On 11/3/2009 11:16 PM, Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Tue, 2009-11-03 at 21:52 -0500, Mike Edenfield wrote:
When I attempt to use either of those
utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay
connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time.
Instead
Does anyone have any experience getting either NetworkManager or WICD to
work properly under Gentoo? When I attempt to use either of those
utilities to get onto my wireless network, the NIC refuses to stay
connected to the base station for more than a few seconds at a time.
Instead, it
On 11/2/2009 12:16 PM, Marcus Wanner wrote:
Could anyone tell me how to install firefox 3.5.x without changing the
entire installation to ~arch? I have been looking around on the web for
how to do this, but can't find anything that doesn't require being
(afaict) very invasive to the rest of the
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 20:17 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
When a package comes up as masked in an eix search, they are usually
found in /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask, but if a particular
masked package is not listed there... where else would it be.
I see libtool is masked above version
On 10/31/2009 4:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
Even it's author knows this (but apparently many distros do not) which is why
he deprecated hal and started over with devicekit.
Speaking of which...
Has the switchover to devicekit officially started and I
missed it? And if so, is there some
On 10/31/2009 7:29 PM, Mark Knecht wrote:
So I think this thread addresses a question I've had about the kernel
installation process over the years. I only copy bzImage to /boot with
a rename to whatever this kernel is. I don't do anything with the
other files - System.map and something else -
On 10/29/2009 5:13 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
On 10/29/2009 10:45 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I suppose this is interesting to most Gentoo users. Linux Magazine
performed a detailed benchmark of Gentoo, comparing it to Ubuntu 9.04:
http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7574/1
Btw, I think this is a
On 10/25/2009 8:10 PM, Dale wrote:
Well, I put -semantic-desktop in my USE line and ran emerge -uvDN
world. It recompiled several things and told me it had some
@preserved-rebuild packages to build. So, I ran that and got this
little message:
r...@smoker / # emerge @preserved-rebuild -a
On 10/19/2009 9:44 AM, Dale wrote:
I just added -eds and this is what I get:
r...@smoker / # emerge -uvDNa world
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies ... done!
emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
On 10/16/2009 12:54 PM, walt wrote:
On 10/16/2009 04:37 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 12:20:30 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
I thought I'd have a play with swami, but the emerge fails with
/bin/sed: can't read /usr/lib64/libogg.la: No such file or directory,
and indeed there is
On Mon, 2009-10-12 at 00:04 +0200, KH wrote:
Peter Ruskin schrieb:
I'm 71 ... is that old enough?
To use a trendy idiom: That's cool.
I believe the current trendy idiom (with the identical meaning) is
That's hot.
Thus portraying exactly the problem with our language. :x
--K
On 10/2/2009 1:29 AM, Arthur D. wrote:
Agree. There's no need in making vim as depends. But in other hand in
vanilla sudo
package there's VI hardcoded by default. And MOST if not ALL users who
have VIM
So basically, you're entire silly argument boils down to I
don't like nano, make it go
On 10/1/2009 10:44 AM, Arthur D. wrote:
I just installed VIM with emerge, and removed nano because I considered
it to be absolutely unnecessary in my system. Why I need nano? I am a VIM
fan. And here the troubles begin...
Run sudo visudo and you get this:
~ $ sudo visudo
visudo: no editor found
On 10/1/2009 1:34 PM, Arthur D. wrote:
I'm using a 4 years old system, and if I change that line, log out and
in again, it changes the env variable and everything works (that means
the behavior is probably caused by your configuration). If visudo is
still using that configuration, maybe that's
On 10/1/2009 3:32 PM, forgottenwizard wrote:
However, I'm also wondering why the ebuild doesn't make use of the
EDITOR variable as was mentioned. This defaults to nano so it should
work fine in a default install, and would avoid issues like this which
seems to be an arguement that the dev(s)
On 10/1/2009 6:26 PM, Dale wrote:
It has finished the emerge -e system so far. Not a single failure that
I can see. Do have to update a config file tho. ;-)
In case anyone's keeping score, I've been using gcc-4.4 with the
hardened profile (from the hardened-development overlay, of course)
On 8/23/2009 8:45 AM, Jarry wrote:
Albert Hopkins wrote:
On Sun, 2009-08-23 at 09:42 +0200, Jarry wrote:
# emerge --pretend lm_sensors
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild N ] sys-fs/sysfsutils-2.1.0
On 8/12/2009 4:19 PM, Stroller wrote:
On 12 Aug 2009, at 15:20, Dale wrote:
...
maske install does that for you, it also sets up the vmlinuz and
vmlinuz.old symlinks so you don't need to mess with your GRUB config.
