Re: [gentoo-user] patching an ebuild file

2024-05-17 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Fri 17 May 2024 19:26:02 GMT, ralfconn wrote: > For my raspberry cross-compilation project I need to do simple > modifications locally to some ebuilds. > > I can edit the ebuild and then rebuild the manifest but on every update > I have to repeat. > > Is there a way to patch an ebuild in a

Re: [gentoo-user] How to synchronise between 2 locations

2024-03-27 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Wed 27 Mar 2024 20:37:27 GMT, Frank Steinmetzger wrote: > +1 for Unison. I’ve been using it for many years now to synchronise between > the four PC systems in my household. > > Unison creates a local index of all files it syncronised. So when you move a > file around on one end, Unison will

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel config thingy, "make menuconfig"

2022-01-15 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sat 15 Jan 2022 23:38:18 GMT, Neil Bothwick wrote: > make oldconfig feeds you the new items, one at a time, complete with > access to the help information. Speaking of oldconfig, is there a way to only be asked when the default is to enable the option? If the default is “No” I never want to

Re: [gentoo-user] TLD for home LAN?

2022-01-15 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sat 15 Jan 2022 11:53:58 GMT, tastytea wrote: > On 2022-01-15 10:33+ Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Hello list, > > > > Rich F said recently, "I'd avoid using the .local TLD due to RFC > > 6762." > > > > That brings me back to a thorny problem: what should I call my local > > network? It

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ethernet card for puter

2021-11-08 Thread Alarig Le Lay
a firewall/router and WAP. > > The exact Ethernet protocols used on that RJ45 connection to the > "modem" varie. Some do PPPoE, some just need some sort of > authenticating DHCP client, so do other stuff. And if you want to plug the fiber directly to your router, you’ll have to make it accept the GPON SFP, which isn’t always easy depending of the firmware of the NIC. -- Alarig Le Lay

Re: [gentoo-user] unregister_netdevice: waiting for ip6gre0 to become free. Usage count = -1

2021-08-09 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On 08/08/2021 18:06, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hello, > > After upgrading to 4.14.240-gentoo, I’m seeing “unregister_netdevice: > waiting for ip6gre0 to become free. Usage count = -1” being flooded by > syslogd. This box was running 4.14.194-gentoo before and I don’t have > any oth

[gentoo-user] unregister_netdevice: waiting for ip6gre0 to become free. Usage count = -1

2021-08-08 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hello, After upgrading to 4.14.240-gentoo, I’m seeing “unregister_netdevice: waiting for ip6gre0 to become free. Usage count = -1” being flooded by syslogd. This box was running 4.14.194-gentoo before and I don’t have any other 4.14.240-gentoo running yet. As per

Re: [gentoo-user] Qustions re Dell M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drives under Gentoo

2021-05-27 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Thu 27 May 2021 17:05:07 GMT, Walter Dnes wrote: > * do NVMe drives function well under Gentoo (driver issues, etc)? I have a NVMe drive on my corporate laptop (a lenovo) and I don’t have any issue with it. PS: I agree on the linux bloatiness, I have 4G of RAM on my personal laptop and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-05 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Mon 05 Apr 2021 13:27:01 GMT, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > I'm always using "make olddefconfig" rather than "make oldconfig" and > had no problems upgrading to 5.10. After running "make olddefconfig" I > use "diff" to compare the new configuration to a backup copy of the old > one, and

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-05 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sun 04 Apr 2021 23:56:05 GMT, Michael wrote: > On Sunday, 4 April 2021 23:31:50 BST Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Has the 5.10 LTS has been stablised, I tried to upgrade it on some of my > > boxes, but `make oldconfig` doesn’t want to use my old config:

[gentoo-user] Kernel upgrade from 5.4 to 5.10: oldconfig "Restart config..."

