Re: [gentoo-user] Spamassasin Pulling in GNUPG - Why?

2006-06-15 Thread Graham Murray
Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You;re Right. Why is that? > Does anyone knows? The updated rule sets fetched by sa-update are signed, so sa-update calls gnupg to validate them. So the spamassassin ebuild has a hard dependency on gnupg. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OpenOffice build failed.

2006-05-29 Thread Graham Murray
Matthias Langer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Besides, by looking at the terminal while merging packages, you will > soon notice, that lot's of packages add their very own CFLAGS to your > default ones. For example mplayer or xine-lib was compiled with '-O3' on > my system, allthough i have '-O2'

Re: [gentoo-user] kdehiddenvisibility: What does it do?

2006-05-26 Thread Graham Murray
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > New KDE ebuilds feature a USE flag called "kdehiddenvisibility", which > is described as: > > [-] kdehiddenvisibility - Makes KDE symbols hidden by default, requires > GCC 4.1 (experimental) > > Well, this doesn't tell me much. What would I get, i

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )

2006-05-12 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > unmerge the blocking packages, coldplug, pam-login and ant-tasks. This > usually happens because the functionality the package provides is now > handled by something else that emerge world needs to bring it. This is > certainly the case with udev now han

Re: [gentoo-user] remote access to emails

2006-05-11 Thread Graham Murray
Martins Steinbergs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I would like to know what console mail reader will work for this kind of > setup? Can I acomplish this with setting up webmail or what is your setup > design to read emails and accesss them remotely. What I do, and am doing now when reading a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Graham Murray
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It says, quote: "If you are trying to use QuickSearch, you need to > enable Javascript in your browser." > > Of course, what you should do is to just, when you go to b.g.o. with a > text browser, scroll down a tiny bit more (on 80x24 screen, it is the > 2

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why is lynx a dependency?

2006-05-06 Thread Graham Murray
Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You'll be mighty happy you have it for that one time X won't start and you > need to download > a fix or find one from the command line using elinks or lynx. > > I've been there way too often to not have a backup text based web browser > installed, for

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc-2.4-r2: Problems with UTF-8 locale

2006-05-05 Thread Graham Murray
Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yesterday I updated from glibc-2.4-r1 to glibc-2.4-r2. Since then, > I've got problems with my UTF-8 locale. I suppose, that is because > the UTF-8 denomination seems to have changed from .UTF-8 to .utf8: I had similar problems, but solved them. In gl

Re: [gentoo-user] .wmv files

2006-05-05 Thread Graham Murray
WillieDaPimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are alot of web pages that I've tried to watch video clips on > but i can't watch them due to the files being in .wmv format. Is there > a plugin that I can emerge to view these files or maybe even a app > that converts .wmv to some other linux frie

Re: [gentoo-user] glibc 2.4 - "emere -e world" necessary?

2006-05-04 Thread Graham Murray
"Hemmann, Volker Armin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > glibc updates NEVER need a rebuild. > > Only if you change from gcc 3.X to 4.Y you have to rebuild. > > But not because of a glibc update. That is not always true. A glibc upgrade *can* require that *some* packages are re-built. I am not an e

Re: [gentoo-user] why firefox is so slow?

2006-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
Nich Steicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, this is simply wrong - IPV6 is the next generation protocol we are > currently using IPV4 - why IPV6 is a default build flag i would have > no idea, as from what i can see, it will be a good while before IPV6 > actually becomes implemented. IPv6 is a

Re: [gentoo-user] ip6tables, state matching

2006-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ip6tables doesn't do that. > It can however match, or not match, on the syn flag, used to initiate a tcp > connection. > Look for the --syn option. ip6tables can do that, but I think it needs version 1.3.5 which is in ~arch and kernel >= 2.6.16 (with C

[gentoo-user] splitdebug vs USE debug

2006-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
In the 'debugging' howto referenced in this week's GWN it mentions the CFLAGS and setting FEATURES to either nostrip or splitdebug. However, there is also a global 'debug' USE flag. Should this also be set if setting CFLAGS to include -g and FEATURES splitdebug in /etc/make.conf? -- gentoo-user@g

Re: [gentoo-user] Change in kernel netfilter config causes an error

2006-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
Toby Cubitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't think much changed in the iptables command, so your script > should still work fine once you compile the right options into the > kernel. Mine certainly did. One major change which affects scripts is that connection tracking and state matching is

