Re: [gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.

2007-02-27 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 26 February 2007 19:14, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 26 February 2007, Michal 'vorner' Vaner wrote: Hello, On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 04:54:31PM +, Peter Lewis wrote: I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of shared file system which might meet my needs

[gentoo-user] Looking for advice on shared file system.

2007-02-26 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, I've been looking around for a while now for some sort of shared file system which might meet my needs a little better than that which I am currently using. I regularly use two different computers (desktop and laptop) for the same work and have always had a network (samba) drive mounted

[gentoo-user] Portage can't see ebuilds in PORTDIR_OVERLAY.

2007-02-22 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi people, I have been trying to add an ebuild to my /usr/local/portage tree, but am having problems. I dropped the ebuild into /usr/local/portage/kde-misc/foo-1.2.3-r4.ebuild and have also set PORTDIR_OVERLAY=/usr/local/portage in /etc/make.conf. I have chown'd portage:portage everything

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage can't see ebuilds in PORTDIR_OVERLAY.

2007-02-22 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 22 February 2007 13:01, Peter Lewis wrote: I have been trying to add an ebuild to my /usr/local/portage tree, but am having problems. Ah... solved it. The thing needs to be in: /usr/local/portage/category/packagename/ebuild I'd missed out packagename. Sorry for the noise

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 13:54, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: On Tuesday 20 February 2007 19:26:21 Peter Lewis wrote: The arrogance of these responses is astounding. Does anyone believe in civility any more? [SNIP] Quite. I know very little about the topic which the OP was asking

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 16:03, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:17:45 +, Peter Lewis wrote: I'm a big fan of the there are no stupid questions, just stupid answers way of thinking. A job providing technical support will soon cure you of that :) Ha ha, perhaps

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 16:36, I wrote: Too true. I wouldn't want to encourage the asking of questions! D'oh! That was supposed to be the asking of *stupid* questions... sorry -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 18:06, Nelson, David (ED, PARD) wrote: From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 21 February 2007 17:53 It would be helpful for at least some people if we would let them know about our 5 pillars: Plain-Text Only, No Top-Posting, No

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 00:48, Albert Hopkins wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 19:46 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Mikie wrote: Anyone out there know where I could DL an iso file with a simple route only linux? Is _really_ that hard to use Google? Maybe they've never heard of

Re: [gentoo-user] Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 11:44, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:27:09 -0300, Norberto Bensa wrote: Hm. It sounded like he was lazy to do a research work. I have to confess it didn't even cross my head that OP just wanted a recommendation on available router distros. In that

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Simple Linux Router on a live CD?

2007-02-20 Thread Peter Lewis
James, On Tuesday 20 February 2007 15:46, James wrote: Peter Lewis prlewis at letterboxes.org writes: No, I didn't mean it as a criticism anyway. I just find that it helps to assume the best on mailing lists. It all helps for a happy community. Dear Pompous Jerks: Are you including me

Re: [gentoo-user] What about kernel 2.6.19 ?

2007-02-17 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi Alain, On Saturday 17 February 2007 18:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just compiled kernel 2.6.19-r5, with same config as 2.6.18-r6. When trying to boot it, I get a kernel panic, grub not finding (hd0,0), when booting 2.6.18 doesn't cause any problem. What's new in 2.6.19 that causes this?

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 15 February 2007 17:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to fix some paths in the two mentioned files. I can't remember if it's both files or just one of them. But at least in one of the files the paths are wrong. Check bugs.gentoo.org to find more. Will do... Thanks! Pete. --

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:20, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: In the future please create a new thread by choosing new mail rather than replying to another thread and changing the subject... Sorry... I didn't know there was a difference. https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728#c29

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 15 February 2007 18:32, John Blinka wrote: Following a suggestion on this list, here's what I did to correct this problem: Use your favorite text editor to correct the dependency_libs line in each of these files. Each line starts with something like dependency_libs='

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild keeps building gcc

2007-02-15 Thread Peter Lewis
On Thursday 15 February 2007 19:30, Grant Edwards wrote: When you hit reply the message will contains headers that indicate what message it's a reply to. Real mail/news programs use that header information to sort messages into threads. I've just turned threads on in my mail client and I see

Re: [gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-08 Thread Peter Lewis
On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:12, Iain Buchanan wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 10:37 +, Peter Lewis wrote: I start my wireless network with the script /etc/init.d/net.eth2 which is started by init in the default runlevel. I also have /etc/init.d/netmount to mount some

[gentoo-user] Network start delay?

2007-02-07 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi all, I have a quick question about my init scripts. I start my wireless network with the script /etc/init.d/net.eth2 which is started by init in the default runlevel. I also have /etc/init.d/netmount to mount some samba shares, and which is also started my init in the default runlevel,

Re: [gentoo-user] Licenses

2007-01-31 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi there folks... I'm new to the list, so thought I'd say hello. On 00:54 Wed 17 Jan , Fredrik Tolf wrote: Btw., shouldn't portage have some kind of flag to at least warn if a proprietary package is being pulled in through dependencies? I just discovered that I have realplayer installed,