2021-04-04 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hello, Has the 5.10 LTS has been stablised, I tried to upgrade it on some of my boxes, but `make oldconfig` doesn’t want to use my old config: Here is my make output: https://paste.swordarmor.fr/raw/2rRh And here is my config: https://paste.swordarmor.fr/raw/YHaG Does anyone else has to redo

Re: [gentoo-user] hostname service on lxc

2021-01-09 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi Nils, rc_sys from /etc/rc.conf is empty, but after removing -lxc from /etc/init.d/hostname the service is well started. Thanks! So, for the record: as112 ~ # grep rc_sys /etc/rc.conf #rc_sys="" as112 ~ # grep keyword /etc/init.d/hostname keyword -docker -lxc -prefix -systemd-nspawn

[gentoo-user] hostname service on lxc

2021-01-09 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, OpenRC doesn’t take the hostname service service on LXC even if the symlink exists: as112 ~ # rc-status boot | grep hostname as112 ~ # file /etc/runlevels/boot/hostname /etc/runlevels/boot/hostname: symbolic link to /etc/init.d/hostname On a bare-metal box, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage package removals due to python-2.7

2020-08-24 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Mon 24 Aug 2020 12:24:26 GMT, Michael wrote: > Thanks Neil, will this keep all requisite build and run time dependencies, or > will they have to be added to package.unmask too? You will have to do the same for all the packages you want to keep (no matter if it’s a dep or a manually emerged

Re: [gentoo-user] Removal of virtual/modutils

2020-08-09 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On Sun 09 Aug 2020 10:43:12 GMT, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Morning all, > > Today I see that virtual/modutils has been masked for removal in 30 days. The > notice says "no consumers in the tree", but app-emulation/virtualbox- > modules-6.1.12 requires virtual/modutils here. > > I don't know

Re: [gentoo-user] dns/bind-tools 9.14 -> 9.16 pulling in 17 new dependencies?!

2020-07-20 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Mon 20 Jul 2020 16:20:47 GMT, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Including the man page in the files directory would avoid this, although > I don't know if this is considered good practice. Perhaps adding a man use flag which enabled by default? -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] handbrake fails to compile

2020-05-24 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On Sun 24 May 2020 12:44:20 GMT, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > Message was: > > * ERROR: media-video/handbrake-1.3.2::gentoo failed (compile phase): > * emake failed No, the error is here: > /usr/bin/g++ -pipe -Wl,-S -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed -fmessage-length=0 -Wall > -Wno-format-truncation

[gentoo-user] Question about x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard

2020-04-04 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, The news item from 2020-04-03 says “future removal of the legacy X11 input drivers x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse and x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard“ Those as installed on my system: alarig@pikachu ~ % eix x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse [I] x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse Available versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] static-libs for sys-libs/zlib and app-arch/bzip2

2020-04-03 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On ven. 3 avr. 00:13:38 2020, Sergei Trofimovich wrote: > Probably an effect of fixed deps in: > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/dev-libs/elfutils?id=261f473f807caef944d126c23438181bdf699d6b > > You probably already have USE=static-libs for elfutils. You need > to track

[gentoo-user] static-libs for sys-libs/zlib and app-arch/bzip2

2020-04-02 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, All in a sudden, sys-libs/zlib and app-arch/bzip2 are required to have static-libs to upgrade: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R] app-arch/bzip2-1.0.6-r11:0/1::gentoo USE="(split-usr) static-libs* -static" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB [ebuild U ]

Re: [gentoo-user] zoom?

2020-03-25 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mer. 25 mars 11:51:33 2020, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Did someone try to install zoom? (relevant to many people during the > current crisis) > > https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/204206269-Installing-Zoom-on-Linux > > I downloaded an archive (cannot find the URL again; the site is that >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Testing ebuilds

2020-03-20 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On ven. 20 mars 09:16:34 2020, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > Do you have hardening or something like that? > > No. Here is my make.conf: Nothing unusual, indeed. Could you please share the ebuild that has the behavior? The issue might be there. -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Testing ebuilds

2020-03-20 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On ven. 20 mars 00:07:45 2020, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-03-19 20:18, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > > Yes and it has always worked. `dobin` shouldn’t try to chown in theory, > > it’s done during the merge. > > Assuming it's /usr/lib/portage/python3.6/ebuild-helper

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Testing ebuilds

2020-03-19 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On jeu. 19 mars 11:17:51 2020, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > But have you tried the _install_ step this way? I don't mean the "real" > install into the filesystem, just the staged install that "ebuild foo > install" does. > > I get: > > >>> Install net-mail/mu-1.3.9 into

