[gentoo-user] "eselect (c)python --list" corrupted somehow?

2018-02-02 Thread tuxic
Hi, I want to compile/install FreeCAD. I checked my python/cpython installation, because FreeCAD wants python 2.7 I got this output /root>eselect python list --cpython Available Python interpreters, in order of preference: [1] python3.5 [2] python3.4 (uninstalled) [3]

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-02 Thread Dale
John Campbell wrote: > On 02/02/2018 01:07 PM, Floyd Anderson wrote: >> Hi Helmut, >> >> On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:34:23 +0100 >> Helmut Jarausch wrote: >>> With glibc-2.27 installed I cannot compile anything, since most >>> packages try to include >>> which doesn't exit any

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-02 Thread John Campbell
On 02/02/2018 01:07 PM, Floyd Anderson wrote: > Hi Helmut, > > On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:34:23 +0100 > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> With glibc-2.27 installed I cannot compile anything, since most >> packages try to include >> which doesn't exit any more. >> And downgrading glibc

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread Wol's lists
On 02/02/18 17:28, Grant Taylor wrote: On 02/02/2018 01:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: We could use Perl. I see your Perl and raise you Lisp. Or the "language to replace all languages", PL/1 Cheers, Wol

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread Wol's lists
On 02/02/18 00:08, Jack wrote: >> "eg", which, phonetically, is the start of the word "example". > > A non-native speaker of English, or a non-native speaker of Latin? And Latin's descendants (which are mutually comprehensible) are actually the most widely spoken first language in Europe.

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 20:34:04 +, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > But its a bad habit which I will never get into! > > > > Couldn't you have said "…habit that I…" in the fact that you were > > referencing a specific habit, not just a generic place holder? > > Nope. He said it's a bad habit.

Re: [gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-02 Thread Floyd Anderson
Hi Helmut, On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 18:34:23 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: With glibc-2.27 installed I cannot compile anything, since most packages try to include which doesn't exit any more. And downgrading glibc using a binary package doesn't work. It looks like I have to

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread allan gottlieb
On Fri, Feb 02 2018, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 02/02/2018 01:03 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> But its a bad habit which I will never get into! > > Couldn't you have said "…habit that I…" in the fact that you were > referencing a specific habit, not just a generic place holder? > > If I'm

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday, 2 February 2018 20:05:21 GMT Grant Taylor wrote: > On 02/02/2018 01:03 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > But its a bad habit which I will never get into! > > Couldn't you have said "…habit that I…" in the fact that you were > referencing a specific habit, not just a generic place holder?

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 02/02/2018 01:03 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_relative_clauses#That_or_which_for_non-human_antecedents This mentions Fowlers, the reference that Peter said to read. Thank you. Unfortunately, the distinction, and so the subtleties of meaning, is falling

[gentoo-user] Heads Up - glibc-2.27 breaks my system

2018-02-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
With glibc-2.27 installed I cannot compile anything, since most packages try to include which doesn't exit any more. And downgrading glibc using a binary package doesn't work. It looks like I have to restore my system from a recent backup, very annoying! (I know that glibc-2.27 is masked,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 02/02/2018 01:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: We could use Perl. I see your Perl and raise you Lisp. -- Grant. . . . unix || die smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 02/02/2018 11:38:54 AM, Floyd Anderson wrote: On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:11:38 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I cannot run emerge --sync I always get ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Fri 02 Feb 2018 09:38:18 AM UTC gpg:using

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15 = spectre_v2 fixed

2018-02-02 Thread Mick
On Wednesday, 31 January 2018 12:20:51 GMT Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > On 31/01/18 14:04, Mick wrote: > > Just to dilute my confusion on what I should do to keep desktops safe(r), > > would someone please clarify: > > > > Is it necessary to keyword gcc 7.3 + kernel 4.15 and emerge kernel 4.15 > >

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Luigi Mantellini
See https://bugs.gentoo.org/645194 should be solved by last portage (maybe). ciao luigi On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Luigi Mantellini < luigi.mantellini...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think a trouble with ipv6. > For now I disabled at all the portage tree verification adding >

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Floyd Anderson
On Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:11:38 +0100 Helmut Jarausch wrote: Hi, I cannot run emerge --sync I always get ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Fri 02 Feb 2018 09:38:18 AM UTC gpg:using RSA key E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250

Re: [gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Luigi Mantellini
I think a trouble with ipv6. For now I disabled at all the portage tree verification adding "sync-rsync-verify-metamanifest = no" to repos.conf ciao luigi On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:11 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > I cannot run emerge --sync > I always get > > >

[gentoo-user] sync fails : ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed

2018-02-02 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, I cannot run emerge --sync I always get ERROR:root:OpenPGP verification failed: gpg: Signature made Fri 02 Feb 2018 09:38:18 AM UTC gpg:using RSA key E1D6ABB63BFCFB4BA02FDF1CEC590EEAC9189250 gpg: Can't check signature: No public key What might have been happened? Many

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
hehehehe :-) Old joke but a good one: Q: Why don't we obfuscate perl? A; Because that makes it more readable On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 09:34:06 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > As a native English speaker I can never

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

2018-02-02 Thread Alexander Kapshuk
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 6:32 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alexander Kapshuk writes: > > [...] > >>> Can anyone tell me what they used to allow gentoo in vbox to boot? >>> >>> >>> >> Did you enable the recommended kernel config options as suggested

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 2 Feb 2018 09:34:06 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > As a native English speaker I can never remember the precedence rules > about its and it's... Its easy ;-) > I vote we dump English in it's entirety and all switch to Python Come one! Most people can't handle basic spelling and

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] A little help for non-native English speakers

2018-02-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 1 Feb 2018 21:06:15 -0700, Grant Taylor wrote: > > And don't get me started on people using "which" when they should be > > using "that". > > > > (In this case, which is correct but it should have a preceding > > comma). > > Please defend / expound upon your statement. - Because I'd