But it doesn't do it the way that I do. I have used it a few times but
it
On 8/12/2009 5:08 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Mittwoch 12 August 2009, Mike Edenfield wrote:
$ make make modules_install make install
too much to type.
make all modules_install install
is much better.
I always forget that the 'all' target (typically) does the same thing as
just
On 8/4/2009 7:13 AM, Graham Murray wrote:
Remy Blankremy.bl...@pobox.com writes:
The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You would think
breaking Python for all ~x86 is a major offense...
It did not break for all ~x86. I have 2 systems both running ~x86, both
have emerged
I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts,
which of course is playing havoc with portage. Bash no longer wants to
execute the scripts with python as the interpreter, but insists on
executing them as bash scripts. Python itself is still functioning
properly, when
On 8/3/2009 5:03 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 22:56:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
kut...@apollo ~ $ cat test.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
print Python Ok.
kut...@apollo ~ $ ./test.py
X connection to localhost:11.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
./test.py: line 3
On 8/3/2009 5:14 PM, Remy Blank wrote:
Mike Edenfield wrote:
I dunno what I did, but I've managed to break python shell scripts,
which of course is playing havoc with portage.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279915
The whole issue seems to be handled quite strangely IMO. You would
On 8/3/2009 5:48 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 23:22:08 Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 8/3/2009 5:03 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 22:56:51 Mike Edenfield wrote:
kut...@apollo ~ $ cat test.py
#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
print Python Ok.
kut...@apollo
In trying to merge the most recent mysql, I am getting this notice at
the start of the ebuild:
* Testing with FEATURES=-userpriv is no longer supported by upstream.
Tests MUST be run as non-root.
Is there a way to actually do what it suggests using just emerge, or
would I need to ebuild
On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote:
-I/var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-4.3.2-r3/work/gcc-4.3.2/gcc/../libdecnu
mber/bid -I../libdecnumber insn-recog.c -o insn-recog.o
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:36051: Warning: end of file not at end of a line;
newline inserted
{standard
On 7/6/2009 4:23 PM, Jarry wrote:
Mike Edenfield wrote:
On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote:
MAKEOPTS=-j2
Can you try this again without -j2 in the make opts? The gcc build
process is enough of a pain to debug when you can see output
sequentially, running parallel makes makes it worse
On Tuesday 16 June 2009 14:46:53 bn wrote:
Alan McKinnon ha scritto:
What do the `!t' entries following the versions available mean?
RESTRICT=test
You can find a clue in sub-section Slots under main heading OUTPUT
Which in turn, means?
m.
If you're asking what the meaning of the RESTRICT=
On 6/15/2009 8:28 AM, Harry Putnam wrote:
Can I get a likely search string for the massive man page of eix to
understand all the info contained in its ouput.
A quick search on `output' seems to miss it.
The eix man page is way too long, and about 90% of it is only useful to
the people trying
Strollerstrol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk writes:
But, surely -march= also instructs gcc to support the additional
instructions. Suggest you re-read Daniel's post that I was replying
to.
What's the difference between supporting the certain set of
instructions with -march= and doing so with USEs?
On 5/27/2009 4:08 PM, Ward Poelmans wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 21:57, Wyatt Eppwyatt@gmail.com wrote:
Reading this thread, though, it seems like it would be useful to have a
FEATURES=cpudetection for Portage. I honestly don't understand why the user
should have to be arsed to set
On 5/27/2009 4:40 PM, Wyatt Epp wrote:
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
mailto:alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:04:06 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
thoughts: there are distros that hold your hand already.
There's
On 5/26/2009 5:58 AM, Redouane Boumghar wrote:
First of all where can I find information about the file names of FDI ?
NUMBER-NAME-NAME.fdi
Where are the specification of the nomenclature ?
I have found different names possible :
11-x11-synaptics.fdi
99-x11-synaptics.fdi
Why the donkey
On 4/20/2009 2:47 PM, Valmor de Almeida wrote:
but no luck (that is I get the 80x25 console). The only working format
appears to be
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda3 vga=xxx
This is the only correct syntax for the intelfb device, because of
Apr 20 14:27:54 dcpl-lpt1 [ 0.173678] intelfb:
On 4/13/2009 12:55 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
Paul Hartman wrote:
On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com
wrote:
There's a lot of us voting 1 today I think.
How do things like this go stable when they aren't stable, tested and
not causing problems.
On 4/13/2009 3:50 PM, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote:
I have not yet added hal; seems like unnecessary complexity at this
point - I don't know how it will make life better.
The major benefit of hal is for people who don't actually *have* an
old xorg.conf. In most cases, the X server can do a better job
gibbo...@gmail.com wrote:
1) I don't want hal, one more daemon running only to... spot /dev/input/*,
from what I understand xf86-input-* does this pretty well. I won't
unplug my mouse and so want to keep my xorg simple conf.
Hal does a lot more than just monitor /dev/input for you.
It's a
Mark Knecht wrote:
Hi,
I've wondered for a while whether the design intention of hald was
to be run at boot time or as a default level process? Googling for
It's intended that you'll be running it at the default
level. Hal requires D-BUS, which means it needs to be run
at the earliest
On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 17:11 -0500, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
If it's already installed but not in world use -1 to tell portage not to go
through the install process, but just add it to world. Or just edit the
world
file by hand.
You sure about the -1 option? I thought
Michael P. Soulier wrote:
On 12/04/09 Michael P. Soulier said:
And for me, I had the exact same problem. I'm not using HAL, and the
x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0 had to be rebuilt. This was not detected
automatically.
And, I missed the ebuild note to rebuild drivers. I did have to
On 4/9/2009 11:27 AM, Mick wrote:
2009/4/8 Mike Edenfieldkut...@kutulu.org:
On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote:
Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux
following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts?
OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF
On 4/8/2009 2:02 PM, Mick wrote:
Hi All,
With my new xorg almost there from a configuration perspective I can see these
warnings now in my log:
(WW) xf86OpenConsole: setpgid failed: Operation not permitted
(WW) xf86OpenConsole: setsid failed: Operation not permitted
These are common and
On 4/8/2009 3:37 PM, Mick wrote:
Wikipedia is telling me that OTF are a Microsoft/Adobe creation - is Linux
following suit and therefore xorg includes them in its list of fonts?
OpenType (the catchy name for an OTF font) is basically the successor to
TrueType, but is in theory an open
Alan McKinnon wrote:
This mythical thing - a working installer - probably does not exist and likely
never will.
This may be true, and it certainly is the case right now.
But that's not a good reason to reject one out of hand
before you even see it.
There are just too many decisions the
Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 17:11, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote:
On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing.
I will agree that an installer doesn't belong near the top of anyones show
stopper list
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Friday 03 April 2009, Daniel da Veiga wrote:
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 17:11, Mike Edenfield kut...@kutulu.org wrote:
On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing.
I will agree that an installer doesn't
On 4/3/2009 3:38 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
there is no installer anymore. And that is a good thing.
I will agree that an installer doesn't belong near the top of anyones
show stopper list of Gentoo defects. Gentoo doesn't *need* an
installer and all previous attempts at one have been
On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people who don't
read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if something does not
work. Idiots.
They should read the manual is *not* a valid design goal for a system.
smallnow wrote:
Mike Edenfield wrote:
Um, on my system, i have
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/UTF-8.gz
/usr/share/i18n/charmaps/IS8859-1.gz
notice charmaps vs charsets
the other folders all have en_US files and folders, no utf8 extensions. And my
locale stuff seems to work fine. Do you actually
Mark Knecht wrote:
Thanks for joining in. I have mucho craziness in these directories!
