Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 20:09, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 10:33:58 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: > I picked up this tip some years ago to avoid depcleaning kernel sources. > > % cat /etc/portage/sets.conf > [kernels] > class = portage.sets.dbapi.OwnerSet > wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 09:10, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 06:31:53 +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > As for depclean, I have added an alias for depclean with --pretend > > that I use after world updates. Unless you have installed something > > with -1, most

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 08:05, wrote: > Firstly is there any dependency hell that I can fall into when placing lots > of different packages with (unexpectedly) conflicting deps on my own meta > package?Has anyone (reading this) that has done it before and worked out a > niche way to avoid

Re: [gentoo-user] Package management, depclean and new installs

2021-10-03 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 4 Oct 2021 at 05:30, wrote: > > Hi y'all new confused user regarding package management > > How do you guys manage and protect your packages? > Do you just put everything on world and end up with a huge world file? > Do you have basic system files on world and the rest you protect or

Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis

2021-09-20 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 20 Sept 2021 at 16:32, Gerrit Kuehn wrote: > (sys-apps/portage-3.0.4-r1-3:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="(ipc) > native-extensions rsync-verify xattr -apidoc -build -doc -gentoo-dev > (-selinux) -test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 (-pypy3) > -python3_6 -python3_8

Re: [gentoo-user] Xscreensaver fails to start

2021-08-31 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 31 Aug 2021 at 16:27, Philip Webb wrote: > > I just updated to the latest Xscreensaver-6.01-r1. Did you mean -r3? I've been on that for over a month, and the only other version available to me is 5.45-r4. > I emerged it with USE flag 'elogind' & don't use Systemd. > 'which

Re: [gentoo-user] dev-python/isodate breaks my emerge because it's at EAPI?

2021-08-03 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 at 15:58, Neil Bothwick wrote: > I don't see them when syncing from a cron script, when all output is > captured and emailed, but do when running sync on a shell. It seems you > only see this when running sync interactively. I see these messages in the output from my cron

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-08-02 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 2 Aug 2021 at 12:01, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > This caused me to make a mental note to always pipe the output from com- > mand "emerge --depclean" into "less". However, this didn't work. There > was only a single package to be removed causing "less" to simply termin- > ate without

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone give me a hint how to get this to update?

2021-08-01 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 20:02, n952162 wrote: > Ok, I'm sure I can manage that, thank you... > > Can you clue me in, how you identified blender? I see it it forces > dev-python/requests, but that target is just one of 10 apparently > problem packages. Your output was a little mangled for me, so

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone give me a hint how to get this to update?

2021-08-01 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 19:18, n952162 wrote: > I removed all python_targets_python3_6 from my use flags, but I still > have a very similar looking situation, with python-requests still dominant. It seems to be blender holding you back now. If you are running stable, you can keyword the newer

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone give me a hint how to get this to update?

2021-08-01 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 18:51, n952162 wrote: > > On 8/1/21 6:19 PM, Arve Barsnes wrote: > > Many of the conflicts seem related to an old version of > > dev-python/requests. Could newer versions be masked, or could there be > > older python targets set for it in

Re: [gentoo-user] Can anyone give me a hint how to get this to update?

2021-08-01 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 at 17:17, n952162 wrote: > > A couple of the things I have tried: > > - change default python from 3.7 to 3.9 > > - removing net-analyze from the world file > > - changing the license file. > > - running perl-cleaner > > - emerging only @system Many of the conflicts seem

Re: [gentoo-user] wine install : pango, freetype, harfbuzz circular dependencies

2021-07-19 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 19 Jul 2021 at 03:34, Adam Carter wrote: > > Similarly to another thread, trying to get wine to install is triggering this > issue; > * Error: circular dependencies: > > (media-libs/harfbuzz-2.8.2-r1:0/0.9.18::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > depends on >

Re: [gentoo-user] Issues with Python 3.8?

2021-06-03 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 at 10:20, J. Roeleveld wrote: > I've got several packages complaining about "PYTHON_TARGETS" missing > "python3_8": > > The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied: > python_targets_python3_8 > > The above constraints are a subset of the following

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 19:42, Mark Knecht wrote: > 1) instead of aplay -l please run aplay -L My aplay -L was more or less identical to Dale's on the HDMI part, except for going all the way to DEV 6. > 2) Also provide the output of > > cat /proc/asound/card2/codec#0 This was also more or less

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 18:22, Dale wrote: > If you ever figure it out, please post what did it. I watch TV from my > puter too. Right now, I tell Smplayer to send audio to the TV by giving > it the device name like you did. Thing is, none of the entries in the > drop down menu in settings

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 16:14, Mark Knecht wrote: > Well, good news no matter how it happened. > > Hopefully it still works after a reboot. I guess we'll find out. Indeed. Might even have been a reboot that made it work, but at least I know my system and my TV has the capabilities I wanted.