Re: [gentoo-user] Testing ebuilds

2020-03-19 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mer. 18 mars 19:20:23 2020, Jack wrote: > On 2020.03.18 18:59, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > After a hiatus I am trying to create my own ebuild repository again. I > > need a way to test the separate steps (fetch, prepare, comiple, install > > etc.) and I would like to do all of them as a regular

Re: [gentoo-user] apache htaccess - block IP range

2020-03-18 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On mar. 17 mars 15:47:36 2020, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > How to block in .htaccess file certain IP range? > > I have bot from huawei.com on my server for several days: > IP: 114.119.128.0 - 114.119.191.255 > Or just block all China In a case like this, I’m not trying to bother about

Re: [gentoo-user] webrsync

2020-02-23 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On dim. 23 févr. 11:11:31 2020, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > emerge-webrsync has just eaten my /usr/portage :-( ;-( > > I let it run unattended. When I came back I saw first some complaints > from rsync about "vanished" files ... something like > > /usr/portage/_build has vanished before it could be

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about >=net-misc/openssh-8.2_p1

2020-02-21 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On ven. 21 févr. 11:00:37 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 2/21/20 3:15 AM, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > > > Will this restart be still required when 8.2 will be stabilised or is it > > specific to the ~arch version? > > It's not specific to the ~arch version. Some inte

[gentoo-user] Question about >=net-misc/openssh-8.2_p1

2020-02-21 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, As stated by the news item https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-02-19-openssh-8.2-service-breakage.html if one upgrades to 8.2_p1-r2, a restart is required. However, this version is currently ~arch, the stable is 8.0_p1-r4. Will this restart be still required when 8.2 will be

Re: [gentoo-user] "equery" and "blueman"

2019-12-20 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On ven. 20 déc. 18:51:45 2019, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Greetings, > > there seems to be some "blueman" specific data "equery" doesn't like: > >$ equery --no-color uses --all net-wireless/blueman-2.1.1 >Traceback (most recent call last): > File

[gentoo-user] Question about an ebuild (rpki-client)

2019-12-08 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I written an ebuild for OpenBSD’s rpki-client(8) but some things seem a bit weird to me, or at least very hackish. (and I’m not the most talented at this exercise and I’m a network guy, not a system one)

Re: [gentoo-user] Network config problem

2019-11-30 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On sam. 30 nov. 16:36:33 2019, Peter Humphrey wrote: > It doesn't raise an error on starting, only on stopping. Yeah, you already posted it. -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] Network config problem

2019-11-30 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On sam. 30 nov. 16:19:42 2019, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I don't know what to make of that systemd-udevd failure: this is an openrc > box. If you don’t have eudev, /dev is still managed by systemd. > My ISP has set me up with IPv6, and my Billion Bipac vDSL modem-router > evidently passes me an

Re: [gentoo-user] Network config problem

2019-11-30 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On sam. 30 nov. 14:34:00 2019, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > I want to start playing with IPv6 (thanks, Ralph S.) but first I need to > clean > up something wrong with my existing IPv4. > > # /etc/init.d/net.eth0 restart > * Unmounting network filesystems ...

[gentoo-user] eno1 became back eth0

2019-11-13 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On a server, an interface previously named eno1 Oct 9 20:51:05 edge01-terrahost kernel: [0.310650] e1000e: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - 3.2.6-k Oct 9 20:51:05 edge01-terrahost kernel: [0.310652] e1000e: Copyright(c) 1999 - 2015 Intel Corporation. Oct 9 20:51:05

Re: [gentoo-user] is there a way to repair a corrupted emerged package?

2019-11-05 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Le 05/11/2019 à 21:17, n952162 a écrit : > fsck effectively discarded many of my virtualbox libraries but I > still have the ebuild and tarballs and everything.  But I don't see > anything about repair in the emerge manpage. > > emerge -vaA1 virtualbox -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] Udev and eudev clash. Something wants to remove eudev and install udev.

2019-10-28 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On lun. 28 oct. 01:09:06 2019, Simon Thelen wrote: > eudev was forgotten in the deps for virtual/libudev-232-r1, there should > be a fixed virtual/libudev-232-r2 in the tree already. Resync and it > should (hopefully) just work™. I just synced my tree, but I don’t have a stable -r2 regis ~

Re: [gentoo-user] Any chance to "unpack" or install a ppa-package on Gentoo-Linux ?

2019-08-31 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On sam. 31 août 08:03:03 2019, tu...@posteo.de wrote: > is there any way to unpack or install software, which is only > available as ppq-package, under GENTOO Linux? If you speak about the ubuntu ppa-packages (and not ppq) and if it’s still based on a debian repo scheme, you can use dpkg on

Re: [gentoo-user] Updating Gentoo

2019-07-21 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, Here I’m using this script: https://git.grifon.fr/alarig/gentoo-auto-update/src/branch/master/check_updates.sh But it’s not perfect also ;) -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade icu

2019-06-18 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On dim. 16 juin 13:42:48 2019, netfab wrote: > Because app-office/libreoffice-bin package (here 6.1.5.2) needs to be > updated/upgraded at each dev-libs/icu update, but it takes time. Isn’t it possible to make app-office/libreoffice-bin dependent of any version of dev-libs/icu instead of a

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade icu

2019-06-16 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, sorry for the delay. On mer. 12 juin 12:31:31 2019, netfab wrote: > Try --autounmask-backtrack=y emerge option. Thanks a lot, it worked. But why portage bothers about icu so suddenly? -- Alarig

[gentoo-user] Emerge wants to downgrade icu

2019-06-12 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, Since some days emerge asks me to go back to ICU from profile 13.0, but I don’t understand why. ~ # emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --newuse @world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild r UD#]

Re: [gentoo-user] portage and packages.gentoo.org discrepancies

2019-05-07 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On mar. 7 mai 12:26:44 2019, Zero Zero wrote: > Hi, > > New user here. I'm wondering about the disconnect between package versions > listed on packages.gentoo.org and those available in portage. For example: > > $ ls /usr/portage/media-libs/mesa/*.ebuild > mesa-18.3.6.ebuild

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about bird init script

2019-04-05 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi! On mar. 5 mars 10:01:08 2019, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Once you've used it for a while and are confident that everything works, > please file a bug to include the improved script in the tree! All my bird instances are running with my script and I didn’t run in any issue so far, so I opened

Re: [gentoo-user] IPv6 forwarding regression with 4.19 ?

2019-03-25 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On lun. 4 mars 11:05:59 2019, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded one of my routers to 4.19, and I experienced some loss on > IPv6 only. It led to BGP sessions going down and ping loss (~10 %) while > IPv4 was still all good, even on the neighbors. > I reverted to

Re: [gentoo-user] Genlop problem?

2019-03-24 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hello Peter, On dim. 24 mars 13:37:06 2019, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Hello list, > > Has anyone else noticed that genlop -c duplicates every entry? It's been > doing > that here for some time, on more than one machine. I also noticed it, but not dug to know where it comes from. I have some

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about bird init script

2019-03-06 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mar. 5 mars 14:45:46 2019, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > Oh, sorry, I was reading the wrong part of the man page. > > It looks like you *can* specify which config file to check, but in a > different way: > > configure check ["config file"] > > Read and parse given config file, but do not

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about bird init script

2019-03-05 Thread Alarig Le Lay
wrote: > On 3/5/19 6:03 AM, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > > Okay, I tried to write another script: > > https://git.grifon.fr/alarig/SwordArMor-gentoo-overlay/src/branch/master/net-misc/bird/files/initd-bird-2 > > > > I deleted things, but added others. I’m not sure if I respect a

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about bird init script

2019-03-05 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Okay, I tried to write another script: https://git.grifon.fr/alarig/SwordArMor-gentoo-overlay/src/branch/master/net-misc/bird/files/initd-bird-2 I deleted things, but added others. I’m not sure if I respect all the openrc standards as I’m not very comfortable with it. I added a check_run()

[gentoo-user] Question about bird init script

2019-03-04 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi again, On another box, I’m trying to update to bird 2.0.4. I just copied the ebuild and changed the version. If you want to have a look, it’s here: https://git.grifon.fr/alarig/SwordArMor-gentoo-overlay/src/branch/master/net-misc/bird It compiles well, but I have a weird behaviour on the

[gentoo-user] IPv6 forwarding regression with 4.19 ?

2019-03-04 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I upgraded one of my routers to 4.19, and I experienced some loss on IPv6 only. It led to BGP sessions going down and ping loss (~10 %) while IPv4 was still all good, even on the neighbors. I reverted to 4.14, and now all is fine again. >From what I saw, it happens only after a certain

Re: [gentoo-user] VRFs / Jails / Containers

2019-02-03 Thread Alarig Le Lay
For the VRF part, Gentoo supports it; it’s in the upstream kernel sources. I only tried it once, but failed because my sshd should have been lunch in my VRF and I didn’t quickly find a way to do it. But otherwise, it worked. -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] Set the alias of an interface with netifrc

2019-01-19 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On sam. 19 janv. 16:45:42 2019, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Not sure if that is actually "supported" by netifrc. > You could add these commands in a postup() block. I did that, thanks! > Is there a specific benefit for just setting an "alias" like this? Yes, knowing what each interface is used for.

Re: [gentoo-user] Set the alias of an interface with netifrc

2019-01-19 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On sam. 19 janv. 12:02:20 2019, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Not sure if you can use spaces in the name, but I have the following: > > $ cat /etc/conf.d/net > #config_eno1="dhcp" > > config_eno1="null" > vlans_eno1="10 15" > vlan10_name="adm" > vlan15_name="str" > rc_net_adm_need="net.eno1" >

[gentoo-user] Set the alias of an interface with netifrc

2019-01-17 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I would like to set the alias of my interfaces at boot (if possible with netifrc). Here are the relevant parts of my configuration: config_enp3s0f0="null" vlans_enp3s0f0="20 21 22 50" config_enp3s0f0_22="185.1.89.13/24 2001:7f8:b1::d/64" My interface is well created, but if I want an alias,

Re: [gentoo-user] trying to find old kernel ebuild

2019-01-14 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, There is https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/sync/gentoo.git/tree/sys-kernel/gentoo-sources/gentoo-sources-4.18.20.ebuild?id=966dc9c8c004d79b02cb0250ecef65974164f295 on the git, I didn’t checked if it’s the last one. -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2019-01-05 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On sam. 5 janv. 10:16:51 2019, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I replied to this yesterday but my reply hasn't appeared here yet. Am I > losing > mail? If it’s about the wiki being offline, I received it. -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2019-01-01 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mar. 1 janv. 10:29:11 2019, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Yes, but first you have to loop-mount the .iso, which I can't do for some > reason; I get Operation not permitted. I've tried the iso and the CD I burned > from it, with the same result. app-admin/systemrescuecd-x86 has a useflag isohybrid

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2019-01-01 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On lun. 31 déc. 14:01:16 2018, Jack wrote: > Couldn't you just dd it to a USB drive (without needing to mount the iso > first) and then mount the drive? You have to do a trick to dd this ISO to an USB drive, I don’t recall it exactly, but it’s on their website. -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] SystemRescueCD with nonm

2018-12-30 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I modified the boot options to have a debugging OS on my DHCP for LAN: drscott ~ # grep netboot /srv/tftp/pxelinux.cfg/default APPEND rescue64 scandelay=1 netboot=http://[2a01:cb08:898c:fc00::1]/sysrcd.dat docache setkmap=fr console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0 rootpass=root dhcp -- rescue32

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox and Thunderbird compile issue

2018-11-18 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi Daniel, Didi you tried to remove the temporary directory (inside /var/tmp) and re-emerge id again? It looks like an incorrectly decompressed archive. -- Alarig

Re: [gentoo-user] Permissions error on starting X.

2018-11-04 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On sam. 3 nov. 23:17:24 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 3 Nov 2018 14:01:51 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > So - if you get a permissions error whilst trying to start X, setting > > the suid USE flag may well be the solution. > > Alternatively, create /etc/X11/X11/Xwrapper.config

[gentoo-user] ganeti upgrade question

2018-09-24 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I have an hypervisor running gentoo. The ganeti version currently installed is 2.15.2-r5. Emerge asks me to unmask 2.15.2-r7 in order to install ghc-8 and upgrade dev-haskell/snap-core and dev-haskell/snap-server. However app-emulation/ganeti-2.15.2-r7 is marked as ~arch and pulls

Re: [gentoo-user] When a package is marked as stable or not?

2018-08-22 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi Rich, Thanks a lot for your explanation. It’s a bit clearer for me now :) -- alarig

[gentoo-user] When a package is marked as stable or not?

2018-08-22 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I’m a little curious about the way a package is considered as stable or ~arch. For exemple, app-office/libreoffice-bin is tagged stable but breaks updates on my system since weeks; but on the other hand net-misc/bird is ~arch but I never had major issues with hit (either running and building

Re: [gentoo-user] How does OpenRC know if a service is crashed?

2018-08-02 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi Manuel On jeu. 2 août 12:30:16 2018, Manuel Mommertz wrote: > Hey Alarig, > > I suggest to read the man-page of start-stop-daemon to get an detailed idea > of > how it works. > > You use '--name paste-py' which tells start-stop-daemon to look for a process > named 'paste-py' to see if it

[gentoo-user] How does OpenRC know if a service is crashed?

2018-08-02 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, Some times ago, I wrote a basic init script for a service I’m running but that is not in the tree. It’s just a python script behind a reverse-proxy. bulbizarre ~ # cat /etc/init.d/paste-py #!/sbin/openrc-run # Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation # Distributed under the terms of the GNU

[gentoo-user] SmokePing question

2018-07-31 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I would like to set up a smokeping, so I installed the package and configured it. But, when I go to the webpage, it always displays the homepage for all the targets, even for those that don’t exist. The configuration seems to be valid, as the rrd files are updated; and I don’t see any 404 or

Re: [gentoo-user] x11-proto/dri2proto masked but still needed by media-libs/mesa

2018-06-12 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mar. 12 juin 08:44:51 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote: > It sounds like this bug https://bugs.gentoo.org/657832 > > If it is, re-emerging mesa should fix it. Indeed, after recompiling it I was able to remove those packages with a --depclean. Thanks a lot! -- alarig signature.asc Description:

[gentoo-user] x11-proto/dri2proto masked but still needed by media-libs/mesa

2018-06-12 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, Regarding /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask x11-proto/dri2proto but I can’t remove it as mesa depends on it: # emerge -vac x11-proto/dri3proto Calculating dependencies... done! x11-proto/dri3proto-1.0-r1 pulled in by: media-libs/mesa-17.3.9 requires

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-11 Thread Alarig Le Lay
So, from what I’m reading in the thread you need three things: 1. Look at what are the internal ranges used at work 2. Disable the default route to the VPN 3. For each range, add a route like 'ip route add $range dev tun0' For the last part, it should be a good

Re: [gentoo-user] Enable "regular" network traffic when using VPN

2018-06-11 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On ven. 8 juin 18:34:14 2018, Grant Taylor wrote: > I'd then reconfigure the VPN with "Use only for resources on this > connection." and then do something like this: > > I'm not completely sure about the "dev" syntax as it's been a while since > I've done routes via devices. Check IP's man

Re: [gentoo-user] X11 recovery ... somehow

2018-05-06 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, Can’t you just hit the Alt+F* corresponding to the tty from with you opened the X11 session? For example here, I open my X11 session on tty1, I can hit Ctrl-Alt+F2 to go to another console tty, and Alt+F1 will give me back the X11. -- alarig signature.asc Description: PGP signature

[gentoo-user] Avoid 'q' (from app-portage/portage-utils) output in eix-sync

2018-04-03 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, app-portage/portage-utils installs a postsync hook in /etc/portage/repo.postsync.d/q-reinit: #!/bin/sh repository_name=$1 repository_path=$3 if [ -n "${repository_name}" ]; then q ${PORTAGE_QUIET:+-q}

[gentoo-user] wine update blocked by winetricks and playonlinux

2017-12-08 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I tried to update my system to reflect the splitting described in https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2017-04-10-split-and-slotted-wine.html But, I have three conflicts : [blocks B ] app-emulation/wine:0 ("app-emulation/wine:0" is hard blocking app-emulation/wine-mono-4.6.4,

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-07-20 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On jeu. 20 juil. 10:20:28 2017, Grant wrote: > >> I'm getting ready to install Gentoo on a remote bare metal server at > >> SoftLayer: > >> > >> http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/procedure/mount-iso-bare-metal-server > >> > >> Option 1 requires that I have "infrastructure deployed on SoftLayer"

Re: [gentoo-user] Install Gentoo on remote server

2017-07-20 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On jeu. 20 juil. 08:42:09 2017, Grant wrote: > I'm getting ready to install Gentoo on a remote bare metal server at > SoftLayer: > > http://knowledgelayer.softlayer.com/procedure/mount-iso-bare-metal-server > > Option 1 requires that I have "infrastructure deployed on SoftLayer" > which I guess

[gentoo-user] Multiple conflicts on perl upgrade

2017-04-19 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I’m doing the normal updates on a server using this command: obelix ~ # eix-sync && emerge -va --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps\=y @world && emerge -va --depclean --with-bdeps\=y && eix-test-obsolete But it fails on perl packages update: dev-lang/perl:0

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mer. 29 mars 05:02:16 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: > BTW, I've been using dnscache (from djbdns) for years. I suppose that > protects against spoofing? It depends of from what you want to protect. DNS is an all clear protocol, it’s easy to modify packet. Plus, the DNSSEC deployment is too few,

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-29 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mar. 28 mars 22:52:25 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: > I've been using an RT-N16 for years, and it still works fine. They > don't advertise big speeds and I understood it doesn't have the CPU > power to cope. I assumed a new generation router would do the job. Big > mistake. I have an 1G fiber at

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] router woes

2017-03-28 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mar. 28 mars 21:19:29 2017, Jorge Almeida wrote: > Which part is to blame? The secondary router boasts 1300Mbps on 5GHz > WiFi, so I assumed it could deal with 150Mbps on cat5e ethernet cable. > The power consumption is about 4.5w, which seems a bit flimsy. > Or maybe the primary router is

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Redirecting traffic for a TCP port to another gateway

2017-03-28 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mar. 28 mars 21:26:05 2017, Dan Johansson wrote: > Slight Off-topic, but at least the host are Gentoo. > > Is it possible, using iptables or something equivalent, to redirect traffic > to some specific TCP ports to another gateway than the default-gateway? > > Eg. > > Host 192.168.1.100/24

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange IPv6 behaviour

2017-03-28 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On dim. 26 mars 12:49:44 2017, Andrew Savchenko wrote: > Run tcpdump -w on both sides. Compare dumps when connection stalls > and when it works fine. Many reasons are possible, it's hard to > guess from data you provided. I did this, I saw many neighbor solicitation on pokedex’s side (the lossy

Re: [gentoo-user] Online hosting recommendation - VMs?

2017-03-28 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On dim. 26 mars 03:57:00 2017, Stroller wrote: > Hello, > > In the next few weeks I need to move my email server (a very old > Gentoo installation) from the closet in my home, into the cloud so > that I can go travelling and access my mail from anywhere. > > I've never used VM's before, but my

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome-control center 3.23.98 fails to compile

2017-03-25 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On sam. 25 mars 20:25:15 2017, John Covici wrote: > Hi. I am getting the following error when emerging > gnome-control-center on my most recent update -- I am using unstable > gentoo. > libtool: compile: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H > -I. -I../.. -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-3.0

[gentoo-user] Strange IPv6 behaviour

2017-03-25 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On one of my machines, I have two public IPv6 from two different providers (one natively, another by VPN). I use ip -6 rule to make both pingable. I see some strange things on the native one. It stops responding from time to time. Here are some examples of mtr:

Re: [gentoo-user] locate can not find a file

2017-03-15 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On mer. 15 mars 09:10:26 2017, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Yes, I run as root: updatedb > But when run: > locate consent_extraction* > > It only list one file: > /home/fd/consent_extraction1.pdf (this is a link file) > /home/fd/business/forms/consent_extraction1.pdf > > It can not find:

Re: [gentoo-user] DNS from dialup or wifi for broadband connection?

2017-03-12 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, On dim. 12 mars 03:18:59 2017, Walter Dnes wrote: > * Another option, if you know the alternate DNS server address in > advance, set up routing of the /32 (for the alternate DNS server) > to ppp0 or wlan0 with higher priority than the default route. This > doesn't require any iptables

Re: [gentoo-user] nx / nxclient - replacement

2017-02-06 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On lun. 6 févr. 00:53:19 2017, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: > Are there any good replacement for "nx / nxclient" in Linux? > NX is long time gone from portage. I hope, I can still install them > from atic. > This was another reason I wasn't upgrading for a long time as I need > them to access

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox tells me my "...connection is not secure"

2017-01-23 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Mon Jan 23 16:43:32 2017, Andrew Lowe wrote: > HI all, > Just wondering if anyone else has come across this problem. Via the > search > box in Firefox, I attempt to search Google for, say, "distillation columns" > and I get a page saying: > > "Your connection is not secure" > >

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo portage on github - using fork as local overlay

2017-01-14 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sat Jan 14 19:49:01 2017, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > # /etc/portage/repos.conf/local.conf > > [stefangweichinger-gentoo] > location = /usr/local/portage > masters = gentoo > sync-type = git > sync-uri = https://github.com/stefangweichinger/gentoo.git > auto-sync = no > > ... but that

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox 49.0 & Youtube....Video: Yes - Audio: No...

2016-12-27 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sat Oct 15 20:27:43 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi, > > this evening I updated GENTOO and a new firefox was installed. > This one seem completly to disable flash video finally... > since I got no video/audio at all. > > I disabled all flash-related addons of my firefox and > restarted

Re: [gentoo-user] UFS write support

2016-12-18 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sun Dec 18 19:35:43 2016, Alarig Le Lay wrote: > On Sun Dec 18 18:23:22 2016, Mick wrote: > > Another thing to try is unmount it, run fsck and then remount it as rw. A > > dirty unmount can cause this problem. > > It was dirty unmounted. This a flash card that is a / f

Re: [gentoo-user] UFS write support

2016-12-18 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sun Dec 18 18:23:22 2016, Mick wrote: > Another thing to try is unmount it, run fsck and then remount it as rw. A > dirty unmount can cause this problem. It was dirty unmounted. This a flash card that is a / for a router at home. Its power supply suddenly stopped to work today. I will try

[gentoo-user] UFS write support

2016-12-18 Thread Alarig Le Lay
Hi, I try to mount an UFS partition with write support. So, I added the option to my kernel: airmure linux # grep -i UFS /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_SCSI_UFSHCD is not set CONFIG_UFS_FS=m CONFIG_UFS_FS_WRITE=y # CONFIG_UFS_DEBUG is not set I’ve emerged sys-fs/ufsutils and I mounted my

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

2016-11-29 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Tue Nov 29 10:19:15 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi Marat, > > thanks for your help and link! > > ...if I install that addon I only get: > "Palyback isn't supported on this device" > (using Firefox 50.0) Mozilla began to drop flash support since firefox 50. -- alarig signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

2016-11-29 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Tue Nov 29 08:35:53 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Hi Alarig, > > thanks for your help! :) > > yes...I know...but this implies (as far as I know): > Copying the url from FF as argument to youtube-dl, > downloading the file, and than watching it. > This was my (painful) workaround the last

Re: [gentoo-user] HTML5 player (YouTube) is a pain!...Alternatives?

2016-11-28 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Tue Nov 29 07:42:16 2016, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Is there any way to feed the stream from youtube direktly into > a not blown player like mpv/mplayer or such (I would prefer > not to load a complete gui (vlc) with any click again and again.)? Hi, Yes, you can play video from youtube

Re: [gentoo-user] disabling IPv6 autoconfig for all interfaces

2016-11-19 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sat Nov 19 22:33:33 2016, J. Roeleveld wrote: > doesn't work, I still get these: > inet6 fe80::2e0:81ff:fecc:6ec6 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20 > > The problem with these (the mac-based ones) is that with multiple VLANs, they > all insist on using the same IP as they are all on the same

Re: [gentoo-user] disabling IPv6 autoconfig for all interfaces

2016-11-19 Thread Alarig Le Lay
On Sat Nov 19 20:09:24 2016, J. Roeleveld wrote: > Hi all, > > A related question: How do I prevent IPv6 addresses other than the ones I DO > configure? > > Many thanks, > > Joost Hi, You can do this with sysctl by setting the option net.ipv6.conf.$if.accept_ra to 0. -- alarig

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