/usr/share/locale has way too much stuff, but it doesn't have what I
want. It's missing en_US.utf8 and en_US.ISO8859-1. Also, all of what I
think are the font files are in a directory called charmaps, not
Mark Knecht wrote:
You may be correct about setting all of this in 02locale. I noticed
that the Gentoo formatting stuff for vi is treating LC_ALL and
LC_COLLATE differently than LINGUAS. The manual seems to say set
system wide stuff in 02locale and user stuff in your own account.
They are
Mick wrote:
Now I am getting confused - at least one box of mine does not
have /etc/env.d/02locale at all. Am I supposed to create it manually?
The file isn't automatically created by anything, since strictly
speaking you can get away without using it. However, if you are going
to add the
Mark Knecht wrote:
lightning ~ # cat /etc/locale.gen
en_US ISO-8859-1
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
Just to be safe, try running locale-gen again. The glibc
ebuild does this automatically, but if you've changed
locale.gen since the last time that ebuild ran, you need to
run locale-gen to pick up the
Mark Knecht wrote:
lightning ~ # locale -a
locale: Cannot set LC_CTYPE to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_MESSAGES to default locale: No such file or directory
locale: Cannot set LC_COLLATE to default locale: No such file or directory
C
POSIX
This looks like
Dale wrote:
I'm not sure if the -N feature will catch those changes or not. It may
even depend on the version of portage you are using too. The newer
--newuse will pick up changes to LINGUAS since portage
treats that like an expandable variable (like VIDEO_CARDS
etc). The other settings
Dale wrote:
I'm not expecting a answer but along the lines of a viewpoint in a
question form. Why is it that smart, I mean seriously smart, people
have the worst social skills? They can invent a super fast CPU, memory
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome
b.n. wrote:
* Overlay eclass overrides eclass from PORTDIR:
Could anyone explain me what does it mean in practice?
The cause of this message is that one of the overlays you
have configured includes an eclass that already exists in
base portage. This happens when the overlay includes
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-10-24, deface [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please read the latest news @ www.gentoo-wiki.com
We can't. It's down.
Care to share the news?
The domain name is not down, it just doesn't point at the wiki. I'm
looking at it now.
But summary:
everyone in this
Grant wrote:
My understanding of GPG is weak. Can someone point out my misconception(s)?
Speaking from a purely practical standpoint, keeping your private and
public keys completely separate is extremely inconvenient with (IMO) a
negligible security benefit.
However, there is arguably a
Grant wrote:
Can I configure this so that I don't have the two keys on the same
system? I'd like encrypt with my remote system and decrypt with my
local system. Is that possible? It seems like importing my private
key also imports the public key.
I'm a bit confused as to what you're trying
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2008-08-10, Nikos Chantziaras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The last time I did a basic FreeBSD install, it included Gnu
user-land stuff (e.g. gcc).
Anything else besides GCC?
I can't think of anything else off the top of my head, but it's
been a couple years since I've
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Dienstag 08 Juli 2008 16:12:43 schrieb Joerg Schilling:
Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[lots of stuff I regret]
I apologize to everyone for making this mess go on any longer that it
had to.
--
gentoo-user
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Well, now that you found this out, does this mean that you finally concur with
me that Bloch Co. are license trolls?
Not being so emotionally attached to the isse as you are, I'm not going
to resort to name calling. I will say that the issue, in my opinion, is
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 07 Jul 2008 11:16:33 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
If you repeat the opinion of other people, you make it _your_ opinion
and if your opinion may harm other people, you are not allowed to
publish it unless you are able to
Joerg Schilling wrote:
They claimed that the official build system was not legal but they replaced it
with a build system that definitely is not legal because it is not included in
the source.
You keep saying this, but I just don't see where it's coming from.
Firstly, the cdrkit source
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Sascha Hlusiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They claimed that the official build system was not legal but they replaced
it with a build system that definitely is not legal because it is not
included in the source.
Of course the files needed to build cdrkit are in the source
Joerg Schilling wrote:
Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reality, regardless of what Debian, or the FSF, or you,
or any lawyers say, is that the licensing issue has not been
tested in court yet. Unless and until that happens, the
whole debate is pure theory. Debian is clearly
b.n. wrote:
I didn't know that showing a mail *you* received is illegal. Maybe I can
contact Bloch and ask him permission?
