documentation. Thank you

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Matti Nykyri matti.nyk...@iki.fi writes: On Dec 19, 2014, at 2:06, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Can anyone say what that package actually does? virtual/emacs-24 installs a directory emacs-24 under /var/db/virtual/ and it takes around 10sec. This dir is only used by portage to

[gentoo-user] Re: virtual/emacs-24

2014-12-18 Thread Harry Putnam
Michael Orlitzky m...@gentoo.org writes: On 12/18/2014 07:06 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: After reading a few google hits of gentoo documetation about virtual pkgs. I still didn't get it. In my case I'm trying to avoid problems with a self built emacs (25) not done thru portage. What are

Re: [gentoo-user] sysctl not executed at boot time

2014-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 08:33:28PM +0100, Michael Schwartzkopff wrote Hi, It seems that my sysctl.conf is not executed at boot time. If a apply a sysctl -p after boot, it adjusts a lot of parameters I added to syscl.conf. A rc-update shows the the sysctl server should start a boot time.

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for athlon 5350 apu?

2014-12-18 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 02:38:48AM +0400, German wrote Couldn't find those in documentation. Thank you If you're building on the target machine, use the native CFLAG. It has been around for a while. It detects the CPU, and builds for it automagically. You don't have to do any more grunt

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for athlon 5350 apu?

2014-12-18 Thread Frank Steinmetzger
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 02:38:48AM +0400, German wrote: Couldn't find those in documentation. Thank you Well, why not give the standard -O2 -march=native a whirl, perhaps seasoned with -pipe. Or look at what march=native would actually yield: Create a simple c file: cat test.c EOF int main()

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread »Q«
On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 23:59:59 +0200 Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs firefox? Depends on your needs: firefox: - pro: you get all the USE flags - pro: you don't

[gentoo-user] Re: firefox.bin vs firefox

2014-12-18 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:59:58 -0500 cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote: That is interesting, but firefox requires 8g I think of temp space, the very package which takes so long. I have 16g of memory, but I wonder if my whole system would start to crawl. I would try it. I have only 8GiB. I used to

Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS for athlon 5350 apu?

2014-12-18 Thread German
Thank you. I'll stick to -march=native for now Walter Dnes waltd...@waltdnes.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 02:38:48AM +0400, German wrote Couldn't find those in documentation. Thank you If you're building on the target machine, use the native CFLAG. It has been around for a while. It

[gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-18 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, (this happens on a embedded system) I ran into a problem I think... As adviced I run emerge --depclean -v -p after a greater update to world. (by the way: Updateing the world is generally to a bad idea...;) Beside other things, gcc-4.7.3 was slated for removal. As gcc-4.8.3 was

Re: [gentoo-user] Making DVD high resolution

2014-12-18 Thread Stroller
On Thu, 18 December 2014, at 6:10 pm, J. Roeleveld jo...@antarean.org wrote: On 18 December 2014 18:50:09 CET, Joseph syscon...@gmail.com wrote: When I tried to made HD video using DVD Styler the max frame rate I can set to make DVD ISO is 720x480. How to make DVD with higher resolution?

Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia and optimus

2014-12-18 Thread Sid S
I'd like to use the internal card most of the time since I don't care about 3D acceleration but I do care alot about power saving. When using an external monitor I'd like to use the NVidia card. Currently my solution is to reboot and change bios settings, being able to switch at runtime would

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-18 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On 19/12/14 13:39, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, (this happens on a embedded system) I ran into a problem I think... As adviced I run emerge --depclean -v -p after a greater update to world. (by the way: Updateing the world is generally to a bad idea...;) Beside other

Re: [gentoo-user] Identifying a file by a block number...how?

2014-12-18 Thread Sid S
find / -xdev -inum # If you know it is in a directory more specific than /, replace / with that directory. inodes are only meaningful to ext2/3/4, but you can use the fs tools to find out where it is on disk. On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Poison BL. poiso...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Dec 18,

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting rid of gcc-4.7.3...how?

2014-12-18 Thread meino . cramer
Bill Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au [14-12-19 08:00]: On 19/12/14 13:39, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, (this happens on a embedded system) I ran into a problem I think... As adviced I run emerge --depclean -v -p after a greater update to world. (by the way: