Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 18:44:20 -0600 Canek Peláez Valdés can...@gmail.com wrote: You need to edit the file to remove duplicates and redundant mirrors (I can usually do it inside emacs in two minutes or less), and then check what files you already have in /usr/portage/distfiles (with a

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:44:33 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: route -n shows nothing except ppp0 (this is from ubuntu, but it was the same for gentoo when it was working) root@gnubu:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
cat files-to-fetch.lst | cut -d -f1 | wget -c -i - I know how to generate a fetch list and wget the files. The problem is syncing portage on another machine, my netbook, ubuntu-based. Or maybe, I could boot sysresc on the netbook. It's gentoo based IIRC and do a re-sync back home as per C P

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread Maxim Wexler
Why show us what it was when it worked? What does route -n show from your broken Gentoo now? -- Neil Bothwick Good question. Heading over there now. So if I can't get it working there's gonna have to be some awkward shuttling back and forth.

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sun, 18 Mar 2012, Maxim Wexler wrote: root@gnubu:~# route -n Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric RefUse Iface 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 U 0 00 ppp0 161.184.0.199 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.255

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-19 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 08:26:21 -0600 Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: ... The problem is syncing portage on another machine, my netbook, ubuntu-based. You could just download the portage snapshot and unpack it on your Gentoo machine. Regards, - v...@ukr.net

[gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
I like gentoo; there's a steep learning curve but after you pass that it just clicks. As difficult as it ever became there was always an answer to be found, on a blog, irc, documentaiton... But I might have to give up on gentoo if I can't find a way to fix this latest difficulty. I live in the

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés
On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: I like gentoo; there's a steep learning curve but after you pass that it just clicks. As difficult as it ever became there was always an answer to be found, on a blog, irc, documentaiton... But I might have to give up

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:36 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: I like gentoo; there's a steep learning curve but after you pass that it just clicks. As difficult as it ever became there was always an answer to be found, on a blog, irc, documentaiton... But I might have to give up on gentoo if I

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Mar 19, 2012 8:51 AM, William Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote: On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 18:36 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: I like gentoo; there's a steep learning curve but after you pass that it just clicks. As difficult as it ever became there was always an answer to be found, on a

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
On March 18, 2012 at 8:36 PM Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.com wrote: Hope somebody can see a way out. MW I'd probably swap my computer shop and all it's latest-and-greatest to live where you are, and leave all the computers, 'smart' phones, etc. in town. Just me, the wife, the

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread Maxim Wexler
Hi Maxim, what changed when the modem stopped working? Dunno Also can you supply the output of the route -n and ifconfig commands to give us a chance of seeing if anything has gone adrift there. Also if you are using (and have tested that its not the problem) any firewall running. I

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread Matthew Finkel
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:44 AM, Maxim Wexler maxim.wex...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Maxim, what changed when the modem stopped working? Dunno Also can you supply the output of the route -n and ifconfig commands to give us a chance of seeing if anything has gone adrift there. Also if

Re: [gentoo-user] Goodbye to gentoo?

2012-03-18 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 22:44 -0600, Maxim Wexler wrote: Hi Maxim, what changed when the modem stopped working? Dunno Also can you supply the output of the route -n and ifconfig commands to give us a chance of seeing if anything has gone adrift there. Also if you are using (and