I think this thread has long since left the topic of Gentoo
in the dust. If you cannot just accept that Joerg is not
going to be cooperative on this issue and drop it,
Grant wrote:
| I think it could be the pick-and-mix approach to keywording, I use pure
| ~amd64 on my desktop and laptop and the only problems I've had recently
| turned out to be a corrupt root filesystem.
|
| yeah, mixing isn't good. Pure systems are way more stable.
Now that's an
This has been reported to bugs.gentoo.org -- it seems to be a bug in
nano. For the time being you can get it to build if you enable the
spell USE flag:
echo app-editors/nano spell /etc/portage/package.use
emerge nano
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Hi,
After upgrading to the 2.6.24 kernel and switching from the bcm driver
to the new b43 driver, I can no longer attach to my AP. If I downgrade
to 2.6.23 it starts working again, so I'm confident that the hardware
setup is all fine. Using the new driver, iwscan does not locate any
APs
Michael Higgins wrote:
So, what overwrites it, when, how, and how to stop it? Is there a
definitive guide to the syntax of the various config files? Or, BETTER
YET, is there anyone who has a smoothly-functioning configuration to
switch between wireless DHCP and connected hard-wired net setups
Mick wrote:
On 16/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Am Mittwoch, den 16.04.2008, 15:06 +0100 schrieb ext Mick:
I was trying to scp a file which had spaces in its name; e.g.
This\ is\ the\ name\ of\ it.txt
I tried it in my zsh, with TAB-completion (means: I typed scp
Mark Knecht wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Norberto Bensa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark Knecht wrote:
I never emerge everything I see in the list since most are
dependencies themselves and I don't want to add them to my world file.
emerge -1
Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
Hi I have the following entry in the crontab
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
0 18 * * * /home/kaushal/rsync_mysql.sh
I want my subject line to be hostxx:yyDB refresh daily
is there a way to do it
Thanks and Regards
Kaushal
The easiest way is to write a wrapper script; I have a
Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:51:42 +
Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Monday 10 March 2008, Dan Farrell wrote:
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:43:55 -0400
Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Comcast?
I was on comcast for a long time (2.5
Dan Farrell wrote:
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:16:09 -0400
Mark Shields [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Are you thinking his ISP is doing port-based connection filtering?
What kind of connection filtering allows a connection to go through for
5 seconds, then resets it?
Comcast?
--
Kenneth Prugh wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Montag, 23. Juli 2007, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Volker Armin Hemmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And then Os. That is a big nono.
Why's that?
Alexander Skwar
because several gcc have compiled crap with that flag in the past?
That was the
Benno Schulenberg wrote:
Although I agree with your reasoning above, you are contradicting
yourself in the following two statements:
At least, it's no more broken under -Os than under -O2.
[...] benefits of using -Os over -O2 are minimal
compared against the possible problems it might
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Remember that the GPL has always been about all the users NOT just the
developers/distributors -- adapt it to your needs is not allowed when it
restricts other users' freedoms.
Very few GPL proponents are willing to make this (rather obviously true)
statement;
»Q« wrote:
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Mike Edenfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
Remember that the GPL has always been about all the users NOT just
the developers/distributors -- adapt it to your needs is not
allowed when it restricts other users' freedoms.
Very
I recently enabled the test feature on Portage and notice that a
couple of packages routinely fail their test phases. Is this expected
behavior? More specifically, should I file bug reports if I see such
failures? These are unstable packages (so far) and if this will help
get them out of
Mick wrote:
On Tuesday 29 May 2007 22:04, Paul Varner wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:14 -0700, maxim wexler wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls /
ls: cannot open directory /: Permission denied
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $
What does 'ls -ld /' and 'ls -ld /etc' return?
Both of them should look like:
Neil Bothwick wrote:
Hello Dan Farrell,
Why this is the case, I don't think I'll ever understand. White
terminal backgrounds, aside from the invisible color problem, also are
hella ugly.
Many people find black on white far easier to read than white on black,
for the same fonts and sizes.
For the past several weeks I have been having a recurring problem with
portage's metadata cache after a sync. The problem is reproduceable
100% of the time now, so either I have something configured wrong or
there's actually a problem with the portage mirrors:
The problem is easily fixed by
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