Re: [gentoo-user] Change in kernel netfilter config causes an error

2006-05-01 Thread Graham Murray
Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All, > > I just compiled kernel-2.6.16-gentoo-r3 and it now causes an iptables > error when the machine boots. Any ideas how I can fix it? Kernel 2.6.16 made some major changes to the netfilter code. It introduces a new series of options - XTABLES as well as

Re: [gentoo-user] I cannot emerge sync after I used gcc-4.1 glibc-2.4

2006-04-12 Thread Graham Murray
"DongBin.Lou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello everyone: > I cannot emerge sync after I used gcc-4.1 glibc-2.4 > I try it from 1:00 pm to 23 am ,but never work...I can only use > emerge-webrsync now. Did you upgrade to both together? You might try running 'emerge -e system' after the upgrade

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice and gcc 4.1

2006-04-10 Thread Graham Murray
Catalin Trifu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I've just recompiled my system using gcc-4.1 and of course > openoffice does not work, the compilation fails while the binary one > segfaults. >I searched the archives but found no clue. >Anyone else experienced the same issues ? When glibc 2

Re: [gentoo-user] preventing upgrade

2006-04-06 Thread Graham Murray
"Allan Spagnol Comar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I had put =www-apps/mantisbt-1.0.0 ~x86 on my package.keywords file > and it still wants to upgrade mantis to 1.0.1 version. > what else do I need to do to prevent the upgrade ? put ">www-apps/mantisbt-1.0.0" in /etc/portage/package.mask -- gen

Re: [gentoo-user] lsocket!?!

2006-04-04 Thread Graham Murray
"Justin Hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to compile some network code... but gcc is telling me > cannot find -lsocket > > libsocket** is nowhere to be found in my library path?!?! Is there a > package that I can emerge to acquire this? You should not need -lsocket as all of the soc

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-03 Thread Graham Murray
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You've gotten very lucky. There is a reason that opera provides > separate downloads for systems with libstdc++.so.5 and .6. Try > searching their forums. So would it not be a good idea for portage to install the appropriate version depending on whet

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc question

2006-04-03 Thread Graham Murray
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The problem is the libstdc++ library. If you don't at least do the > revdep-rebuild, you could end up with some things that are linked > against both libstdc++.so.6 and libstdc++.so.5, and they will crash > miserably. On a system with gcc >= 3.4, oper

Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a DEP (Data Execution Protection) option for Gentoo?

2006-03-27 Thread Graham Murray
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But I agree that PAE is the necessary option if your processor is too > old and does not support the NX bit. Sorry I did not mention that. Even if the processor supports the NX bit, in arch/i386/mm/init.c it looks as though NX is only enabled if PAE i

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins

2006-02-23 Thread Graham Murray
[rant mode] Many of the gstreamer plugins, but not all of them, have been updated (in ~x86) to 0.8.12. That some of them are still at 0.8.11 is causing an upgrade/download emerge loop. As all of these plugins are built from the same source but with different configure options, would it not be possi

Re: [gentoo-user] Installed vs. Running (new feature suggestion)

2006-02-01 Thread Graham Murray
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A while ago I posted a question to this list asking how to be sure > updated software has taken effect on your machine. Gentoo makes it > easy to install updated software, but what about being sure the newly > updated software is actually running in place of th

Re: [gentoo-user] mozilla firefox 1.5 and gnome

2006-01-14 Thread Graham Murray
Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So the reason why the open/save dialogs are the same is because they use > the same resources (GTK settings, many of which can be set in GNOME). Yet the previous versions of mozilla-firefox did not use this open/save dialog. Or is it an gtk upgrade whic

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage broken, can't load module cache_errors

2005-12-17 Thread Graham Murray
Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just synced and tried to update world. > Portage updated itself, and then died when trying to exec itself. > I updated from 2.0.53 to 2.1_pre1. The error is: Luckily I did not get that error but emerge then took 'an eternity' to calculate the world depe

Re: [gentoo-user] All my rc-init-scripts broke up - updated to bash-3.1

2005-12-11 Thread Graham Murray
Rafael Fernández López <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi !!, > > I've upgraded to bash-3.1. Now all my rc-init scripts do break at boot time, > if I try to init any of them by using "/etc/init.d/net.eth1 start" they will > tell me same thing: "parse error" > > I had no Internet because eth0 n

Re: [gentoo-user] Strange KDE/gcc upgrade

2005-12-06 Thread Graham Murray
Nagatoro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Yes I've read that too. But why is the newly compiled KDE linking > against libstdc++.so.5 when it was compiled _after_ the gcc change? It is probably linking against something (qt perhaps, as the existing qt was used when I upgraded to kde 3.5) that is itse

Re: [gentoo-user] How does Portage prioritze emerges in emerge world?

2005-11-27 Thread Graham Murray
Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > imho that is certainly not the way things should work. Why not build with > latest libraries when you already have them? To do what you want, all kernel > packages will have to be left alone from dependency tracking and I don't know > whether it is poss

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up ALSA on a new computer

2005-10-14 Thread Graham Murray
Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > camille ~ # lspci -v | grep -i 'audio' > :00:1b.0 Class 0403: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 > Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 03) > > Then I cross-referenced it in the ALSA Matrix. I found (I think) that I > should b

[gentoo-user] portage changelogs?

2005-10-10 Thread Graham Murray
New versions of portage 2.0.X are showing up in ~arch, but the Changelog entries only mention 2.1.0_alpha versions. Where should I look for what has changed, eg between 2.0.52* and 2.0.53_rc? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot merge mozilla or mozilla-firefox

2005-09-25 Thread Graham Murray
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Note that it is not necessary to remerge anything other than glibc > when the nptlonly flag is flipped because the nptl threading library > is supposed to be compatible with linuxthreads. While in the main that is true, nptl is not completely compatible (e

Re: [gentoo-user] Firefox crashes over Flash

2005-09-24 Thread Graham Murray
Martin S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I find that Firefox has become much more unstable, but i can't figure > out what i installed latest. haven't really installed much of anything > at all lately. > it crashes on most pages sooner or later - even those it has rendered before > :( > Anyone else

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo equivalent to "yum provides"

2005-08-22 Thread Graham Murray
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > neither equery nor any other program can predict what will be installed > in a package, because that varies with architecture and USE flags. > > So there is no direct equivalent. However it should be possible to know all of files that the package may instal

Re: [gentoo-user] About firefox

2005-08-22 Thread Graham Murray
Yoann Pannier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Those clics lead you to: > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.0.6/linux-i686/xpi/ > > And this is where you can find (all?) XPI language packs for firefox-1.0.6. But it would be nice if portage were to automatically install the ap

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo or Linux from Scratch - Perspectives?

2005-08-15 Thread Graham Murray
Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are we really far behind? That's difficult to believe. For what > packages specifically? Do you know how to unmask unstable packages > (marked M or M~ at packages.gentoo.org)? ipsec-tools. The current upstream 'release' is 0.6, and 0.6.1 is at release c

Re: [gentoo-user] [A little OT] Is anybody else seeing these? - [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Messages from gentoo-user@gentoo.org to you have been bouncing]

2005-07-25 Thread Graham Murray
"John J. Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've gotten about 4 or 5 of these in the past few days, and don't really > know what to make of them. Is anybody elese seeing this? Or do I have an > issue? It's not happenning on any other lists, and all headers seem like > it's legit. I have seen m

Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread Graham Murray
David Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are you sure you don't have libtheora in your world file? I've only ever > seen this happen when people have the package in question in their world > file. Not sure whether or not it can happen if you don't (but I guess > I'll find out if it's not in your

[gentoo-user] Upgrade/Downgrade cycles

2005-06-16 Thread Graham Murray
Sometimes a package will upgrade/downgrade alternately when running 'emerge -uD world'. One such that is happening to me right now is libtheora. media-lib/xine-lib has a 'straight' (no version) dependency on libtheora, which causes emerge to update to the latest version. media-plugins/gst-plugins-t

[gentoo-user] warning libxxxxx.la has moved

2005-06-09 Thread Graham Murray
When watching emerges, I sometimes see libtool display warnings of the form 'libxxx.la has moved'. The resultant packages seem to run OK, so is this something to worry about, should it be fixed or just ignored? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] cvs/svn overlay ebuilds

2005-06-06 Thread Graham Murray
I have created an ebuild to build a package from subversion and put it the portage overlay. I unmerged (emerge -C) the 'standard' portage package and successfully emerged the svn package. All was well until I ran 'emerge -auDv world' when another package wants to install the 'standard' (non subvers

Re: [gentoo-user] Scaning of outgoing email

2005-06-06 Thread Graham Murray
"Patrick Marquetecken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Scanning of virusses, with clamav If you are using sendmail, 1) If the 'milter' USE flag is not set, set this and re-emerge sendmail 2) emerge >=app-antivirus/clamav-0.85.1 3) In /etc/conf.d/clamd, set 'START_MILTER="yes" and add '-l' to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Building and using binary packages with emerge/portage

2005-05-31 Thread Graham Murray
Paul Varner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With the exception of openoffice-bin, when revdep-rebuild indicates > that it wants to rebuild a -bin package it means that the ebuild is > potentially missing dependencies. Also, I believe, opera. This has dependencies on a number of different version of

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-30 Thread Graham Murray
"A. Khattri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > An install from source REQUIRES net access since the bootstrap script > downloads and builds each package - so a binary-less install without net > access is a contradiction in terms. That is not strictly true. It is possible to do a source install withou

Re: [gentoo-user] When a dependancy built by hand

2005-05-30 Thread Graham Murray
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to install emacs-w3m. I have already built an emacs install by > hand from cvs emacs tar ball. I always build emacs myself. [snip] > Emerge wants to install another emacs. How can I tell it I already > have emacs installed? While it would mean

Re: [gentoo-user] portage v. yum with regards to java

2005-05-24 Thread Graham Murray
THUFIR HAWAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I didn't know that about ebuilds, so that helps alot, thanks. when > the JRE or JDK is installed with an ebuild the license agreement from > sun pops up, I infer. I do not think so. The ebuild does not download the JRE/JDK but prompts the user to do so

Re: [gentoo-user] baselayout-1.11.12

2005-05-18 Thread Graham Murray
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There's a fix for the X problem at > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92921 or wait for > baselayout-1.11.12-r1 to hit the mirrors. I have just emerged baselayout-1.11.12-r1 (replacing 1.11.12) and was a little concerned that it did not update any

Re: [gentoo-user] Is this a KDE split build problem, a KDE problem or just me?

2005-05-08 Thread Graham Murray
Dmitri Vassilenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gnome 2.10 overwrites those files messing up the KDE menu/settings. Should the emerge collision detection not prevent that from happening? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] what's the deal with use flags in (brackets)?

2005-05-02 Thread Graham Murray
Calvin Spealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but amd64 is itself an extension of the x86 architecture, isn't that the > case? amd64 chips run x86 code, i'm sure. do > they not support those extensions? I understand that for some reason the USE > flags are irrelevent here, but I don't > understa

Re: [gentoo-user] sshd publickey only

2005-04-28 Thread Graham Murray
Peet Grobler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > # To disable tunneled clear text passwords, change to no here! > PasswordAuthentication no > PermitEmptyPasswords no > RSAAuthentication yes > PubkeyAuthentication yes > > But - I can stil login without pubkey and with password. I did re-start > the ssh d

Re: [gentoo-user] What is the recommended order of maintenance updates?

2005-04-23 Thread Graham Murray
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Good point, Eric. Your point being that unless you stop and restart all > running daemons or other executables, you can't be sure that an updated > library is really being used. But you can easily check if anything is using an old (replaced) library. lsof | grep DEL

Re: [gentoo-user] A binary choice for a DVD burner... URGENT!

2005-04-22 Thread Graham Murray
"Robert G. Hays" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > B.T.W., LG may send their best units (unit-lots) to Sony &/or other > "Brand Names", and sell the 'shaky' stuff under their own name -- this > is a known operating plan used by *lots* of manufacturers for many years. So it is strange that my LG DVD

Re: [gentoo-user] how to change locales.build for compilation

2005-04-13 Thread Graham Murray
Julien Cabillot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ho ok, you need to re-emerge glibc so Does he need to go as far as re-emerging glibc? Will localedef not do what is needed? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] ATAPI burning doesn't work

2005-04-13 Thread Graham Murray
William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sorry if I sound a bit bitter, but this is a real pain for the average > user (gentoo or otherwise). And dont say if you tweak this and tune > that it will work, thats bunk, of course I do that I do that, and it > will work, but not for long. Its f

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