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 13:21, Arve Barsnes wrote: > Eric's links were very interesting, and the pi people's solution > seemed to be something simple, but their fix seems to also be in > firmware, with a link to a giant, mostly binary, git commit. It made > me think, though, if there w

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-23 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 22 May 2021 at 00:51, Mark Knecht wrote: > OK, so what does alsamixer tell you? On my system I hit F6, choose the card > and then F3 for Playback. I see the 7 channels. Hitting 'M' changes the mute > setting but all the volumes are at 0 and hitting '+' doesn't raise the > volume. It's

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-21 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 21 May 2021 at 22:47, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 2:35 AM Arve Barsnes wrote: > > Resending this message, as the last time it was derailed by a question > > about DE and pulseaudio, neither of which are relevant to this > > low-level problem (a

[gentoo-user] Audio through second HDMI output on GPU?

2021-05-20 Thread Arve Barsnes
Hello, Resending this message, as the last time it was derailed by a question about DE and pulseaudio, neither of which are relevant to this low-level problem (and also not installed anyway, as I run a simple openbox WM with alsa only). Does anyone know anything about how to check audio through

Re: [gentoo-user] Audio through both HDMI outputs?

2021-05-01 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 1 May 2021 at 15:36, Mark Knecht wrote: > As posed I don't know that the question is answerable. You don't state > what desktop environment you are using. If it happens to be KDE > then you will likely need to dig into pulseaudio through the System > Settings GUI which could be the

[gentoo-user] Audio through both HDMI outputs?

2021-05-01 Thread Arve Barsnes
Hello, Does anyone know anything about how to check audio through Nvidia HDMI outputs? My regular audio is through the motherboard output, and I also have a USB soundcard that I regularly use without trouble, but my HDMI is a different matter. I have a GTX 1080 card with two HDMI outputs, the

Re: [gentoo-user] xscreensaver-demo has vanished

2021-04-26 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 26 Apr 2021 at 06:13, Philip Webb wrote: > Can anyone explain what has happened ? Although this is set to disappear in the next version (not in gentoo yet), it is still there for me in 5.45. >From the next version it will be called xscreensaver-settings. I would try re-emerging the

Re: [gentoo-user] Can't install a new system

2021-04-08 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 at 14:27, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Is there really a problem with the stage-3? I think the stages are auto-generated, so I'm sure there could be problematic versions. Maybe try one from a different date. Also, post the error output if you want input on the emerge failures.

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-13 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 at 18:23, Steven Lembark wrote: > > grep python_targets /etc/portage/package.use/* > > That was it: I never new that the python targets got stuck > in the zz_autoconfigure file. > > Sanity check: Do I actually need to set the python target or > python single target for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 8 Mar 2021 at 00:32, Steven Lembark wrote: > * emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy >

Re: [gentoo-user] Q: What is "python-exec2c"? Why would "python3" dispatched through it not see an installed copy of pyyaml?

2021-03-07 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 7 Mar 2021 at 17:00, Steven Lembark wrote: > I believe there isn't any PYTHON_TARGET-ish setting on the system: > > $ grep PYTHON_TARGET /etc/portage/make.conf /etc/portage/package.use/* > /etc/portage/make.conf:#PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_7 python2_7" >

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the best way forward? - Update 1

2021-02-26 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 23:30, Grant Taylor wrote: > > If the packages are installed, the ebuilds are in var/db/pkg. > > The package (distribution files) for the version that is installed are > in distfiles. But that does little for an ebuild that's looking for a > newer version that's no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] Why do we add the local host name to the 127.0.0.1 / ::1 entry in the /etc/hosts file?

2021-02-24 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 at 03:50, Grant Taylor wrote: > > The loopback address is just that: the machine talking to itself, with > > no reference to the outside world. Whereas, while talking to other > > machines on the network its address is that of the interface. There's > > no connection between

Re: [gentoo-user] Moving from Lastpass to Bitwarden

2021-02-16 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 at 01:04, Dale wrote: > Anyone have info on switching from Lastpass to Bitwarden? Thoughts? I'm in the same situation. I even paid for Lastpass in the past, back when you had to pay to get it on mobile, but the price I'm looking at now is way too high. >From what I read

Re: [gentoo-user] No news on kernel upgrade?

2021-02-09 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 9 Feb 2021 at 10:05, Dale wrote: > I'm trying to remember what that binary kernel thing is called. I just > skimmed the messages so it could be something else or not even in the > tree yet. I believe you're thinking of sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin (also available without -bin, which I

Re: [gentoo-user] Minimal world file.

2021-02-03 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 21:06, Grant Taylor wrote: > > This may be a silly question, but I don't know, so I'm going to ask. > > What is the minimal world file to be somewhat conceptually similar to a > debootstrap install of Debian / Ubuntu? > > Is the world file that ships with stage3 the smallest

Re: [gentoo-user] State of emergency is now in effect.

2021-01-30 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 17:21, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > > No, it is not a build dependency, but it is a part of the @system set, > > so it will always be included in any @system or @world updates you do. > > I would not bother updating it especially. > > Ok. But what if I just do, say > >

Re: [gentoo-user] State of emergency is now in effect.

2021-01-30 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 at 15:58, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Since I've installed Gentoo more than a year back I have a small script > in "/etc/portage/postsync.d/" which just contains > >#! /bin/bash >emerge --ask --changed-deps --changed-use --deep --newuse --oneshot \ > --update

Re: [gentoo-user] merged on \${HOST} with notice"

2021-01-17 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 17 Jan 2021 at 22:36, wrote: > Does placement of the name make a difference? See the man page for details: # man hosts Regards, Arve

Re: [gentoo-user] Idna version conflict

2021-01-11 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 11 Jan 2021 at 11:34, Peter Humphrey wrote: > I've been getting this for a week or two. Is an upstream fix likely? > > (dev-python/idna-3.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="" > ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_8 -pypy3 (-python3_6) -python3_7 > -python3_9" conflicts

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another USE flag problem

2021-01-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 14:46, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > # grep -rnHi '^[^#]*lua' /etc/portage > /etc/portage/make.conf:40:LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="luajit" # lua5-1 > /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autouse:3:>=dev-lua/lpeg-1.0.1 luajit > /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autouse:6:>=dev-lua/mpack-1.0.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another USE flag problem

2021-01-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 13:15, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > # grep -rnHi lua /etc/portage > /etc/portage/make.conf:40:LUA_SINGLE_TARGET="lua5-1" # luajit > /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autouse:3:>=dev-lua/lpeg-1.0.1 luajit > /etc/portage/package.use/zz-autouse:6:>=dev-lua/mpack-1.0.4 luajit >

Re: [gentoo-user] Yet another USE flag problem

2021-01-03 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 4 Jan 2021 at 06:05, Bertram Scharpf wrote: > As far as I see, I defined _exactly_ _one_ _of_ them: Please show what USE flags you've defined for either this package or LUA. Hard to give advice without knowing your config. Regards, Arve

Re: [gentoo-user] always "existing preserved libs"

2021-01-03 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 at 11:54, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Jan 2021 14:54:40 +0800, bobwxc wrote: > > > Recently, after a update, I always see follow information after every > > emerge operation > > > > !!! existing preserved libs: > > >>> package: dev-qt/qtxml-5.15.1 > > * -

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why [PROGRESS]

2020-12-30 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 at 08:46, n952162 wrote: > Well, yes, the current version, indeed requires python3_8. The version > that was installed on my system, however, to be updated, listed > python3_7 in the PYTHON_TARGETS section. That was the only difference > between the two packages in the

Re: [gentoo-user] ncurses; I think I wrecked my fresh install

2020-12-28 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 28 Dec 2020 at 22:37, Walter Dnes wrote: >On my other machines I tried... > > equery b libtinfow.so.6 I think you need to use full paths with equery b. I combined it with whereis to confirm that /usr/lib/libtinfow.so.6 belongs to ncurses, so I guess what you need to figure out is why

Re: [gentoo-user] libxml2 has 7 different versions in slot 2?

2020-12-28 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 27 Dec 2020 at 21:26, n952162 wrote: > Those aren't slot collisions? It's only slot collisions if you try to install more than one of them at the same time. But that script does *not* list available versions of libxml2, it lists the stated dependencies of packages depending on libxml2,

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 at 12:11, n952162 wrote: > In the original posting of this thread, I presented a slot collision > where the only difference between the two packages was the > PYTHON_TARGET. I interpret that to mean that new dependencies want the > new python. Since the package is the same,

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-19 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 at 11:19, n952162 wrote: > I don't think this output or any list participant has actually identified > where the problem here is. In my original posting, the only difference > causing the slot collision for jinja was that one had a PYTHON_TARGETS of 3-7 > and the other of

Re: [gentoo-user] override PYTHON_TARGETS to avoid a slot collision

2020-12-16 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 16 Dec 2020 at 11:34, Miles Malone wrote: > What's happening when you do emerge -avuDN --with-bdeps=y > --backtrack=100 @world ? Giving portage the flexibility to solve it > with some extra backtracking and increasing the scope to world might > fix it, if not then we can revisit it? You

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade an old system

2020-12-14 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 22:20, wrote: > Looking at this directory: > https://github.com/gentoo/portage/releases/tag/portage-3.0.12 > > file: portage-portage-3.0.12.tar.gz has totally different structure > If I run: tar xzf portage-portage-3.0.12.tar.gz -C /usr > it will create directory

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade an old system

2020-12-14 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 14 Dec 2020 at 20:38, wrote: > but that portage "portage-20090720.tar.bz2" seems old; what is the > latest one? They're generated every day, so pick your poison. Notice it mentions updating the portage tree 3-4 months at a time, so just pick some dates at reasonable intervals from your

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-13 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 13 Dec 2020 at 20:52, n952162 wrote: > > I have this funny pkg entry in the emerge log: > > dev-python/setuptools[python_targets_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-)] > required by (dev-python/ipaddress-1.0.23:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="" > ABI_X86="(64)"

Re: [gentoo-user] Gobbledegook error message from emerge.

2020-12-12 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 at 19:09, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy >

Re: [gentoo-user] portage blocking portage update

2020-12-08 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 10:07, Walter Dnes wrote: > I just did an "emerge --sync", and was told to update portage. But it > seems that portage 3.0.8 built with python 3.7 is blocking portage 3.0.9 > with python 3.8. I obviously can't remove portage to fix the block . > Note "grep -i python

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-07 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 13:31, John Covici wrote: > dev-python/paramiko:0 > > (dev-python/paramiko-2.7.1:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="-doc > -examples (-server) -test" ABI_X86="(64)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 > python3_7 -python3_6 -python3_8" pulled in by > >

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

2020-12-06 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 7 Dec 2020 at 00:11, John Covici wrote: > hmmm, I am running a ~ setup, but I do need to keep mailman, so how to > tell which packages to keep, exactly? Then you should be able to update to the latest version in the tree? Maybe you have masked newer versions somewhere? Maybe there's a

Re: [gentoo-user] unable to do world update --problem may be caused by mailman

2020-12-06 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 22:28, John Covici wrote: > So, since mailman 2.1.33 seems to be the latest version in the tree The opposite seems to be true? 2.1.33 was removed from the tree in September, and the latest version in the tree is 3.3.2. It is only keyworded ~amd64 though, so I expect your

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Determine what's keeping Python 3.7 around?

2020-12-06 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 21:25, Grant Edwards wrote: > > emerge -cpv python:3.7 will show you what is keeping 3.7 > > Something's wrong. > > That lists 43 packages. I checked the first few, and none of them require > python 3.7. If you have not completed the world update yet, all those are

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Switching default tmpfiles and faster internet coming my way.

2020-12-06 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 6 Dec 2020 at 13:37, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Despite the claims that systemd is > monolithic, it is not. It is an ecosystem comprised of many parts, some > of which can be used without any other systemd components, like > systemd-tmpfiles and systemd-boot, not to mention udev. Despite

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 21:24, n952162 wrote: > > I guess you mean, remove them all and then let emerge tell me which ones > > I need. I'll try that. But isn't '=' more restrictive than '>=', > > promising me troubles earlier? The earlier you encounter any conflicts, they're generally easier to

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 10:34, n952162 wrote: > Forgotten about? I'm flattered! That would imply I understood > something here ... > > Here's my python situation: > > $ sed -n -e '/^\s*#/d' -e '/python/Ip' * | sort -u > */* PYTHON_TARGETS: python3_7 > >=dev-lang/python-2.7.16:2.7 sqlite >

Re: [gentoo-user] update fails, but I don't see why

2020-12-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 09:40, n952162 wrote: > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: > > dev-python/requests:0 > >(dev-python/requests-2.24.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > merge)

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the difference between the emerge options -u and -n?

2020-11-28 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 28 Nov 2020 at 21:04, n952162 wrote: > > Assuming no "emerge --sync" has been done, e.g. > > I've been using -u to mean, "don't update if there's nothing new" (which > I would actually think would be the default). Maybe that's wrong? -n > is better? In my book, there's only one reason

Re: [gentoo-user] Going through these one by one.

2020-11-19 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 22:36, Steven Lembark wrote: > PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_7" > PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python3_7" What does emerge --info say about your actual value for those variables? > The depclean step gave me: > > * Have you forgotten to do a complete update prior

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome mplayer replacement

2020-11-16 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 08:37, Dale wrote: > Thanks for any tips. If you don't *need* any fancy interface, you can't go wrong with mpv. It is a fork of mplayer, has space to pause, arrow keys to move back/forward a minute (up/down) or 10 sec (left/right). I've never needed anything else.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage and kernel sources... part deux.

2020-11-11 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 11 Nov 2020 at 16:44, Daniel Frey wrote: > Does anyone have any idea where to look next to see why this is being > pulled in? You should probably just refer to your previous thread, because all the same info still applies. You need to mask gentoo-sources and unmask the versions you want

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-11-02 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 2 Nov 2020 at 17:06, Dale wrote: > dale@fireball ~/Desktop/Videos/TV_Series/Midsomer_Murders $ > /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl --format > 'bestvideo[ext=webm,ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best' video links that include HD versions> > ERROR:

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-30 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 22:56, Dale wrote: > wget https://yt-dl.org/downloads/latest/youtube-dl -O > /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl > chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl This should work just fine, you just need to specify the path when you want to use it. Not sure how wise the following is, but you

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-28 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 28 Oct 2020 at 02:35, Dale wrote: > root@fireball / # emerge -a youtube-dl > > > Is that because RIAA made them remove something or have I found a whole > new problem? o-O This is because of RIAA indeed. The repo is no longer available on github, so if you wanted to update from your

Re: [gentoo-user] youtube-dl and the conf file.

2020-10-27 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 21:58, Dale wrote: > I'm using the normal youtube-dl command. No options or > anything. This is what I have in the conf file. > > > --format > bestvideo[ext=webm][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/bestvideo[ext=mp4][width<=?1280]+bestaudio/best > > --merge-output-format mp4 > > >

Re: [gentoo-user] startx Cannot open virtual console 7

2020-10-27 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 27 Oct 2020 at 12:18, edes wrote: > Fatal server error: > (EE) xf86OpenConsole: Cannot open virtual console 7 (Permission denied) > > I don't know if this is relevant, but under /dev I see: > > crw--w 1 root tty 4, 0 oct 27 07:54 /dev/tty0 > crw--- 1 edes tty 4, 1 oct 27 07:57

Re: [gentoo-user] re: install problems

2020-10-02 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 12:35, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > The instructions read: > #emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data > That as I wrote earlier failed. so I try: > #emerge --config sys-libs-timezone-data > and get no packages found. The instructions read #emerge --config sys-libs/timezone-data

Re: [gentoo-user] re: install problems

2020-10-02 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 10:26, Jude DaShiell wrote: > !'sys/libs/timezone-data ' is not a valid package atom. > ! please check ebuild (5) for full details. > ! did you specify a version but forget to prefix with '='?) You seem to have used a slash in the package-category there, sys/libs vs.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: not switching to elogind - but where's consolekit?

2020-09-02 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 09:42, n952162 wrote: > Okay, I found "equery g polkit", which gives me the dependency tree I was > looking for, but I just realized, I don't have polkit, either. But the > emerge @system (or @world) has: > > !!! The ebuild selected to satisfy "sys-auth/polkit" has unmet

Re: [gentoo-user] WARNING: Do not update your system on ~amd64

2020-06-19 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 12:49, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 10:55:46 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > And today, pam and pambase are restored to their earlier versions > > because sddm requires them. But sddm has not changed versions, so why > > did portage want to upgrade pam

Re: [gentoo-user] printing pdfs

2020-05-28 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 28 May 2020 at 22:11, james wrote: > > comrades, > > Pdfs are becoming a challenge to print. I'm sure I'll be printing pdf > files for decades to come. > > So what application/strategy gets me past errors like this: > > "Cannot mix incompatible Qt library (version 0x50e01) with this

Re: [gentoo-user] How to find the version of portage before 2005

2020-04-24 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 18 Apr 2020 at 19:15, Tanek Liang wrote: > > Hi, > > I read this article: https://www.funtoo.org/Making_the_Distribution,_Part_3, > interested in early portage. > > But the first commit of portage's git repository was 2005, and no earlier > history can be found. > > Does anyone know how

Re: [gentoo-user] display repo in emerge list?

2020-04-16 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 16 Apr 2020 at 13:14, Caveman Al Toraboran wrote: > > hi - any way to display which repository a package > is being installed/updated from when emerging > something? > > (extra question to keep you isolated a lil longer: > some one laughed at my `-aqvDuUNt` but didn't tell > me why. is

Re: [gentoo-user] 'su' missing

2020-03-13 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 04:25, Philip Webb wrote: > > My practice for many years has been to have a root terminal running, > which I start via 'konsole' + 'su'. After a system update + reboot, > I am confronted with : > > Warning: Could not find 'su', starting '/bin/bash' instead. > Please

Re: [gentoo-user] Question about gentoo-sources kernel release versions

2020-02-07 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 7 Feb 2020 at 06:19, Franz Fellner wrote: > > That article you linked to is about a variant of linux, "rt". And as it looks > they didn't update their branch since the release of 4.19.100-r41. > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rt/linux-stable-rt.git/log/?h=v4.19-rt >

Re: [gentoo-user] Lost "middle click opens links" in KDE/Firefox combo - anyone else?

2020-01-30 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 30 Jan 2020 at 12:26, Mick wrote: > Hmm ... I just checked again. It doesn't do so on two different systems. I > wonder if some setting is responsible for it not working here. :-/ There is a setting for this in about:config, but I find it hard to believe that an update to something

Re: [gentoo-user] python 2 deprecation

2020-01-26 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 27 Jan 2020 at 05:57, james wrote: > Can't locate inc/Module/Install.pm in @INC (you may need to install the > inc::Module::Install module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl > /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.30.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi > /usr/local/lib64/perl5/5.30.1 >

Re: [gentoo-user] qemu / nbd

2019-12-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Thu, 5 Dec 2019 at 08:11, n952162 wrote: > > Or maybe the assumption is wrong - after emerging nbd, I still get this when > I try to modprobe nbd, which is required for running qemu-nbd: > > modprobe: FATAL: Module ndb not found in directory /lib/modules/4.19.72-gentoo > > Can anyone explain

Re: [gentoo-user] where is /usr/portage?

2019-11-11 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 11:29, Mickaƫl Bucas wrote: > My two systems are currently using the old locations. > Is there a documentation about the way to migrate to the new locations > without breaking things ? > The profile links comes to mind but other things are probably necessary ! > > Has

Re: [gentoo-user] Consolekit and elogind switch questions

2019-10-28 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 at 04:38, Dale wrote: > Also, are there any other options to elogind? Is that the only option > when using KDE? I think the answer here is yes. I run openbox, so no requirement to have this at all, but I have previously done the migration to elogind, and that went without a

Re: [gentoo-user] problems with depclean

2019-10-13 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 14 Oct 2019 at 05:04, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. After a long time, I got my system into a state where I could > finally try to do emerge depclean. What a mess! It would have > deleted source for my running kernel, version of postgresql I am using > and many other things I am currently

Re: [gentoo-user] Globally disabling colour

2019-10-01 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 1 Oct 2019 at 13:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > having freshly erm ... converted from Ubuntu to Gentoo and thus being an > absolute Gentoo newbie I'm desparately looking for a way to get rid of > all the colour in the output produced by "emerge" but also by "qlist", > "eix", "e-file"

Re: [gentoo-user] /etc/portage/patches

2019-09-02 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 11:28, Dale wrote: > It does it every time here. It did it just the other day. In the error > emerge spits out, it even says something about permissions and that's > when I remember to go change it. After that, it works fine. Maybe it > is not world readable or

Re: [gentoo-user] version of portaudio conflicts with itsself?

2019-07-05 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 at 01:46, wrote: > I see this or similiar from time to time: > > media-libs/portaudio:0 > > (media-libs/portaudio-19.06.00-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > conflicts with > (media-sound/audacity-2.2.2:0/0::gentoo, installed) > > looks to me, like portaudion

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [Was: What the devil?!!] sddm shutdown & reboot

2019-06-26 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 17:13, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Could it be loginctl is there to confirm if a local button operation > > can run / sbin/poweroff, rather than actually running the command as > > shown in the sddm config file? > > No, not when I tried it > > % loginctl poweroff > Unknown

Re: [gentoo-user] sysrescuecd gone rogue

2019-06-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 15:10, Mick wrote: > > I just downloaded my preferred medium of choice for installing Gentoo and > discovered sysrescuecd now runs Linux Arch instead of Gentoo and to make > things worse it is running systemd instead of openrc. :-( > > A quick look in the forums did not

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

2019-01-14 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019 at 13:47, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > I am trying to find the ebuild and files for > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-4.18.20 but as its no longer in the tree I > checked the attic but it looks like it is only cvs and no longer in use > for git. > > I couldnt find gentoo sources in

Re: [gentoo-user] Neophyte question on eix

2018-12-14 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Fri, 14 Dec 2018 at 09:54, Peter Humphrey wrote: > Have the eix colours changed recently? I'm now seeing some things in brown and > I can't find where these colours are explained. Perhaps I need more coffee. They might have. I'm seeing slots and merge times in brown-ish colours. Arve

Re: [gentoo-user] ...I not allowed to make pdfs from images??????

2018-12-09 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 at 16:46, Philip Webb wrote: > > 181209 Marc Joliet wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 9. Dezember 2018, 11:35:16 CET schrieb Philip Webb: > >> What exactly are the "security reasons" ? > >> Do they apply to a single-user system ? -- if not, > >> why is the restrictive version of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a genlop bug?

2018-10-01 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Mon, 1 Oct 2018 at 14:03, Andrew Udvare wrote: > > On 2018-10-01, at 05:25, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > This looks like a bug to me. > > It is not a bug. The manpage says it takes name or category/name. In the > former case it has to match anything named rust. There are two packages named >

Re: [gentoo-user] pycharm-community vs pycharm-professional

2018-09-16 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 at 09:15, gevisz wrote: > Thank you for your reply. Does it means that pycharm-professional package > in Gentoo will not work or will not install without providing a license number > from JetBrains or something like that? > > On the official pycharm site, the professional

Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice 6

2018-09-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 21:08, james wrote: > So where do I set the default file type (.doc) for save? Possibly in Tools -> Options -> Load/Save -> General > did I miss a flag or extra module for this traditional behavior > to set automatically. ? I don't seem to have anything special in my

Re: [gentoo-user] Update circle

2018-08-22 Thread Arve Barsnes
On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 12:12, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Which version of tar do you have? > > This looks like a really old system and you can expect a long journey to > update it. Large amounts of patience, caffeine and man page reading will > be needed. I would suggest downloading the ebuild for

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a portage bug?

2018-08-15 Thread Arve Barsnes
On 15 August 2018 at 11:22, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Wednesday, 15 August 2018 09:50:09 BST Franz Fellner wrote: > (atom) peak / # equery w net-print/kyocera-1x2x-mfp-driver > > Something does seem to be, if not broken, somewhat bent. That seems to be correct. equery w takes your configuration

Re: [gentoo-user] Multilib help

2018-07-04 Thread Arve Barsnes
On 4 July 2018 at 08:31, James Stevenson wrote: > The easiest way to fix this issue is to figure out which libraries you need > and then stipulate that you want the x86_32 version of that package in your > accept_keywords file. Check the Gentoo wiki for the software you are trying > to run for

Re: [gentoo-user] All Gentoo signing key expired and no way to fix it

2018-07-03 Thread Arve Barsnes
On 3 July 2018 at 15:22, Mart Raudsepp wrote: > How do you obtain root privileges for the command? > > If you use su, you should be using "su -" (or "su -l" or "su --login"), > not "su". I did not need to do so to make this work. It all depends on the environment you start out with I guess.

Re: [gentoo-user] All Gentoo signing key expired and no way to fix it

2018-07-03 Thread Arve Barsnes
On 3 July 2018 at 10:55, Mick wrote: > # gpg --homedir /var/lib/gentoo/gkeys/keyrings/gentoo/release --refresh-keys > gpg: keyblock resource '/var/lib/gentoo/gkeys/keyrings/gentoo/release/ > pubring.kbx': No such file or directory > > :-/ Hmm... I don't have this file either, but had no

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